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I made a fixed-camera timelapse showing 2,000 years of Los Angeles evolution — from empty Tongva homeland to modern megacity. The camera never moves. Neither do the mountains.
Started with an empty sun-drenched California basin where the Tongva
people lived undisturbed for nearly 900 years.
Then the Spanish arrived in 1769.
Then the first adobe wall in 1781.
Then the railroad. The orange groves. The cars. The freeways.
The smog. The 1992 riots. The recovery. And finally LA at night
with supercars on Sunset.
The most haunting part for me — the counter ticking forward from
900 AD to 1769 while absolutely nothing changes on screen.
869 years of Tongva life represented by a still image and a
number slowly climbing.
The mountains at the horizon are identical in every single frame.
That detail was intentional.
Video is 4 minutes. Would love to know which moment hits hardest
for you.
u/Acidopxxx — 3 days ago