Cizeta-Moroder V16T--Tyrannosaurus Rex Time Travel Encounter

Client: Me, for self promotion in the Spring of 1990.

Location: Hotel Circle off I-8, San Diego, California.

Purpose: Meeting with George Oshevski, Palaeontological Artist, with the executive art director from the Dinamation Corporation.

Significance: We three at the meeting put a three foot eight inch juvenile male T-rex skull-casting on the Denny's Restaurant table and I sketched in real time while we all discussed how to improve forensic-style renders from bone fossil evidence--both at the site of each excavation--and in a museum preparation lab setting.

I was trolling for a part-time job with Dinamation who maintained offices in both San Juan Capistrano and in Irvine, California. At the time I was employed per assignment as an undercover private investigator and while being a US Marine Corps Veteran, was currently serving in the California Army National Guard and attending their US Army Officer Candidate School.

I drew the T-rex in a color pattern suggesting that he was entering the realm of sexual maturity.

George Olshevsky (born 1946) is a freelance editor, writer, publisher, paleontologist, and mathematician living in San Diego, California.

Olshevsky maintains the comprehensive online Dinosaur Genera List. He is known as the originator of the Birds Came First hypothesis in the descent of birds debate, which states that all dinosaurs are the descendants of small arboreal and perhaps flying ancestors. If you're lucky, you'll run into him at Comicon.