Volunteer for Wheel Questions
Wheel Questions needs your help! Volunteer and be added to the “We Did It!” list as a thank you. We need people to: Film a documentary Improve the website Stamp and date the cards Connect me with journalists or book publishers Connect me with groups that might like me to come lecture Manage the project […]
Philosophy of Wheel Questions
Why is it that we can plan a party, a groceries trip, a vacation, but we can’t make changes to our lives? The stakes are too high. We choke. The key is escaping the choke. No advice is useful unless you’re inspired to act. The unknown future is scary. But there are simple, non-scary actions […]
Do guys sometimes prefer to date less-hott girls because it makes them more confident?
Since confidence is the largest part of beauty, I’ve read this question as meaning, “Do guys sometimes prefer to date less confident girls…” Do guys sometimes prefer to date less-hott girls because it makes them more confident? Yes. Some people — men or women — prefer to date & dominate someone who […]
Proposed Public Installation: Photos
Return to videos and overview An installation of one Wheel in a public park. The installation draws passersby into the park and helps spread word of mouth about the park. The installation is segmented into four sections, so that as many as four people (or four couples) can approach and have a moment of […]
Proposed Community Art Installation: Wheel Questions 2010
Wheel Questions 2009 Watch the 2-minute overview. More videos. Wheel Questions is a unique outdoor art installation that tours public squares and festivals for six months a year. It invites visitors to ask an anonymous question about life on a colored card. The artist writes answers on the backs from a secular philosophy about thinking […]
How Awesome is That?
Giddy with the prospect of mucho awesomeness and procrastination, I built the Wheel Questions, Wheel Answers garden, complete with an eerie statue from Barong Imports. I bought a marble monolith and was offered a pile of marble scraps, that I painstakingly laid out in a spiral. (Note to self: rectangular scraps = rectangular spiral next […]
Operation Avoid Real Work
So I designed a garden. Being a fan of goth culture, I wanted something “strange but beautiful”. It would be mysterious and compelling, like Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas, but not cartoony. A rock garden seemed like it would be easy to maintain, and I’d just been inspired by the garden of a professional, Katherine […]
How did Wheel Questions get started?
My name is Johnny, and I’m a Project-A-Holic. There should be a Projects Anonymous. We’re the people, like my dad, who bought several train sets “for me” when I was five, and criss-crossed the basement with hooting engines and tracks. We’re the people, like my mom, who could turn writing holiday letters into a crusade, […]
Who would win in a fight? A taco or a Grilled Cheese Sandwich?
Not all the cards I receive are deathly serious. Here’s a fun one! From the way this asker has capitalized Grilled Cheese Sandwich but not taco, we can intuit whom he or she is rooting for! Who would win in a fight? A taco or a Grilled Cheese Sandwich? A mild taco […]
Who are you?
more photos Nice to meet you. I’m Johnny Monsarrat. I was recently written up in the Providence Journal. I’m an artist and aspiring author best known for founding Turbine, Inc., which became the largest privately held computer games company in North America and was acquired by Warner Brothers for $160M. After Turbine, I got an […]
