I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
ADAM SAVAGEI learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted.
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One worth clinging to. But you don’t need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It’s not just an idea, it’s reality.
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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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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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Well, that was kind of fun, wasn’t it? I mean, I don’t see where this could go, because we pretty much did everything. But it was fun.”
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The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one.
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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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Whether it’s the experiments on ‘MythBusters’ or my earlier work in special effects for movies
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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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Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono.
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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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The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It’s like Batman’s utility belt.
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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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I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody’s going to take care of you.
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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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And I’ve concluded, after careful consideration, that this person keeping score is me.
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