Filmmaker/performing artist/writer Miranda July released a new book of short stories yesterday. I haven't had a chance to pick up the somewhat-cryptically titled No One Belongs Here More Than You yet, but I can say this for sure: It's got the coolest Web site ever. Created entirely in her kitchen using dry-erase marker, it's just so funky it only could've come from July (if her name sounds familiar it's probably because she was the writer/director/main character in the film Me and You and Everyone We Know). Despite being talented in, apparently, almost anything, July's strength really is in brilliant Web experiments. She also co-created Learning to Love You More with artist Harrell Fletcher. That site gives visitors random assignments like "Make a video of someone dancing" and then posts the completed projects. Before that there was the beyond-awesome Joanie 4 Jackie, an all-girl filmmaker chain letter (basically chicks send in a video and get back a compilation/chain letter tape back in the mail), which has since been maintained by a group of students at Bard College. Anyway, check the site. It might just be the best five minutes of your day.
[No One Belongs Here More Than You site]
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