Friday, January 28, 2011
An Interesting Day
Not today, that was mostly boring, but July 24th 2010. The Life In A Day film was brilliant. It's amazing to see how many different things took place on that day and that while the differences are many the are just as many things which are the same. The film is fascinating and covers pretty much every extreme of life on the Earth as is possible. It's happy, it's sad and sometimes quite graphic which I wasn't expecting, but I suppose that's how the world is sometimes. The deaths at the Love Parade was something I didn't know had even happened, I was out that day and so never caught the news. Now I know that this is not the only film to ever use such a mix of footage like this. Bodysong comes to mind as one I've seen which is similar, but that was created with all old archive footage. The unique point of Life In A Day is it's use of You Tube and the Internet to crowdsource content within a very specific time window. Thanks to Kevin Macdonald and Ridley Scott for an excellent film and also well done to You Tube for a flawless live stream.
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It sounds beautifully done, and very moving, from the moving way you wrote about it. And it's awe-inspiring that it's all from ordinary people, out with their cameras, like you, and all from You Tube which hasn't even existed very long. Another example of the Internet making the world a smaller place.
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