The Global Lives Project, a large scale video project that will show a day-in-the-life of 10 people whose diversity represents the world’s population, recently brought a portion of their 240 hours of footage to San Francisco after screenings in Tokyo and the East Village. Creator David Evan Harris has set out to create “an online video library of human life experience” with the help of more than 250 volunteers in eight countries.  One of the most challenging things about synching tapings with 10 individuals who demonstrate humanity’s current regional, geographic, age, and religious makeup has been language differences (if you don’t count the effect slow bandwidth has on streaming video in sub-Saharan Africa). Users of the collaborative subtitling platform dotSUB have come to the rescue, and a great Flickr diary and video of subjects in Japan, Brazil, and Africa Malawi are now available online. The project’s team is also working to create citywide installations and a book coordinated with Sao Paulo’s Museum of the Person. For their sake we hope global time differences are an asset when it comes to burning the midnight oil.