Today's featured artists: creators of the Freemont Troll

This troll was sculpted some time ago by four Seattle area artists -- Steve Badanes, Will Martin, Donna Walter and Ross Whitehead. He lives under a bridge in Seattle and was inspired by the folktale Three Billy Goats Gruff.
The Freemont Troll is holding a Volkswagen beetle that apparently originally contained a time capsule of Elvis memorabilia. It's since been removed to keep it safe from vandals.
Sadly, a mentally-ill man shot a bus driver and then himself on the troll's bridge in 1998, sending the bus over the edge of the bridge and onto a nearby apartment building.
The troll become a memorial for those killed -- so he's clearly nicer than the troll in the Three Billy Goats Gruff.