

The timelapse community tends to either use a camera designed for this purpose like a GoPro or some built-in function of their photographic camera.īut I was an early adopter of the Sony Alpha series, which in the first version, was meant to feature an app store (Sony PlayMemories) where all the software upgrades could be purchased.

It grows like a damn monstrosity.įor each leaf I would spend hours just looking at him grow, and every time I told myself, I must get a timelapse going, this is too incredible, how fast he can grow. When it was first identified in the Amazon jungle, botanists called it Monstera for exactly this reason. Then a 6th, another two weeks later, with a tiny hole.


Two weeks later Robert, who originally had 4 leaves, grew a 5th. He also wrote me a note with the plant’s name: Monstera Deliciosa. Hell, why not? So I told him I want a plant that is entertaining, and grows inside easily, and he gave me this little babe. His teeth were crooked but he smiled all the time. The clerk was a new-ager in overalls, had earth under his nails and weeds stuck in his hair. I was rushing somewhere, but it didn’t matter. It took more than 5 months until I finally saw the door to the shop open, and a bunch of potted plants taken out to attract customers. Looking through the dusty window, I guessed a lot of vegetation, some appropriated ethnic decorations such as dream-catches, golden smiling Buddhas and the obligatory Maneki-neko at the uncanny valley between creepy and cute beckoning with its robotic arm, and all sorts of knick-knacks and paraphernalia whose purpose I initially failed to grasp. Three years ago, when I was living in Bath, I used to walk past this tiny shop called Honeybears every time I went to work.
