Category Archives: Behind the Bloss

You’ve heard about that Brad Pitt movie, the Tree of Life? Well, here’s the Tree of Aluminum.

Posted on 11 January, 2012 by blossmossonline | Leave a comment

You know that old phrase, right? Life is like aluminum? That’s what they say. Bloss has heard it a hundred times. And it’s never made more sense than now. And look, Brad, look at all those little cast aluminum leaves that this tree is made of. Ten thousand of them suckers. Welded together by the artist. Andrea Salvetti. His tree is 10 feet high and 15 feet in diameter. And get this, to put it together, someone has to spend some quality time working inside the trunk and then has to crawl out through a teeny tiny door you can’t see. I can give you a hint. It wasn’t Andrea. At Moss now. It’s like a breath of fresh aluminum.

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Posted in Big News, Installations, mimes, Moss Artists, Murray Moss, Shopping as entertainment, The Daily New

Tagged aluminum, aluminum tree, Andrea Salvetti, L'albero, Moss, Moss Gallery

As you know, children are always welcome at Moss. Especially when they’re asleep.

Posted on 23 December, 2011 by blossmossonline | Leave a comment

Shopping for exquisitely designed and perfect gifts can be so exhausting, especially on the day before the day before Christmas. So here’s little Alexandro, so tired he’s dropped like a stone, right in front of the black leather Citterio sofa (designed in 1979, available for $20,000, and worth every penny). Sweet kid. He can come back anytime.

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Posted in Behind the Bloss, Holidays, Moss Staff, Shop til you drop, Shopping as entertainment, Sport shopping

Tagged children at moss, christmas shopping, Citterio, Moss

Oh come, all ye Hexalights, joyous and illuminescent

Posted on 22 December, 2011 by blossmossonline | Leave a comment

Yes, my little Santas and Santettes, it’s nearly Xmas Eve, time for Bloss to turn once again to the cunning Marcus Tremonto, to find out what he’s doing with electroluminescent paper this year. As usual, the boy further confounds our old-think perceptions of two and three dimensional imagery. The disarmingly simple Hexalight “cubes” are really flat drawings. Could have fooled Bloss. And Bloss is sharp cookie. Check ‘em. Out here.

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Posted in Behind the Bloss, Holidays, Installations, mimes, Moss Artists, Murray Moss, The Daily New

Tagged Electroluminescence, Hexalights, Marcus Tremonto, Moss

Mickey as crazy-dancing Terminator. Just back from North Korea. And terminatin’ you know who.

Posted on 19 December, 2011 by blossmossonline | Leave a comment

Yes, children, Cathy McClure’s done it again. Unleashed upon the world, just in time for Xmas, one might note, yet another of her strategically demented mechanical devil-toys. Meet stripped-down-and-out-for-blood Mickey. Click here to go to the movie. Be afraid. Be Mickey afraid.

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Posted in Behind the Bloss, Big News, Holidays, Moss Artists, Prostitutes, Ripped from the headlines

Tagged Cathy McClure, killing machine, Kim Jong II, Mickey Mouse, Moss, Terminator

I’ve got my eye on your ring

Posted on 9 December, 2011 by blossmossonline | Leave a comment

Seriously twisted Seattle-based artist Cathy McClure, who lives to rip the shit out of plush mechanical toys, always ends up with lots of leftover bits, and being as she is not only twisted but also green, she makes use of everything. Hence, our new load of her Bot Rings, featuring the eyes she’s ripped out of sweet little plush sockets. These might just have to be seen to be believed.

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Posted in Holidays, Installations, mimes, Moss Artists, Prostitutes, The Daily New

Tagged Bots, Cathy McClure, Moss, Moss Gallery, Murray Moss, Plush toy eyes, Rings

Design Miami: the last day, images and memories

Posted on 5 December, 2011 by blossmossonline | Leave a comment

The clear highpoint of Day Zero was a visit from everyone’s favorite North American, Kareem Rashid. Here Haresh explains the morphing fruit platters, to little effect.

And here a somewhat surreal woman with hideous red hair used her iPad like a Steadicam, floating silently around the booth.

People loved shooting the booth. Here are but two simultaneous imagesmiths in action.

And finally, a shot of our beloved Corrie, who stepped in at the last minute to work the booth with us and without whom we would have been up a tree without a paddle. Here she is, doing her dusting. Bless.