New York City filmmaker Joseph DiGiovanna has launched a website that allows users to see the New York City skyline at any moment in time between July 11th, 2015 and the present. These photos make the perfect gift for the holiday season as DiGiovanna started the 30 Year Time-lapse project to provide people with a photograph to commemorate special moments in their life – e.g., the birth of a child, a marriage proposal, or the passing of a loved one.
Browsing the images is free but users can also purchase any image from any moment – right down to the second – over the past six and a half years. Prints are available from the photographer’s favorite lab in California in a variety of popular formats: paper prints, framed prints, acrylic glass prints, wood prints, and metal prints. Customers can even add a custom inscription onto their framed prints.
These images are also great for smartphone wallpaper or a computer background. Digital downloads from the 30 Year Time-lapse project are the perfect supply chain-proof holiday gift!
The 30 Year Time-lapse project is a feat of technology that’s literally years in the making, and a perfect storm of cameras, hard drives, archived data, and algorithms – not to mention lighting and composition.
The newly-launched website is the result of months of collaboration with developer Matthijs Tempels, and successfully meets the challenge of a) providing instant access to 12 million images and b) making the cameras automatically upload images to the website in real time.
The project now has three New York City camera locations: Midtown, Downtown / World Trade Center, and Hudson Yards.
Each of the three cameras shoots: 1 photo every 30 seconds – 2,880 photos per day – Just over 1 million images per year. All three cameras shoot 36 gigabytes per day which adds up to 13 terabytes per year. There are several other cameras for this project not yet incorporated into the website. With all the cameras running this project creates over 100 terabytes of data per year.
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Joseph DiGiovanna is a cinematographer, photographer and composer with a career spanning the worlds of fashion, theatre, music, and dance. His cinematography has been shown around the world including in a film featured at The Venice Film Festival, The New York Film Festival, Detroit Institute of the Arts, and the Dallas Contemporary. Music videos he shot and directed have had exclusive premieres on NPR.com, Billboard.com, and MTV Asia.
DiGiovanna’s favorite credits are listed below:
Cinematography: Vogue, Vanity Fair, Moncler, Italian Vanity Fair, Shinola, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Dior Homme, British Vogue, BARNEYS NEW YORK, Maybelline, L’Oréal, Vogue Greece, T Magazine, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, Universal Music, Capitol Records, and Blue Note Records.
Broadway: Hamilton, Moulin Rouge!, The Great Comet, and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
In addition, DiGiovanna has shot photo and video at the prestigious Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival as part of his years long collaboration with director Sonya Tayeh.
As a composer DiGiovanna has written music for Ralph Lauren, Blackberry, The New York Times T Magazine and the feature film “Waking the Wild Colonial.”
The 30 Year Time-lapse project is dedicated to his late father, John F. DiGiovanna.
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