We live on a spinning ball, rotating madly as it moves through space. Once every day the surface of our planet makes a circuit around the imaginary line connecting its poles... well, imaginary it may be, but the effects are quite real, especially when you take long exposures of the night sky. That's what photographer Brad Goldpaint did, and created this lovely time lapse video he calls Breaking Point:
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[If you go to the Vimeo page for the video
you can watch it in HD, which you really need to do, as well as make it full screen.] Amazing, isn't it? The visual of the stars wheeling around the sky over our head invokes such a wonderful feeling, as if the whole Universe is spinning around us. But it can also be a little odd-looking too. For example, take a look at this picture Brad composed using some ...
