How To Make Your Own Dizzying Spinning Time-Lapse Videos  A few
months ago we tried to fry your brains with a collection of
dizzying animated San Francisco GIFs taken from a music video
created by filmmakers Kevin Parry and Andrea Nesbitt. They were
some of the best GIFs seen 'round these parts in ages, and if
you wondered how they were created, the duo has finally revealed
their secrets.  Not surprisingly, the 'secret' is actually just
careful planning and execution.  As they explain in this video,
Google Maps is an indispensable tool for planning out where to
snap each shot so almost every photo has a view of the building
you're circling. And then it's just some careful tweaking and
polish in Photoshop to align all of the images, and then add a
bit of motion blur to the foreground of each shot so it looks
like you're actually racing around the city. [YouTube via
PetaPixel]