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New Year's Eve Time-Lapse Shows How Times Square Rung in 2014

Passed out at 10 p.m. on New Year's Eve? No judgment.
It's tough to make it through NYE unless you've got the glitz and glamor of Times Square to keep you awake (though it's really more cold and crowded than glitz and glamor).
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The Timelapse Group captured the madness that is Times Square on Dec. 31, so everyone can relive the ball dropping sans New York City chaos. Spanning over 12 hours, the electrifying time-lapse was produced using more than 18,000 still frames.
So ring in New Year's Day the right way — even if it is a week late. Check out the entire video, below.

BONUS: 8 Glittering Facts About the New Year's Eve Ball
These triangles vary in size and range in length from 4.75 to 5.75 inches.
They let the ball shine in 16 million colors and billions of patterns.
The first was crafted from wood and iron, weighed 700 pounds and was covered in 100 light bulbs. In 1999, 92 years after the first ball drop, the Waterford Crystal version was built to ring in the new millennium. In 2007, modern LED technology replaced the older bulbs to celebrate the ceremony's 100 year anniversary, and in 2008 the permanent NYE ball was revealed atop One Times Square.
The first "time-ball" was built atop England's Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England in 1833. Ship captains would watch the ball would at 1 p.m. every day and set their chronometers (a navigational tool) accordingly.
In addition to the annual NYE Ball drop, the tradition lives on in places like the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, DC, where a ball drops every day at noon.
Image: Vimeo, The Timelapse Group

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