this weekend steve surprised me with the book learning to love you more - he knows i’m a big fan of miranda july, one of the authors. thank you, steve!

if you liked the one-a-day challenge and one-a-week challenge, i bet you’ll also like learning to love you more. from the official website:

Learning to Love You More is both a web site and series of non-web presentations comprised of work made by the general public in response to assignments given by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. Yuri Ono designs and manages the web site. Participants accept an assignment, complete it by following the simple but specific instructions, send in the required report (photograph, text, video, etc), and see their work posted on-line. Like a recipe, meditation practice, or familiar song, the prescriptive nature of these assignments is intended to guide people towards their own experience. Since Learning To Love You More is also an ever-changing series of exhibitions, screenings and radio broadcasts presented all over the world, participant’s documentation is also their submission for possible inclusion in one of these presentations. Past presentations have taken place at venues that include The Whitney Museum in NYC, Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, Aurora Picture Show in Houston, TX, The Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, WA, the Wattis Institute in San Francisco CA, among others. Since LTLYM inception in 2002 over 5000 people have participated in the project

some of my favorite assignments include #55. photograph a significant outfit, #63. make an educational public plaque, #30. take a picture of strangers holding hands