You know, it’s the best job I’ve ever had, on its worst day it’s better than anything else, but it’s a huge amount of responsibility
ADAM SAVAGEBeing a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long.
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And also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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That’s our job – to strap rockets onto everything.
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Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.
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I’m a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes.
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I mean it’s ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.
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They’re not very good ideas, but at least they’re ideas!
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There are women who are wishing that they were that piece of tape right now.
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Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell,
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These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.
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You wake up and the world says, ‘Oops, it’s too much fun to go to school, you’ve got to stay home and deal with the snow!’
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I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day.
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It’s a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it’s people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.
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Let’s blow some stuff up.
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Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can’t cash.
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