Yearly Seconds
I've recorded one second of video every day since 2015 and compiled each year into a film: eleven films, over 4,000 seconds, a decade-long time capsule.
The Philosophy
I wanted to document my life: record the highlight of the day, then at year's end trim the footage to one-second clips, lay them on a timeline, label them and add music. Looking back I can see the growth, from Animal Science experiments to graduation to my first job interview.
The Videos
The Process
Capture
Record one second of video every day, with no rules about content or quality. A sunset, a subway platform, a meal, or a ceiling at 11:59 PM. The only requirement is that one second exists before midnight.
Compile
At year's end all 365 clips are assembled in chronological order: no cuts, transitions, grading or audio mixing. The raw sequence carries the cadence of the year as it was lived.
Reflect
Each annual film shows patterns invisible in real time. Seasons pass in a few seconds, faces recur, environments shift. A morning coffee or a walk to work reads differently beside 364 other seconds.
Why It Matters
It started with a stranger's YouTube video and became a decade-long commitment. No client, no deliverable, no audience, just the discipline of one second a day.
The environments change: high school, college, studios, cities. The tools change: Android phones, iPhones, GoPros, body worn cams, drones, proper cameras. The one-second constraint stays fixed.
One second a day seems trivial. Sustained over 4,000+ consecutive days it becomes a longitudinal record of a life, through a pandemic and into a career in creative technology.
Past the decade mark, the films together become a time-lapse of a life, about an hour of footage in total.
