Nearly every one of these – from R2D2 to Hellboy’s revolver – ends with the paint job. And it’s not just cosmetic.
ADAM SAVAGEWhether it’s the experiments on ‘MythBusters’ or my earlier work in special effects for movies
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I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.
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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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That’s a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.
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New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard.
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That’s our job – to strap rockets onto everything.
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I think at this point, there’s a certain bizarre chemistry between Jamie [Hyneman] and I that we can’t ignore a lot of the mechanics of, that we’re quite aware of.
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You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from ‘Star Wars’
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This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.
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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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In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don’t start, it’s either the fuel system or the electrical system.
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Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell,
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we’re finding that all these things can lead to people believing the world works in a certain way. I
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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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Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can’t cash.
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Let’s blow some stuff up.
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That you have to do the heavy lifting while you’re here. And when you don’t, well, you suffer the consequences.
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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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The car is effectively a black box.
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In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
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I’ve meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn’t work for me about them.
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I have some ideas on how to fix that.
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I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.
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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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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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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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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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