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Robert Rico in The Trickster Diaries

Apr 22, 2019

The Trickster Diaries/Chapter 58

I quickly lost all energy for my film after the trouble with Mike. He killed it strategically and…

Robert Rico in The Trickster Diaries

Apr 22, 2019

The Trickster Diaries/Chapter 60

Strange. Letters and phone calls once set up physical contact. Now, with email, texting, photo & video sharing, chat, video chat, flesh was less crucial. And yes, I had an extremely uneasy feeling about the very nature of the communication revolution, as in: what had it…

Robert Rico in The Trickster Diaries

Apr 22, 2019

The Trickster Diaries/Chapter 59

I’d read about Ello. Big article in The Guardian of London. It presented itself as the green, commercial free, no personal info sharing or selling, zero censorship alternative to Facebook, Twitter, etc.. It was conceived and launched by a small group of artists and…

Robert Rico in The Trickster Diaries

Apr 22, 2019

The Trickster Diaries/Chapter 63

But there was some seriously decent stuff here, on Ello. And some dead ends too, of course. I mean, there was so much post punk, post glam, subcutaneous attitude going on on the one end, so much pretty landscape photography on the other, so much crappy impressionist or…

Robert Rico in The Trickster Diaries

Apr 22, 2019

The Trickster Diaries/Chapter 61

I signed on, created a succinct, honest profile, an avatar — a rather flattering b&w self portrait — and stayed up till 3AM uploading a few images of my work, searching other people’s channels, getting used to the system.
First impressions were tough unraveling but the…

Robert Rico in The Trickster Diaries

Apr 22, 2019

The Trickster Diaries/Chapter 62

Emojis. Jesus. What horseshit. Like people who go: “Know what I’m sayin’?” Once a guy said that to me and — taking the gamble he wouldn’t try and kick my ass in public — I responded: “Yes. What I believe you’re attempting to articulate is a concept not only above and…

April 21, 2019

April 23, 2019

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The Trickster Diaries

Robert Rico has soared and staggered through myriad identities. He is a self-immolating searcher, the consummate bohemian. THE TRICKSTER DIARIES chronicles these experiences over a period of roughly 20 years.

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