Archive for the ‘General’ Category

At home and on the road

Wow.  After a whirlwind week of travels, I have a lot to talk about.  Rather than addressing things chronologically, I’ll hit the most important stuff first.
The new studio
The studio is almost ready! August 6 is going to be our Grand Opening. I’ve written a couple of times recently about my excitement at moving into a [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

The new studio and summer events

Wow. Time seems to really fly these days between my blog posts. There are long stretches that I just don’t have anything really interesting to report. Then, suddenly, a huge number of things come up that I want to share. Let’s see if I can get them all out there now. I’m not even sure [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

Looking Back

I started a new project. No, not an installation. At least, that’s not the one on my mind right now. I decided it was time to produce a book about my past projects. I keep thinking about all the places I’ve traveled, the people I’ve met, and the things I’ve done and I realize I [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

New Year’s 2010 – Balloon Snowmen

It’s been an interesting year.  I participated in a couple of fashion shows, completed the Fine Art Masterworks series I had been working on with the creation of Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus. and I spoke at TEDxRochester about large scale projects and where I hope to go with them in the future.
It’s time [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

TEDx Talk on Building Community

I just had a chance to see the talk I gave at TEDxRochester. I know I’ve said this before, but I just have to repeat how much fun I had there. While I was happy with the talk I gave, the review posted by Tony Karakashian just blew me away.  I hope those of you [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

Finding Red Balloons – A social media experiment

A couple weeks ago, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) , announced a project to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Internet. And they’re using balloons to do it.
To mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet, DARPA has announced the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that will explore the role the Internet and social networking [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

The TEDxRochester experience

TEDxRochester 2009 has come and gone. It was a huge honor to be invited to be a presenter.  I’ve been downloading TED Talk podcasts for a while now. I frequently find myself excitedly sharing some random bit of information I learned from the latest talk I had on my iPod. Now, I was given a [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

Speaking about community art

Before going to ArtPrize, I was asked what I’d do if I won.  I answered that I’d take a day off. Whether I won or not, I was fairly certain that  I’d have more than a few projects to work on as soon as I returned home, and more than a day off wasn’t going [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

Controvesial art

As I was ego surfing some time ago, I stumbled across a quote about me that I just fell in love with.  “Larry Moss is a hack — I see no dachsunds.” The quote turned up on metafilter.com and all it had for an attribution was a username, rob511. Rob511, if you’re out there reading [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

What is art?

It is never more obvious to me that I work in a peculiar medium than when I hear the words, “Wow! It’s just like art!” The implication, of course, is that it’s not ACTUALLY art.  It’s only LIKE art. This begs the question, “What is art?”  Should the choice of medium have an impact on [...]

Read the rest of this entry »