andrew myron wants to know how do you ever suffer from maker's remorse after
sending one of your creations off to a friend or client never to be seen again
there is always a little bit of that um
there is always a little bit of maker's remorse when something leaves your spear yeah but
seriously when you've made something not for a client let's see let's see after sending one of
your creations to a friend okay you've said to a friend or a client and those are two totally
different totally different circumstances to a client you've done the work for hire
you've sent it off you did your job i feel totally fine about that relationship i feel
fine about that transaction like all of that is good uh if it's an object i seriously
seriously wanted while i was making it for the client i was making a second one for myself
that totally goes that's totally how that works but for a friend the thing is
is that you do feel a little remorse because you love the thing that you made but that is that
feeling of slight remorse of like i wish this thing didn't leave my sphere is eclipsed entirely
by the fact that you're giving it to someone you love so you infuse the thing you built with your
time and your energy and your your point of view and it holds it holds that right it's the object
yeah the object is that all of that attention you put into the thing is held by the object itself
and that is part of what the love that you give when you give something you made away is you are i
make a point when fans bring me fan art of saying thank you for taking the time to do this because
i know that when i make something for someone i'm thinking about them the whole time i'm making it
i'm i'm pondering them and and that's part of the gift that time is one of the most valuable things
we have to give each other that's a great question i mean then there's the idea that
i was talking to tom sachs about selling art and he was like it's got to hurt every time or
you're not making art like every sculpture he sells it is a and he's like the way you
feel he said to me at one point the way you feel about the blade runner blaster
you should be ready to sell that thing and it's going to suck and it's going to hurt
i that is uh yeah that's i get what he says and that's an intense transaction
grooster says have you always been so good-natured about your mistakes it's
something i'm constantly working on as i challenge myself no i am not great at making mistakes
i'm great at making mistakes on camera i have had issues with my anger my
whole life that's something you might not have known about me certainly uh i you know i i
yeah i mean we all have the things that we have to recover from and
i can certainly get super pissed off and super frustrated by making mistakes i am uh
and i've shown that actually i mean i i have actually revealed that untested
on camera i mean i i think i've made reddits watch them die inside subreddit a dozen times because
there's so many videos of me realizing that i screwed something up entirely and i'm gonna have
to redo it and i mean you know the camera's on you you're not gonna start like stomping around like a
child but you certainly feel those emotions you certainly feel that petulance and that
yeah but recently or over over the lockdown i have i have i've become a lot more forgiving
i've become a lot more forgiving of myself about the mistakes and part of it is because
i've been working so much more i've been doing 40 or 50 hours a week in this room
more than i've ever done in my whole life and it has been both a dream come true and every project
i've done in here has kicked my ass in one way or the other some of them have actually caused
me genuine injuries um but over the course of the lockdown the the the feverish pace of this and
the the the exercise of simply taking in what's going on in the world and trying to continue on
and do the work that i do when things feel quite disturbed and sometimes hopeless and really bleak
all of that has caused me to have a substantively different relationship with with self-forgiveness
i mean that's what we're talking about when you're talking about are you have you always been so
good-natured with your mistakes you're really i think asking about self-forgiveness which is the
only real forgiveness there is it's the only one that matters you could forgive other people all
day long but until you can forgive this person you're still going to struggle uh that's i mean
i could go on along a lot about that one but it's a good question um clinton anderson says watching
the watering can one day build misses sword for hire i like that uh wondered do you think adam
is as meticulous a gift rapper as he is a gift maker that is such a good question there is a um
yes i love wrapping gifts i specifically love making boxes for gifts and so
the watering can got a custom cardboard box that held it in an upright or in a sideways
orientation so that the spout pointed down but it had supports inside and i built this all on
camera except the camera shot is totally terrible so i was thinking of it as an end credit sequence
for the watering can build and then i saw the shot and i watched the video the other day and
also they didn't use it and i realized yeah it probably didn't scan very well but uh if it is
usable i will show it and i still have the box because after i brought the box home and i gave
it to my wife and i gave it to her on her birthday which is difficult for me because i always want
to give birthday presents early i i cannot wait they're like you know that great character that
kristen wiig plays on as she had a great character she played on snl of a woman who can't stand the
idea that a surprise party is about to happen she like god she like gets super tense like they don't
know and we know i love that character and that's me when a birthday is about to happen and i've got
a gift for you i just like i'm going to get to you early so i often come up with five or six presents
for my wife and i just put i give her one every day for the week beforehand little things you
know something on a pillow something like that uh but i kept the box so if we don't have the video
i i'll do a show and tell the box i made for the watering can um look wrapping wrapping gifts is
weird and and pointless and also super delightful and there's nothing better than that anticipation
while you're standing there watching someone open the thing that you got them and it landed
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