STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Cesar Kuriyama has filmed everyday of his life for one year for his "1 Second Everyday" project
- He says the project has helped him live in a manner he won't regret when looking back at the finished video
- There is a mobile application in development that will help people create similar projects
So starting more than a
year and a half ago, Kuriyama has recorded video every single day to
help him remember. Kuriyama has compiled this footage into a piece he
calls "1 Second Everyday -- Age 30."
Using only one second of
footage from each day, the video shows a variety of snippets and
experiences from the Brooklyn-based artist's life. These scenes range
from the mundane, such as browsing Facebook and watching TV, to the
adventurous, including a cross-country trip that Kuriyama took after he
saved up enough money to take a year off from work.
Kuriyama sat down with CNN at TED 2012 in Long Beach, California, to talk about his project.
CNN: Why did you take a year off from work?
Kuriyama:
Frankly I was burnt out. I'd been constantly working nights until
midnight, until 2 in the morning, weekends and I wasn't getting my
creative juices off so I needed to take some time off and after having
seen Stefan Sagmeister's talk on "The power of time off,"
I decided to save up enough money over the course of about two years
and took a year off so that I could travel, spend more time with my
family and pursue my own creative ideas such as the one second everyday
project.
CNN: Can you talk about the project?
Kuriyama:
The one-second everyday project was something that originally started
out as a way for me to chronicle my year off from work but really
quickly after I started I realized that it was helping me in many more
ways. It was allowing me to realize that I could remember everyday that
I've lived; it was allowing me to quickly reflect back on the things
that I had to done, to be able to zoom out from the past month and
realize, "Oh wow, I sat around a lot this month." I instantly decided to
do it for the rest of my life and realized the benefits were far
greater than the amount of work I needed to put into it, which was just a
quick second to remind me of that day.
CNN: What's your biggest takeaway from doing this project?
Kuriyama:
It's a very powerful project for me. I really do think that putting
something together like this for your own personal life, not necessarily
to show other people what your life is like but so you yourself can
remember what you've done over the years, could be very beneficial to
anyone.
CNN: Are there any seconds you would wish you could take back or do differently looking back at those days, at those frames?
Kuriyama:
The two seconds that I forgot that were black that just said, "Whoops I
forgot." I learned from those mistakes, those two mistakes are painful
to see on screen but those two mistakes basically led to me never
forgetting to do this ever again because I can remember how I felt in
this moment and that's what this project is about. This project is about
looking back on the days where I made a mistake or I did something
wrong or I feel regret and learning from them and I found that without a
project like this that I'll not learn from mistakes because I'll so
easily forget them.
Kuriyama is currently
working on a mobile app that will allow others to easily compile their
own one-second everyday project. More information can be found here.
Brandon Ancil and Richard Galant contributed to this report.
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