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Learning to love you more

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Prestel Verlag GmbH & Company KG., 2007 - Art - 158 pages
In a world obsessed with 'reality' programming, the collaborative public art project known as "Learning To Love You More" offers a refreshing take on how people think, act and love. Created by Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher, the web-based project, begun in 2002, offers more than sixty 'assignments' that can be completed by anyone: 'Write the phone conversation you wish you could have'; 'Draw a constellation from someone's freckles'; 'Take a flash photo under your bed.' Completed assignments are posted on the web site; to date, more than 5,000 people have participated - artists and non-artists of all ages, from Tokyo to Tel Aviv. July and Fletcher have curated a selection of the most memorable submissions - some moving, others hilarious and oddly brilliant, to create a pop culture collage that tells a larger story about life today. The result is an engaging, heartwarming, idea sparking book sure to inspire, teach, and entertain. Her film "Me And You And Everyone We Know" (Film Four) was a cult hit in 2005 - it won 15 Awards including the Golden Camera at Cannes and the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the Sundance film festival.

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Make an educational public plaque 45. - Goodreads
... would have been better without the writing. - Goodreads
Give advice to yourself in the past 55. - Goodreads
Serves well as overview of the general project. - Goodreads

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User Review  - Peter Dyer - Goodreads

just awful. there was none of July's trademark wit in it, maybe because it was just a bunch of random stupid essays by everyday people. the photographs by Harrell Fletcher were nice, but the essays ... Read full review

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User Review  - Nicole - Goodreads

Quite the lovely project, Learning to Love You More is an artistic crowdsourcing project in the vein of PostSecret. Definitely makes me want to do some of the assignments (although I was disappointed ... Read full review

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About the author (2007)

Miranda July is a filmmaker, writer, and performing artist. Her work has been presented at sites such as The Kitchen, the Guggenheim Museum, and in two Whitney Biennials. She wrote, directed, and starred in her first feature-length film, "Me and You and Everyone We Know", which received a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Cam?ra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. July's short fiction has been published in "The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Harper's", and "Zoetrope", and has been heard on Public Radio. Raised in Berkeley, California, she lives in Los Angeles.

Julia Bryan-Wilson is Associate Professor of Art History at Julia Bryan-Wilson is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine. the University of California, Irvine.

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