Retrospectives

At the end of 2005, I made a retrospective of sorts. My Canon digital point-and-shoot took decent photos, but videos were low-resolution and limited to 15 seconds. I thought the year-in-review was so swell, I did it again the next year. Then the next year I didn’t get around to it and the year after that I had a big data loss and abandoned the project.

Skip to 2018, when I decided to get to work again on this project. Over the last two years, I cut together most of the missing videos (to-do: 2007, 2016, 2020), working out of order to keep the task lively. It’s a project I can see continuing indefinitely, and a rewarding resource to explore these ephemeral parts of my life. I’ve kept a mind to making these videos lively enough for outsiders to watch, too, and as times change I find myself capturing much different scenes than I did initially.

This is an active work-in-progress that’s still unfolding when I find the time to edit. Hope you like it. If you’re impatient, I also made one-minute versions of many of these for Instagram. Here they are.