The day before the city of Paris celebrated its one-millionth Twitter follower with a time-lapse video of the city in action, Tyler Fairbank was quietly uploading the single greatest time-lapse video of Paris ever shot.

It may even be the greatest video anyone’s ever made of Paris, period. Enough with the preamble—a time-lapse video is work a bazillion words:

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Bonjour Paris | A Hyper-Lapse Film – In 4K from Tyler Fairbank on Vimeo.

The video’s only shortcoming is that it isn’t four hours long.