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Adam Savage Biography

Adam Whitney Savage (born July 15, 1967) is an American industrial designer and special effects designer/fabricator, actor, educator, and television personality, known as the former co-host (with Jamie Hyneman) of the Discovery Channel television series MythBusters and Unchained Reaction. His model work has appeared in major films, including Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones and The Matrix Reloaded. He is a prominent member of the skeptic community. He lives in San Francisco with his twin sons and his wife, Julia.

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I'm not a sculptor; I'm a hard-edged model maker. You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from 'Star Wars' - especially parts from 'Star Wars' - I can do this stuff all day long. It's exactly how I made my living for 15 years.

Day, Drawing, Replicate, Stars, War, Years

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.

Fun, Know, Like, People, Urban Legends

Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.

Geek, Inventories, Inventory, Learning, Things

I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.

Care, Defining, Realization, Suffer, Suffering, Thinking

I'm a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these - from R2D2 to Hellboy's revolver - ends with the paint job. And it's not just cosmetic. The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it's been, what it's been used for, and for how long.

Costumes, Jobs, Long, Making, Paint, Story

Bigger is always better.

Fierce, Bigger

Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash.

Brain, Cash, Check, Reality, Writes, Writing

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.

Data, Experiment, Test, Tests, Thing, Yield

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.

Done, Hurt, Long, Show, Side, Things

Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff. These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.

Back, Details, Inches, Light, Magic, Sets

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. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.

Childhood, George, Jobs, Star, Stars, War

From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. 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.

Done, Forever, Shape, Stories, Times

Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.

Appreciate, Diving, Fascinated, Like, Stories, Tell

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

Attitude, Thinking, Creative, World, Way

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.

Dying, Light, Movies, Stars, War, Wars

Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

Animate, Chocolate, Design, Rigs, Special

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.

Came, Course, Metric, Names, Order, Tools

I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.

Edward, Optimistic, Pessimistic, Say, Thinking

The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.

Ability, Framework, Important, Lifetime, Lying, Voice

We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it's been quite smooth over there. We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.

Occupation, Parks, Place, Smooth, Way

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