COOL VIDEO PROJECT: '365' captures a poem made in 2014, one word at a time

You know those cool "one selfie every day" videos that show a person changing (or, in some cases, growing) right before your eyes?

This video has a unique take on that trend: a poem reflecting on what can happen in a year, told one word at a time.

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Ben Schmidt, a games developer in Saskatchewan, Canada, made this video by taking a video selfie every day of 2014, starting on Jan. 1 and ending on Dec. 31. He explained on his YouTube channel that, though the finished product looks like he only said one word each day, he had to say more to make the video editing easier.

"I usually recited the sentence that had the day's word in it, and possibly a bit of the next/previous sentence," he wrote. "While keeping the flow of a sentence right is a big reason to do it this way, it's also amazing how much different a word can sound when said between two other words as opposed to just by itself."

In addition to his smartly edited poem, the video shows changes in the weather and Schmidt's appearance, a visual representation of his reflections on change.