Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Featured Commoner: Global Lives on CreativeCommons.org






I just did a very long email interview with Creative Commons and it's now on their front page! Note to readers: if you are a perfectionist, don't ever accept a request for an email interview because you think it will be easier than a spoken one...


Give us a bit of background on the Global Lives project. How did you begin? What is your mission?

Global Lives’ mission is to reshape how people around the world perceive cultures, nations and people outside their communities by collaboratively building a video library of human life experience. The content of our video library “lives” online and is regularly presented to the public in unique open-source video installations and screenings. Our shoots so far have taken place in Malawi, Brazil, Japan, China, Indonesia and the US, and we’ve shown our work publicly in most of those countries and a few others.


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