One Minute Park: 253 Minutes of Parks, 1440 to Go
One Minute Park lets you visit parks worldwide for exactly one minute each. These are pre-recorded 60-second videos, not live webcams, and the project aims to fill all 1440 minutes in a day. So far, 253 minutes are available. Anyone can contribute by filming a steady, tripod-free 60-second clip and uploading it to the Are.na channel.
Walk around a park until you find a composition. Your scene should be filled with many layers of activity without any dominating elements.
- walrus01
I know the design was probably optimized for each video to load really fast (and also they don't want to serve a TON of bandwidth and use up a lot of storage space), but if we assume that many of these park videos were recorded on current gen phones at 2160p30 or 2160p60, it looks like the videos are being significantly downscaled in resolution and bitrate. Even compared to what Youtube does to a high bitrate 4K phone video when it gets re-encoded to sub 25 Mbps bitrate. Something like a "1 minute 4K park" as a toggle option?
- chanana
Quite relaxing.
> Your scene should be filled with many layers of activity without any dominating elements.
My one feedback would be to show me an example of a few images where there is activity without one dominating element
- aaroninsf
For many years, long ago, I did a similar project called One Minute Vacations, archived here: https://www.quietamerican.org/vacation_1.html
There are about five years' worth, organized by year; little album covers function as tabs of a sort.