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blimpbits origin as reminded to bear:

Just some background info, Blimp Bits was a
joint project between Jordan and me.  As I
recall, he goaded me into finding the crashed
airship and proposed the idea.  I ended up
tracking the craft down to its owners,
Airship International, in Miami.  I think
The Division Belle was the former Met Life
airship.  The ship met its maker during a
bad storm in Miami on June 27, 1994.

Airship International ended up sending me a
large piece of the ship that included the
fabric and a big piece of the wiring harness
and several of the little lights used to
illuminate the ship at night.  They also
sent me an Airship International t-shirt
that had pictures of their airships on it,
including The Division Belle.

So I created the artwork for the certificates
and spent hours in my basement cutting up
the bits, printing the certificates, and
assembling them.  A very primitive process.
Jordan helped cut the bits out as well and
provided the prints of the photograph used.
There was an Airship International sticker
of a gold airship that was affixed to the
certificates as well.

Certainly I am not interested in any
additional credit in your opus, I'm just
passing on some fuzzy recollections of
the genesis of the Blimp Bits.  You know
that credit is not my bag, but it might
be worthwhile to mention the contribution
that Airship International made to the
project.



ok, i won't out you (that'd put me in the
   dog house for sure) but i will tender
   "cheers!" a big thank you very much for
   the favor of fleshing out the phoenix-like
   events for us.
	
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