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Life in a Day

ScrumtrulescentScrumtrulescent Registered User regular
edited April 2011 in Social Entropy++
SE++, have you ever thought about what the rest of the world was doing today?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8S4gGI4nRo&feature=player_embedded

Billed as "The story of a single day on earth," Life in a Day is a project headed by Kevin MacDonald and Ridley Scott, working with YouTube.

Announced on July 6, 2010, YouTube asked users to send in videos of themselves doing whatever they did on July 24, 2010. Response was overwhelming. Over 80,000 people sent in submissions, totalling 4,500 hours of film. Producers sorted through it all, eventually editing it down to about an hour and a half of footage.

SE++, I watched this when it was streamed live from Sundance. It was one of the most amazing documentaries I've ever seen. It's such a simple concept, but from that concept sprang something extremely moving. It's supposed to get a theatrical release sometime in July or something, and I urge you to see it.

So, SE++, what did you do today?

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2011
    i woke up with the blue sky in my eyes today, it was wonderful

    rest of the day hasn't been as good but still pretty all right

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  • Viscount IslandsViscount Islands [INSERT SoKo HERE] ...it was the summer of my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Oh man I used to think about this all the time.

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2011
    it's the primary way i keep myself humble

    if i ever get too big-headed i usually think something like 'someone is risking their lives for free government on the other side of the world, right now' and that puts things into perspective

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    today I proceeded a little further towards death

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2011
    SE++, have you ever thought about what the rest of the world was doing today?

    Revolving around me.

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  • crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    woke up and immediately started sneezing and feeling awful

    bluh

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  • ScrumtrulescentScrumtrulescent Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    today I proceeded a little further towards death

    Too depressing.

    You've proceeded a little further into life, my friend.

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    a little further into the finite stock of life available to me

    and when that runs out

    no more

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  • ScrumtrulescentScrumtrulescent Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    i woke up with the blue sky in my eyes today, it was wonderful

    rest of the day hasn't been as good but still pretty all right

    Blue sky in your eyes, you say?

    did you go camping orik

    or was there a hole in your ceiling

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  • Muse Among MenMuse Among Men Suburban Bunny Princess? Its time for a new shtick Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    My parents are gone today; I am having a spa day, will order pastries and thai food for an assignment, and will watch a movie.

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  • Muse Among MenMuse Among Men Suburban Bunny Princess? Its time for a new shtick Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Nah, I mean smearing green goop on my face so my skin can be supah soft.

    Originally I was gonna go do my stuff with friends but they can't make it so I will just go alone. Maybe I should catch something in the theatre? I've never gone just myself.

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  • bowtiedsealbowtiedseal Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I am at a coffee shop in denver, ostensibly working on a short paper about coffee and chocolate production and environmental/social impacts thereof, but mostly I am drinking coffee and thinking about food.

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2011
    i woke up with the blue sky in my eyes today, it was wonderful

    rest of the day hasn't been as good but still pretty all right

    Blue sky in your eyes, you say?

    did you go camping orik

    or was there a hole in your ceiling

    i have my blinds slanted just so

    the neighbours can't watch me sleep, and the angle is such that the only thing i see when i wake up is the sky

    it's pretty awesome

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  • mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Oooh this looks so cool, will it be getting a nationwide release? Actually I'll be out of the country by then so I just hope Youtube streams it later.

    As for myself; today I fainted in the shower and then walked about a mile up and downhill in the sweltering Florida heat for a protein bar. Later I will be seeing about a pizza party, and in the interim I will consider Minecraft.

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  • NogsNogs Crap, crap, mega crap. Crap, crap, mega crap.Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    i watched that premiere live. it was actually pretty sweet.

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  • ScrumtrulescentScrumtrulescent Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Oooh this looks so cool, will it be getting a nationwide release? Actually I'll be out of the country by then so I just hope Youtube streams it later.

    As for myself; today I fainted in the shower and then walked about a mile up and downhill in the sweltering Florida heat for a protein bar. Later I will be seeing about a pizza party, and in the interim I will consider Minecraft.

    It is raining and cold in New York

    it's like Seattle but dirtier

    mensch why did you faint in the shower

    is that a normal thing for you

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  • DrIanMalcolmDrIanMalcolm Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I am really surprised that that documentary turned out so well. Those editors deserve some sort of medal

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  • mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Oooh this looks so cool, will it be getting a nationwide release? Actually I'll be out of the country by then so I just hope Youtube streams it later.

    As for myself; today I fainted in the shower and then walked about a mile up and downhill in the sweltering Florida heat for a protein bar. Later I will be seeing about a pizza party, and in the interim I will consider Minecraft.

    It is raining and cold in New York

    it's like Seattle but dirtier

    mensch why did you faint in the shower

    is that a normal thing for you

    I'm a native of New York and my dad told me about the weather on the phone, it still feels weird living here sometimes, haha!

    I've only fainted once before but never with the blindness I experienced today, I hadn't had much to drink and the water was hot so I'm hoping it was just a result of carelessness and that the worst of it (falling over on a public bathroom floor augh augh augh) is over.

    How was your day?

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  • DrIanMalcolmDrIanMalcolm Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Oh and Qmark and I are going to go see a Jurassic Park triple feature today

    Pretty stoked

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  • Viscount IslandsViscount Islands [INSERT SoKo HERE] ...it was the summer of my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Mensch you...fainted in the shower? Are you okay?

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  • SalSal Damnedest Little Fellow Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Those seem like really good production values for footage generated by ordinary people

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  • BarcardiBarcardi All the Wizards Under A Rock: AfganistanRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I think i need to see this movie. I love world travel and issues and seeing what people do in other places.

    For me I woke up at 7, ran 10 miles, and took an ice bath as training for a marathon. Now I am watching deep deep TEDTalks.

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  • ScrumtrulescentScrumtrulescent Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Oooh this looks so cool, will it be getting a nationwide release? Actually I'll be out of the country by then so I just hope Youtube streams it later.

    As for myself; today I fainted in the shower and then walked about a mile up and downhill in the sweltering Florida heat for a protein bar. Later I will be seeing about a pizza party, and in the interim I will consider Minecraft.

    It is raining and cold in New York

    it's like Seattle but dirtier

    mensch why did you faint in the shower

    is that a normal thing for you

    I'm a native of New York and my dad told me about the weather on the phone, it still feels weird living here sometimes, haha!

    I've only fainted once before but never with the blindness I experienced today, I hadn't had much to drink and the water was hot so I'm hoping it was just a result of carelessness and that the worst of it (falling over on a public bathroom floor augh augh augh) is over.

    How was your day?

    I almost fainted like that once, the blindness totally sucks


    My day has been chill

    woke up at twelve

    stayed in bed til one

    now I am watching the Rangers get knocked out!

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  • glass ironyglass irony Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I'm skeptical. That trailer looks a lot like the emotionally manipulative commercials you see around Olympics-time, with banal messages like "We are the world" or "Life!" They might not be trying to sell credit cards, but it doesn't look much deeper.

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  • MarthMarth Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I am mad at the world because I am hungry and everyone else can have bread stuff and I can't.

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  • ScrumtrulescentScrumtrulescent Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I'm skeptical. That trailer looks a lot like the emotionally manipulative commercials you see around Olympics-time, with banal messages like "We are the world" or "Life!" They might not be trying to sell credit cards, but it doesn't look much deeper.

    The trailer takes a lot of the more exciting ones.

    Much of the film is just video from people living their lives normally. Sure, there are a few extraordinary ones, but they serve as more of a contrast, showing the things that are going on around us while we live our everyday lives.

    That asian guy on the bike is biking through Asia or something, if I remember correctly.

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  • MarthMarth Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I might make something with chicken and carrots today. Just as soon as I get off my ass and go the store.

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Koshian wrote: »
    today i spent 1 year in the hyperbolic time chamber and am now a super saiyan ask me anything

    what's it like

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  • THEPAIN73THEPAIN73 Shiny. Real shiny.Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I have been at work watching Stargate SG-1 all damn day.

    Later I will go egg dying and bowling.

    It will be an ok day.

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2011
    Oghulk wrote: »
    Biking through the world actually. He was on his way home to Korea I think.

    i wonder if he's the same guy that ewan mcgregor and charley boorman met during long way 'round?

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  • MereHappenstanceMereHappenstance Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Yesterday I went and played golf. Did pretty bad so I was kind of annoyed about that. Then I realized "Wait a minute, the thing I'm most upset about is not doing as well in golf as I normally do? Is that it?

    I then started thinking about all of the wonderful things in my life, and how many people aren't as fortunate as I am. It was also a very sunny beautiful day yesterday and today.

    I have been in a great mood since, and I'm going to try and keep that going.

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  • mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Mensch you...fainted in the shower? Are you okay?

    I'm tired and kind of lightheaded and my dad yelled at me for an hour because of it but other than that I'm pretty okay, thanks for asking!
    Koshian wrote: »
    today i spent 1 year in the hyperbolic time chamber and am now a super saiyan ask me anything

    does your dinkie shrink when you that buff that fast

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  • Tommy2HandsTommy2Hands what is this where am i Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I am tired and I went biking and shit and now I feel lonely

    this is my day

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  • Tommy2HandsTommy2Hands what is this where am i Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Mensch you...fainted in the shower? Are you okay?

    I'm tired and kind of lightheaded and my dad yelled at me for an hour because of it but other than that I'm pretty okay, thanks for asking!
    Koshian wrote: »
    today i spent 1 year in the hyperbolic time chamber and am now a super saiyan ask me anything

    does your dinkie shrink when you that buff that fast

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0qAX_Ftio0&feature=player_embedded#at=17

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  • mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    hahahha ok now i have a swirloy headache abnd itsn im getting lightheaded h brb need a dap

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