matthew
d. wittmer
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Projects
Click above to read about how I went from
traditional to biocompatible dental materials.
Click above to see a memorial art gallery of etching
images that my late friend Bob Plummer created.
Click above to see how I have tried to recreate one
portion of the Alcatraz cell house in miniature.
Click above to see how I recreated versions of the
Defeo house in Amityville.
Since 1998, I have listened to this mixed-tape compilation of prank calls some guys made to a automotive sales associate. The calling went on for three years or more, and the pranksters who called the clerk, always begging him to talk and telling him what he was wearing that day, never revealed who they were. I thought he answered the phone "Al Automotives" but in truth I think he's saying "Allied Motors" referring to the shop's name. I never found the origin for where this shop was or who the people were. In 2001, I converted my well listened to audio cassette to compact disc, enhancing the audio that had degraded. In 2002, I transcribed all that calls on that 90-minute tape, collated it into book format, and hand made an edition of 30 books that each come with a compact disc so that you can read along. Never have I laughed so hard, I just had to preserve this tape in every way I could conceive of, and I have.
Sometime in the mid-1980's I made this little replica of the "crate"
that was used in the movie CREEPSHOW, in which actor Hal Holbrook
feeds his crazy wife to a creature he finds in this university crate.
Over a decade later, I met Hal Holbrook when he performed his Mark
Twain gig in Lincoln, Nebraska. I brought the crate - he remembered it,
and promptly signed the lid! I made it out of the old pressboard roller
mat my dad had used for years under his chair in his office.
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