Learning to love you more : an art project by Miranda July, collection : SFMOMA

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No1

http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/grants.php

Original project idea and execution by Miranda July+Fletcher

Project of Assignments for anyone who wished to do so, online and hardcopy book in various venues

Moving submissions has received a grant of 500us, take a look and see which works, or assignments were awarded a grant?

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The Girl Next Door , dir Christine Fugate; Tabloid, dir Errol Morris

The Girl Next Door ***
dir Christine Fugate
Documentary over 2 years

There is something strange about this girl, Stacey Valentine.  She looks so nice and very articulate about her work, but she seem to somehow fell into pornography because somebody told her to do this?  As a former "flat chested" girl (not so flat as that) why she has to keep on making big boobs?   Its her professional tools that she keeps on augmenting which makes her a self designed pornographic professional. She doesn't look hard as common porn stars do.  Porn stars usually have faces of a soldier.  Tough.  Its part of the attraction for the "challengers"?  
Here she speaks softly, and shows her mom and step dad, all humanly understandable entourage with ordinary peoples acceptance of what sex is, what differences in gender might look at sex as... horny not so horny etc.  As her mom says, lots of people are adopted, divorced, poor, all kinds of conditions - that presents hardships - but they don't become porn stars.  Stacey looks lovely.  Not your ordinary hard core porn star.  She is comfortable with her nudity.  Natural fit for the profession.
We see a v direct intimate day to day life of what being porn star means, it means breast implants - showing the doc cutting up breast, pulling out implant, re-insert the bags, the body here really looks like a rubber doll - liposuction all along hip, upper thigh and abdomen.  Its body sculpture, maintenance.  If it were not for the profession, would women go for this styling by choice?  How does one decide boobs are big enough?
I like the way the film maker has shown the details.  But I still don't understand why Stacey is in this business - i think she is a natural, she deserves to make the money and enjoy it too.  She doesn't feel humiliated by doing the work she does.  Though in one scene for the anal sex, it does look like it hurts.  Its not all fun fun fun.  She says in one scene that her sex drive is at zero - but a job is a job, you just do it.  One main weakness thats shown, or the unrosy part of the story is that she doesnt trust people.  This makes her alone.  
Maybe when sex is used as a profession, its no longer an improvable art - there is a physical limit to what you could do in the sex act - because it is done as a spectator art.  The spectator decides where the limit is.  The ultimate limit is - as we see in newspapers, tabloid newspapers - the end of the body.  

Tabloid ***

dir Errol Morris

Investigative Documentary over 2 years

Compare this to the film "Tabloid" by Errol Morris, the central character, Joyce McKinney is also a professional bondage erotic service girl.  Though now, she has retired.  Joyce denies her profession, even though we have ads and photos to see that is what she does. In these photos, she also doesn't seem hard and humiliated, she looks like she enjoys this along with money and fame.

There is nothing wrong with both professions.  Porn film star and private by appointment Bondage sex playmate, they are in need and there is a demand. 

These are such physical activities, a lot depends on the body as tool.  And bondage is a more cerebral form of porn, whereas the physical porn is more atheletic.  Both are probably not so romantic as all that.  But the romance the emotional contact is missing because it doesn't pass by the body, its in the brain.

Holding hands with another man/woman is more a cause for jealousy than having sex.

Ready made live in landmark architectural green sculpture

Ready made live in landmark architectural green sculpture

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2236746/Road-built-building-couple-refuse-China.html#ixzz2D0OvghoT

If the elderly owner doesn't want to leave, what could be a good solution to connect his house over the roadway to the other areas? 
 What are the solutions to an "island"? 
There are many islands in real life. 
 Island countries, Taiwan, Japan, many others. 
 How do they negotiate the great divide between themselves and the mainland? 
If the owner is forced to be isolated - all roads cut off or self-regulated rules to stop easy communication, this is very brutal and no fun for everyone.

I think this house should be kept, and let the owner make it into a nice place. 
 Have the government help them, and make it into a first government garden in the city type of home. 

I think of how to make a retractable bridge that crosses over like a giant footing... or some other well designed foot bridge thats like a double gateway. 

 There are lots of bridges with buildings on the bridges everywhere. 

 This is a case of the building first, and bridge later. 
 No lost for everybody.   Win Win.  The roads people might lose a bit of income, but will gain good publicity for their inventiveness and kindness to the weak.

Make it into a landmark fun place. 
 Or useful place, with trees and vegetables etc.  

Start w flower pots.

Supporters should bring a pot of flower to the elderly couple. 
Start cleaning up walls, just remove the debris, no need to restore entirely for now. 
Just clean up, put flower pots on terrace.
Everybody brings a pot of flower - could be vegetable flowers - plants you could eat.
Connect water, electricity.  

Soon, the whole island-house becomes a living house with terrace gardens.





http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2236746/Road-built-building-couple-refuse-China.html#ixzz2D0OvghoT

Won't sell up? Enjoy living in the middle of a motorway! Road is built around a house after elderly Chinese couple refuse to move

• An elderly couple refuse to move as a road is built around their apartment
• They insist the government's relocation compensation is not enough

By ALEX WARD

PUBLISHED: 10:27 GMT, 22 November 2012 | UPDATED: 11:26 GMT, 24 November 2012

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A lone apartment building stands in the middle of a newly built road after an elderly couple refused to relocate.

Luo Baogen and his wife insist on living in the half-demolished building in the city of Wenling, in Zhejiang province, China because they believe that the relocation compensation offered by the government is not enough.

Now the only building left standing, the five storey block is a strange sight as cars drive around it while the couple remain living inside.

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An elderly couple refused to leave despite plans for the road a railway station to be built directly where the building stands

To ensure the couple’s safety, adjacent rooms in the building have been left intact but all their neighbours have moved out, according to local media. 

The road paved through the Xiazhangyang village leads to the Wenling railway station and is yet to be officially opened.

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Mr Baogen and his wife believe that the compensation on offer would not be enough to cover their rebuilding costs.

In the People's Republic of China, during most of the Communist era, private ownership of property was abolished, making it easy for residents to be moved on - but now the laws have been tightened up and it is illegal to demolish property by force without an agreement.

Not enough to move: The couple refused to move because they believed the relocation compensation offered by the government was not enough

Room with a view: Luo Baogen looks out on the new road which is yet to be officially opened from the apartment building where all his neighbours moved out

Property owners in China that refuse to move to make way for development are known as 'Nail Householders' referring to a stubborn nail that is not easy to remove from a piece of old wood and cannot be pulled out with a hammer.

Earlier this year, Hong Chunqin, 75, and her husband Kung, who live in the two dilapidated buildings with their two sons, had initially agreed to sell the property in Taizhou, in Zhejiang province and accepted £8,000 in compensation.

But then she changed her mind and refunded the money once work on the road had started.

Proof: Mr Baogen stands in front of his home holding the certificate that states he owns the land beneath it, meaning that he and his wife can't be forced to move away

Folorn: Mr Baogen looks wistfully across his new scenery, the tarmac from the new road waving haphazardly along the side of the building and demarcating the homeowner's land

Calm before the storm: The balcony from Mr Baogen's home looks peaceful now, but this is all likely to change shortly when the motorway surrounding the property is opened to traffic

Thinking laterally: When Mr Baogen refused to vacate his property, which was right in the middle of a planned route for a new motorway, the road builders refused to let this get in the way

The long road home: The house that appears to be plonked in the middle of a motorway is likely to prove an unusual landmark for passing motorists

Isolated: Niu Chuangen and Zhang Zhongyun's home stands on a small parcel of land amid the growing skyscrapers

Earlier this year, Niu Chuangen and Zhang Zhongyun dared to stand in the way of a local property developer in Zaozhuang, in the Shandong province.

As a result, the resolute couple, both in their 60s, have been left stranded on their tiny spot of land, while all around them the ground is dug up and skyscrapers erected.

The distraught pair were regularly threatened by gangsters and have had to fend over a number of attempts to illegally demolish their ramshackle home.

They were cut off from utilities in 2009 when a local developer started the enormous earthworks involved in building dozens of high-rise residential buildings in the area. 

Refuse to move: Another family initially agreed to sell the property in Taizhou but changed their minds once work on the road had started

Stranded: The couple were left without running water and electricity ground after real estate developers dug out the ground around it

Cannot demolish: During the Communist era, private ownership of property was abolished but now the laws have been tightened up and it is illegal to demolish property by force without an agreement

In another case, one family among 280 others at the site of a six storey shopping mall being built in Chongqing refused to leave their home for two years.

Developers cut their power and water, and excavated a 10-meter deep pit around their home, which their family had inhabited for three generations.

The owners broke into the construction site, reoccupied it, and flew a Chinese flag on top and then Yang Wu, a local martial arts champion, used nunchakus to make a staircase to the house and threatened to beat any authorities who attempted to evict him.

The owners turned down an offer of £300,000 but eventually settled with the developers in 2007.

And here are some more bizarre building projects from China...

High and dry: A furious family took legal action against property developers in Mianyang, south west China, last year after they demolished every staircase in their seven-storey apartment block in a bizarre bid to make them vacate their top-floor flat so they could build a factory (pictured, top, with the flower boxes and awnings)

That's prime retail estate! With space at premium in the densely populated city of Zhuzhou in central China's Hunan Province, homeowners decided to build these villas on the roof of the Jiutian International Plaza shopping centre, which is home to one of most famous wholesale markets for shoes in the region

Architectural triumph or just plain pants? It has been trumpeted as 'a dramatic, iconic gateway' to the East that makes the Arc de Triomphe look like a mere ornament, but critics of he £445m Gate of the East in Suzhou, China, have likened the structure to a giant pair of long johns

Ee bah gum! Majestic, yes. But the gloss was taken off ever so slightly when Beijing's new Phoenix International Media Centre (above) was compared by some observers earlier this year to a huge Yorkshire pudding. The building boasts 65,000sqm of floor space for offices, restaurants and the headquarters of China's Phoenix TV

The world's silliest supertower? Towering 328 metres (1,067ft) above the ground, this skyscraper in Huaxi, Jiangsu province,  dwarf's everything in its path. It is 18 metres taller than the Shard in London and its closest rival is 600 miles away in Beijing. But that's because it was built in a village of 2,000 FARMERS

A touch out of place, perhaps? Near the rice paddies, groves of yellow bamboo and the homes of tens of millions of dirt-poor migrant workers lies this bizarre replica of an Alpine village in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. Unsurprisingly, sales were non-existent when it opened earlier this year

VIDEO: Farmers refuse to budge after motorway is built around their home

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See Through Church in Belgium

See through Church in Limburg, Belgium
Gijs Van Vaerenbergh, a collaboration between young Belgian architects Pieterjan Gijs (Leuven, 1983) and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh (Leuven, 1983), have built a see-through church in the Belgian region of Haspengouw. The church is a part of the Z-OUT project of Z33, house for contemporary art based in Hasselt, Belgium. Z-OUT is an ambitious longterm art in public space project that will be realised on different locations in the Flemish region of Limburg over the next five years.
http://architecturelab.net/2011/10/see-through-church-limburgbelgium-by-gijs-van-vaerenbergh/

Gangnam style

Gangnam style



Gangnam style: Ai Weiwei


mirror practice


gd dancers

A waking life, Avenue Amy, Machinima+real life footage WuTang Clan, Kawaguchi

A Waking Life, Richard Linklater



A Scanner Darkly

Richard Linklater, A scanner darkly
On the New Rotoscoping Technique: 

Linklater says he used the technique because he knows the guy who wrote the software. “He’s a friend of mine in Austin so he was sort of creating it. It’s a computer variant of rotoscoping, which is an old technique. I don’t even know if that’s the right way of calling it, ‘rotoscoping’. It’s just a computer variation. It’s something you can do on your home computer via the software. It still takes over 500 hours to do one minute of this. It’s very artist intensive. That’s why we spent a year and a half doing it.” Linklater continued. “It was Waking Life when I saw the earliest stages of that technique. It sort of triggered something in my brain of the story I’d been thinking about for 20 years - or kind of non-story I should say that never worked in my mind as a film. But when I saw that it was like, ‘Okay, that’s works because it’s not real, but it is real.’ That’s why I felt it worked here. Philip K Dick is always asking, ‘What is reality?’ and I think this technique puts your brain in the right place to take in this particular story. It seems real; it sounds real. You recognize these people. Their gestures are real and it seems like the real world, but it’s not. It’s this painted world so it’s probably the right kind of split-brain thing going on in your head as you watch it that, hopefully, you take it in just like a movie. You care about the people in the same way, if not more than you would in live action.”

Acting More Animated: 

Did his actors use their hands more or expand on facial expressions to a greater degree knowing they were going to be animated? “Actually Woody [Harrelson], [Robert] Downey and Rory [Cochrane] I think, because of their characters, I think pushed them a little bit. But that didn’t really have that much to do with animation, it had more to do with their characters who were a little more tweaked out.”

 
Avenue Amy


Wu Tang Clan, Shaolin Game Play



Kawaguchi


shapes of the invisible


Gone with the Wind in 60sec

Ode to summer


un amour mobile


presnted by : 加菲
http://vimeo.com/52560308,  presented by 加菲
An example of 2d in 3d, and 3D in 3d


Iron Giant


Two to Tango x-box promo


Real Steel


Banned games


Samourai Jack

computer animation algorithm

growing tree



Growing seed, stylised lines and pattern



<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/H7nezRHosB0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> growing tree animation w recursive algorithm


http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGraph/animation/rick_parent/Outline.html
computer animation algorithm

internet art, Miranda July

http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/reports/70/rebecca2.php
Learning to love you more; 
Miranda July : interdisciplinary artist
movies: Me and You and Everyone We Know, The Future, The Center of the World, More