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YouTube 'Life in a Day' project now live in gallery

By | September 7, 2010, 10:23am PDT

Summary: Earlier this summer, YouTube commenced its “Life in a Day” video project. Now, you have a chance to see some of the 80,000+ results received in one eclectic gallery.

Earlier this summer, YouTube commenced its “Life in a Day” video project. Now, you have a chance to see some of the 80,000+ results received in one eclectic gallery.

Participants were asked to record a 24-hour glimpse of their lives on camera on July 24, making for one giant documentary of what goes on during single day on this planet. Even though this “global experiment” is now available to sift through online, the project is set to be edited into one concise film, with Kevin Macdonald directing and Ridley Scott as the executive producer.

With those two names attached to the project, there are some high hopes for what we will see when the movie debuts at the Sundance Film Festival this January. If you can’t make it to Park City, Utah, don’t worry. It will also be available on YouTube early next year as well. For now, you can check out the rough footage now.

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Rachel King is a staff writer for CBS Interactive in San Francisco. Before serving as a contributing editor at ZDNet in New York City for two years, she previously worked for The Business Insider, FastCompany.com, CNN's San Francisco bureau and the U.S. Department of State. Rachel has also written for MainStreet.com, Irish America Magazine and the New York Daily News, among others. Rachel has a B.A. in Mass Communications and History from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, where she served as art director for the student magazine, Plated.

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