I created this video using stop-motion techniques to animate little moments of happiness that I collected from my friends and family.

The concept started after I was reading on a bench and a leaf fell right onto my book, making me pause and pay attention to the little moments of happiness.

This video resulted from my exploration into Google Maps and the street view function. I was amazed that I could look up my grandparent's house and see their lawn, despite the physical distance between us, from Denver to California. Because I had spent much of my childhood at their house, I collected photos of my time with them in California and of the house to act as pixels in the original image I pulled from Google Maps.

This video recounts a trip I took to San Francisco. I was experimenting with the simple editing program iMovie.