In August of 2004 I wrote a story about my great uncle Sal an submitted 20 photographs pertaining to the story, A major publishing company in Germany gave me a call right away at the same time the American photo Magazine contacted me within one month I landed the feature story editors choice in American photo that went worldwide they gave me a nice check, right after that Tashan publishing company who just completed the Muhammad Ali book flew one of their editors to America From Germany to meet me and see what I actually have with in three days of negotiating they gave me a contract and check, after the magazine article came out and my one Cablevision special on Sal in New Jersey, I caught the attention of Badco films in California One of the partners is from the band Devo you know that song whip it good, we spent six months negotiating a movie deal on Sals life I got my contract am I great sign on fee and then something happened to them and their company like my book contract in Europe it was like Sal and the masks put a curse on them so after 16 years I am now a free agent with all my images negatives and masks, we now have a bunch new offers