This was a concrete slab between her mom's house and back alley, which most people would consider a back yard, unless you've been in So Cal's back yard areas. Lots of cement in the city back yards, for parking trailers, rvs, cars, etc. Very little lawn, as that requires mowing, water, etc.
she bought the Airstream for $2000
Occasionally, Mileece lists the Airstream on Airbnb for extra income, or simply lends it to traveling friends.
After all, the garage was converted to be a living room, with a built in bathroom
Lucky daughter, and talented. Never heard of her though. Mileece.
Mileece’s roots in electronica, art, technology and innovation run deep. In 1961, her grandfather worked on the IBM team that programmed the first computer-generated song. Mileece’s parents ran a recording studio and were music video pioneers, creating iconic videos with artists such as Kate Bush, Stevie Wonder, and Queen.
Born in 1978, London, her parents ran a pioneering recording studio, and video promo company, exposed Mileece to artists and a/v production from the get-go, playing childhood violin lessons and Casio compositions to improvised piano, hosting a jazz radio show and DJ’ing at clubs by her teens.
Her peripatetic life that took her from rural French farms to crystal gardens in LA, prompted her awareness to the many forms of man’s impact on the natural world. Hence, Mileece completed A-Levels in environmental science and economics, an A.A. in documentary filmmaking and worked for several environmental agencies. Just before turning twenty, Mileece returned to the UK where she undertook courses in sound engineering and received a B.A. in Sonic Art.
In 2006 after living in London, Montreal and the South of France, Mileece returned to Los Angeles, where she had lived with her American mother after her parents’ divorce (her father is a wealthy British music video maker).
About a year ago, her husband left for England to get his Ph.D. Mileece carried on, hauling in tiles she bought at Habitat for Humanity, wood pallets obtained from a company that delivered mobile homes and 90-pound bags of cement, whose weight nearly equaled her own.
Her mother was skeptical.
“She was like: ‘What are you going to do? It will be a disaster,’ ” said Mileece, acknowledging that “there’s a level of insanity that goes into a project like this.”
Her mother, Marsha Levine, who helps companies place products in films, said her concern was for her daughter’s safety.
“She’s a waif,” Ms. Levine said. “And yet you see her using these incredible huge machines to saw and lift things. I would think, ‘How does she do that?’ ”
The Airstream was the final touch, bought for $2,000 from a couple near San Luis Obispo, Calif., and shimmied into the backyard. “Of course, most Airstreams are really expensive because they’ve already been redone,” Mileece said. “This one had every reason to be $2,000. It had dead mice in it, and the toilet was just disgusting. It took about a year and a half to rehab it.”
While mother and daughter remain attached at the garage, the structure that links and separates them, they observe a respectful distance.
Combing interactive sculptures, original products, materials and instruments, her projects to 'promote ecology through technology and the arts’ have featured on prime time television broadcasts including the NY Times advertising of the year campaign (2013) and VICE Motherboard (2014) reaching over 100 million viewers.
While her teenage impression of the city was unfavorable, as an artist and a budding gardener she appreciated the year-round sun and the cultural scene.
She and her husband began by turning the garage into a three-room music studio and lounge. Furniture and appliances were sourced from friends or Craigslist. (The vintage propane stove, for example, was bought from a member of Iron Maiden who was living in a bungalow in Culver City.)
She even brought her music to America's Got Talent https://agt.fandom.com/wiki/Mileece
And she's taken her gardening on the road with a bus, for LA urban school kids to get some exposure to gardening
Her work ‘promoting ecology through technology and the arts’ has brought her international critical acclaim as a composer and installation artist. Mileece will use the Artist in Residence space at Maker City LA for the summer of 2014 to conceive and create interactive objects and experiences for a number of projects including a first-of-its-kind interactive eco-classroom at the Lycée International Français in Los Angeles and an installation at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
Mileece is currently the resident artist at the Lycée International Français in Los Angeles where she has recently converted a 1996 school bus into a ‘travelling interactive forest’
https://mileece.tumblr.com/
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https://www.mileece.is/press
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The New Bohemians: Cool and Collected Homes By Justina Blakeney
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https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/29/garden/a-haven-for-making-music-with-plants.html
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