The actors would sit on the ground and I would expose a frame and then they would scoot forward about a foot and I would shoot another frame. I stole the idea from a popular commercial. The kids all wore out their pants.
In High School I stared taking Art very seriously after discovering the Artwork of Frank Frazetta. Another popular Master of his Art and Craft. Best known for his Conan the Barbarian and Edgar Rice Burroughs book covers I found him to be an artist whom does everything right. He knows all the rules and just how to break them. He also knows how to make a painting go POW!!! So I studied Frazetta and bought every book cover of his I came across. My interests have been split between Illustration and Making Movies ever since. I appreciate the overlap of the two skills and alternate between them every couple of years. In the mid 1970’s I started doing comic Art work for Power Comics out of East Lansing.
I did some superhero paintings and did the art for two "Figure of Mystery" stories that were published. The pendulum swings to Art. I met some aspiring filmmakers in Jackson Michigan and did some Posters, Paintings and Sculptures to help promote their movie that was never made called "The Cry of Cthulhu". We did get some attention from Cinefantastique and Starlog and both published my art with their articles.
The swing goes towards film. My wife Penny went to Michigan State University so we moved to East Lansing and there I met Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert and Bruce Campbell, and the rest of their creative group. We would get together, eat pizza and show each other’s Super 8mm movies. This led to diverse collaborations. I vocalized some sound effects of poisonous tablets being dropped into a beverage for Sam’s feature length Super 8mm comedy "It’s Murder!"
I did the titles for Sam’s short shocker "Clockwork" and a couple of posters for their film showings on M.S.U.’s campus. Sam was writing a script called "Book of the Dead’ and was pretty secretive about it.