11: Ricky Boscarino of Luna Parc

In the eleventh episode of the FolkArtwork and Friends podcast, I am extremely thrilled to be joined by the one and only Ricky Boscarino of Luna Parc. I met Ricky a few months ago, and was blown away by his generosity to share the story of his one-of-a-kind art environment, and walk me through it for a video tour (check out YouTube!) on a bright and beautiful New Jersey day. 

Plus, we talk about the moment he knew this home would be his forever home, his days at NYU film school, traveling across the world, the importance of keeping his home a museum for people to visit forever and ever, and he shows me his final resting place where he plans to be buried... after he turns 106.

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Chapters

• (00:00:00) - A Little Resting Spot
• (00:00:14) - Art Environment Summer 2018
• (00:01:38) - Interviewing Ricky Boscarino of Luna Park
• (00:03:13) - Interviewing a construction worker at Luna Park
• (00:04:11) - An artist fixes a porta-john
• (00:06:34) - Adam Levine on Meeting The Outsider Art Fair
• (00:08:56) - How I Got Kicked Out of Art School
• (00:14:07) - This 37-Year-Old Cabin Has Been Removed from Its Woods
• (00:16:35) - The kitchen of a restored house
• (00:18:43) - A tour of Howard Finster's house
• (00:21:25) - Salvador Dali's Last Burial
• (00:23:07) - Will You Live to 106?
• (00:24:52) - Living in an Art Studio
• (00:29:31) - Ricky from Luna Park on His Art and His Home
• (00:34:32) - Work in the Nature Lab
• (00:39:36) - African musicians on a tour
• (00:40:30) - Taste the inside of my studio
• (00:43:11) - A 20-Year Project With a Private Bathroom
• (00:46:31) - The Secret Life of Your Bathroom
• (00:50:22) - If You Don't Buy a Piece of Luna Park, How to
• (00:53:16) - A Once in a Lifetime Art Environ Home Museum
• (00:58:51) - Folk Art and Friends