Peter Harper

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LA River

The beauty of the river and all it’s surrounding art threw me for a serious loop. What a day.
It is always better to lead than to rule.

Finney @ the LA River

This is a shot of Chris (Finney-Fin)Finney, my right hand man, prepping for facemolds @ the river.
It is always better to lead than to rule.

Prepping the Bronze Pour

This is the moment before the fire storm kicks in.
It is always better to lead than to rule.

George Clinton

The project has been flying by!  I am at almost 70 faces at this point and counting and I just did the mold of George Clinton the KING of FUNK!!!! He was amazing.  Here is a pic if me prepping him.

3rd Time’s a Charm

Robert Shahnazarian was the third face. It was interesting having grown up in a musical family to go from a musician, John Tejada, to a music producer, Robert Shahnazarian http://feudalrecords.com/ .  When we arrived Robert came out and met us in the street. Right off the bat he struck me as a kind, intelligent and charming [...]

1 Down 299 To Go!

Ok, so my goal is lofty.  300 faces is a lot and Kerith is encouraging me to do 100.  When I hit 100 I will decide whether 200 more are necessary. 
The second face was John Tejada  http://www.discogs.com/artist/John+Tejada   who I immediately liked, though I had never met him.  His house was warm and inviting, [...]

The first face on the road:

By the time I got to Kary Bartmaster (CPA, Meditation Guru, Headstand Master, closet Artist and all around great guy) I had done about 10 faces and had a pretty good handle on the materials and everything else that went into getting the job done.  None of that seemed to matter though, on that first [...]

Bridging the Gap

The idea of making molds of peoples faces started as a fluke.  A friend of mine, David Holloway, was trying out for the Amazing Race with his best friend, Will Chesser.

David and Will were great.  They wanted to come to California and film themselves doing crazy stuff.  David was joking about making a mold of his [...]

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