I made a Billy Joel Likeness years ago ....Should I send it? What would you do?
By renizans
@renizans (80)
United States
April 23, 2007 2:16am CST
This may sound really silly for several reasons. One because I really don't get into "celebrity" because I get highly frustrated at what celebrities bring to our culture. The other is because it is a puppet... here I go anyway.
In college in the early nineties I studied art and had to do an individual practicum in puppet making. I spent the semester making various styles of puppets and yes, I loved it. My last puppet of the practicum was a marionette. It was in the early nineties and "Stormfront" was out. So I decided it would be cool to make a marionette that was the likeness of Billy Joel. I sculpted the head... receding hairline and all... even made black Ray Ban sunglasses (remember those?) and finished it with a pair of jeans and a black shirt with the storm front flag symbol on it. ...
I was pretty proud of it at the time... Later I thought that maybe he would appreciate it. Billy Joel, that is. But then I thought he might find it to be kind of weird and useless... I just kind of thought that he might toss it and all of the work would be out the window. What do you think? It sits in my parents basement all these years later.... Should I have sent it years ago? Should I send it now? Should I sell it on eBay? Or should I just keep it for my grandkids someday? Or should I just smile and giggle and keep to myself that I once made a puppet that looked like Billy Joel????
1 response
@evillure (147)
• United States
24 Apr 07
If you really want to send it to him send it to the address on the cd. When I was a child I made several drawings of him in art class, my parents mailed it to him and I got an autographed picture of him and an info packet,the picture has my name on it. Also the envlope that it was mailed in has his ex wifes address under the sticker for mine...