One Minute Park is a crowd-sourced audiovisual project that presents one-minute, non-live videos of parks from around the world, with the stated ambition of filling every minute of a 24-hour day (1,440 minutes). Created and maintained by Elliott Cost and hosted on Are.na, it curates short landscape-mode clips that capture layered, everyday park activity rather than staged scenes or webcam streams. The project is unfunded and operated as a labor of love; donations, Patreon subscriptions, and a yearly fundraiser support domain, server costs, and maintenance.
Contributors are given clear, practical rules: walk until you find a composition rich in overlapping activity, film in landscape without a tripod, keep the shot steady, and use the on-screen timecode to produce exactly 60 seconds of unedited .mp4 footage. Uploads should include date, time, park, and location metadata. The project invites people to claim specific minutes that are still empty and to submit through an Are.na channel. One Minute Park received a Tiny Award in 2024 and has been featured on several design and tech outlets, underscoring its cultural resonance despite minimal production demands.
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