At the end of July, the H.O.P.E. (Hackers On Planet Earth) conference was held in New York. One of the featured speakers was Adam Savage, co-host of the Mythbusters. Savage talked about his geeky passion for creating and learning, and described (among other things) his personal recreation of a dodo skeleton. He also took questions from the audience.
The best part of the video is when Adam breaks from the itinerary to show a slow-motion video of fellow co-host Jaimie Hyneman slapping him across the face in an attempt to sober Adam up. While locating the file on his laptop, someone in the audience points out the somewhat suspiciously named “Batman The Dark Knight.avi” on Adam’s desktop, to which Adam responds, “Well, I hadn’t seen it yet.”
The video is an hour long, but totally worth watching.
Edit: It turns out the video in question was just the trailer of Batman. But still, Adam is a Batman fan, he recreated a Dodo skeleton, he hand-drew a map of Middle Earth, and his official occupation entails blowing stuff up on TV. He would be hard pressed to be any geekier (or cooler).
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August 19th, 2008 at 10:08 am
at 8:15 he picks his nose with this thumb, rolls the catch between his fingers, then moves on. mad respect
August 19th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Thanks for posting this. It was quite enjoyable.
August 19th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Hey there. Just for clarification, that’s only the DK trailer on my laptop, not a pirated version of the film. You’ll notice that downloading the trailer from apple.com yields the same file name. Sorry. I recognized that it got a laugh at the HOPE conference, and didn’t correct, probably because nobody would have believed me. Likely nobody will now. Thanks for posting my talk however. That was probably the top most enthusiastic crowd I’ve ever spoken for. Jamie was jealous when I told him how much fun.
August 19th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Adam,
I think it’s safe to say that you’re word is good enough for us here. At least, in the editor pool.
Trailer it is.
I hope you saw and enjoyed the movie! My wife and I secured a sitter for the IMAX version and enjoyed the hell out of it.
-Ben
August 19th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Man you made the leap from pirate to God in one day, that’s a hell of a promotion! Thanks for stopping in, Adam. My wife and I are looking forward to the next show.
August 21st, 2008 at 9:29 am
When will Zoidberg speak at this HOPE Conference?
January 15th, 2009 at 12:10 am
I like the way he ends his talk on obsession over at fora.tv ALOT better
January 26th, 2010 at 8:50 pm
I know he’s a total nerd. But he’s an adorable total nerd. Hand drawn map of Middle Earth… Good God.