Some people are never satisfied. Not content with visiting an amazing country and marrying his wife while there at Christmas, design-nerd James Brown set his camera up on the window-sill of his Kyoto hotel room and told it to take a photograph every thirty seconds.

It diligently did so, resulting in a fantastic time-lapse video (featuring a strangely mesmerising taxi-rank). Still not content, he added a tilt-shift effect to the video frame-by-frame and re-made it. The resulting video is fantastic, looks like a tiny toy city and is here for your viewing pleasure:

Check out James’ blog here.