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miranda — Tue, 25 May 2010 01:00:20 +0000

Planning on posing this summer? A little recreational posing? Why not do it with the support of props designed just for this purpose. It might be a relief to have a some help in this department, after years of free-form (and let’s face it, often inaccurate) posing. For your convenience, eleven professional props will be installed in Union Square Park in New York, all summer. If you fill a little posing coming on, hurry over.

Eleven Heavy Things
Miranda July
May 29 - October 3, 2010
Center Lawn, Union Square Park

PRESENTED BY DEITCH PROJECTS AS ITS FINAL PUBLIC PROJECT.
THE WORK IS EXHIBITED IN COOPERATION WITH THE UNION SQUARE PARTNERSHIP AND NYC PARKS & RECREATION.

Label your photos “Eleven Heavy Things” and post them online so we can all see.

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miranda — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:01:35 +0000

I’m sure you have read about Carl Jung’s Red Book. Jung (who invented Jungian psychology) wrote it 100 years ago, but think of it less like a book and more like your diary during the part of your life when you were going through such darkness you thought it would never end. Remember that?! You wrote in your diary a lot during that time because on some level you knew that each demon, each nightmare you survived was transforming you in a way that would always matter. The book is about how Jung recovers his soul, recovers meaning in his life through enabling the rebirth of the image of God in his soul. There are other red books (for example, I see that Enough is Enough by Karen Finley is also red) but this one was hidden away in a bank vault in Switzerland for the last quarter of century. And so we, Leonard Nimoy, Helen Hunt and I (What? You didn’t realize the three of us were a team?) are celebrating by having conversations with Jungian psychologists. I’m talking with John Beebe, next Wednesday at 7 the Hammer Museum. It’s free, and you should be too. See you there!

Which book is Jung’s Red Book? The one on top obviously!

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miranda — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:33:13 +0000

Does Everyone Know About Crap Hound?

It’s a magazine made by Sean Tejaratchi. Each page of each issue is filled with high-contrast, public-domain images on a theme, like, for example, sex, or death, or telphones, or scissors. Sean’s home is filled with intricate file systems of all his amazing original source materials - ancient catalogs, obscure books, found things, etc . This stuff isn’t on the web; craphound both pre-dates and post-dates the internet. It’s larger and more profound than that. You can use it as clip art, or study it to try to understand who we are as a people. I especially like the introductions and credits pages. Sean has also designed zillions of album covers and books and posters - including this one:

And this one:

Anyway, the point being, now is a good time to discover Crap Hound. If you order it later you are just an ordinary person, but if you order it within the next 10 days, you become a HERO. (Also, let’s get real here, you probably can’t afford one of Jim Drain’s sweaters.)

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miranda — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:52:55 +0000

I first heard of Jim Drain when my best friend, a waitress at the time, showed me a crazy present that one of her co-workers had given her. It was a 3D light-up heart made in the medium of CEREAL. I said, Woah, you should totally go out with this guy! Unforgivably, she didn’t. But that didn’t stop Jim Drain. He kept expressing his feelings and sending them in to the world:

These days we never think about the cerealheart, in fact he and I have never even discussed it and it may come as a surprise for him to read about it here.
But it comes to mind today, as I consider the many strange ways that Jim Drain has entered my life over the last decade (for example, what are Jim and I doing in this picture?)

Today we can all have a Jim Drain cerealheart, in the form of an amazing sweater. Actually, only thirty of us - I think he only made
thirty of these sweaters, but the point being, you don’t have to be a cute waitress working at the same restaurant as him because he’s not even working there anymore, obviously, since he’s a famous artist, and also because you can just get one of these sweaters, which are better, in a way, because you become the cerealheart when you put the Jim Drain sweater on. You become vulnerable and hilarious and lit from within.
Available now at www.openingceremony.us.

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miranda — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:13:31 +0000

For you when you sleep.

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miranda — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:56:38 +0000

What was Joanie 4 Jackie? Shauna McGarry answers this question.

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miranda — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:24:42 +0000

European holiday? Or perhaps you happen to live in Venice?

Come visit Eleven Heavy Things at the Venice Biennale.

It is eleven outdoor sculptures that I made for you to pose with — pedestals to stand on, tablets with holes for body parts, and free-standing headdresses.

Take a picture of yourself with a Heavy Thing and post it on your blog so the rest of us can see.

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miranda — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:29:11 +0000

A 125 foot hallway - English in one direction / Japanese in the other.
From the Yokohama Triennale 2008.
(courtesy of Hara Museum)

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lolking on April 14, 2009:
Love this! Miranda July rulz!

meato5 on April 14, 2009:
This is what’s wrong with the world. I hate every fucking thing about her, I hate her hair.

brooklynhottie on April 14, 2009:
I don’t get it. Is this supposed to be funny?

mom1 on April 14, 2009:
That was just lovely honey, very moving. Hope it’s ok that i’m commenting on here!

thefonzerator on April 14, 2009:
Is that really Miranda July’s mom before me?! You’re daughter is pretentious scum, ho!

kelly on on April 14, 2009:
I saw this in Japan. It was one of the best things in the show, for definite.

milkfire on April 14, 2009:
message to thefonzerator, that is really rude talking to miranda july’s mom that way. think how you would feel if someone talked to your mom that way? you are the total opposite of miranda and could never understand her.

thefonzerator on April 14, 2009:
hey milkfire, you’re mom’s a ho too, and so are you! ever hear of freedom of speech??suck m0 ass.

jessup on April 14, 2009:
hey guys! if you like miranda jily you might want to check out my website www.girlzfilmbirdz.com! we’ll be at the santa barbara film festival june 19th! stop by!

stanknines on April 14, 2009:
anyone know when Where The Wild Thing Are is supposed to be released?

claymation on April 14, 2009:
I herd it was in october ( my cousin’s dad is a assistant voice-over editor on it.)

missydots on April 14, 2009:
i wish i could have walked down the hallway myself. art never translates in video, in my humble freakin’ opinion.

firenze on April 14, 2009:
I knew miranda july in high school when she was miranda grossinger. i don’t want to say her success is undeserved, but, uh, it’s undeserved.

queerone on April 14, 2009:
what’s up with all the haters?! why are you even on miranda july’s website if you hate her so much?! get a life!

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miranda — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:04:02 +0000

A new and beautiful book of work by my favorite person.

Fri., March 27, 7:00pm
The Strand Bookstore, NY
Mike Mills in conversation with Tim Barber

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miranda — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:19:07 +0000

You are really going to want to see this one, and now you finally can.