Isn’t television glamourous?
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My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
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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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Am I missing an eyebrow?
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And there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else’s drawing sounds like going back to heaven.
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There’s this group online that I frequent.
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I reject your reality and substitute my own.
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I’ve regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.
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I believe they know everything that I do and think, and they still love me
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That was excellent! I mean, it didn’t do anything, but it looked really cool!
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And I’ve concluded, after careful consideration, that this person keeping score is me.
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There’s few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.
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It’s a treat to see the sun rise over the desert. What am I saying? It’s a treat to fire off a rocket car over the desert!
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Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono.
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That’s a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.
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The main trend with the theme episodes is that anywhere there is a misconception about the way the physical world works, we’re finding fertile material.
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Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting.
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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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Whether it’s in a phrase like “going over like a lead balloon” or “a needle in a haystack,” or tackling movie myths or even a genre, like MacGyver or James Bond
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Gravity. It’s not just a good idea; it’s the law!
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I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
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I felt like I had kind of played it out, and I wanted to see what was next, and then came Mythbusters.
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We’re always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.
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I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
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Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore.
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I think at this point, there’s a certain bizarre chemistry between Jamie [Hyneman] and I that we can’t ignore a lot of the mechanics of, that we’re quite aware of.
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And also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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