|
I started showing interest in arts and craft since little. I used to exceed at drawing assignments and my first prop replica was a Darth Vader helmet made out of a shoe box, black markers and pieces of X-ray photos as lenses. In my teens I got into video games, "making of" movie specials, renting Sci-fi movies and keeping my grades to an average. Sci-fi movies like "Back to the future," "Indiana Jones," "Star Wars" among others re ignited my interests in movie props and art in general. Ideas would come to me as how to achieve such projects like Halloween costumes and related school assignments.
In 1993 I was accepted into a magnet program called D.A.S.H or Design and Architecture, Sr. high. I showed up to school every morning with a new project, mostly replicas, original concepts and designs while keeping a low profile with the incrowd. I graduated as best Design student. My teacher hired me as a freelancer in her Miami Beach studio. I expanded my photoshop skills there while taking a look at what goes into being an Industrial designer.
Dark times came when I developed a career threatening case of "creator's block". I tried many things to shape up, even therapy. I was on my own and never able to fully recover. The block is still there today.
Today, the plan is to go to design school, blend with people who share my interests and give props a rest. I want to have fun in other ways than just working 24/7 on what I like to do.
Working on props and rare projects is fun to me, but I do take breaks in between. After spending 30 minutes to 2 hours of endless drilling and sanding, I scoop myself out the layers of resin and bondo dust covering me and walk a little to get the circulation back to my legs. As I step back inside the house and toss my respirator to a corner and head to my bedroom. I seat on my computer chair, open the MP3 player and open the files of whatever project I'm working on. I sip on soda as I review the computer plans and PICS. After much reviewing of everything that has to do with the project, I walk back outside with what I'm supposed to do in the next few minutes or hours in mind. Then, I walk back inside to look for the respirator that I keep forgetting inside.
My room (Buzz's room, Stuff!) has no props at all. Only a chewbacca head next to my desk covered with a plastic dust cover. The floor and desk are filled with pictures, drawings, business cards, keys, CDs out of their covers, computer disks, pens, empty ink bottles, receipts, coins, etc.
I'm not the first pack replicator, or the only one to ever made one or the last one. Where do I fit in the Pack replica world is still to be defined? When definition arrives, I hope all efforts were taken into consideration.
Thanks for reading your way to this last page. But still, there is one more question Back to the future fans seen to wanna know the answer to.
"Is there gonna be a back to the future part#4?"
It doesn't look like it, partner. But, Back to the future will live on Back to the future "the ride" now open at Universal studios, Florida.
|
