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Geek Tyrant
2 days ago
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Adam Savage Shares his Experiences of Working With Robin Williams — GeekTyrant
In a recent episode of Tested, Adam Savage is asked but a fan, "In your filmography, you managed to work with Robin Williams four or five times. I was wondering if you had any stories about him?" So, you can watch Savage shares some of his experiences working with Williams on the film Flubber and the wild magic that he experienced on the set of that movie. He also worked with him on Bicentennial Man, which he talks about in great detail. He seemed to have some really fun interactions with Willisms, and Savage gets so excited and animated while talking about that. This is a fun video, so I hope you enjoy it!
Geek Tyrant
01-06-2025
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Adam Savage on Why Practical Creature Effects Are Worth It — GeekTyrant
In this episode of Tested , Adam Savage talks about practical creature effects in films and why they are worth it as he tours a selection of the practical creatures Spectral Motion, which worked on films like Hellboy II: The Golden Army , Lady in the Water , and the show Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities . 'From animatronic beasts straight out of nightmares to towering costumes for creature performers, this showcase is just a small sample of the decades of incredible work done at Mike Elizalde's studio.' I love when genre films, especially creature feature horror movie lean into the practical effects side of things. I wish we would see more of that from Hollywood.
Geek Tyrant
17-05-2025
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Adam Savage Gets To Play With The Original HELLBOY Mecha Glove — GeekTyrant
In this video from Tested , Adam Savage is given the oppotunity to examin and play with the original Hellboy mecha glove. 'It's been almost 10 years since Adam finished building his Hellboy Mecha Glove, but his replica has never been in the same room as the original filming prop--until now! 'On a recent trip to effects studio Spectral Motion, Adam meets up with Mark Setrakian and Peter Abrahamson, two of the original designers and builders who made this incredible prop for Hellboy!' This is such a movie prop and I've always loved the style and design of Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy movies. The amount of work that went into building this thing and all of the little details that were included are so cool!
Geek Tyrant
10-05-2025
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Adam Savage Visits The Largest STAR WARS Memorabilia Collection — GeekTyrant
In a recent video shared on Tested, Adam Savage visits the biggest Star Wars memorabilia collection in the world. It's pretty freakin' incredible, and it's a fun watch! The video came with the note: 'At Rancho Obi-Wan, legendary collector Steve Sansweet has amassed not only the largest collection of Star Wars memorabilia in the world, but has also become a steward for beautiful fanmade artwork from the global Star Wars community. 'In Adam Savage's first ever visit to Rancho Obi-Wan, Steve shares some of the most creative pieces of his collection that spotlights Star Wars' massive cultural impact.' I've got a pretty big collection of toys, myself, but this is next level collector madness, and I love it!
Business Insider
28-04-2025
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- Business Insider
Ex-'MythBusters' host Adam Savage says taking a gap year may be the right move for your career
Adam Savage, the former "Mythbusters" host, says college is absolutely worth it — if you know what you're interested in learning. But there's nothing wrong with a gap year to give you more clarity on what you want to do with your career, he said on his YouTube channel, Adam Savage's Tested. Savage — a special-effects pro who starred in the hit Discovery Channel show "Mythbusters" alongside Jamie Hyneman for over a decade — said pursuing higher education depends entirely on the individual. "We encounter school so early that it is just this monolith, right?" Savage said. "We encounter school as literal babies, and then toddlers, and then children, and then young adults. And then we go through the slog of junior high and high school, and we're supposed to go to college." But we need to go to college, right? Well, Savage suggests students should intentionally decide to attend college, not feel like it's an unbreakable rule. It's up to each student, he said. "One of my sons took a gap year, and went and worked production in Los Angeles between graduating from high school and going to college," he said. "And that was a spectacular move for him. He got to live as an adult with a job that had to pay rent, he had a roommate — he got the full life experience at 18." Savage said his son came back from LA with a "thousand-yard stare," having been "raked over the coals" during his work on a series of independent films. The life experience, though, was "great," Savage added. "When you've had a little life under your belt, I think school means a fundamentally different thing than it does when you're just continuing the pipeline of going from child, to young adult, to adult, to school," he said. Savage's wife, he added, also took a break before finishing college. She dropped out and entered the workforce, eventually returning to school with a renewed sense of clarity. "She started watching her peers go on and graduate and move on, and she was working as a waitress, and she was like, 'Yeah, I want to get back into this. I think I'm losing time,'" he said. "And when she went back to school, she knew what she was going for." Going to college straight away can still be a great decision, he said. People who know exactly what they're interested in dive into higher education with a unique tenacity, Savage added. "Everybody I've ever met who went back to school knowing what they were going for — none of them ever got anything but an A in anything that they were doing," he said. "Because when you're interested in your subject, you're going to you're going to do really well at that." Ultimately, regardless of the individual choices someone makes, Savage believes there might be a bit too much dependence on "certain kinds of experience," and not enough recognition of the "mental frames" that people can bring to their jobs. "I have long said that there are people I have met, who don't make stuff for a living, who I would hire in a heartbeat to build stuff in this cave, on the clock for me," Savage said from his workshop. "Because I just know their skill. I can see it in them."
