Reading the prompt for this exercise I thought of those 1 Second Everyday or 1SE videos on Youtube.  I imagine many of you are familiar with them, the typical example of one is taking an adorable little kid from birth to his or her first birthday as shown here.  They've been used in a number of commercials as well, sometimes speeding through at a faster rate.  What we end up getting is a rapid view of aging and time, like in a nature TV show depicting the changing seasons in plant life.  Here is the creator of the app, Cesar Kuriyama, explaining in a TedTalk why he made the app in the first place and how he has been recording one second of every day of his life since his 30th birthday and plans to continue doing this until he can no longer do so.  He mentions how the time will be compressed, like how when he reaches 40 he will have an hour-long video of his 30s.  His purpose is to avoid forgetting the little things that happen in his life.  Many of the seconds in his video, which is playing in the background during his talk, consist of unremarkable things.  They are sometimes funny.  Sometimes inscrutable.  Sometimes sad.  He says that even though the seconds may not seem to be profound or important, seeing that one second helps him remember the other things that happened during that day.  So time is compressed by a huge factor--- a second is 1/86,400 or .001% of a day.  But by doing this, he also manages (at least theoretically, or at least for himself anyways) to elongate time by triggering his memory of those days through visual stimulation.

This app also opens up possibilities of compressing not only time, but space.  Here we get a video made by an relief organization working towards helping Syrian children.  The video takes the standard format, of compressing a year in the life of a young girl (in this case British).  But instead of focusing on how she grows up physically, we see her going through a process similar to what one might imagine a Syrian child has gone through since the start of the chaos that has plagued the nation for the past few years.  The result is somewhat shocking, as the title of the video indicates, especially if you go into it not knowing what to expect.