These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.
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Anand Thakur
These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.
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I’m not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun… Not unless I have to!
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The ‘Mythbusters’ crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what’s going on, we keep updated.
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Firemen have the coolest toys ever!
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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 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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“I agree your results aren’t always right,” they’ll say, “but your methods are clearly showing that science is a re-creative process, and it’s an interesting process because it’s messy, and no other shows show that.”
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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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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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Prayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening.
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That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show.
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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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It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.
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Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.
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I mean it’s ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.
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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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