This Stunning Time Lapse Video Shows NYC Combined With the Starry Night Sky of Death Valley

Created by filmmakers Harun Mehmedinovic and Gavin Heffernan, this stunning time lapse video titled SKYGLOW: NYC shows the busy New York City streets and skyline we all know, but with the bright, starry night sky of Death Valley instead of our own.

In honor of the International Dark-Sky Association's Dark Sky Week […] WWW.SKYGLOWPROJECT.COM is releasing SKYGLOW NYC, an experimental timelapse which imagines how the skies above New York City would look without light pollution. Inspired by the "Darkened Cities" stills project by Thierry Cohen, this short film composites the heavily light polluted "City That Never Sleeps" with the pristine night skies of Grand Canyon and Death Valley International Dark-Sky Parks.

Vintage Film Gives a 45-Minute Walking Tour Through 1985's East Village

In this great vintage film from Alan Steinfeld, take a 45-minute tour through the* "fashionable East Villaaage"* with host Barbara Lehman as she explores Cooper Square, St. Marks Place, Tompkins Square Park, and more. The film was recently shown at the Museum of Modern Art as part of the Club 57 retrospective:

Filmmaker Alan Steinfeld captures the transition that was happening in the East Village in mid 1980s. On one bright summer day in June of 1985, he and performance artist Barbara Lehman walked through the heart of the East village down St. Marks place from Cooper Square to the Art festival in Tompkins Square park. On the way they ran into many of the colorful characters who had made this community a hot bed of creative activity. at the time.