A word of warning before you watch this – the makers of this video (Claire&Max) have indicated that this video may make you dizzy. Underlapse is a visual experience and shows how our brains can be lost without its spatial cues.
The idea of time-lapse turned upside down isn’t something I have come across before but this montage of places around the world (and off it) goes from simply a curiosity to quite dazzling in a few minutes.
Between 1405 and 1433, during the Ming era, Chinese Admiral Zheng He, who was also the court eunuch, commanded seven expeditionary voyages as far away as East Africa and Middle East. These expeditions, known in Chinese history as the treasure voyages, consisted of hundreds of ships of enormous dimensions carrying a crew as large as 28,000 and great amounts of treasures. The purpose of the voyages were to project Chinese power and wealth to the outside world, as well as to establish imperial control over the maritime trade.
