Photo by Steve Azzara
Hair by Ted Gibson
Panties by Betsey Johnson
Make up by Miyako Johnson
From designing outrageous hats for such celebrities as Pamela Anderson, Snoop Dogg and Hillary Clinton to getting 17 tattoos in 30 days, the woman behind this story could easily be the center of an exciting, intriguing, suspense movie.
But there is irony to this story, since the central character of this story created a creature that allegedly formed the basic for the beloved character Scrat in the movies Ice Age and Ice Age 2, yet she received no recognition or compensation for her work.
Ivy Silberstein, a.k.a. Ivy Supersonic was walking in the New York City park in 1999 when she though up the character Sqrat, a cross between a squirrel and a rat.
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Stole the Shirt Off Her Back
Supersonic sought to secure the rights to the Sqrat character. She commissioned a graffiti artist to mock up the buck-toothed rodent on a napkin. The crude illustration was taken to Quick Sings in Brooklyn where Peter Levine, an employee there digitally crafted a banner, which was unveiled onstage at the KROK- sponsored Dysfunctional Family Picnic concert tour that summer.
Supersonic trademarked the character in June and pitched it to everyone from Warner Bros. executives to her friend Tommy Lee, who she attempted to line up as the vermin's voice should the sqrat ever be animated.
The Sqrat character was featured in License magazine and Jeanne Moos of CNN even aired a segment imaging the Sqrat character running rampant in New York.
Tune in tomorrow for part II - They Stole the Shirt Off Her Back
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