True
A couple of weeks ago I attended Lakes of Fire, the regional burn event of the Great Lakes area. It was a good trip, although a difficult one too due to the loss of Drew (aka True) Bradford, just days before my flight into Chicago.
He is missed by many.
A brilliant mind and artist in his own right, he was always working on something. We had a memorial for him out at the event, and his old camp showed off the lights he’d made sonar receptive so they would always flash with the beat of the music. I think that the last long talk I had with him was several months back when he wanted to know everything I’d picked up about prosthetics, in particular ocularistry. He wanted to make an animatronic sculpture with eyes that could see via camera and allow someone hiding elsewhere to speak to people through the guise of this creature. Prior to that he hit me up for tips on using my anaplastology know-how into an awesome Halloween mask. I still have stone in my studio to this day because of his ideas. He was a seemingly unstoppable force, and it is weird to think of him as having stopped.
He is truly missed by many.