GOT A DREAM ? IT MIGHT JUST HAPPEN
This movie Pargon’s Paragon has lead to many wonderful opportunity’s. If you’ve browsed the previous articles in the blog you will have seen some of what I got to be involved in because of a simple idea; To have fun making a Star Trek type movie and DO the best I can with my limitations and enjoy the ride with new friends.
WHAT IS THE POINT?
Well let me show you something that is one of my most precious memories.
(At first glance whats so special? Is it my monster make-up, or my brother who would become my Capt. Richard Kirk in Paragon’s Paragon? None of the above!)
(The close up is the clue)
I still remember that day many years ago. I am 2 years older than my brother who is getting strangled. We were just skinny little kids at the time. In my mind was this thought as I pressed the button on the camera:
“I wish that some day one of my monsters could be on the cover of Forest Ackerman’s ” Famous Monsters Magazine”
(It still amazes me two of my creations on the covers of his magazine)
It was a simple thought. Just something in a kids imagination, but wow what power a thought can have! I chose to not go the limit in the film making industry, and instead just do the little things shown in this blog. However the opportunities were there to go to California like two of my friends did. Ted Rae, and Mark Sullivan. Ted took the photo of Akerman. You can find Ted on Facebook. Ted and Mark have helped each other to have careers in big budget films. I chose not to pursue it. Instead I dabbled in art and always had the carpet repair business www.cosentinocarpet.com to keep me occupied.
SO WHAT IDEAS ARE IN YOUR HEAD?
THEY CAN TAKE YOU ON QUITE A JOURNEY, BUT PLEASE HAVE INTEGRITY AND HONESTY ALONG THE WAY.
May 7, 2012 at 11:40 pm
Hey that’s swell — must have been very satisfying. My boyhood dream was to be a moon astronaut. Well, that didn’t happen for all sorts of reasons, not least of which the moon program was canceled long before I started shaving, lol!
I did end up as a serious radio hobbyist though, principally amateur radio but other forms as well. My eventual career path had little to do with the moon, Apollo or radio, but it pays well enough to indulge every so often.
May 10, 2012 at 7:24 pm
I want to encourage you in this. The fellow who created Star Trek Encarta was hesitant to put it on the web, and it’s now had over 57,000 viewings.