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# Adam Savage's Maker Faire 2012 Talk: Why We Make 翻譯

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Adam Savage's Maker Faire 2012 Talk: Why We Make 翻譯
### 介紹

這是謠言終結者的 Adam Savage 在 2012 Maker Fair 的分享。

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_otrgJ8Lmx4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_otrgJ8Lmx4)

### 翻譯參與人員

### 字幕

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hello
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hello 0 hello
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I give you a virtual high five all the way around hi everybody
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what do you guys done here so I
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gotta love coming to this crowd I'm at I never to spend the evening playing with
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some Arduino stuff
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I see like I had I want to start by telling you a story about my hat this is
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this is a a replica a
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harrison ford's hat from Raiders lost art yes
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what are the most important movies ever came out when I was 13 years old
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changed my life gave me a new direction the kinda action hero I fell in love
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with
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I'm and the same thing happen to a guy named Mark kidder
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marketer was a phantom Raiders
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and he wanted a hat that was exactly like Harrison Ford's hat from raiders
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any certain to look at screen grabs and he became very knowledgeable about
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how precisely that hat was made any started to notice something that no one
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else had figured out
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was that he noticed that the hat from raiders was actually a different hat
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and cut in a different way than all the other hats for the other two movies
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specifically to bring was cut differently it seemed to
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shape differently on Harrison Ford's had and marketer tried to find someone who
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would make him
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a hat that was this accurate and he couldn't do it so
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he taught himself military
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hat making in order to make a perfect Raiders of the Lost Ark at
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now gets better he started a little company with a partner called the
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adventure bill Hat Company
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these are the makers of my hat the eventual Hat Company makes
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about 40 to 50 hats a year the cost hundreds of bucks
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they're totally worth every penny they're made of the finest be
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I felt that you can buy they have a kangaroo hide brim they're made
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precisely exactly the same in every possible way
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to the original Raiders of the Lost Ark at there is nothing more accurate it
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gets better than that
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when Kingdom of the Crystal Skull went into production
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they put out a request for proposal to hat makers all over the world
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to provide hats for the new Raiders of the Lost Ark fell
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and Mark karen is little company got the contract
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so he went from fanboy all the way to the provider of the definitive
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have the defended the Raiders of the Lost Ark at yeah
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the now it gets better than that even
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just for me personally which is that I war one of his early hats on the show we
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did a Raiders lost art
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a myth with their motorcycle flipping and
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so I wore my Raiders costume and I had an mark wrote to me and he said
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you know I notice you want whenever early has not quite accurate one is send
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me your measurements and really really happy measure my head both in the
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morning in the evening is apparently your head size changes
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and he custom made me this
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this beautiful hat I'm now the story continues because the
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the person who did the customs to rate in Lost Ark actually turns out to be
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a friend of mine I didn't know this my friend John Landis
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his wife Deborah Dorman she did the customs for Raiders
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so she was the one responsible for the weird cut of harrison ford's had so I
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saw her last year
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in San Diego at comic-con and I told her the story
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and I showed her the hat and she looked at the hat
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and I you know I watched her that the customer who have chosen this look for
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Harrison Ford she picked it up
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she looked at it she punched a doubt she creased it she put it on my head and she
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looked at me and she said
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ICU I love that moment
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so I want to talk about why we make
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things are amazing here we got fifty thousand some-odd people here at Maker
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Faire
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there's a movement afoot a ten years ago
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if you're in engineering school you could almost get a degree without ever
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having to build anything
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but we are shifting back people are getting their hands dirty or
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now sometimes it feels like it's too late budgets cut
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budget cuts are taking away all the frivolous the quote-unquote
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frivolous things in the high schools like the drama club in the music
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department and especially the shop class its
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yet we have Maker Faire here we have Maker Faires all over the country Dean
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caimans first Robotics Competition
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yeah it's 50,000 students
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around the world 2000 teams building robots
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two things are happening simultaneously one is that we are seeing a generational
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shift back to making
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Maker Faire in Mythbusters and all the other people involved with this movement
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have written this wave
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concurrently with each other the second is that it really seems like the shift
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away from making
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was more massive than anybody realized we have a long way to go
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we have to keep getting kids interested in making things and getting their hands
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dirty
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and putting them getting them into their world
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but I'm not gonna talk about how I'm gonna talk about sorry I'm not going to
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talk about how we are all part of the house right here
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I wanted to talk about why so
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a few months ago I was talking with someone about how to get kids interested
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in making things and
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we were talking about what is the impetus that gets people interested in
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building something for themselves
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you know toys are cheaper now than they ever were before and they're smarter and
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they do more things in
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the toy industry so many toys do what they call play themselves you actually
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turn them on and you just watch them in a toy does all the work for you
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and we're talking about what that impetus is and I sent this guy to
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to a link at a forum I frequent where people make and collect movie props
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the replica prop for and one of the big things that people are doing on the
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replica pop form right now is everyone's making
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Iron Man armor everyone wants to be Iron Man
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but Iron Man armor Iron Man armor costs a lot of money
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for a full set a fiberglass Iron Man armor you could spend between three and
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eight thousand dollars I don't know because I kinda del
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however you can take a 3d file love Iron Man in his armor
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and you can run through a program called pepper cora and you can build it
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yourself and i said im this link up this kid in the Philippines
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who had painstakingly built this paper model Iron Man armor which then painted
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with the pox
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resin coated with bondo and fiberglass and sanded smooth until he could wear a
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full set up Iron Man armor
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it took hundreds of hours have his work
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II here Tesla coil spinning out
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100 hours at work and I sent this like any said wow it is so the long way
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around
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which is true it is a long way around and then he said
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it be really great to get them to build their own things rather than
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the things that pop culture feeds them
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I your way to second on that clapping
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I'm I had a kind of a visceral response that comment has
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I felt a little bad I am exactly these people like me
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I'm making two different sets of Iron Man armor right now
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yes you know
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is there a difference I'm not sure that dichotomy between making your own things
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and things pop culture feeds you is in fact
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a real dichotomy I don't think those two things are different
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I've spent my whole life bouncing between those two poles
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I've made hundreds of sculptures devices robots furniture clothing
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for me and the people that I love and for jobs and for a living and to pay my
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rent
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I've also built my own r2 d2 from scratch
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anybody want to test it dot com in the last few days I've been talking about
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the CF London from The Fifth Element which have been working on for ten years
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what are the coolest things I ever built was one of the earliest
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I I built a spaceship in my mom's closet
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I was working on a super 8 science fiction film with the Carol Bartz carro
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twins who live down the street
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I I think I was maybe 11 or 12 I found a couple a refrigerator boxes
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and I made a spaceship which is I just put up walls and I painted control
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panels on this
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you know the central console and I made a window with the star field behind and
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we filmed
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this super 8 film and when we're done with that I asked my mom
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if I could put it in the old bedroom closet cuz my parents had moved their
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bedroom
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and she said yes I so I installed the
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the the the console i cud actually pieces out a bit I put paper
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under those pieces I drew radar screens and I drew proximity sensors and I put
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lights underneath so my cock pit was actually under let
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iPad a window that was separated five feet away
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from the back wall and then I painted the whole back wall black
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and I painted stars on it then I put Christmas lights underneath so I could
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sit in the seat
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had feel like I was in a spaceship why was I doing this
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because I wanna be Han Solo and I want my own a.m. Falcon
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i sat on that thing for hours but maybe not
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hours but sitting in that cockpit and looking at the start feeling thinking
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about having my own Millennium Falcon cockpit gave me
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and unrivaled feeling of joy
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what more could I want to the universe at that moment to have that chip
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and the have the support of my parents to be able to go to the hardware store
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and by the lights and lamps and pieces that I needed to put it together
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they gave me access to their charge counter the hard wrister from the time I
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was 11 on
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I next thing I dot was actually took the same technology cardboard
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acetate batteries and I booked it onto a briefcase
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again with switches and radar sensors and screen brought real radar sensors
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sharpy look says radar sensor I
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and I made a James Bond briefcase well could have been James Bond briefcase
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orkut awesome in Mission Impossible briefcase
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at any rate there was a switch that said blow that up an eID present pretended
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things blew up
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her I never knew that would happen for real
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when I was 12 or 13 I had worked with cardboard enough
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that this idea came into my head fully formed
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I thought I want to make a man out of cardboard
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I wanna make a guy who sits on our front porch I don't know why
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I just played with cardboard enough that I realize this is something I wanted to
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see and I saw his structure really clearly in my head
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and I took all the scarred wofford Redbox's I had and I started cutting
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them into
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long square long rectangular tubes for the lexan babbling them in
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taping them together with masking tape I the chest
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the head I painted him with a blue suit on
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I'm gonna actually put a picture this up on our website on Tesla dot com in the
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next couple days you can see it
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up but while I was making this thing while I was putting it together
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and this is the first thing I had built like really this is the first thing I
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had built
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that wasn't from a movie there was it from anything it just came right into my
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head
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and I remember specifically thats walking into
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the kitchen halfway to the project house style good
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feeling so good in my heart I went in and I said to my mom
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I was like 11 mom right now
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on August 13 19
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eighty wonder what every year was I said I am truly happy
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and the thing is is that I there's something really specific in the feeling
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a feeling that kind of happiness was that
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it wasn't just that I thought really happy was actually that I knew it was a
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temporal state that it wouldn't last but that I was experiencing something
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that every artist in the world feels this deep connection to the thing that
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they're producing to the thing that they're making connecting them to their
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world making them feel super
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totally genuinely present
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a few years later I left home in hours living in New York City and my parents
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you know would let me use the hardware store charge account
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now let me use my dads charge account at new york's central art supply
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and I started making sculpture really seriously in New York
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I made stops are based on the same things that I was doing when I made the
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spaceship I made
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telephones that look like they were out a blade runner things that book
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half organic half mechanical I love cyborgs
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alien Star Wars all these movies in for my sculpture
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guns I made lots of weird-looking call futuristic guns
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and I had a girlfriend at the time who'll would get into arguments with me
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occasionally about
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why I was making things that were so violent
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my sculpture had a violence to it it had a a malevolence
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she thought now it wasn't really like a fight we had she was a philosophy major
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from tops
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so she does like to get into it just to get into it but
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it was an interesting discussion because I was surprised at my stance
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on it well I'm standing on nothing but wire screen this doesn't bode well
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I sorry my stance
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with her when she said why do you make things that are so violent as I said
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your question presupposes that I have a choice
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I don't think that I do I'm making the things I feel like I have to make
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and I don't get to choose what I feel like I have to make
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even that age I understood that I was tapping into something call it
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collective unconscious whenever you like i knew i wasn't just making things
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out of them in the Boyd I was having a conversation
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I was having a conversation with the world around me the world that informs
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me that shaped me that help me understand the kinda person that I
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wanted to be
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I was talking to my culture it's a real conversation
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and it happens way under the level %uh normal person to person conversation
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and notice I said culture not pop culture now
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the whole dichotomy between culture pop culture was raised a long time ago and
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better and smarter people than me I've written about it so I'm not going to
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waste a lot of time on it here
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it is a false dichotomy I bill and participated in the building amazing
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things from scratch again
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robots galleries theatres sets props furniture
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but the love the objects themselves this child's desire
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for the impossible toys scene in the movie scene in my head
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and wanting to make it flash make it something that I had and I held
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and that made my day better because it existed
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that what about those things and the teaching myself how to make things in
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order to have those things
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is the engine I've everything that I have achieved in my whole life up till
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now
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so I hope this as a kind of a manifesto
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it doesn't matter what you make and it doesn't matter why
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the importance is that you are making something
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when you make something the world becomes a little more parts support
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becomes a little more understandable to you
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you become part of a conversation when you make things that you can't not make
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that conversation goes really deep and meet other people who are making the
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same things they can't not make
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and these people become your friends your confidence in your teachers in your
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mentors
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I truly believe that I also believe when you making
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when you're making the thing that you go through the process the problem solving
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the shaping your future with your hands it's inherently good and positive
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conversation
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it makes you into a critical thinker
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everything that I've ever learned making things has universally applied to
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everything else
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that I do a Obama I
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has made a key part of his administration's goal
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to push forward the stem initiative science technology engineering and math
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yeah
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and Jamie and I have been honored and lucky enough that he is tapped us to
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help him spread this message
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and we are helping in every way that we can but there's a movement afoot
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but says well first voss damn it's just a terrible name
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it's a terrible name it doesn't it doesn't give anything it's not sexy
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there's a movement afoot to abt one letter to stem and make its steam
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that letter is a and it stands for art science technology engineering
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art and mathematics are is where
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the kids art is the original mover
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so I say make but more than that make what you want it starts with what
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you want to have when you want to learn something
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you'll make it better everyone I get asked a lot how do I learn how to weld
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how do I learn how to do electronic some advice is always the same choose a
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project
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doctors read about what should which do you think is going to work better learn
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about electronics reading a book about it putting together some zener diodes in
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and resistors and LED's or building your own fully operational tricorder from
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Star Trek
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when you have a final goal whatever that goal
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is you are more likely to finish you're more likely to get through that point in
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every project
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when the thing you're building is kicking your butt and making you really
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mad because you're failing
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that final goal carry you pass that I have this mechanism and I know it after
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all these years making things
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somewhere around seventy percent in working on any given
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difficult project I'm working on I lose steam I get frustrated with myself I
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wonder what the hell I'm thinking
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II Pro clearly don't know what I'm doing and I'm I'm going too fast from dawn to
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slow or not going elegant enough
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but I know that this occurs to me every time so I know that I can push past that
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it's different for everybody
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because everybody is different what unites us
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is that we are creatures up creation and we always have been
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we need to keep those fires burning so I hereby grant you all permission
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to make whatever it is you want whatever you have to make
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make what you desire make what you have to make
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make what you can't not make because it will make the world a better place
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thank you

dean kamen first robotics competition
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