achieved quite a bit of renown

for his time-lapsed tilt-shift shorts, in which he made the very big (Sydney Harbor, the Roman Forum, Shanghai's Nanpu Bridge) appear very, very small.

pays homage to Loutit with this three-minute short,

Formicarium | A Timelapse

, which I just found on Vimeo. Writes Aguirre -- who's also a fan of

, if the sound of breaking Glass isn't a giveaway -- the film consists of more than 15,000 frames taken with a

over the course of two days, one frame per second. Even our art director, the

nitpicky Alexander Flores, was impressed.