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Ronald Armand Rocheleau(19 September 1957 - present), more commonly known as Ron Rocheleau or "Concrete Ron," is an American artist and filmmaker best known for his creation of Concrete TV.

Childhood
Rocheleau was born in Manchester, New Hampshire. His mother, Lorraine Savoir Rocheleau, worked as a homemaker and a waitress and his father, Robert Rocheleau, was a bodybuilder and worked as a truck driver. Both parents were French Canadian. Rocheleau's parents divorced when he was seven years old due to what he describes as a "volatile relationship." His mother would remarry three times and his father would remarry once. Rocheleau and his brother Jim moved around very often after the divorce as his mother was often unable to pay the rent. Rocheleau went on to attend three more public elementary schools, three junior high schools and four high schools. After his sophomore year in high school, Rocheleau, his mother, his brother and his step-father moved to Phoenix, Arizona where he would graduate from Trevor G. Browne High School in 1976. Since his childhood, Rocheleau has moved 45 times.

Young Adulthood
After dropping out of Phoenix College in 1977, Rocheleau moved back to Manchester, NH where he got a factory job in a printing plant and earned his associates degree from Merrimack Community College in 1980. From there he moved to Durham, NH where he earned his BA in Art Education in 1982 at the University of New Hampshire. After graduation, Rocheleau and Abby Purdy, his girlfriend at the time, moved to Westport, Connecticut where the lived until they moved to New York City in 1985. Throughout his life, Rocheleau has a long string of jobs ranging from folding newspapers when he was eleven to warehouse worker, cotton picker, dish washer, lifeguard, sign maker, road worker, bartender, waiter, life drawing model, 4-H camp counselor and set builder.

Concrete TV
Concrete TV is a public access television show that airs Thursdays at 1 AM on channel 67 in Manhattan. Each half hour episode is a video compilation of cliche and taboo clips that incorporate sex, art, violence and music. Rocheleau finds each scene and sound byte he uses by watching any B film he can get his hands on. He then labels each tape with a code word and the hour and minute of interest to let him know what he liked in the video and where to find it. This process is endless. Only then does he seamlessly mash together the clips and set them to a mixed soundtrack. Rocheleau could spend four to five hours on a few seconds of Concrete TV. Rocheleau started working on Concrete TV in 1994 and the shows started airing on public access television. In 1996 Concrete TV was named a "Hot Pick" by Rolling Stone. This got the attention of MTV. MTV approached Rocheleau about doing a show similar to Concrete TV, but with behind the scene clips from their reality TV shows. Uninspired by the material offered to him, Rocheleau expressed his disinterest and MTV ceased contact. Since then, Rocheleau continued to work on Concrete TV and in 2008 he released Concrete TV: Never Hard Enough, a Limited Signed Edition 3-Disc DVD Set that includes 18 Episodes plus bonus Shorts and Extras. It is available on the Concrete TV website where previews are also available for viewing. Concrete TV is also on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Rocheleau is currently working on new episodes from his studio in Manhattan, New York.

Personal Life
Rocheleau currently lives in Brooklyn, New York with his girlfriend and his Shih Tzu, Daisy.