miranda and me

Assignment #33 Braid someone's hair

2010-01-22T12:25:00.000Z

"Offer to braid someone's hair--could be a friend, relative or stranger. If you know any fancy styles of braiding, let's see them."

I realised last night that Mila's hair was long enough to be braided properly. I haven't tried any fancy braiding techniques on her yet, but I think I could...

It is really strange to see her go from baby to little girl.

Assignment #3 Make a documentary video about a small child.

2010-01-19T12:51:00.000Z

"Locate a small child. Shoot a video about his or her life. The video can be as simple or complex as you want. It can be done all in camera or heavily edited. Make titles and credits even if they are just shot off of a piece of paper. Please limit the length of your movie to five minutes."

A day in the life of a child is nothing like a day in our life. There is no continuity, there are no rules, no boundaries. I had a magical time editing this video.

Assignment #32 Draw a scene from a movie that made you cry

2010-01-18T14:32:00.000Z

"Rent a movie that made you cry. Fast forward to the exact point that really got you and pause the movie. Now draw this freeze-frame as accurately as possible. Also draw the tv and the table, or surface, that the tv is sitting on. Don't draw any other details of the room; this picture should be floating in the middle of an otherwise blank piece of paper. Draw everything as realistically as you can; don't be interpretive."

This weekend, I watched Where the Wild Things Are, till the end this time. The film didn't blow my mind, far from it, I actually thought it was quite boring. However, near the end, when Max has to say goodbye to his monster friends, I started crying uncontrollably. Any film or book with a really strong "end of childhood" theme get me every time.

This is my drawing of this scene

Assignment #24 - Cover the song "Don't Dream It's Over".

2010-01-11T18:45:00.004Z

"For this assignment we ask you to do your own version of this song. It can be a faithful rendition or an interpretation, you can re-sing it, ask a choir to sing it, ask a child to sing it, sing the translation in your native tongue, with any instrumentation or with none at all."

Read more here.

This is my first assignment. I thought I would start with something fairly easy I could do at home. The result is slightly embarrassing but this is the game, right?

I don't have an audio recorder so I used iMovie, and a karaoke version of the song on YouTube (classy). 

Miranda and Me

2009-12-22T11:33:00.002Z

Miranda is Miranda July. And I am Mademoiselle Robot. I love Miranda July's vision of art & creation and ever since I found out about Learning To Love You More, I have been meaning to do some of the assignments. Because time isn't always on my side, I ended up constantly postponing this project and regretting it... To instill a bit of discipline, I decided to create a blog in which I will document my version of the seventy assignments featured in Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher's book.

I will be doing the assignments in random order but always linking back to the original one on LTLYM's website.