7 Mindblowing Multimedia Projects

The Public Radio MAKER’S QUEST 2.0 article begins with:

From time to time, I come across innovative media content that gets under my skin, wows me with its sheer beauty or gravity, its simplicity or complexity. Often, I discover these projects serendipitously. Sometimes, I'm tipped off by other blogs I follow that track inventive storytelling.

Since I'm the kinda gal who likes to share and connect people to new and inspiring ideas, I offer these fascinating ongoing projects to you. Despite digital divides, the internet makes the world a much, much smaller place. Digital media can give us a sense of what it might be like to be a child in India, an elder in Africa or even someone who lives just a few blocks away.

And the article goes on to top the list with BRAF's 2007 grant recipient Global Lives.

Read more about it here: Public Radio MAKER’S QUEST 2.0.

Our 2007 grant recipient, Global Lives Founder, David Harris will be a host lecturer at Harvard University. David will speak on "New Media as Public Sociology: Words, words, words vs. lights, camera, action".

Global Lives - World Premiere

If you missed the opening of the The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presentation of the Global Lives Project, a 2007 grant recipient, an innovative video installation representing global diversity, you still have a chance to see the exhibit until June 20, 2010 in San Francisco.

Working with acclaimed filmmakers, artists and designers, *Global Lives* assembles the realities of everyday life from Lebanon, Serbia, China, India, Japan, Malawi, Indonesia, Brazil, Kazakhstan and San Francisco into an installation by architectural and design visionaries of Sand Studios and Forum.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

(3rd and Howard Streets, San Francisco).

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Global Lives comes to San Francisco

BRAF is supporting The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presentation of the Global Lives Project, a 2007 grant recipient, an innovative video installation representing global diversity.

Working with acclaimed filmmakers, artists and designers, *Global Lives* assembles the realities of everyday life from Lebanon, Serbia, China, India, Japan, Malawi, Indonesia, Brazil, Kazakhstan and San Francisco into an installation by architectural and design visionaries of Sand Studios and Forum.

The opening celebration:

February 26, at YBCA, 7:30-11:30 pm,
(3rd and Howard Streets, San Francisco).

You must RSVP for this free event!

We will be there and hope you will be too!

Prior Posts about Global Lives

News about Global Lives!

One of our 2008 Grant Recipients Global Lives is up to exciting things.

Last week they had a São Paulo screening of the Global Lives videos that went wonderfully and got some Press.

And in February the Global Lives Project's World Premiere installation will be on view at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from February 26 - June 20, 2010! The exhibit is part of an artist residency that will evolve over four months. They will be showing, for the first time ever, their series of ten 24-hour videos of daily life from around the planet.

And if you are in San Francisco, don't miss the opening night celebration February 26! A special event which will include a large-scale installation, great music by DJs Kid Kameleon, Tinker and Chief Boima, drinks, dancing, and an opportunity to meet the Global Lives producers and directors who created the work. RSVP

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Celebrate Global Lives

One of our 2008 Grant Recipients is about to have a residency at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts!

Please join board members and friends of Global Lives Project for a brunch and fundraiser in honor of Global Lives Project's upcoming residency at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

Sunday October 4th, 2009
11am to 2pm

At the home of Tony Maridakis and Paul Ryder

65 Noe Street, San Francisco, California, 94114

brunch, live music, and film from Japan, Brazil, Indonesia, China,India, San Francisco, Serbia, & Malawi.

Balinese traditional music on suling (bamboo flute) performed by Ken Worthy of Gamelan Kori Mas

Please RSVP by October 1st to 415.845.9396 or tony@globallives.org

Can't make it but want to contribute? http://globallives.org/donate

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Meet-Our-Grantees Global Lives Project

I'll let one of our 2007 Grants-to-Artists matching grant recipients, tell you about their project in their own words.

The Global Lives Project is a collaborative effort of volunteers from around the world to build a video library of human life experience. Our content consists of uninterrupted 24-hour recordings of daily life of individuals selected to represent the diversity of human life on the planet. In collaboration with museums, universities and independent filmmakers in numerous countries, we are working to present this library as both a series of physical video installations and a free and interactive online video collection. We have already conducted recordings in Brazil, Malawi, Japan and the US, and plan an additional 6 shoots in 2008 and 2009.

The installation at the iCommons Summit in Sapporo, Japan featured 24 hours in the life of James Bullock, a cable car driver in San Francisco; Edith Kapuka, a junior high school student in rural Malawi, Rael Feliciano, a hip hop singer in Brazil; and Rumi Nagashima, a university student in Tokyo.