A collection of digital wonders and some other stuff
The 2025 edition of our Three Seconds Everyday video is up. This year I didn’t render out a one second version, but it’s surprisingly watchable at double speed, if you don’t mind the audio.
I have to thank Andrea for picking up a few of the days that I happened to miss.
I’ve been working on this video for the past few days.
From my video description:
On November 25, 2025, Lethbridge-East got an active recall petition campaign for Nathan Neudorf, but not everything is as it appears. Follow the unraveling of a real life conspiracy in this short explainer video.
As far as how I feel about the whole thing, it’s disappointing but I think that a fake recall might be more politically poisonous to Neudorf than our actual recall would have been.
I know this isn’t much of a consolation to folks that wanted to help but if you’re one of those people, consider signing up to help with the Alberta Funds Public Schools or the coal mining petition1.
Last night Global News had a segment on the phoney recall petition going on in Lethbridge-East.
Yours truly on Bridge City News this afternoon:
2024 is the 11th year I’ve created a once a day video project. Lots of travel this year, lots of kids, and lots of fun. It’s a pretty good glimpse at the everyday routine of our lives.
Last night Jon Stewart returned as temporary Monday host of The Daily Show. After creative differences with the executives at Apple Tv+ concerning Stewart’s material ending the show before its third season, the polically minded comedian has returned to Comedy Central to host once a week leading up to the election.
Here’s his first episode back:
For the past couple years I’ve been trying to get my best time swimming a kilometre under 16:00. I’m still not there and obviously it’s not quite the same level as Casey’s three-hour marathon dream but the video definitely resonates in so many ways:
(via Waxy)
Last year when I published my One Second Everyday video, I got a lot of positive responses.
My dad and my father-in-law both said it was nice but added that it would be better if each day were a bit longer than a second. I thought these poor guys and their old-fashioned ideals about how long cuts should be… but nevertheless I decided to humour them and tried re-rendering just one month from last year as a three second per day video. To my dismay, I discovered that they are totally right, the video is much better with longer cuts. So this year, using the One Second Everyday app, I have created a “three-second everyday” video. Please enjoy:
And I also did the classic one second version:
This video isn’t backmasking, per se, but backward songs nevertheless… watch as Kelly Clarkson competes with Jimmy Fallon to be the first to identify each of the backward pop songs: