As I’ve pulled together my piece for Talula Red at Who’s On First (February 6th-18th), I’ve struggled with a direction. I had a basic outline and structure for what I wanted it to look like but I wasn’t sure what it meant. Last night, I tore the whole thing down and started from scratch. I [...]
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Facebook Cover Photo Contest
January 11th, 2012 
Ryan Simmons One of the coolest new features to recently be added to Facebook was Cover Photo. Now when your friends log on to your page, you have one dominant photo to help sum you up. For the first time in a long time, I’ve found myself just browsing through friends’ pages to see what they’ve done [...]
United We Send: Dreams from 50 States
September 29th, 2011 Ryan Simmons With the election of 2012 only 13 months away, I’m beginning to worry. We’re living in a country where political discourse has devolved and the widespread polarization of our population is never more evident then when the subject of politics comes up among people from different classes, races or even cities. Before we slip back [...]
Wanted: 1150 Wine Corks
September 9th, 2011 Ryan Simmons Crowdsourcing has been at the heart of most of my projects in the past year. Facebook posts became a movie. Spontaneous answers became a love letter. Gift cards became guitar picks. Junk became a walk down memory lane. Now I’ve got a new endeavor: wine corks. A few months ago, I discovered wine cork cork [...]
Artist Statement: Idea #5/WC 20
July 22nd, 2011 Ryan Simmons Shrouded in secrecy to this point, I can now expand on the details of Idea #5. First and foremost, I prefer it’s original title: WC20. WC20 is a celebration of World Cafe’s 20th year! In an effort to show just how much has changed in that 20 year span, I’ve team with WXPN to create [...]
Tell Us What You Love @ DMB Caravan in AC
July 20th, 2011 Ryan Simmons Almost 1 year ago now, I tore a piece of cardboard off a box and inadvertently created one of my signature pieces of work. With one simple request, Tell Us What You Love, I approached hundred of fans at the XPoNential Music Festival in 2010. Since then, Michael Franti and his fans have helped me [...]
Introducing Found Salutations: A Smile Inducing Initiative
May 6th, 2011 Ryan Simmons It’s no secret that I’m obsessed with posivity. Having a positive attitude seems more natural than constantly mushering up anger or negativity. Most of my life is dedicated to bringing that positivity to others’ lives. Sometimes my efforts are met with no immediate reaction and that can be frustrating. In times like that, I remind [...]
The Cardboard Sign Chronicles
August 30th, 2010 Ryan Simmons 
Posted in Home, Projects 
Tags: Cardboard Chronicles, dr. dog, i want to kiss a girl, mdrt, million dollar road trip, philadelphia, tell us what you love, wxpn, xpn 
2 Comments »One Giant Fall: My First Choose-Your-Own Adventure Film
July 9th, 2010 Ryan Simmons Posted in Home, Portfolio, Projects Tags: crowd sourcee, crowdsource, crowdsourced, one giant fall, one man film, one small step, the final one 1 Comment »
