Filming Life

June 1st has a way of making you feel like a fresh start is actually possible. I picked up the Osmo Nano a while back with the idea that I'd film little snippets of life — quick, casual, nothing polished. Life logs, really. Something for my future self, or for my family down the road. And if I'm honest, I haven't used it nearly as much as I planned. But June feels different. This summer, I'm committing to capturing more of it.

The plan is mostly personal stuff. Fun moments, small ongoings, the kind of things that slip away if you don't grab them. Work content is trickier since there's not always something I can share publicly, but when there is, I'll include it. Mostly though, this is about documenting the journey for me and the people closest to me.

That impulse comes from something I'm really glad I did: I recorded my dad's life story a while ago, four hours of captures spread across a series of conversations. It's one of the best things I've made. Not for an audience, just for us. I wouldn't have any of that if I hadn't made the deliberate choice to sit down with him and do it. That experience stuck with me, and it's had me thinking more seriously about what I'm leaving behind. It sounds a little fatalistic, but it's genuinely true.

So these little videos are partly a personal archive and partly worth sharing. I'm going to try posting them on Subwave, which looks like a solid platform for this kind of thing. It's made by the same folks behind Detail — I don't use Detail yet, though I'm curious how it might work with the Nano. Could be a nice addition to the kit. We'll see how it all fits together.

Either way, the camera's coming out this summer. Let's do this.