we’re finding that all these things can lead to people believing the world works in a certain way. I
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I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it.
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I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
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In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
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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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The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!
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The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
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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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Learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.
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The explosions, like the urban legends, are a great way of bringing people in to watch, because it’s really fun, and you know we’re always going to give you a satisfying ending.
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After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.
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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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My dignity and good television – they’ll never meet.
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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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And also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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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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