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I’ve been using the service at Twitter.com for about the past two months and the more I use it, the more I find that I really like this weird little service.
I wrote a post about Twittera few weeks ago and since that time I have accumulated a great little following. I now have 37 people following me on Twitter and I am following 5 others.
Despite how much I like the service, it seems that Twitter has some serious server problems. Half the time I try and visit Twitter.com, the page either takes 30 seconds to load or the website is completely down and I am unable to punch in my updates.
Just look at what I got the other day when I tried to log in:
Here are the 5 people I am currently following on Twitter. I’ve ranked them in order from my favorite to my least favorite:
Yesterday I posted about one of my favorite films of all time, “You And Me And Everyone We Know” and discussed in short the films creator - a woman by the name of Miranda July.
As mentioned previously, July is a multi-talented artist and one of her most public pieces of work is a website called Learning To Love You More (www.LearningToLoveYouMore.com)
It is difficult to describe exactly what the site is an how it works, so let me take the description straight from the source:
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.
The best way to get a feel for the site is to visit it and search around. At first you may think it a little strange, but as you delve deeper into it’s content, you’ll begin to realize just how special this website truely is.
The website is so popular that July has taken it around the world, exhibiting the site and its many artifacts in museums of all shapes and sizes.
Just recently the best of the material from the website was comprised in a book with the same name - Learning To Love You More.
Check out the website and let me know what you think!
” and discussed in short the films creator - a woman by the name of Miranda July.