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halo halo this isn't a gaming site hello everybody hello hello everybody adam savage and i am here in
my cave this week before thanksgiving um enjoying the little nip in the air in san francisco always
ends up feeling a little like winter we don't have full seasons here we have demi seasons but
it's nice when you can feel them coming um and i am answering questions from tested patrons and
today's comes from brandon young kemke's i think i'm getting that right kemke's kemkus they say
first of all i'd like to thank you for making my little workshop feel a little less lonely you're
welcome i appreciate that i listen to a lot of things radio and programs and stuff like that in
this shop uh and i understand what it is to have a regular source of entertainment that it feels
like it's part of your shop i i really appreciate that that we're that for you brandon says i live
in a very small community and don't have a lot of the collaboration that you get being on the tested
team what project would you suggest is ideal for attracting new makers to join in well so
right off the bat without any of the preamble that you put in the best projects for people to
join to attract people to join in are projects in which you're providing a structure and then
they can provide stuff on top of that structure so maybe it's a laser-cut picture frame in which uh
the the structure of the window frame itself is given to everybody but everyone's also
given a wood burning kit to actively decorate and aestheticize the frame so that's like the rough
structure of the kind of thing that brings people into a project but i think that you're asking
about finding collaborators you've said i don't have a lot of the collaboration
uh that you get by being on the tested team and so you're looking for projects that
will help you find collaborators and i must say i'm not sure that's the right question
because i'm not sure if the goal is collaboration itself
then the project matters less right because the goal isn't the project
but i suspect it's both like you want to do projects that you're excited about and
you would love to find some collaborators in order to make the world a little less small and in order
to share information and exaltation with others and in that case what i'm going to say is you got
to go find you got to go find your people i tested is effectively an offshoot of me finding my people
how do you find your people well what is the thing that's obsessing you
is it making guitars i'm sure there's a guitar form in maybe if not your community adjacent
to community to your community uh there are on craigslist has lots of online forums they're not
quite as big as they used to be but um that's a great place to find people local to you uh
a local forum not even a local forum but like look i frequent all sorts of different forums
online the replica props forum is one i go to every single day and some of the makers on
rpf are local to me and most of them are not um but you can certainly put out a call to action
for is there anyone here who's nearby love to talk about projects that we're working on
and see if we might work on something together uh i hate mud form which is where i got a lot
of my early information about my land cruiser tons of stuff that's both local and global um
and in order to find people that are interested in the same weird crap that you
are yeah you're just gonna have to go out and keep putting yourself out there um you know
if it's a really small community and you got a local paper maybe you have a saturday like
you know what a stitching [ __ ] is what a stitching [ __ ] is that is a that is like a
quilting i think that's a quilting term and it's everyone gets together with their project and
quilters each are all working on a quilt they'll sit around a table working on the part that
they're working on but they're together and they get to talk about stuff and they get to learn from
each other compare their experiences quilters have had this down forever for generations
um engineer your own stitching [ __ ] in whatever format or or persuasion that you are obsessed with
with your makerspace is it star wars props well i'm sure you can find some other people that make
star wars props and it might not even be people you expect might be people way older than you
way younger than you different genders entirely different lifestyles but i hear the desire in you
to expand the circle of people that you share the things you make with and that is a laudable and
a key part of human existence right finding other people to to compare notes with and share stories
with learn from their experience and give them the benefit of your experience uh i'm
not positive that i've given you a distinct answer to this question brandon but i hope it's enough uh
yeah i i'd love to hear more about what exactly you're interested in uh go ahead and submit
it next time we have we are we are asking for questions and maybe we'll move on to the next part
of this conversation but finding your sangha your your the people who who think like you who exalt
like you they might not even think like you but if you have a common area of interest you have the
beginning of a trajectory for a relationship and that might be a friendship it might be a cordially
professional relationship it might be a it might end up being a romantic relationship right
two of my best friends met sharing mixtapes on a craigslist music forum like 15 years ago
that's a great story i yeah that is a terrific story i love that story
um in fact many of their closest friends who they still have came out of that that
that specific music forum and that's that's a great story so good luck brandon um good luck
yeah it's an important thing to find your song to find the people that you can exalt with
and it's a real grace when you do find them thank you guys so much for
submitting these awesome questions tested patrons and everybody else
i will well i'll see you all next time have a great day stay safe