Ask Adam Savage: How Adam Spends His Days Off
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- What does Adam do on his days off? What happened to used molds and bucks at ILM? How has the closure ILM's model shop impact the model industry? In this livestream excerpt, Adam answers these questions from Tested members Travis B., Thomas Esson and Larry Nixon, whom we thank for their support and questions! Join this channel to support Tested and get access to perks, like asking Adam questions: / @tested
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I've always called that feeling "shark anxiety". Like a shark needs to constantly be moving in order to force water over its gills and breathe, there's this feeling that some people have, that they must be constantly moving or doing something productive
I've always called it being "tasky"
Shark anxiety…that is the perfect term for that thing I’ve been feeling all my life
Sounds like a personal problem
Good phrase.
Worst one for me is when I feel like I should be doing something, but I don't currently have a go-to project, I feel this agonising feeling of being unable to relax and desperate to do something but also not really having anything to do - and so feeling like I urgently need inspiration for something. I can spend entire weekends agonising
The art of doing nothing is something that some people can easily do and others have to learn it. I always use the example of the first city trip I took with my mother many moons ago, we went to London and she had a massive list of things to do and see, but then day 2 I told her, "Lets grab our books and just sit in that small park behind the church and read for a while." she was in shock at first, but that was the start of a process of learning to relax and do nothing and not feeling a need to do something all the time.
Relaxing is important and relaxing does require you to well relax and not be doing all sorts of things as that means that even when enjoyable you are still active and not resting.
It’s interesting you used time in London to “discover” this. I learned this lesson from hearing a British woman say during an interview: “I am a human being not a human doing. I need time to just be.” Don’t know who she was or why she said it but to this day she occasionally pops in my head and reminds me in her matter-of-fact British accent to “do” just that. Just be.
Adam's answer is pretty much what I expected. He doesn't really have days off because he's lucky enough to have a job that consists of doing all the things he loves to do.
Plus he a multi Millionaire, so has time and money to live his dreams. Unlike most of us. But to be fair, he has earned his Dollars. He is the person i wanted to be.
I have a tremendous respect for company’s who appreciate their employees, IE helping them transition from old to new methods. Also I appreciate the employees who are willing to change. Thanks for a Sunday morning uplift.
Utterly fascinating. I love listening to Adam talk about the inner machinations of the film/ television industry.
I appreciate the insight, I feel like I'm in the same boat but instead of feeling like I wasted my time I also feel panic to a degree. I look back and I feel like I've wasted so much time doing stuff that didn't matter and the time I have now is important to make up for it. but I have to remind myself that even if I'm not working I'm still doing stuff that is important spending it with family and such and that can have just as much value or even more even though it is hard to recognize in the moment.
Adam what I love about your channel is I feel like you are taking time to talk to *me*, ,& good-golly is that a treasure these days.
Thank you.
I used to have the same tendency to always wanting to be doing something or I felt like I was useless. Then, a little over a decade ago, life shifted drastically, and I discovered the joy of sometimes just truly relaxing and not doing anything.
Ohmygosh i understand this feeling of needing to get things done.
The actual name of what you are feeling is "Time Anxiety". It is the feeling that you are wasting your time when relaxing or that you have to fill every moment . It isn't dangerous but it is also not entirely healthy.
I have the same thing with get-shit-done-itis. I finally realized that's other people assuming I'm trying to be productive when really it's the same as anybody else having a hobby. Going out to the shop is the same as somebody else spending their free time reading, or playing a sport, or going for a hike. People just assume that because it involves a workshop, it must be about being productive, not about just doing something we enjoy, and that extends to doing projects around the house.
After 30 years of working 60 hours or more per week (not all of course. But too many to count) at my age now, a day off better consist of 2 hours for morning coffee and the rest of that day, I do whatever I damn well please as long as it isn't work.
No guilt involved.
100% on the same page. I am not able to slow down either. Thank you for letting me know I am not alone
Adam, I'm glad to see you resting on your days off. I have always assumed the "gotta keep going", project after, project after, project, was just what you had to be to get ahead in Hollywood. In your experience, am I anywhere close to the mark?
Keep getting that much deserved rest! Have a great week!
Another great video!
See I'm the opposite... I can sit around doing nothing and feel great about it. I never "feel like I'm wasting my time" by doing nothing, and I do a lot of nothing.
Same, when I'm working I'm giving it 100% but when I'm off I become the definition of sloth. I need to find a job that doesn't drain my life force and some hobbies so I can actually say I have a life!
Depends on the day for me. Sometimes I'm ok with doing f#$k all, and sometimes I'm like Adam
I agree buddy, 100% …I live for long weekends spent guarding my sofa ✝️🇺🇸🤙🏻🅰️
Doing nothing is a waste of time though. Not saying 100 mph everyday all day but doing nothing all the time after work and weekends? Can't do it. That's just existing. Not living.
If you enjoy wasting time is that time truly wasted?
I have that "get it done" problem too. I always have a large list of things to do and I feel guilty if I'm not doing things all the time. I don't need to relax for a whole weekend, maybe a couple of hours at night while watching television is enough. The rest of the time I want to be productive.
*being productive is not the problem for me...having access to the hardware and supplies (not to mention funds) to accomplish the ideas that are constantly bouncing around in my head are the most frustrating aspect that is the greatest embuggerance to what i want to do most of the time*
Adam, she is called the Citroën DS (in French a homophone with “déesse,” “goddess”), and that car is from 1955!
I had my wheelchair dog up at Christopher Park recently, and saw Adam One-Wheeling past, with a young unicyclist; oddly coincidence, I saw Jamie take his dog here five or six years before.
Well, wheelchair dog just died at 15 after a great life; next day we saw Adam again, one-wheeling away from Diamond Heights.
Hi Adam, it's the Citroën DS, check out the SM as well, with a Maserati engine
The maker universe that intersects Burning Man is worth exploring. I’m surprised that Adam hasn’t made the trip to Black Rock City.
There’s the very unique challenges of building, transporting, and exhibiting the stuph we make in BRC
10 am to 4 pm regular work week would be so amazing. Jealous
Hi Adam. I love your work. Your sense of organization, your methodology and problem solving process are very similar to that of my own. I have tinkered since childhood, turning to a career as a handyman. I have always struggled with finding the fast. I have learned a number of skills and have become proficient and able to complete tasks. Trouble is, I plateau with my speed. I get to a certain combination of competence and speed, and I struggle to progress further. Do you have any suggestions or thoughts on the matter? It may be worth mentioning that I’ve been working for 20 years trying to figure out how to get professional quality with production speed. Thanks in advance!!
I spend my days off, on. But I love it. Workshop time is happy time.
Adam: Part of what makes this channel interesting is how you think.
Damn, dude, you're looking good. Glad to see it.
"Getshitdonenitus" - I never heard that one before!😂😂😂
Adam, I want to make a copy of Miller's suitcase from Force 10 from Navarone complete with gadgets. Can you describe your process for making using screenshots? I have an idea of what goes inside, from the book and movie as well as old WWII SOE literature. Any advice will be appreciated. Keep up the awesome videos.
we need an adam savage house tour, imagine how much cool stuff he has at the house no one else has even seen.
It's not work if you love it but it IS work to others.
4:47 Citroën DS, pronounced like “déesse”, which means goddess in French. Wonderful line of cars.
Yes! I feel the same way about wasting time. That however doesn’t include binge watching an hour or so of your videos!😂
Everyone dies with a to do list if you think on it, I have to consciously tell myself that constantly.
Hearing about all those model shops shutting their doors hurts my heart.
The crazy thing about getting rid of the model workshops is that movies were making tons of money.. Maybe it also reflects the long term decline in Hollywood itself. No that is mostly from the writing and direction, but maybe the two are connected..
chopped up a load of needed kindling wood today just so didn't waste dry weather. arachnophobia is one of my favourite films. mad god film is a visual feast
I am 100% not in this kind of mindset, but my dad actually is. He runs a place for racing cars (Excuse my english, I assume you'd call them model cars?) and does most of the maintenance and expansion work with some people, some of them working as regularly, some not.
you mentioned Burning Man - have you been? would you go? it's an amazing convergence of art and tech, and as a maker it seems like something you'd really appreciate - would love to hear your thoughts.
You reaching 6m subscribers great sir.
Have you ever been to LAIKA studios in Oregon? They have some amazing models.
I work weekends but I'm off 5 days a week, so I work in the shop for myself on those days
you're thinking of the Citroën DS 🤩
Yes but more to the point what the heck is a "sit rowan"?🤔
The DS has got to be one of the ugliest cars ever made, I have no idea why people like it beyond it's interesting engineering.
*for me i know what needs to get done but i also get overwhelmed by having to do too many things at once on a tight deadline and that results in brain freeze and overall non functionality...i then have to get really angry in order to finish things and that also requires no interruptions and no distractions or loud noises*
The way you said trim plantmatter around the house was hella suss 😉😅
Shit I have that get shit done itis.. sounds great and all but sitting down to try and rest for the day is taxing on my mental as I feel like I always have to be fixing or striving for something
Same here... I just can't sit for more than 30 minutes before I feel the need to get up and do something about the house... even if it is doing research on CZcams for tips in my own shop at my standing desk in the kitchen. I'm in the middle of re-doing my workshop dust collection and have probably watched 100 videos to gather ideas. Doing outside yard work is never thought of as a job or chore... I love being outdoors in the good weather (here in Buffalo NY).
Perhaps that is why I still weigh what I did when I graduated high school 40 years ago. 😛
You’re like a border collie. 😂
the spaceship Citroen is a DS.
Did he just call it “plant matter” ? 😂
I always forget that Black Rock is way up in the North West corner of Nevada. I always think it's down by Las Vegas.
Sabbath with Savage
Come on 6 million
Working from your rest is better than resting from your work.
Exhaustion is a bad metric for when it is time to rest. As I've examined my own thoughts around rest I've learned I often feel like I need to "earn" the right to rest via working too hard for too long. But that only sets me up to work from an energy deficit with rest being what returns me to neutral. It is much healthier to work from an energy excess, which requires being intentional to rest even when I don't feel like I "need" it (aka, I'm not burnt out yet).
These ideas are heavily influenced by the teachings of Jesus, but even if you aren't religious I think it is beautiful that in the poetic account of creation in the Bibel, humanity's first day of existence was the day of sabbath. So before they had done or accomplished anything, God gave them rest.
Just waiting for the Johnny 5 build now…
Yeah it depends. Some weekends I'll wake up with the itch. I try to relax but i can't, I feel useless i have to get up and do something. Other days I'll wake up mostly rainy days and say yep I'm not doing a dang thing and I'll watch tv or CZcams happy as a pig in shit. I think it mostly depends on my work week. I'm a farmer tending to 1200 acres of crops and during the busy time I'll go over a month without a day off other times there's nothing to do and I'll go stir crazy on the weekends
1:44 - "Take the dog to the park"
I remember when it was dog(s) T-T
The same, here. I can’t do nothing. I can’t even eat, by myself, without having something to read.
How did you spend your day at ILM? What time did you get to work? Did you punch a clock..What time did you leave. Where did you go for lunch or did you bring one. Was there a great employee cafe? Where did you take your breaks.
I can’t answer for Adam but we didn’t have a punch clock at ILM, or an employee cafe. There was a small cafe in between our buildings called Foodles that a lot of us went to. I was lucky enough to get to watch Adam and Grant a few times working in the model shop. So much talent!
In a previous vid he covered the work ethic and hours. Lots of freedom, with sometimes long hours.
Adam. How many gadgets that you've built, are in your house? I imagine your like Wallace and Gromit at home.
I think thre car you are thinking of is a Citroen 2CV
Oh how I wish I had get-shit-done-itis!
Citroen DS, probably
I’m the exact opposite of Adam: I couldn’t live with stuff that I “got done”, knowing that I could have done a better thing if I had given it more time and attention. I get anxious when I see him bash stuff together - of course the difference is that making stuff is a hobby for me and I do have the time to plan things forever, whereas Adam needs to make compromises and finish projects because it’s his job. But neither “getstuffdoneitis” nor overthinking are particularly healthy conditions, the sweet spot is obviously somewhere in between: some day I will go to my grave with a huge list of unrealised projects, Adam will leave a pile of beta versions behind - things that he would have gone back to and improved if he’d had more time. Trying to achieve some kind of balance is definitely the goal.
Ask Adam Savage: How Adam Spends His Days Off
Surely he's spent his whole life working so that he doesn't need a day off?
I mean this is clearly a man who loves what he does?
When you love your craft, you just switch to a different project for downtime. Fresh brain challenge. That being said, weekends, I sleep. Monday, back on to something difficult.
How so is San Francisco special on Labor Day? (Curious, because That Elusive Lottery Win will make me its newest resident.)
Are you wearing an Apple Watch Ultra? Thoughts on it?
Where do I get one of those sweet SAVAGE shirts?!
Nice Simpson's reference, cause Indy reached back under the door to get his whip, not his hat.
Already posted this
"Time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted time."
Huh...I have the opposite problem, if I'm not sitting relaxing, I feel like I'm wasting time...as can be seen by my horrific upload schedule lol
Citroen 2CV
Citroën DS?
So ILM actually paid for its model makers to be retrained into CGI modellers?! That's impressive. Can you elaborate a bit on that? Or someone else in the know, of course. :)
Anyone know if that's an Apple watch on Adam's wrist?
Has been fan ever introduced you to a hobby of theirs that you liked?
I think the real question for you is,
What do you think of the new Snapple bottles?
You are a Snapple enthusiast after all.
P.S. Citroen is generally pronounced "Sitrun" and the one you're thinking of may well be the legendary C2. In the UK it's known as an Inverted Pram (a Victorian era baby buggy).
unless you're French then it's like "seet-roh-en"
I think he's referring to the Citroën DS, that was very long and low, not the 2CV.
Citroen is generally mispronounced by those, like yourself, that don't either don't know how or don't care to pronounce it correctly. It is a three syllable word. The common mispronunciation you cite is two syllables and is the French word for lemon.
Weta workshop - busy as...
Sounds like Scotty, who rather stay on the Enterprise reading technical manuals than go on shore leave.
I thought every day was your day off, playing machine shop, and costume making.
Thats crazy as you'd think CGI is so way more expensive as a medium
Ha I thought Adam was drinking some oil/solvent from the work shop, then realized what is was and put it aside.
I thought he said
"I will paint the dog to the park"
Wait Adam has days off? I find this very hard to believe.
Adam strikes me as the kind of person that yous his days off to catch up on stuff he thinks he fell behind on.
"A regular work week...10:00am - 4:00pm" -- 2:02 🙄🧐❓
"Normal work week?" Working 10-4 isn't normal. I'm not knocking you. Part of me wishes I could do 6 hours a day but that is far from normal.
What's a "day off"?
having kids changes every part of "time for yourself".
I just clicked over, haven't watched more than half second before I pressed pause.
PREDICTION: "Making S41T"
lol
I prefer good physical model work - there's more of a sense of the human handwork to make it happen.
Woah from Monday at 10am to Friday at 5pm ??? solid ?? and that's a normal week ?? lol
I thought I recalled that he did some bird watching with his wife on weekends
I love how Adam always arranges shit in front of him on the bench when he's talking and isn't paying attention to what his hands are doing. Just like Bob Parr's boss, but in a friendly way.
does adam trim weed or just certain overgrown bushes around his house, the world will never know
People with "get-shit-doneitis" are like people with super high metabolisms. You don't get to complain. Normal people wish they could be like you.
Plane* not a sander. Probably not small enough to be a finger plane, either.
I have a hard time sitting around doing nothing. Even watching TV these days is boring.
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