I am still alive.

Updating this blog moved very low on my priority list. For what reason, I don't know, but I'll assume the Susannah Elliott of two years ago had a good one.

I'm back for now, though!

To mark my return, I want to share something I worked on for about a year.

This video is made up of clips I recorded every day for a year. Each clip is 1.25 seconds long because I thought the brain needed that extra .25 to process the images that were being shown. The video was shot using a Samsung Galaxy S3. The songs used are I'm Not Talking by A.C. Newman and War Bonds by The Ridges*.


One Second A Day from Xana on Vimeo.

Many days, I forgot to record until I was home doing boring things. I regret some of the video-conversion decisions I made early on, which compromised the image quality. But because it would have taken so many hours of extra work to correct my mistake, I left it as is. 

It was a good learning experience, and the video I've been working on for 2014 (Jan. 1, 2014, to Jan. 1, 2015) is, so far, much more clear and steady. However, I'll admit that the process is less exciting to me now that I'm on my second go-around.

I also decided that this next one will be just one second a day -- like, actually a second and not 1.25 seconds -- because 10 minutes is a long time for a video that, according to my dad, is a "year-long selfie."


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Check out A.C. Newman on iTunes
Check out The Ridges at bandcamp and Daytrotter