Time-lapse of a 9-month-old at play

All hail Discordia! (Via Forgetomori, and BB Gadgets!)

[#1 posted by Anonymous , January 30, 2009 12:47 PM]

That is awesome. :-)

[#2 posted by djn , January 30, 2009 12:53 PM]

It's like watching brownian motion on a large scale. :)

[#3 posted by Mojave , January 30, 2009 12:57 PM]

WHERE ARE THE PARENTS!?!??! Who leaves their kid alone in a room for 4 hours??
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yes, I am being sarcastic.

[#4 posted by Chris Spurgeon , January 30, 2009 1:00 PM]

Wonderful! That is one curious kid.

[#5 posted by lava , January 30, 2009 1:01 PM]

lets take a nap now

[#6 posted by arkizzle , January 30, 2009 1:04 PM]

YAY!!

This is just great :)

[#7 posted by sanity , January 30, 2009 1:12 PM]

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/01/26/video-timelapse-baby.html

For the overly protective people wanting to tell others how to parent, re-watch the video and look for all the shadows. A parent or guardian is looking in on the kid.

[#8 posted by Brainspore , January 30, 2009 1:16 PM]

Can someone give that kid some self-reassembling robots to play with? Now THAT would be a good time-lapse video.

[#9 posted by Phikus , January 30, 2009 1:24 PM]

@3,7: They also put in the disclaimer at the beginning that human interactions were edited out.

I assume this was in the northern hemisphere? I wonder if kids in the southern hemi play in a generally clockwise direction, in a kind of counter kiddie-Coriolis effect...

[#10 posted by Patrick Dodds , January 30, 2009 1:28 PM]

Beautiful. Interesting that throughout most of the time show the child is hardly ever on the mat that is there for him, preferring anywhere but....

[#11 posted by The Lizardman , January 30, 2009 1:33 PM]

I think at least a passing interest in kids is required for this to do anything for you because I am just thinking I lost a couple minutes of my life watching this.

@3 OK, you are being sarcastic but didn't you catch the part in the video where they say they edited out the human interaction(s) - though a glimpse of at least one did slip through.

[#12 posted by damiank , January 30, 2009 1:35 PM]

I love watching him and listening to the song. Anyone know what music is playing in the background?

[#13 posted by Sekino , January 30, 2009 1:35 PM]

He's gonna sleep tonight! ;)

[#14 posted by brent , January 30, 2009 1:37 PM]

thats great! I did this about six months ago with my son ( http://flickr.com/photos/brenthensarling/2544469608/ ) wasn't as long as this one, but there is a cat.

[#15 posted by Lord Xenu , January 30, 2009 1:40 PM]

This video definitely needs the Benny Hill treatment.

[#16 posted by grimatongueworm , January 30, 2009 1:41 PM]

"Clean up! Clean up! Everybody clean up!"
//sung in a lilting voice around my house when our son was little..

[#17 posted by Takuan , January 30, 2009 1:44 PM]

the song is "Ensemble" by Coeur de Pirate,

[#18 posted by jsauter , January 30, 2009 1:47 PM]

Babies = meat based object randomization machines.

[#19 posted by damiank , January 30, 2009 1:47 PM]

Thanks Takuan!

[#20 posted by ian_b , January 30, 2009 1:48 PM]

if only they could harness all of that energy to charge our cell phones and ipods.

[#21 posted by CyberGarp , January 30, 2009 1:51 PM]

The specific motion would be Bounded Lévy, not Brownian.

[#22 posted by Takuan , January 30, 2009 1:56 PM]

http://www.physorg.com/news122129780.html

[#23 posted by nanuq , January 30, 2009 1:59 PM]

Just passed this on to some newbie parents I know so they can look into their own future. I'm evil that way.

[#24 posted by Glenn Fleishman , January 30, 2009 2:03 PM]

Really? Four hours? That looked like about 20 minutes in my house.

[#25 posted by chimera , January 30, 2009 2:05 PM]

Wow. It's like The Sims with the fast forward button on...

[#26 posted by DBinNYC , January 30, 2009 2:11 PM]

Dress him up in Swiffer material, bye bye Roomba

[#27 posted by Phil_A_Minion , January 30, 2009 2:13 PM]

All they need is to make a onesie that doubles as a swiffer, and this kid will earn his keep cleaning that hardwood floor.

[#28 posted by Phil_A_Minion , January 30, 2009 2:14 PM]

Ah damn, beaten to the punch!

[#29 posted by jsauter , January 30, 2009 2:17 PM]

@DBINNYC:

http://www.asianjoke.com/pictures/baby_mop.htm

[#30 posted by Michiel , January 30, 2009 2:20 PM]

He works very methodically. Didn't miss a single spot. Impressive.

Also, his day seems to involve a lot of lying on the floor. Mine, on the other hand, doesn't involve any lying on the floor.

[#31 posted by airshowfan , January 30, 2009 2:24 PM]

#9, LOL.

#15, I thought of that even before the video started playing. Here it is :)

[#32 posted by Gilbert Wham , January 30, 2009 2:39 PM]

#30: Mine either. This is why our days suck, and his are great.

[#33 posted by Anonymous , January 30, 2009 3:00 PM]

No wonder babies sleep so much...if an adult had to shadow a baby for even four hours, we'd be exhausted, too.

Wonderful, wonderful video of a kid just being a kid.

[#34 posted by farmfoodie , January 30, 2009 3:07 PM]

His day looks infinitely more interesting than mine. Kid knows how to work a room that's for sure.

Was "dinning room" deliberate, I wonder? Just how noisy was it in there?

[#35 posted by Anonymous , January 30, 2009 3:11 PM]

WOW a baby on Red Bull.

[#36 posted by Jackasimov , January 30, 2009 3:12 PM]

Hilarious.
Other parents: did I really have the option of leaving my kid alone to play for so long by herself? I know parents "looked in", "check the shadows", edited out, blah, blah, but that kid is on it own for long periods of time (it seems).

If I'd have known, I would have hung out in the other room and just checked in every so often. I thought I was supposed to be playing with her.

As far as the tot replacing your roomba as a human swiffer goes, it's even better than you think. They come with their own fluid. Saliva, leaky diaper...

[#37 posted by Teller , January 30, 2009 3:30 PM]

Old legend about the great Jim Thorpe. In his prime, he tried to duplicate physically everything a kid around that age did. Lasted about an hour.

[#38 posted by Doc , January 30, 2009 4:04 PM]

That baby has discovered a perfect metaphor for spending four hours aimlessly wandering the web.

[#39 posted by Gidim , January 30, 2009 4:07 PM]

I worked for iRobot for a while. You wouldn't believe how much time is spent doing exactly this process to prove that their Roomba's random walks have a high statistical probability of hitting all of the floor.

[#40 posted by Anonymous , January 30, 2009 4:33 PM]

This video + alcohol* = me amused

Kids are funny. I was just babysitting some kids around this age yesterday (without the alcohol), and I they were just as interested in causing discord as this kid. I didn't notice any counter-clockwise trends, though.

*twice-fermented kombucha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kombucha

[#41 posted by ill lich , January 30, 2009 4:35 PM]

There are actually a number of variations on this on youtube, some of which are pretty weird:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfwvzGvncfY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWk74a7U1XQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XUgPoNmyJU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFXs54Ra3MQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zO7WV3Leuw

(that one of the baby in the harness badly needs some musical accompaniment).

[#42 posted by jjasper , January 30, 2009 4:36 PM]

That was truly awesome and happymaking. Thanks, BB!

[#43 posted by GammaBlog , January 30, 2009 4:53 PM]

The music is what makes it. Without it, it would remind me of a scientific study of maggot chewing throught flesh... Not really, very cute.

[#44 posted by trr , January 30, 2009 5:02 PM]

Thought they should speed it up even further.
BTW, what's a "dinning room"?

[#45 posted by DukeOGlue , January 30, 2009 5:03 PM]

I love how he doesn't crawl, he only moves by rolling sideways. That's an awesome phase. And how he leaves the mat at the very beginning, never to return...

[#46 posted by StRevAlex , January 30, 2009 5:05 PM]

"He's a maniac, maniac..."

[#47 posted by seijihyouronka , January 30, 2009 5:10 PM]

@TRR:

It's where nitpickers go to ask questions they already know the answers to! Thankfully everyone there is eager to supply them with the answers anyway, so it's rather a lively place.

[#48 posted by robulus , January 30, 2009 5:15 PM]

human interactions were edited out

I for one welcome our new non-human baby overlords.

[#49 posted by Takuan , January 30, 2009 5:35 PM]

@44 a more correct label than "nursery".

[#50 posted by AGF , January 30, 2009 5:41 PM]

mmm idea: how about putting white plastic/paper all around the room and then piles of messy - but also baby friendly stuff (pudding or dirt or jam - ideas?) and then make a time lapse painting video!

[#51 posted by Takuan , January 30, 2009 5:53 PM]

stick LEDs on him and dim the lights for a time lapse.

[#52 posted by AGF , January 30, 2009 6:08 PM]

sweet takuan! now to find a baby . . .

[#53 posted by Takuan , January 30, 2009 6:56 PM]

oh there's always lots at the hospital, leastways that's where I always go.

[#54 posted by carfuffle , January 30, 2009 7:22 PM]

Yes! Lord Xenu, we need to see this with Benny Hill music!

[#55 posted by Anonymous , January 30, 2009 7:59 PM]

Anyone know album/artist for the song in the video? I'd like to find more of that.

[#56 posted by Takuan , January 30, 2009 8:10 PM]

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ztJQfgVdu60&feature=related

[#57 posted by Takuan , January 30, 2009 8:12 PM]

I like her, she doesn't smell evil

http://aurgasm.us/2008/11/coeur-de-pirate/

[#58 posted by GronkH , January 30, 2009 10:00 PM]

I made an account just to bring this to your attention - several people have mentioned that this would be better with Benny Hill / Yakety Sax.

Here you go:

http://james.nerdiphythesoul.com/bennyhillifier/?id=8vNxjwt2AqY&eurl=http://boingboing.ne

[#59 posted by Antinous / Moderator , January 30, 2009 10:06 PM]

Much better.

[#60 posted by Hirsty , January 30, 2009 10:15 PM]

All hail!

[#61 posted by benjaminH , January 30, 2009 11:01 PM]

Oh for those in this discussion being "protected" from the truth; you childless ones. Let me break the news. Most of what you saw was real ... but nont of it was time lapse. Run. Run fast, run far. I think my 5 year old know's I've been getting up late to get these things off, an I don't know how much longer I'll be ab,e to lsad/;lksjf';jdjjfsjfjsd,.vc

[#62 posted by Mamarati , January 30, 2009 11:36 PM]

That's hilarious Patrick. Same exact thing I noticed! It's funny all the stuff we buy for kids and they'd rather play with the box or some pots and pans.

[#63 posted by texasroute66 , January 31, 2009 3:38 AM]

Delightful!
#48- Right on robulus. Have you also noticed that adults often talk about babies as as if they aren't human e.g. "they are cute at that age" instead of "we are cute at that age"?

[#64 posted by robulus , January 31, 2009 4:26 AM]

@Texasroute66

Yep. Ironic really, they have every human trait you might want to see, in its most raw, pure, undiluted form. They are kind of super-human!

[#65 posted by IamInnocent , January 31, 2009 6:20 AM]

In such a long thread pretty much everything I could say has been said except:

Go visit Francis Vachon web site the author (and daddy?) who is a very young and very talented photojournalist. Some of the same humor filters through most of his work, although parts of it also address a much heavier subject matter. In any case, even his considerable collection of stock photo is consistently interesting.

[#66 posted by Anonymous , January 31, 2009 6:47 AM]

Fantastic. Everything above = me too.

I googled the song/musician listed above (Ensemble/Coeur de Pirate). Everything came back with Google's warning, "This site may harm your computer".

What's with that? Is this just because Google sees the word "Pirate" in the results?

[#67 posted by Anonymous , January 31, 2009 10:36 AM]

For those who wanted to know the song, it's Nossos Momentos by Boca Livre

[#68 posted by Anonymous , January 31, 2009 12:38 PM]

#66: Here's the MySpace page for Coeur de Pirate:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=163154177

[#69 posted by Roast Beef , January 31, 2009 12:43 PM]

@Robulous 64--yes, bless their four-chambered hearts. I am a huge fan of pre-adult humans as long as they are not mine. (I have none, by the way, at least to my knowledge. :x ) My perfect outcome is a niece or nephew that I can play with AND GIVE BACK at the end of the day. Babies intermediated by a screen are good too. This one was awful cute. I love the pre-quadruped locomotion.

[#70 posted by Takuan , January 31, 2009 1:07 PM]

whaddya get here?
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Z89T1yxYgZE

[#71 posted by bellebouche , January 31, 2009 3:10 PM]

Small world!

Marginally less entertaining than uber-cute teeny tots but in a similar vein...

Moi, 6 chickens, one boss-cock and one kitteh planting some trees.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWgIgrbDQ7E

I trust fellow boingeboingers will deligt in the feathery and furry assistance provided.

[#72 posted by Narmitaj , January 31, 2009 3:46 PM]

@66 re: Google "This site may harm your computer".

Apparently human error affecting all sites for 40 minutes due to human error.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7862840.stm

[#73 posted by Anonymous , January 31, 2009 4:03 PM]

I saw him spend some quality time with the "boinger" on the door (The springy thing that keeps the doorknob from banging into the wall).

I recall spending many an hour myself doing the same when I was but a wee lad.

[#74 posted by robulus , January 31, 2009 6:53 PM]

@Roast Beef

Heh heh. Funny, I'm the opposite. I can really take or leave other peoples kids, but my boy is just the centre of the universe, and that's it. It was the last thing I expected, to be honest.

[#75 posted by Anonymous , January 31, 2009 9:38 PM]

i was surprised that no one else said that it was just a bit creepy .. at one point i was imagining a little maggot wriggling around : ) sorry, i must just be tired .. aside from that ... wow .. the energy of that little guy! thanks for this.

[#76 posted by freeyourcrt , January 31, 2009 10:35 PM]

Don't TOUCH the baby!

[#77 posted by jimbuck , February 1, 2009 7:36 PM]

a time lapse video of my kid standing at baby gate for 4 hours screaming for her parants would be much less interesting, which is what I would have ended up producing

[#78 posted by osheri , February 1, 2009 8:01 PM]

Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner

[#79 posted by Evil Jim , February 2, 2009 7:14 AM]

Ah ha ha! It got trapped under the chair.

So *that's* how one little rug rat can make such a mess.