One thing that I forgot to mention yesterday was that I've been thinking about devoting some time to doing a 1 Second Every Day video this year. 1 Second Every Day is an app1 for iOS and Android that allows you to assemble 1 second video clips into a year long2 and amazingly compelling video of your life in a year.
Here's Cesar Kuriyama's original 1 Second Every Day video that he created at age 30 without the aid of an app.
And here's a Fast Company Article from 2012 about the year featured in the video and why he built the app.
“[The project has] made me realize I need to do one interesting thing to make today count,” he says. “It’s been an incalculably positive influence on my life. The reason that I’ve really decided to stop everything and try to build this thing is that I genuinely think it can have that same influence for others.”
I last used 1SE regularly back in 2016 and then I just kind of let it lapse which is really unfortunate because it's amazing to look back and see just how much my kids have changed over the last four years. I tracked down the three month long videos I made with 1SE back in 2013 when I first got the app and those videos were pretty awesome even though I missed more days than I remembered.
The free version of the app has improved a bunch in the intervening time and its support for still photos and Apple Live Photos make it totally easy even if you forgot to record any video clips for a given day as long as you took some pictures. I was actually able to get started for this year just with just the Live Photos I've taken so far, but I'll start filming some quick videos now as well.
And now a dedicated company with an app subscription model that offers some additional functionality.
Or an arbitrary date range of your choosing like a month or several weeks.