Especially since the Austin trip, many people have been learning more and asking about my 1 second everyday project. As you may already know, this is a project that I adopted to record 1 second of my life everyday for the calendar year of 2015. I was inspired by a TED talk by Cesar Kuriyama and his own journey to do the same exact thing. I started on January 1 and haven’t looked back!
I posted a snippet of my “1SE” at the end of February, but after all of the SXSW shenanigans, I was asked to give an update! Also, this officially caps the first three months or “quarter” of 2015 so far. So, after I do this 3 more times, it will already be December 31st, 2015, and I will have an entire 365 days to look back on!
The one thing that stands out the most in this project thus far…I spent most of my of time with my pup, Charlotte! She has seven appearances over the course of the months. The list would be too long to share here, but also a shout out to everyone else who appears in the video, as well. It’s clear that I spend a lot of time being social. :) I think my ultimate goal is to be able to take this eventually 3-minute long video and share it with students with disabilities…and say “from live concerts, to just hanging out with my friends, there is absolutely nothing you can’t do if you want to do it: you might just have to do it a little bit differently.”
It’s been a very reflective project…it’s kind of strange being SO very transparent with what I do everyday (for example the like 3 days straight I spent organizing things after moving. No. Fun.) But Cesar even says in his talk – doing something you enjoy is way more important than doing something that looks cool. And that’s how I live my life.
Even though it’s early on, I also wanted to give a shout out to Cesar and his support team at 1SE. I actually wanted to post this compilation back on the 1st of April, but unfortunately there was a glitch in the app that disallowed me getting my compiled video out of the app. After messaging the support team, Cesar got back to me very promptly and in the following days invited me to a “Test Flight” version of his app – which solved all of the issues I was having. Now THAT is great customer service!
Here’s the video…I hope you enjoy!