IMAGINE:
You are given a microphone that somehow transmits directly into the mind of every living human on earth, and you have everyone’s undivided attention.
THE CATCH?
You only have 60 seconds.
And you can only do it once.
WHAT WOULD YOU SHARE?
With the ability to reach every human being on Earth, you have the potential to make a difference.
THE GLOBAL MICROPHONE ~ A PARTICIPATORY COMMUNITY
What is most important to you that you’d want to pass it along to everyone else?
Or, if you were on your deathbed and only had a minute left to communicate to your loved ones, what would you want to say?
DEC. 2019 UPDATE ~ WE ARE NOW ACCEPTING VIDEOS TO HELP LAUNCH THIS PROJECT, WITH A PLANNED PUBLIC RELEASE IN JAN. 2020
Will you treat this as a creative writing exercise, take your time in crafting it, and make sure you’re expressing exactly the most precise essence of your innermost self?
Or will you shoot from the hip and lay it on stream of consciousness style?
Would you share your:
INSPIRATION
Your profound truth
Your deepest wisdom
Your grandest vision
Your inspired insights
EXPERIENCE
Things you’ve learned
Some guidance
Some perspective
Your intuition
REGRETS
Things to get off of your chest
Things you wish you hadn’t done
Or wish you hadn’t said
An apology never delivered
Your deepest fears
HOPES
What you’d wish for your family
For your community
For humanity
For all living beings
For the world as a whole
The Global Mic Vision
What fuels this project is the suspicion that when we cut to the core of our lives, and put our fingers on the things that really matter, that humans share more similarities than differences. I thought that this would be an interesting, revealing, and potentially fun way to explore this concept.
By inviting submissions from all walks of life and from all corners of the globe, I hope to shine a light on the common threads and themes that can serve our collective identity as humans living on planet Earth, and help heal the wounds of separation that keep us from truly connecting and identifying with one another.
How To Create a Global Mic Video
Project Guidelines:
We recommend borrowing a friend or family member’s phone to use as a 60 second timer, and practicing once of twice to get your timing right.
Please do your best to honor the 60 second guideline.
We suggest imagining you really are speaking to the entire world, and what that would feel like ~ we imagine it would be pretty intense, and have your words reflect the power that talking to the world would entail.
Hold your phone HORIZONTALLY for best results.
Once you are happy with your 60 second video, hit the SEND VIDEO button or link and it will take you to the contact form ~ please put VIDEO READY in the subject line, and a detailed email will be returned to you with final uploading instructions.
Video Submission Guidelines
Videos must be 60 seconds or less.
Longer videos will be deleted.
All submitted videos must conform to community standards of respect and decency towards your fellow humans ~ videos containing hate, discrimination, sexism, racism, or threats in any form will be deleted and the user banned.
This is not a medium to proselytize your religion, nor to belittle anyone else’s beliefs that are different from yours.
The Global Mic Project is intented to create a medium to distill your core thoughts and beliefs to help heal the differences that divide us, to celebrate our common bonds, and shine a light on the similarities that connect us all.
Submitting a video to this website or to your own uTube channel with the hashtag #globalmicproject grants us permission to include your video in this community project, though you as the creator retain full ownership and rights to your submitted video.
Join us! It will only take a minute…
SEND VIDEO & Contact us
When your video is ready, fill out the following form and put VIDEO READY in the subject line ~ an email with final uploading instructions will be sent to you.
Or, if you have questions, need clarification, want to share this project in your own community, or just want to connect, fill out the form below and we look forward to being in touch.