Nearly every one of these – from R2D2 to Hellboy’s revolver – ends with the paint job. And it’s not just cosmetic.
ADAM SAVAGEI had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder
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These are people from everywhere, from Lawrence Livermore and JPL and Sandia National Labs, the FBI, all over the place, real scientists who see what we’re doing, and they consistently thank us.
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The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it’s been, what it’s been used for, and for how long.
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We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.
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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long.
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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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It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
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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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There are women who are wishing that they were that piece of tape right now.
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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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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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Forever, the way we’ve done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.
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In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don’t start, it’s either the fuel system or the electrical system.
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I’m not a sculptor; I’m a hard-edged model maker.
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I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other’s designs,
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I wouldn’t say jamie is an evil genius. I’m not sure he’s evil and I’m not sure he’s a genius.
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