One Minute Park

**One Minute Park** is a creative, community-driven project by Elliott Cost that aims to capture a 60-second video of a park for every minute of the day (1,440 total). The site serves as a curated collection of global park experiences rather than a live webcam feed. The project relies on community contributions. Anyone can participate by recording a steady, 60-second landscape video of a park—without editing—and uploading it to the project's Are.na channel with specific location and time details. Recognized with a 2024 Tiny Award and featured by various creative platforms, One Minute Park is a labor of love hosted by Are.na. As an unfunded project, it relies on donations to cover domain, server, and maintenance costs. Visitors are encouraged to support the project via donations or a Patreon subscription to keep the site online.

One Minute Park

Dear visitor,

I'm running a yearly One Minute Park fundraiser this month to keep this site online. This goes towards the domain, server, and my time. Please consider donating to this project. Thank you!

From the park,
Elliott
elliott.computer

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One Minute Park allows you to visit parks from around the world for one minute each. These are just one minute videos, not webcams. Eventually the project will fill in all the minutes (1440) in a day. So far we have minutes. You can create your own One Minute Park and contribute to the project.

How to make a One Minute Park

Walk around a park until you find a composition. Your scene should be filled with many layers of activity without any dominating elements.
Record in landscape mode on your phone. Keep your shot as steady as you can but don't use a tripod. You could even hold your breath. Check the timecode indicator while filming to make your video exactly 60 seconds. Tap record, let it count up to 60, and tap again. No editing needed!
Upload your One Minute Park to this Are.na channel. Videos should be in .mp4 format. Please include the date, time, park, location in the block's title.

Contributors

Press

One Minute Park was the recipient of a Tiny Award for 2024. Also featured on the following sites: The Creative Independent, Swiss Miss, A Tiny Bell, Laughing Squid, Waxy, and Hacker News.

Support

One Minute Park is a project by Elliott Cost. Thank you to Are.na for hosting all the videos. It is unfunded and a labor of love. Any support is greatly appreciated. Thank you for visiting!

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