Lifelogging begins

Since I started researching the last chapter in my book about how technology is reinventing the way we remember and celebrate a life, my husband, Simon, began the tedious process of digitizing and storing all of our home videos and my audio interviews on a hard drive. We were inspired by Gordon Bell the father of lifelogging, a personal and lifelong project to digitize and capture all of one’s interactions with the world. In my last post on lifelogging, I mentioned asking my husband to collect the video footage of us scuba diving the Cathedrals off the coast of Lanai where we met a pod of about 60 dusky dolphins. He edited a short video clip to preserve our experiences of dropping below the ocean surface. A videographer shot this footage on our first wedding anniversary in Maui last month. Our videos will one day become cherished material to include in our personal documentary that I imagine will premiere at a milestone birthday, golden anniversary (I’m crossing my fingers) or even a celebration of our life.