I began to play with different kinds of blocks, some of the names were like T.E.N.T. and Loc Bloc. There was a wooden block, I don't remember what its name was. Of course, Lego. I didn't really start being more focused on Lego until I became probably 15 or 16. As a true hobby. That's when I started to watch for discounted sets at Toys R Us and Lional Kiddie City. I could get the blue box 950-piece sets for $20 and that was the score. I purchased Legos from 1986 to about 1993 at Toys R Us and Lional Kiddie City. When our local Lional Kiddie City closed, I bought a palette of 36 boxes blue box 950-piece sets for $10 a set. Along with another 100 different and alike sets for $5.00 apiece. That's what really sparked the whole collection of Legos. 1988 when I got my first place, I had one stipulation. I must have a designated room just for my Legos. That was just for the number of Legos that I had purchased in two years. At the time I was using an 8 by 8 board. It basically took up the entire room and made it very interesting to get around. Of course, I look back to those days and we didn't have the pieces that we have now we had some unique pieces but most of it was blocks and I would build these giant block cities. It was so awesome. As the internet came along with eBay, that really fueled my need for that perfect beautiful brick.
I believe in my artist heart that all artist have a visual gift of seeing an image with their eye and while processing it through our imagination, we are able to translate that image in a medium we have learn to bend to our will. As I developed what had become a full fledge hobby, I started to put the down. When some one hand me 3 photos of a very cool military jet and ask if I could recreate this out of Lego’s. When it came to Lego’ I never said no. I like the challenge. Guests would visit and challenge me to build something. After two weeks of studying the photos, I built the jet. It was perfect. Of course, this was 1989, and I don’t have a single photo left of it (out of the two photos I took of it). But that is when I realized I could look at an image and recreate it almost perfectly.
My Experience is unique. It has been something that I have done on a continuous daily basis over the last 40 years. Of course, when I was a child in my mind I was just putting together blocks. As I got older, I realized that it was some kind of satisfaction to see my imagination start putting together the great and grand creations. That I now call “The Project” Over the last 17 years I have built some great projects. My rendition of the USS 69 Aircraft Carrier, My rendition of Castel Neuschwanstein. A layout of Saint Augustine Landmarks. Peter Pans Never Never land, Past meets Future. And that is just in the past 17 years.
My talent, My skill, and My experience are only what I can show you. Play Well
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