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 SAVAGEEspecially parts from ‘Star Wars’ – I can do this stuff all day long. It’s exactly how I made my living for 15 years.
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So my wife’s experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they’re doing.
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In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
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Isn’t television glamourous?
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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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It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.
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And also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
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Any time I have an Internet connection, there’s a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.
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Jamie’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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This is the point in the show where we say, ‘Oh, what else do we have in the van that’s flammable?’
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In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a ‘failed experiment.’ Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long.
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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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You wake up and the world says, ‘Oops, it’s too much fun to go to school, you’ve got to stay home and deal with the snow!’
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How hard can it be to blow up a room full of gasoline?!
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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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The car is effectively a black box.
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Firemen have the coolest toys ever!
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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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I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
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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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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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I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.
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Bigger is always better.
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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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