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- Reverend Gadget's steel projects run the gamut from massive to delicate, are tucked out of sight in private residences, and living in plain sight in public spaces.
- He has designed and fabricated art with purpose, structural elements for commercial spaces, created his own line of modern furniture with a piece in the Mutant Materials Show for the Museum of Modern Art (KRAB), and made movie props for some of the biggest movie Blockbusters (Spiderman, Castaway, Batman, etc).
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- Gadget's artistry and fondness for collaboration have also won him many commissions from artists working in large-scale public art (aka Big Metal Things or BMT's).
- Daniel Martinez, commissioned to design a Metro-Rail station for L.A.'s El Segundo Green Line, presented Gadget with his "biggest" challenge: the engineering, fabrication, and installation of a thirty-foot steel hand launching a "paper" airplane, under which the MTA trains pass.
- It is the largest sculpture of a hand in the world, weighing in at 30,000 pounds, and had to be installed between high voltage wiring, on an overpass!
- It's amazing no one got killed...
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Why "Reverend" Gadget? Gadget became an Ordained Minister in 1986, and, when requested, performs marriages and funerals for friends.
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- While most of Reverend Gadget's work is produced in steel - he's been welding since the age of 14 - the craftsman also has a way with copper, aluminum, bronze, wood and ceramics.
- Gadget studied computer programming at UCLA, then industrial arts and art history, business and economics at SMC, engineering, and dance at Menlo College while performing in the dance troup Interchange.
- After a brief stint as a butler of the finest degree, where he learned to be a gourmet cook and a conossieur of world-class Scotch, Gadget taught industrial design at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.
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- Gadget has been L.A.'s top large-scale metalman for the past 27 years.
- He can be seen working his craft in episodes of Discovery Channel's "BIG!" and select episodes of "Monster House!", and "How to Monsterize Just About Anything."
- He is currently working on a new television series, and is taking on select fabricating jobs and speaking engagements!
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