When people asked me why I left the Silicon Valley for the mountains – where economic opportunities, bookstores and women were few and far between – I wish I’d had this awesome time-lapse video to hand them (its only flaw is a lack of trout):

Time Lapse Round One from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo.

This was shot in Yosemite by a photographer named Sean Stiegemeier, who also got some amazing footage of the Icelandic volcano that recently busied itself making air travel impossible.

You can see several more breathtaking videos on his Vimeo site.

Tell ‘em the Underground sent you.

See you in the screening room, Tom Chandler.