Record a time-lapse of yourself emptying and organizing your junk drawer.
You may be surprised at the hidden gems you find inside.
This particular video was filmed with an iPhone 6S Plus, using the Skyflow time-lapse app.
Self-Observation Self-Improvement
Yesterday, I did my work from home on an Internet-connected computer.
Before I began my work yesterday, I enabled the “Screen Record” function of the computer’s Quicktime app.
I took the resulting 1-hour-and-9-minute screen recording and sped it up, resulting in a 30 second video.
So, that was a fun experiment in recording myself as I do various visual-computing tasks.
Today, I began more work of a similar nature.
Almost immediately, I was distracted by trying to find the right YouTube video to play in the background while I work.
I decided on Spotify and then did some more photoshop work.
I then got the idea to record my screen again, because I realized I was being kept honest by the idea of observation via screen recording.
I was being kept honest and on-task because I knew I’d eventually have to review my own actions when I reviewed the screen-recording video.
If I dawdled while I worked, that would mean a longer screen-recording video would be recorded, and that would mean more future work for me, to have to edit the footage later.
The point is:
Start recording yourself while working.
See what happens. 🙂
P.S. Immediately before posting this, I had turned on Quicktime’s “Screen Recording” feature.
I intended to post the screen-recording video of my writing this post, at the end of this post.
Turns out I hadn’t turned on the screen-recording feature after all.
I was kept honest and on-task, for no reason.
Recording Record Revolutions
This is a video experiment involving a vinyl record album.
The Question: what does it look like when an overhead camera rotates at the same rate as a vinyl record, playing at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute?
The Answer: it looks delightfully disorienting.
The smartphone camera recorded an overhead video clip of the record player from a fixed, non-moving perspective.
Later, in video-editing software, I set the video clip to rotate at the same rate, and in the same direction, as the record spun.
The Docking Scene from Interstellar features a similar visual, where a camera mounted in a fixed position is rotated to match a rotating subject.