I know what dose a burned out dune buggy a dog, old man and a crazy looking lady have to do with my Art. Well its complicated so the short versions is it was the process of fixing up this dune buggy that got me started. The buggy for any that are interested was given to me by Drew Sidaris during the making of the 1992 production of Fit To Kill. link to internet movie data base http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106922/  Drew Christen Sidaris told me I could have the car after they finished shooting. What he didn’t say was that they were going to blow it up first. I knew something was up that last day when all those Las Vegas Metro cop showed up and started eyeing me. At the time they had made eleven movie and I believe this car was in most of them.   I haply took the car and got it running. Cut away all the burnt parts of the fiberglass body. And wile driving it around the gravel pit I worked in. I studied a bout fibber glass resons and found. (If you watch the movies directors commentary he talks about me fixing it up even putting it in a parade.) Any way I found I could cast shapes with maltie  layered sparkles mixed in the resons. To Give the human skull gear shift knob I made both color and depth. It was cool I assure you the longer you looked in to it the deeper you saw and the deeper you saw the longer you looked. Until I quit Nevada Ready Mix and towed the buggy back home to Wyoming. For safe keeping were my cousins purportedly busted off the gear shifted knob and the skull heads I’d cast in a orange resin to use as turn signals.   After hearing of their demise I set about trying to find a way I could create the same look but have it a little  more durable. The gear shift knob not the turn signals the cops never liked them from the beginning anway. I’d fallen on hard times having suffered a back injury and couldn’t work. Had little or no money to pursue my repairs. Then I knotted that people throw old transmutations out in the desert. And thought what if I smelted them down. Those darn kids wont be able to smash them up so easily. It took me years to learn Lost Wax techniques and make them work with my home made char coal kiln.   It was this that lead to my giving Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman a meddle thumb. When he made national new saying he like to cut the thumbs off of graffiti vandals. As you’ll learn from the newspaper articles links I’ve have provided. I gave it to the Mayer of North Las Vegas whom I know and he past it on. I just didn’t think it would be received as well from a stranger.   Here are links to the newpaper that caried the stories.   http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/sun/2005/nov/09/519634189.html?montandon%20AND%20goodman%20AND%20thumb http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/sun/2005/nov/12/519651268.html?montandon%20AND%20goodman%20AND%20thumb