Take a mini-vacation to Hawaii and watch color-saturated cloudscapes zoom by in this short video by Michael Marantz, which begins with a quote from Atlantic co-founder Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The sky is the daily bread of the eyes." Indeed -- and beautiful time-lapse videos make a good late-afternoon snack. M83 provides an appropriately epic soundtrack. 

For more work by Michael Marantz, visit http://www.michaelmarantz.com/. 

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