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MythBusters Co-Host Adam Savage on Obsession
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Re: MythBusters Co-Host Adam Savage on Obsession
#22Adam Savage is a very funny guy, and a true geek. That didn't come across for me on mythbusters.
"You can only clean up a messy room by picking up one thing at a time, you can't think about the totality."
Re: MythBusters Co-Host Adam Savage on Obsession
#23Note the unique presentation style - story with flashing images. It's surprisingly appealing. Even simple slides like "Anyway." that stay for just a second or two keep the viewer from getting distracted. The whole "less words more pictures" philosophy has become really popular lately, and it seems this has taken it to a new level. Bonus points for style and execution.
It's the planned spontaneity that makes the "Anyway." slide work. His setup and delivery of this line is so enthusiastic, natural, sincere that it couldn't be planned... yet there's the slide. Cute theatrical technique. Here's an idea: treat the slides like a ventriloquist's dummy, so that they counter your argument, mock you, undermine you. You could have a conversation. You'd need theatrical skills to pull this off…
> treat the slides like a ventriloquist's dummy, so that they counter your argument, mock you, undermine you.
This is an awesome idea. Stephen Colbert does this a little bit. But having a conversation would be great.
Re: MythBusters Co-Host Adam Savage on Obsession
#24Note the unique presentation style - story with flashing images. It's surprisingly appealing. Even simple slides like "Anyway." that stay for just a second or two keep the viewer from getting distracted. The whole "less words more pictures" philosophy has become really popular lately, and it seems this has taken it to a new level. Bonus points for style and execution.
It's the planned spontaneity that makes the "Anyway." slide work. His setup and delivery of this line is so enthusiastic, natural, sincere that it couldn't be planned... yet there's the slide. Cute theatrical technique. Here's an idea: treat the slides like a ventriloquist's dummy, so that they counter your argument, mock you, undermine you. You could have a conversation. You'd need theatrical skills to pull this off…
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Re: MythBusters Co-Host Adam Savage on Obsession
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's the planned spontaneity that makes the "Anyway." slide work. His setup and delivery of this line is so enthusiastic, natural, sincere that it couldn't be planned... yet there's the slide. Cute theatrical technique. Here's an idea: treat the slides like a ventriloquist's dummy, so that they counter your argument, mock you, undermine you. You could have a conversation. You'd need theatrical skills to pull this off…
> treat the slides like a ventriloquist's dummy, so that they counter your argument, mock you, undermine you. This is an awesome idea. Stephen Colbert does this a little bit. But having a conversation would be great.
The Word segments: http://www.hulu.com/watch/47154/the-colbert-report-the-word-...
Re: MythBusters Co-Host Adam Savage on Obsession
#26Adam Savage is a very funny guy, and a true geek. That didn't come across for me on mythbusters. "You can only clean up a messy room by picking up one thing at a time, you can't think about the totality."
I enjoy MythBusters, but this video impressed me more than anything I've seen from them on that show. I know it'd probably be too much for most audiences, but I'm more interested in how they build most of the stuff they use than what they do with it.
Re: MythBusters Co-Host Adam Savage on Obsession
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
> treat the slides like a ventriloquist's dummy, so that they counter your argument, mock you, undermine you. This is an awesome idea. Stephen Colbert does this a little bit. But having a conversation would be great.
The Word segments: http://www.hulu.com/watch/47154/the-colbert-report-the-word-...
thanks, but Hulu says "not available in your country" :(
oddly enough, the colbert report's own site is happy to share it worldwide: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/21198...
It's a similar idea, but the charm of it really coming from the speaker (as in a ventriloquist's dummy) is missing.
Re: MythBusters Co-Host Adam Savage on Obsession
#28The moment of enlightenment is his last sentence: "Achieving the end of the exercise was never the point of the exercise."
In our quick-fix society, there is something to be learned from living in the moment, and from journeys made for the sake of journeying.