Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction – spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff.
ADAM SAVAGEJamie’s gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.
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The closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box.
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Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren’t our audience – it’s the critical thinkers we love.
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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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How hard can it be to blow up a room full of gasoline?!
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That’s our people. That’s the way we like to think.
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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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In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head
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If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.
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I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
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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 am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
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When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the ‘Star Wars’ movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.
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I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I’m more optimistic than pessimistic.
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I’ve meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn’t work for me about them.
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The coolest toys don’t have to be bought; they can be built.
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