63. Make an encouraging banner.
62. Make an educational public plaque.
61. Describe your ideal government.
60. Write a press release about an everyday event.
59. Interview someone who has experienced war.
58. Record the sound that is keeping you awake.
57. Lipsync to shy neighbor's Garth Brooks cover.
56. Make a portrait of your friend's desires.
55. Photograph a significant outfit.
53. Give advice to yourself in the past.
52. Write the phone call you wish you could have.
51. Describe what to do with your body when you die.
50. Take a flash photo under your bed.
49. Draw a picture of your friend's friend.
47. Re-enact a scene from a movie that made someone else cry.
46. Draw Raymond Carver's Cathedral.
45. Reread your favorite book from fifth grade.
44. Make a "LTLYM assignment".
43. Make an exhibition of the art in your parent's house.
42. List five events from 1984.
39. Take a picture of your parents kissing.
38. Act out someone else's argument.
37. Write down a recent argument.
36. Grow a garden in an unexpected spot.
35. Ask your family to describe what you do.
34. Make a protest sign and protest.
32. Draw a scene from a movie that made you cry.
31. Spend time with a dying person.
30. Take a picture of strangers holding hands.
29. Make an audio recording of a choir.
27. Take a picture of the sun.
26. Design an article of clothing for Mona to crochet.
25. Make a video of someone dancing.
24. Cover the song "Don't Dream It's Over".
22. Recreate a scene from Laura Lark's life story.
20. Take a family portrait of two families.
19. Illustrate a scene or make an object from Paul Arensmeyer's life story.
18. Recreate a poster you had as a teenager.
16. Make a paper replica of your bed.
15. Hang a windchime on a tree in a parking lot.
14. Write your life story in less than a day.
13. Recreate the moment after a crime.
12. Get a temporary tattoo of one of Morgan Rozacky's neighbors.
11. Photograph a scar and write about it.
9. Draw a constellation from someone's freckles.
8. Curate an artist's retrospective in a public place.
7. Recreate 3 minutes of a Fresh Air interview.
5. Recreate an object from someone's past.
3. Make a documentary video about a small child.
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The Oliver Family Reports Assignment #51 Describe what to do with your body when you die. Michael Oliver |
 When I'm dead you'll need to take my ashes back to Vermont. I did want you to take my body there with you but I recently read in a mystery story that "A human body starts to decompose four minutes after death. Once the encapsulation of life, it now undergoes its final metamorphases. (Soon) the muscle protein has broken down, producing a potent chemical brew. Lethal to vegitation..." These sculptures show you what I was describing to you but now your options for using a sapling or a larger tree are now more of a "sure thing" since I won't be killing the sapling from below. I see this tree growing on the edge of a forest line, southern exposure. The idea is to encircle the tree with an iron hoop with a brass plaque hanging from it. The hoop should be big enough for the tree to grow in it and raise the hoop with its plaque up to eye height some decades down the road. Mark Kurts could advise you on the type of tree and size of hoop. I'd like the plaque to read: "This tree is the remains of Michael Oliver b: July 6th, 1959 d: |