Earlier this year, at TAM 6, my Close Personal Friend™ Adam Savage gave a really fun talk, where he rapid-fire presented his obsession with creating his own dodo skeleton model and then one of the Maltese Falcon. He gave this talk at other venues, and a video of one has surfaced at Fora.tv.
Mind you, this is him when he hasn’t had coffee. It’s really a very engaging talk.
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December 21st, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Man, does he talk fast! Is he always like that, Phil?
December 21st, 2008 at 12:46 pm
If you played the embedded version, you’d have to click on the “watch full program” in the bottom right corner to view the final two minutes of the seventeen minute talk.
December 21st, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Take a breath Adam.
December 21st, 2008 at 1:27 pm
I guess he likes birds
December 21st, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Please tell me that someone stole his replica of the Maltese Falcon and snuck it into his hotel room. He deserves to have the full effect of the object.
December 21st, 2008 at 3:51 pm
I have a sudden urge to sculpt something….
December 21st, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Eesh Adam is obsessed! But I must admit that he did some great work. HOWEVER, his assertion that the world can be divided into Chandler people or Hammet people is a little wrong. There are few of us that like both.
Just look at my book case… why what do I see, a copy of “The Big Sleep” sharing space with “The Maltese Falcon” Gasp! 
December 21st, 2008 at 5:25 pm
One just gotta love Adam Savage!
He is pretty much the same on Mythbusters, fast talking and all that. So I assume, he is like that most of the time.
But gee being on speed like that all the time cant be healthy
I love Mythbusters (who doesnt?)! Both and Adam and Jamie (who is also great!) are hosting the only entertainment TV show (it is certainly educational, but it is also very entertaining) that has never ever upset me (so far anyway). Pretty much every other entertainment- TV show has (stupid scripts, bad science, people acting stupidly, unoriginal plotts, boring, bad acting, etc).
December 21st, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Isn’t this Adam Savage getting healed by a Lureri? http://www.dagbladet.no/2008/12/19/nyheter/innenriks/helse/test/4084511/
December 22nd, 2008 at 1:25 am
God, he’s like the human personification of SPEED XD
December 22nd, 2008 at 11:04 am
While I am very far from as hyper as Adam I totally get what he’s talking about. When I get into a project I get so obsessed that I will not stop until I’m totally satisfied. I’ve also got GB worth of reference photos on my computer of everything from cuttlefish to fossils to medieval weaponry.
December 22nd, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Phil – If you are truely obsessed with Adam Savage, you should give him his own category.
December 23rd, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Hyper or Caffeine either way his brain works in wonderful circles. I have a new appreciation for him.
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