14 DAY TRIAL // Unless you are not a fan of classic Disney you probably don't know this, but there is a scene in “The Little Mermaid,” where a crab named Sebastian tells Ariel, i.e. the little mermaid, that life under the sea is way better that anything we, two-legged creatures, have up here, i.e. on the ground.
I have to admit that I've never given much thought to this line, but, as it turns out, Sebastian was right, and the video embedded below more than proves it.
This footage has recently made it online and shows that, although they might appear almost motionless at a first glance, corals and sponges at the bottom of our seas and oceans are actually very busy creatures.
In case anyone was wondering, photographer Daniel Stoupin is the one who we must thank for this gorgeous time-lapse. On Vimeo, the photographer explains that, in order to create this video, he pieced together as many as 150,000 shots of corals and sponges.
Given the fact that the footage lasts for less than 4 minutes (although, personally, I would have liked it to be lengthier), one does not need to be math expert to figure out that saying that this video is sped-up might be a bit of an understatement.
I hope you'll enjoy this video as much as I did, and feel free to share your thoughts on it in the comments section.
Slow Life from Daniel Stoupin on Vimeo.