Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!
ADAM SAVAGEI find it’s too much for me to read endless critiques, even if we’re being well-defended, of exactly what we’re doing.
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Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren’t our audience – it’s the critical thinkers we love.
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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long.
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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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I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day.
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If I haven’t had any long term psychological side effects from all the things I’ve already done on this show, this isn’t gonna hurt much more.
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Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction – spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff.
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That’s our people. That’s the way we like to think.
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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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it was actually mummified, skin and all – but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.
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And we both appreciate that the quickest and the dirtiest solution is usually the most elegant, the least expensive, and the fastest.
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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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These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.
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It’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.
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Giving me strength to shoot for more than I think I’m capable of.
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