What is ‘Moments Like Today’?

A collaborate project that I’ve been planning and working on for the past little while. The idea is to get people to capture moments of their lives in three parts of the day: morning, afternoon, evening. By capturing a moment and then piecing those moments together, one can gain a better understanding of that person’s life.

The inspiration came about from wondering about what a single young person’s day is like compared to a mother of two children. Another interesting layer forms when you think about how a single young person’s life in Canada is different than say a person in Russia.

That’s the general idea behind it. The logistics is a bit harder to formulate.

How do I actually make this project collaborative and which tools will I use?

This project will be possible in two forms: photos and videos.

Videos:

I’ve created a Vimeo group where people can post their videos to:
http://vimeo.com/groups/momentsliketoday

(It was between YouTube or Vimeo, but I decided to go with Vimeo in the end. Even though YouTube is a lot more wide-spread, I appreciate the ‘human-ness’ of Vimeo and the culture that they are trying to build. I think this project will fit well in there.)

After they post their videos on the group, the moderators of the group can distribute it to the three channels:
http://vimeo.com/channels/morning
http://vimeo.com/channels/afternoon
http://vimeo.com/channels/evening

Essentially the structure is like so:

Moments Like Today - Vimeo chart

I’ve also created a Facebook group for Moments Like Today:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=90101132786

Website -> Photos:

With Darryl C’s help, there will be a place where users can upload photos like they upload videos to Vimeo. The website will also act as a place where videos posted on Vimeo can be fed through. There’s no site yet, but it’s going to be here! http://www.momentsliketoday.com :)

Next steps:

- I plan to make videos and take photos to capture my “moments”. People like examples, I will provide them with some :). Hopefully, that’ll get them thinking about capturing their own. Feel free to join the groups though!
- Finishing the design layout for the Website portion.
- Skinning the Vimeo group/channels