English subtitles for clip: File:Welcome to globallives 2.0.ogv
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0 00:00:00 --> 00:00:04,062 ♫ Brazilian hip hop music in background ♫ 1 00:00:16,154 --> 00:00:23 The goal of the Global lives Project is to videotape 24 hours in the daily lives of 10 people from all over the world. 2 00:00:23 --> 00:00:27 Right now we're here in São Paulo, Brazil, doing our second shoot for the project. 3 00:00:30 --> 00:00:34 We are a collective of dozens of filmakers, artists, architects, programmers 4 00:00:34 --> 00:00:38 and everyday people from all around the planet. 5 00:00:39 --> 00:00:46 We're going to end up with 240 hours of footage, and the idea is to take all this footage and create a video installation 6 00:00:46 --> 00:00:49 The visitor to this installation will be able to walk through ten different rooms 7 00:00:49 --> 00:00:55 And each of the rooms will have the unedited footage of each of our subjects 8 00:00:56 --> 00:01:02 The point of this is to really take people out of their own daily lives and bring them into the realities of people from all walks of life 9 00:01:02 --> 00:01:04 from all over the world. 10 00:01:07 --> 00:01:14 The first Global Lives shoot took place in San Francisco, California, with cable car driver James Bullock. 11 00:01:25 --> 00:01:29 Additional shoots are already taking place in other countries. 12 00:01:52 --> 00:01:59 All our videos will become part of a participatory video library of human life experience 13 00:01:59 --> 00:02:03 free and open for contributions from the public. 14 00:02:34 --> 00:02:38 Through immersion in this small but diverse sampling of daily human existence 15 00:02:38 --> 00:02:44 viewers will be challenged to rethink both their own lives and their connections with the rest of the world. 16 00:02:52 --> 00:02:58 Check out our website at GlobalLives.org to find out how to get involved in the Global Lives Project. 17 00:05:05 --> 00:05:06 . 18 00:05:06 --> 00:05:07 . 19 00:05:07 --> 00:05:08 .