Loving Laura

I really love the idea of creating a community of people who all tackle the same projects and then share the results online. Its amazing how the same challenge can produce such a variety of results (equally amazing are situations when your work find yourself shockingly similar to another person’s. It can be creepy.)

Especially being able to find a medium (the screening of Assignment 22) where various interpretations of a written story being reenacted in film is celebrated. I feel that sometimes when reading a story, people can become too attached to their own interpretation, and resist accepting other people’s point of view. Think about how many conversations you have had/heard about how the book was wonderful but the movie was horrible.

LTLYM seems like a successful experiment in getting people to consider and celebrate other people’s ideas, styles, personalities, etc. Being able to scroll through a project’s list and imagine all the different people who participated is very interesting. I begin to imagine their lifestyles, try to picture the rest of the room an image was taken in or wonder who allowed the contributor to make a constellation our of their freckles. I’m pretty bummed that the website is no longer accepting assignment submissions.