show and tell adam's loft take one i'm kidding i'm only doing one take
greetings friends adam savage here in my cave with a
show and tell that is showing you a different part of the cave yeah
normally we spend most of our time here in the shop and this is a very
refined space i spend lots of time
adjusting and modifying and like i said refining so that everything
that i need is where i need it when i need it in the
most intuitive way possible
and then there's this area now this well that's my mold making area but out
here is all my display area i don't want to
pan too fast i don't want to make anyone sick but let's um
we'll just we'll walk through this because it's germaine to the discussion
we're having some props and some pieces and you know
this is where i keep like the things that i made
and things that i've collected and i get to see them all up close
and they're awesome and this is this is where i get inspired this is the
cacophony uh the visual cacophony that gets my juices going uh hello baby
um and there's uh well there's some other
spaces in the shop there's the bathroom and then here is the metal
working area yeah and that is in need of some help
that's a wazer water cutter that well we're getting that working
uh this is sort of also in progress and my office over there but there is a
part of the shop that you all have never seen
and some of you've been asking about it and it is
let's see oh uh no tour of the display space would be replete
without one of the most beautiful objects in my entire collection which is
this incredible full-size skull of sue yeah
she's a mix um and obviously the visual cacophony
extends to the ceiling and we can see i've got all these
helmets oh big baby um mythbusters junior oh here's a cool one
that is a poster painted by the artist that made all the
coney island sideshow posters because back in the early aughts um i was king
neptune of the coney island mermaid parade yes
patty darbinville sweet lady darbinville she was
delightful um she and i rode in a carriage through uh
through uh coney island to open the beach the first day of the summer
yeah that was stunning and i got that uh yeah the most idealized portrait of me
ever made big square chest i'm never gonna have one of those
um no but as i said the visual cacophony extends to the ceiling
and above that ceiling well that is what you have never seen
and we're going there now so uh when i first moved into this space there was
just a hole in the loft i bought some attic stairs
and uh here we go we're gonna head up into this
i will tell you these stairs this loft it's not for the faint of heart um
you can get hurt just thinking about it hold on i gotta use both hands here for
a second
okay this ladder is not for the faint of heart
um in fact uh you know some some folks uh some folks just can't stand moving up
and down this ladder and that's totally fine it is a um
you know it's a thing so here we are uh we've just passed the threshold into
the loft and uh you can see aza helis built this
lovely banister for me so that i wouldn't fall into the hole
um when you're first up here it's crazy um also note
note the height of the pipes here yeah these are all
these are all head bangers and i have lots of marks across my head
uh from being up here but let us let's start let's see all right um
this over here used to be the camera area that used to be where i stored all
my production camera equipment um mostly personal but you know i used
it professionally um now it's storing some big chunks of
foam we're still figuring out where those go
oh right the reason you are seeing the loft now
is because i can actually move around the loft i know it doesn't quite look
like it just yet but we've done a huge amount of work here in
the last few weeks and i actually had a an epiphany about
what this space is for because it used to be that it used to be
that i just put everything i didn't have a place for up here
and that became way too much of a [ __ ] fight uh
it's you know stuff compounds you've got to sort it you've got to be
merciless about what you're throwing away
and so i was starting to do that and then i was realizing wait a minute i
have a storage space where i have a bunch of clothing racks
and all the costumes are over there it's time to get every last costume that does
not need to be here in the building it's time to get every last costume that
doesn't need to be here in the building over to storage so i did that and that
cleared up a bunch of space and another loft which we're going to go look at in
a minute um and it also cleared a bunch out of
here and then i realized what belongs up in this loft not weird stuff
that i don't necessarily need access to that
can all go to the deeper storage space
this loft is now only for art materials and projects that i am currently working
on so that's why we swapped out the camera
department for foam because foam is one of the
disposable materials that i utilize here um
we also have things like when i made my hellboy glove i ended up with a bunch of
molds so there's all the hellboy molds here's uh
hellboy arduino uh there's some uh interviews and talks and
other stuff uh let's see plumbing parts i mean a lot of this is super
unorganized right now but um as far as uncompleted projects go
the probably the greatest uncompleted project in my life so far
is a major kong survival kit from dr strangelove
i completed one of them and that one i'm very proud of and it's super high
fidelity it was curated into a show at the museum of the
moving image in new york called walkers and uh my piece is in the catalog it's
lovely but that wasn't the end of that project for
me i wanted i wanted to make an addition of them so
here this here is all the material support
for an addition of uh 20 kong survival kits which i still plan to
finish at some point 20. yeah and there's a lot of moving
parts to it this is a huge project and when i'm all
finished i'll probably write a book seriously i'll probably write a little
monograph about putting that prop together
and this is a great place for it to live it's lived here now for about three and
a half years and it gives us regular access to it and
that gave me the idea to kind of have some of the active projects get
some real space over here here is another one um
yeah like i said all right so this shelf here is
mostly well these three shelves here are all
space hardware they're all parts and pieces of my spacesuit costumes um
i was looking at making a boeing starliner suit and i probably still will
someday uh and i wanted to know just how what
the blue nomex looked like so here's some blue nomex it's got
stuff like that it's got some gold foil it's got some cooling suits it's got
some extra visors i've got a couple of mercury visors up there that haven't
been cut out um i'm always sort of working on different
parts and pieces of my spacesuit collection
this is going to end up being the repository for all that which is great
i have big plans to get stuff up here this frame
not sure what to do with it okay let's move on in um
perhaps the biggest storage item up here is uh hold on
there we go this it's all cloth and we're still working on it but what
what we've got here so far is we've got black fabrics we've got
some colored fabrics we've got some white fabrics we've got some auto carpet
we got some sail cloth we got some findings and belts and
buckles and leather stuff down there we've got some kanekalon hair
which strikes me as it belongs with cloth for some reason we've got um
uh the open cell foam we've got some broadcloth the fur over here we've got
the leather over here and down on the bottom
we have all the different open cell foam um
and again i can't even tell you how great it is to have
all of this out here like this it makes working on
cloth-based or fabric-based sewing projects
so much easier moving on this is still somewhat unformed i've got
some old mythbuster prop hardware over here
lots of fans i have several cases of duct tape left over from mythbusters
duct tape specials um wheels land cruiser stuff
you know when you have an old car you end up with buckets and buckets and
buckets of of things that support that habit
hobby sorry did i say habit my smoke machines are here opaque
protector i know this looks like a barely concealed chaos or barely
controlled chaos and that's kind of because that's what
it is we we chip away we chip away we chip away and slowly the
space becomes more spacious um here's my
unbuilt english wheel and planishing hammer or
still to be built english wheel and planishing hammer
yeah um someday someday i'm just i just need a bigger shop i
need a i need a full metal working area oh right here are some shoes some moon
boots some roller skates for mythbuster days
my wellies uh my sorrells uh these are some of the
original boots i wore on mythbusters in the early days i never threw a pair out
um yeah these are for making the prison shoes from face off
prop i wanted to do some day some fire boots
more more moon shoes yeah a a king's ransom of boots and shoes and
footwear and it's great i still dip into this from time to time
all right let's see here what else we got oh my god
does anyone need a bunch of test tubes because i have way too many
um all right let's see here this is all savage merchandising stuff
things like my tape measures edc bags custom all of the prototypes i store
here um merch
there's more merch over here jesus i have so many jamie bobbleheads
and some adam bobbleheads uh let's see signed posters laser-cut kits
uh every time every year on mythbusters i made crew gifts
i think one of the years i made tactical bags with the mythbusters logo on them i
think that was like 2006 2005. and uh
i always made extras and kept a couple out just for myself
uh let's see over there is all posters that's the rock i plan to pull excalibur
from someday um yeah i know you're asking about i
know you want to know about that guy and i
it's still going to be a while uh yeah so here let's i'm going to put you
on wide so you can see this whole space so like i said we've got savage
merchandising my bag company and prototypes and designs and tape measures
and things like that go over here we've got some bobble heads we've got
some collectibles some hats when people come i like to give them gifts i've got
some some of the nice boxes i don't want to
throw away pieces of the unbuilt iron man's guitar cases
posters are way back there uh a giant cardboard rhino i i don't
know why i have a giant cardboard rhino it's it's it's got to move on it's got
to get out of here um oh rigging oh yeah look at that all four
of these boxes contain my entire collection of rigging hardware
every carabiner every rope every climbing rope every harness
um yeah i could cause real trouble with this kit it's
a very very complete rigging kit from 30 years of doing that
and then uh yeah we've got the the fabric the leather
yeah and you can see so all of this being open is like brand new it used to
be that this was literally like a foot of
walking space and you would like you literally felt like you were walking
like this as you move through the space oh and it would be more like this like
dunk and hit your head um so this is a work in progress i'm
showing you an uncompleted space so you can kind of
get a taste for the fact that this whole place is just a work in flux
uh and then we come back out and i think this is one of the reasons people find
this terrifying because of that like you're just looking down
yeah you're looking down the throat of the rest of your life
uh and
the thing you don't know about me is that i have lived in spaces with
rickety steep loft stairs since i was 24 uh and so walking up and down stairs i
don't like bounce underneath you it's totally fine for me it doesn't
bother me one bit um there you go it's been 10 years i've
been in this space and you guys have never seen up in the loft
now you have um i think we could do another show and tell
in a few months oh there's maggie uh i'm going to say hi to my dog thank
you guys for joining me for this show and tell and
i will see you later but wait
i got excited about my maggie coming home coming back to the shop
and i totally forgot about something here she is hello sweetie
mm-hmm hi noodle say hi to everybody mm-hmm she just went to funston and had
a lot of fun running around mm-hmm yeah oh you were a beautiful girl
good girl um there is where we just were that is a
loft in which we were just but it's not the only loft in
this space oh no there's another
um we've covered that this is my office uh where i do my you know quiet zoom
work and all of that stuff but what's that that is another loft
let's go if you thought the first stairs were scary
wait till you see these
all right
okay here we are and this this is the camera department this is
where i keep all of my camera gear and there's none in here
right now or effectively none um because uh it's out on loan to a
friend
that's a terrible noise that's my fridge coughing up blood um
but this loft it's uh this is again this is all a work in progress
like we haven't yet started to fill this we've got some stuff here we've got some
stuff here i want to get it all over there i want to get it all over
here on the shelf and then there's this loft
uh and this is i had to cut this door in here to get through here um this is
where the bear costume is and again he needs work too i got to
rebuild his head um there's our big fat orange guy from
uh mythbusters that i made and a gorilla suit with dead mouse head
i get tired just looking at how what to move around
um however when i see big open spaces like this it makes me feel very good
because i know i can consolidate and get stuff locked down and
it feels like i'm using a whip and a chair
to tame the lion of the stuff that i have
yeah that's the analogy all right so we're gonna here's that oh yeah you
wanna see what it looks like to go down oh yeah
stay there
there you go now you have seen all of the lofts
in my space
i think we might revisit this again in a few months we
like i said it's a work in progress so in
three or four months this should actually look substantively different
up there slowly but surely slowly but surely it is a uh it's a long
game that's the trick it's a long game oh my god i can't wait
for a haircut thank you guys for joining me for this show and tell
i will see you next time