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The 1 Second A Day Project

Director Cesar Kuriyama shoots one second of whatever he was doing that day, every single day. This is apart of an ongoing project to gather all the special moments of his life. When all these seconds of videos are put together it produces a video in itself. This idea is very clever because you simply can’t capture everything. Sitting there viewing what is going on through a small screen, whilst trying to capture absolutely everything, isn’t actually experiencing what’s happening; it’s the same as watching it online. All you need is a small snippet to trigger the entire experience.

According to Cesar Kuriyama, it is just as momentous to document the bad moments as it is the good ones. It’s so we can appreciate the good times in our life to the full extent. If you haven’t noticed, you may seem to remember the bad times clearer and in more detail; this is because our emotions get the better of us. 1 second snippets help to remind us of what happened that day. It’s important to remember them because it was a huge part of who we are today, and it’s essentially apart of our life. Also, we tend to document big and exciting parts of our life, and ignore the average ordinary parts. You can even go a year with just remembering two or three major things that have happened.

Using this 1-second a day idea, you can keep your daily events documented and remembered. The aim of this project is so in the future you can look back and be remembered of all the memories you have documented in that specific time period; good or bad, big or small.