After much research on Learn to Love you More  the next task was to do some instruction work ourselves. To begin with groups were formed of three or four people. Each group wrote down and instruction. This included

-          Take a photograph of the third person you walk past on your left

-          Take a picture inside your bag using a flash

-          Take a picture spinning around

-          Take your clothes off

-          Jump and take a photo while in the air

-          Take a picture of a feature you most admire about someone

-          Find something people don’t usually see

-          Photograph someone lying down in a public place

These instructions were given back out at random ready for the group to adhere to the instruction. The instruction I received was to find something people don’t usually see. I thought about this instruction and had to make a decision on If it was aimed at something I wouldn’t see or the general public. I found this quite difficult as we were restricted to the college. The ideas that I first thought off were

-          In the college canteens

-          In the basement of the college

-          In important personnel’s draws or bags

-          On peoples email inbox

Many of these were quite extreme in relation to the amount of time we had to do it in. I thought of basic things that could be photographed. I thought about things that I wouldn’t usually look in or see by just passing. I thought of the idea of photographing inside a bin as it was something that people wouldn’t want to see.  I thought this fit the instruction well given the time we had.

Assignment #63 Make an encouraging banner.

Think of something encouraging you often tell yourself. For example: Everything will be ok. Or: Don't listen to them. Or: It'll blow over. Now make a banner, making sure to follow these instructions:

1. Draw each letter of the sentence on a large piece of colored construction paper or big squares of fabric. One letter per piece. Draw them blocky so you can cut them out.
2. Cut them out.
3. Glue each one onto a piece of construction paper or fabric that is a contrasting color.
4. Then glue the edges of all the pieces of paper or fabric together to make a banner.
5. Hang the banner in a place where you or someone else might need some encouragement, for example, across your bathroom. Or between two trees so that you and your neighbors can receive encouragement from it. Or in a gas station.

D O C U M E N T A T I O N >

Take a picture of your hung banner and send it to us. After it has been up for awhile, take it down and roll it up and put it under your bed or another safe place. We might very likely contact you wanting to exhibit your banner in a show someday.

This instruction created some interesting responses. There were many responses to this one that had been accepted. These image often consisted of encouraging words in public places. I like the idea that people have gone to the effort jut to be involved in an internet game. Again many people will have sat creating these banners for hours or even days. The dedication the participants have has created some amazing responses.
Also the idea that all banners are made in the same way creates a sort of club or group where by everybody is creating thier own version but with thier own words.

Holly Robinson
Portland, Oregon USA
This image is one of my favourite, from looking at the iamge it made me smile which will have done the same to many others. The lighting is also very interesting in this image. This image is deeper than at first glance. The instructions specifically say "Think of something encouraging you often tell yourself" This indicates that this person has thought this in her mind which is quite saddening.

Assignment #69
Climb to the top of a tree and take a picture of the view.

D O C U M E N T A T I O N >

Send in your photo and tell us where the tree is located. Please be specific as specific as possible, for example: "This tree is located in middle of the lot between houses 12 and 14 on Old Bridge Road in Woodbridge Virginia." If you send us more than one tree photo please make sure it's clear which location goes with which photo.

The first one is self-explanatory, all the participants will be going through the same thought process and action to achieve the image they want. The outcome of the images will be completely different. Many different parts of the world were involved including Italy, USA, Australia and Ireland. I find it fascinating that all of these people have taken time to do something a website has instructed them to do. There isn’t any reward for doing it, it is just a passion and a game they want to be involved in. People add a description of the photograph and where it was taken.
The photographs differed, somewhere taken looking up the tree, some downwards, some were taken from the top of a Christmas tree in a house. Whilst browsing through the images I came to realise that this wasn’t just a project that people were embarking on it was also reliving memories. A few images explained about this was where he or she used to play when they were younger and they hadn’t climbed that tree for over ten years.

This image was taken in Germany, its description was "This tree is located about 2,000 meters from my house" Although the instructions say to climb a tree and take a picture from the top this is a variation as it once was a tree. I like this image as it is different to the rest of the standard images.

This image was taken in London, England, the person described it as "This tree is located on the campus of Royal Holloway College, University of London." This image is again different from the rest. The other images are usually in a forest like location but this image is in the city.

Learn to love you more

Learn to Love You More is a website where assignments or instructions were given by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. It started over seven years ago and ended in 2009 where it now excists as an archive. It contains many different instructions which the public reply to if they decide to accept. The public will then photograph their perception of the instruction and submit it online. It only got accepted depending on if their image fit the specification.
The responses differ edmassively depending on that person’s life experience and outlook on life. The instructions were regularly updated and often new ones were added. The idea that many people around the world were all photographing the same theme or subject is astonishing.
When an assignment is selected it gave specifications on how you must format your image or text and how to upload it. It gave an example and some ideas on what could be involved. Currently there is a list of 70 instructions on the website. Here are some I found interesting:

"Epic exquisite corpse is a project by Xavier Barrade developed with wake up web solutions and supported by Iconne Paris. It features 38797 drawings on 1000000 spaces available."

Epic exquisite corpse is a website I found whilst researching exquisite corpses. It is a website that has over one million drawing spaces.  It has many drawings from people around the world which unites them by creating one piece of art work.  On the website there is an option to put your own input on the website which gives you guidelines where your drawing has to line up to. So it all becomes one piece. I began to draw my piece and carefully matched it up to what was already there.