On Saturday, Current TV personalities Max Lugavere and Jason Silva co-host the international Pangea Day music and film festival. Wired.com caught up with the duo a few hours before showtime.
Wired: How did you prepare for this transcontinental broadcast? Lots of Red Bull?
__Lugavere: __ Lots of sleep actually. This is the first time we've ever hosted in front of a live audience.
Wired: Where are you based during the broadcast?
Silva: We will physically be in Los Angeles, although during the broadcast we refer to it as Pangea Central.
__Lugavere: __Physically in L.A. but our voices will be heard in 150 plus countries. Quite a trip.
Wired: Give me a sense of the technology required to pull this thing off?
Silva: Live streaming on the web. Also, some of the films were shot with cell phones, further pushing the boundaries of cell phone and video convergence.
__Lugavere: __I still can't wrap my head around how massive this operation is.
Wired: What are you most looking forward to over the course of Pangea Day?
Silva: Seeing if the world can simultaneously experience collective empathy.
Lugavere: A collective, global fit of laughter. You'll see what I'm talking about.
Wired: What does this festival say about the future global culture in the Internet age?
Silva: This event is a glimpse into an open source / new media /user generated content revolution. It's a future where everyone can have a voice and a multiplicity of point of views will be shared.
Lugavere: Pangea Day shows that the real "celebrity" is the person out there who picks up his or her camera with the goal of inspiring the audience to a greater vision of life.
Wired: Parting thoughts?
__Silva: __ Pangea Day parallels what we do every day on Current TV. We feel strongly that the future of how we get along as a species is inextricably tied to the future of media.
Lugavere: As we've seen with the Internet, the way we consume media has transformed from this sort of diatribe from the corporate conglomerates to what is now a conversation. On Pangea Day, we are going to have that conversation over a global, multimedia campfire and we're honored to be a part of it.
Photo credit: Randee St. Nicholas
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