isaac lloyd
isaac lloyd has a question i'm gonna read it to you now uh i was curious if
there are any ships or alterations
um that have been occurring during covet that you think should remain after it
goes away yeah i think that working remotely when
you don't have to be in an office is phenomenal and
you know um look people with disabilities have been
banging this drum forever and
we are learning things about productivity and we are busting myths
about productivity from home working that are really important to remember uh
because by allowing people to work at home we open up work to
a whole nother section of the world and that
is a net good um look i think that i think that the all
the things that are going on right now but covet in particular is
acting as a
lens on which to see the world a little better
how do i how do i put this i want to it's like
okay i'm gonna
let's i wonder if this is actually gonna work here
okay i just said let's say you're looking at this piece of
plastic right and this is like how we look at normal life
and then if you look at this piece of plastic with a light on its
side you'll see that it has all this texture
and you didn't see that texture the first time you were looking at it right
because you were looking at it with the light from a specific angle
i feel like covet the lockdown is is acting like that light it is it has
shifted the way we are looking at ourselves and the type of world that we
want to live in and i think that is a net
good for the world and i was just reading an article this morning about
how previous plagues and illnesses that
traveled around the world from the 14th century on
frequently did this so historically we have a lot of cases of societal
and uh uh social upheaval after a lockdown specifically because
a lot of things that we don't necessarily like about the way we're
running things become really clear and we have the
ability in a functioning democracy to change those
hopefully a functioning democracy is what we still have a few months from now
okay max kaiserman hey max uh what would be a good beginner's lathe
and mill setup and what would be a good skill what would be good skill
builder projects apollo rock hammer is a good answer
please say apollo rock hammer the apollo tools
are i still something i plan to do as if several one day builds because the
apollo tools the grabbers and the hammers and the little
the brushes and the the pans for sweeping up moon
samples all that stuff is so awesome um beginner's lay than mill set up
a thing you should know about beginner about big
beginner lathes and mills is that a lot of them
are i have found i've owned a bunch of different
small bench top lathes and mills i found many of them took
a huge amount of experience to make work right
um there is a type called a compact five that's
out of germany i think um that i had many years ago it's a yellow
lathe and mill it's a yellow lathe with a milling
set up you can purchase for it and i found that unit to be
tight as a drum really really a well-made machine
um you know
i think the thing that i would say about a lathe and mill setup if you don't know
what you're doing and you're wondering if you want to do this is craigslist
go get a small woodworker slate or a small benchtop machinist
on craigslist and you'll spend pennies on a dollar
as opposed to buying some big thing from grizzly that's going to take a lot of
work to get it to actually i'm not disparaging grizzlies tools at
all i'm just saying that some of their machine tools like
you can be led to believe they can handle
heavier stuff than they actually can and you need some genuine experience to make
those things sing and you can make them sing it's just
it's gonna take a little finessing out of the
box that's my personal experience with that
um good skill builder projects man they're everywhere and uh i've recently
since i built a die filer there are all sorts of people that sell kits for
making cool stuff that includes all the metal you need from
cast iron chunks to steel chunks to bits of brass for bushings and things like
that and i've purchased a couple and they
will be some future one-day builds um because when people put together a
kit like that they've done all this work for you in
terms of like this is something a beginner could get done this is
something a beginner could not only get done but it will function
for them the die filer is an incredibly forgiving build
it i one of the things that kept me from dumping jumping into it
at the beginning was i was like what if i screw it up what have i screwed up it
it's designed mechanically to accommodate a lot of ways of screwing it
up and still be able to get it across the line
and yes an apollo raw camera is totally something you should start with dude
robert mills says hi from the uk hello uk
i hope i get to visit you guys again soon
thank you for your passion exuberance and sincerity
you've helped more people around the world with your continued positive
attitude yeah man we got to stick together with
this positive attitude stuff
again i said this back in the beginning before the beginning of the summer when
i would do this and i drift slightly towards politics i will
say no matter what side of the aisle you fall upon
things are weird and i'm going to take it as axiomatic that
even if we disagree politically we still have the ultimately the same
goals which is to make leave a better world than we than we
arrived in and leave that world better for our
children for our families for our friends for our
neighbors and colleagues and our fellow citizens
and if you have that goal and i have that goal then we can talk about our
politics right one would assume as a public figure
that that might the the the the the the goodwill and the positive attitude
is super super important to me um there is a uh there's a phrase in
um psychology about being able to talk to each other without
i would say not say bias but let's say passive aggression
um you know what i mean by passive aggressive you say are you going out
like that like that's a passively aggressive statement
going on like that you're like criticizing somebody's clothes
um
in psychology the term for eliminating that from your speech
is called non-violent communication isn't that lovely non-violent
communication so i attempt to talk about my when i do talk
about my politics to talk politics to talk about it non-violently
that's really important to me so thank you i appreciate that i will continue
for at least the near future having lots of good will
despite things being weird mr roboto del mora agato uh mr roboto asks i know
i mangled the pronunciation and i apologize
um if you could go back in time and change or fix a project that you
completed and weren't happy with what would it be
yeah but i do that that's the thing that's that's the thing
i mean my a7l suit in the next room my spacesuit that ryan nagata built
i machined the couplers i got a new neck ring for it from ryan
the bubble i've got two i've got three bubble helmets for it over the years
that i've collected i've got two pairs of gloves uh two pairs of
boots three different cooling systems for it
because i keep on trying out different things
um i am unashamed about tech going back in and unpacking
another project or continuing to bang on with it
um
there is one uh there is a there there is one and it's just a professional it's
a professional screw-up there's a nightclub in episode two
that obi-wan and anakin go into and the exterior of the nightclub was a
set that i built except the one that you see in the movie
is not the one that i built because i skirted up uh the one you see
in the movie i believe is digital
yeah um so how did i screw it up i when i was making my scale
uh i was scaling it to be the right size for camera
i scaled it horizontally correctly and i screwed
up the vertical scale so it was squashed and stretched
and nobody caught this because my colleagues trusted me to get it right
and i didn't and what happened my supervisor came to me and he was like
you really screwed this up we like finished that set and it got on set and
that's when they realized it didn't work i lost a lot of money from my budget on
the set you built raw man i am so sorry about that he said
worse i have to go to the producers and ask
them if cg can fix this model which is it's like
the model shop took it as a point of pride that we could do
things that we would contribute to this film and for
us to screw something up because of me and then have to go
begging to the cg department to fix our mistake
which is what my supervisor had to do that sucked
so i can go back in time i get that vertical measurement scaling correct
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