The application allows the user to record one second of video every day and then chronologically edits (mashes) them together into a single film.

[4] 1 Second Everyday played a part in the plot of Chef[5] and also became the inspiration for the 2014 short animated clip Feast.

[6] In February 2011, when Cesar Kuriyama turned 30, after saving money, he quit his job in an advertising firm and took a year off to travel.

[8] While working on the project Kuriyama realized that recording one second every day impacted the decisions he made in a positive way.

[9] According to Kuriyama, he was initially inspired to take a year off from work by a TED talk given by Stefan Sagmeister called "The Power of Time Off.

[14] The main interface in 1 Second Everyday is a calendar, which shows the user which days have snippets and which they can still fill in.

[16] The application was featured in The New York Times,[17] The Washington Post,[18] Gawker[19] and other media outlets.

[20] Sam Cornwell, an English photographer documented his son Indigo's growth using a montage of one-second iPhone clips.

[21] Save the Children also made a video commercial based on a similar format that showed a British girl oblivious of the Syrian war end up being a refugee.

[22] 1SE was a finalist for the Fast Company Innovation by Design Award in 2015, but lost to Google Maps.