Am I about to feel really, really stupid?
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Anand Thakur
Am I about to feel really, really stupid?
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There are women who are wishing that they were that piece of tape right now.
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From earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world.
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In the summer of 2002, we had spent six weeks shooting the three pilots of Mythbusters, and Jamie[Hyneman] called me up afterward
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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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Half of it is absolutely genuine, and half of it is us playing around with that fact.
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I’m obsessed with the form of a toolbox.
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There is no dignity in television.
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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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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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That’s our job – to strap rockets onto everything.
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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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That’s a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.
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How hard can it be to blow up a room full of gasoline?!
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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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My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
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