Worldwide Fame!

I guess we can chalk it up to the internet world that we live in these days.
I usually get about 6 to 10 visits a day at this blog so imagine my surprise when I turn on my computer yesterday and my Sitemeter desktop widget tells me that my blog had over 800 visits. In One Day!
Turns out that a fan of the much discussed LOST hieroglyphs that I worked on, had found my in progress photos of them from a Google search and linked my blog to a LOST forum. Then linked it to few more and before you knew it, my pics were all over the internet.
It's been linked to German, Korean and other sites, but I think this one from todoseries.com is my favorite. I can't read Spanish, but they have screen captures of "El Templo" from the show with my pictures along side them. Sweet.

Stay tuned for for my autograph signing appearance announcements.

Day One

Bad news is, I haven't had much chance to update this blog. The good news is, I haven't been able to because I've been working. Have been sculpting on a set for a pilot for the TV show DAY ONE.
In other bad news, the movie I was scheduled to work on next, BIOSHOCK, has been canceled. It's been way dead for movies being made in LA for about 10 months now and I was really looking forward to getting on a big show. If they make BIOSHOCK at all, it won't be made in the US.


Brewery Art Walk

Temple of the Smoke Monster

This week's LOST episode 5.12, featured the sculpting I did on my first trip to Hawaii this year.


After Ben and Locke walked through these stone tunnels, Ben fell through to the temple.


A distressed wall in the temple in raw bead foam.

And at the alter of the Monster...


Offering to the Smoke Monster hieroglyph.


Placed with other panels and blended together with cracks.


Sealed, painted, installed and ready for camera.

What do the hieroglyphs mean? I'm not sure, but the fans are certainly trying to figure it out and given this panel a lot of discussion over at Sledgeweb's LOST...Stuff and at The Fuselage.

Yes, Los Angeles has a river.

Akiko and I went on a FoLAR (Friends of the Los Angeles River) car tour of the LA River. we started at the Sepulveda Basin, made several stops and ended up Downtown. We got to hear about the history of the river and the ambitious revitalization master plan. Fun day.