Dude, this guy is awesome

I watch the art channel, it's called Ovation TV, and on this channel they have very interesting documentaries and old movies, and lots of other cool things that are very educational in the artistic persuasions. A show I caught the other day called "Driven by Vision", a half hour documentary about the ongoing artwork of one person or group, featured a guy named Jim Bishop. Bishop is a castle builder by hobby, ornamental welder by trade, and what really caught my attention was the first sentence the narrator said after introducing Bishop. "When he was 15, he had saved up enough money from odd jobs to buy a 2.5 acre plot of land in Colorado Springs and started building a one room stone cottage." I looked up and saw this castle, the project is freakin' incredible. This is one guy's project over the past 40 or 50 years and he has taken no help except for donations and visitors, everything here was built by, hand by him... right on!


www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2047 <---one of the few articles I could find on this, not a bad read