grove spaz groves spaz grossman's growth spas grove spas wants to know
is there a difference in what attracted you to blade runner when you first saw it and
what still attracts you to it to this day that's a really interesting question i mean
look there's a the chemistry of our brains when we're 19 is fundamentally different than
it is at any other time in our lives like when we're in that mid adolescent phase and i know
it seems like 19 you're kind of a young adult but you're so not in fact
later you know the latest information we have is that adolescents can land
uh can end deep into your mid or late 20s and that tracks with my impression of my
my growth pattern um but there's a way in which the camaraderie of shared experience that you have
as a late teenager is going to exceed the pleasure of anything else in your life
that feeling of like dude you want to go see blade runner yeah i totally do it to tell you let's go
okay i was going to call me we're going to go you know you go and then you spend all night walking
around having pizza and talking about it it just it feels like such a rich tapestry to draw upon
and you're like i was a young adult in new york with my friends and we felt like you know
the world was our oyster it was awesome it was it was a great time and so my love of
blade runner is inextricably bound up with that time uh and those moments of being in manhattan
in the 80s and manhattan in the 80s was grimy manhattan in the 80s with you think times square
times square is like a it's like a disney promenade in 1985 times square was like a
cautionary tale uh it was all porn theaters and theaters showing movies like i spit on your grave
like the really dark rep house stuff right the extreme stuff i remember seeing a trailer on a
crt television out in front of a theater for i spit on your grave and getting sick
like getting physically sick from seeing footage they were showing from there oh my god yeah um
but the thing no but i think this but i think my
my the the draw is still the same which is it's such a complete vision
those pieces of art that grab me throughout my life
are the ones that feel like i'm falling into something
so that's a you know that's movies like blade runner or empire strikes back uh it's
books like 100 years of solitude solitude or 1q84 or the big sleep um it's paintings it's paintings
like the paintings of magritte or francis bacon or anselm kiefer or pollock or dega i mean i've
stood in front of i've stood in front of uh the paintings of all of those artists and been
moved to tears uh and i feel like there's a thing we do as storytellers for each other
well we do it for ourselves first we externalize the storytelling that's interesting to us and
then we share that externalization this is one externalization of a kind of storytelling and
this is another externalization of a kind of storytelling we we share that
with each other and then those that sharing resonates and it deepens the experience um so
it's it is impossible for me to truly know whether what attracted me to blade runner at the beginning
is still what attracts me to it because i am the sum total of all those experiences from them
um but i do think that it really it redounds to that complete universe theory
of like what ridley scott made with blade runner felt so unified and so uh seamless in a way and it
felt like a dark place to visit but it felt like a really cool one like it felt like that's the film
that fulfilled what we what we thought film could do when milieu did the journey to the moon with a
rocket in the moon's eye and the cheese coming out um it feels like there's a perfect direct
line from that film to blade runner and that's the most important line in film to me um okay
ooh seth huxted says since refining your machining skills this year
is there a blade runner prop or franchise prop that you'd like to tackle
i mean the voigtconf machine is a machine that does require some precision machining
it can work without that but it's going to work better with that right because obviously when i
eventually finish a vk machine with this group of friends i'm working on it with it will you know
it will do all the things that the real one does and that means it will require
some genuine mechanics that are functional not just aesthetic and yes
my improved ability to machine functional things as well as aesthetic things
will definitely come in to play there um nerds and makers wants to know if my lego phaser is still on
display they haven't seen in the background in a long time it is there is a whole rejiggering
of my display space which has to happen in the next few weeks um not least of which because
i'm getting a new mill oh i bought a new mill and in order to get it in this space i have to kind of
tear this space apart um so there is a lego shelf there is a shelf of all lego constructions and
the lego phaser is on that shelf i love it it's just way buried in a specific spot i apologize
um king nick sa asks did i mention the horse from 2049 are there any other small plops from plum
are there any other small props from blade runner that i have or treasure oh and you asked about the
chess set i have a great chess set i cannot bring it out right now because it is under glass um but
let's put that on our list for a show and tell because um i have a magnificent chess
set that was made for made for me commissioned by i commissioned rick ross richard rich ross to make
it um and it's a masterpiece it's a beautiful beautiful chess set uh it's got a lit board
everything um i think i played chess on it once i think i played thing two and i think he beat me
it's a great thing to be defeated by your kids in competition uh it it's an awesome feeling um
yeah i have a magnificent chest set um there are other aspects of the chest that make it
even more awesome that go way outside the blade runner cannon and again i'll we'll do
that as a show-and-tell because it's really worth walking you through it it's a lovely lovely piece
um last question okay here we go it's been so lovely to share this time with you and
i'm sorry i did not finish my jurassic park jeep but i will finish it during the next live stream
i promise that i've got i've got about halfway through it i know it looks like a little
less than halfway but i'll make sure but next time we do a live stream i'll finish this one
um brian creasy says any interest in doing a model of the new spinner from 2049. see my poi yes
my problem with the spinner model is that i want one in the studio scale
like the the animation size like this big this is the right size for spinner or maybe this big like
yeah there you go i want it like 36 inches long i want a big model i want lights on it
and i love kaye's spinner i really do love case spinner
but deckard's the original police spinner from blade runner is one of my favorite car designs
from any futuristic movie god it's such a such a beautiful model um look if somebody releases
a spinner model that's this big it is entirely feasible that i will buy it and i will make it
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