JIMMY KUEHNLE

On a calm day under the Gateway Arch I unpacked Big Red for perhaps its last performance. The suit shows the wounds and scars from many exciting performances. My first performance in St. Louis served as a fitting tribute to a joyful companion. Luckily the wind cooperated and allowed the suit to bound gracefully aroundContinue Reading

Albion has an annual three day festival called the Festival of the Forks. I heard that the festival had a parade on Saturday morning and decided to take Big Red down to check everything out. After inflating the suit, it did not take long for me to crash my way into the parade. I slippedContinue Reading

In a bilingual city sometimes newspaper articles can come in pairs. Vasabladet, the Swedish paper in Vaasa, also published an article about Big Red and the upcoming Children’s Day at Stundars. Only the west coast of Finland is Swedish speaking and even then it is only about five percent of the total Finnish population. HereContinue Reading

The Finnish newspaper Pohjalainen published an article about Big Red and the upcoming events at Stundars titled, “Big Red Stundarisin lastenjuhlien ihastus.” This proves that it pays to smash into reporters with a big inflatable suit before they write an article about you. Now I have to learn a bit of Finnish to see whatContinue Reading

Merja Vasikkaniemi of YLE came to the Stundars Museum along with representatives from the Swedish and Finnish speaking newspapers in Vaasa. Gunilla invited the media to Stundars to promote the July 1st Children’s Day at the museum. She asked be to show my suit to the media. I blew the suit up instantly grabbing theContinue Reading

I bicycled into Vaasa with Big Red for the first time today. Peter Rosvik, who goes by Peppe, from Platform in Vaasa came by to snap some pictures. In the middle of Vaasa is a large public square. I stared the performance there and then roamed through the streets amusing the many people sitting inContinue Reading

Ulrika Stagnäs of YLE came to the Stundars Museum to cover the upcoming Children’s Day. Gunilla Sand and I split time in a live Swedish radio broadcast. Gunilla talked about Children’s Day and the upcoming activities at Stundars. I inflated Big Red even though the audience could not see it on radio. Ulrika asked questionsContinue Reading

Malakta hosts various events that promote culture in the Malax region. On Wednesday they hosted a band that played original music as well as various covers. I found out about the concert while attending the opening at Malakta on Sunday. The music crowd promised to be younger so I thought it would be a goodContinue Reading

Jimmy Kuehnle’s Big Red and Walking Fish from The Prime Eights. This is the new video from Angela Guerra and Mark Walley of The Prime Eights Design. They made a short film about my recent work for Glasstire.com. It features Big Red in the Fusebox Festival in Austin, Texas and Walking Fish in a performanceContinue Reading

Jimmy Kuehnle: Trailer from The Prime Eights. Mark Walley and Angela Guerra of The Prime Eights Design released a preview trailer of the short film they are working on about my recent work including Big Red. It is part of a series of films that they are producing about Texas artists for Glasstire.com.