"LIFE IN A DAY" DOCUMENTARY

You wake up, go to school or work, and then go about your usual daily routine.  But have you ever thought about what is happening in another person's life who lives halfway around the globe?

On July 24, 2010, thousands of people around the world uploaded videos of their lives to YouTube to take part in “Life in a Day”, a historic cinematic experiment to create a documentary film about a single day on earth. Since then, Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald and a team of editors have whittled down over 80,000 clips (and more than 4500 hours of footage) into a 90-minute film that gives an honest and inspiring glimpse of our world. So what would your video clip be depicting your life in a day?

Watch this awe inspiring trailer of "Life in a Day"

KEEP YOUR EYE OUT FOR THE COPS

Oscar art in LA

Street art is know as the hybrid form of graffiti using mediums such as stickers, stencils, posters, paint and sculptures. It is considered one of the biggest counter cultural movement since punk and is often done secretly at night, due to its illegal nature. Exit Through the Gift Shop follows an eccentric shop-keeper turned amateur film-maker, Thierry Guetta, as he attempts to document the birth of the street art movement and capture many of the world's most infamous vandals on camera. Along the way, Guetta crosses paths with the notoriously secretive street artist, Bansky, who ends up turning the camcorder back on the Frenchman with wildly unexpected results.

Some of Bansky's street art

Some critics have concerns over the authenticity of the documentary, but others believe that Oscar nominated documentary is the "first Oscar-related publicity to actually extend the concerns, and deepen the mystery, of the movie it's intended to promote." In the weeks leading up the awards, Banksy's somewhat controversial and industrial art has been popping up all over Los Angeles, which has given a lot of hype to his nominated film.

image sources: bansky.com