Adam Savage: My obsession with objects and the stories they tell

Prevoditelj: Bruno Štefić Recezent: Dijana Ivezic

About four years ago, the New Yorker published an article

Prije četiri godine New Yorker je objavio članak

about a cache of dodo bones that was found

o kostima ptice dodo pronađenim

in a pit on the island of Mauritius.

u jami na otoku Mauricijusu.

Now, the island of Mauritius is a small island

Mauricijus je malen otok

off the east coast of Madagascar

istočno od Madagaskara

in the Indian Ocean, and it is the place

u Indijskom oceanu. Na njemu je

where the dodo bird was discovered

ptica dodo otkrivena

and extinguished, all within about 150 years.

i istrijebljena, a sve to u 150 godina.

Everyone was very excited about this archaeological find,

To arheološko otkriće uzbudilo je mnoge

because it meant that they might finally be able

jer je značilo da se napokon može

to assemble a single dodo skeleton.

sastaviti jedinstveni kostur dodoa.

See, while museums all over the world

Razni muzeji po svijetu

have dodo skeletons in their collection, nobody --

imaju kosture dodoa u zbirkama, ali nijedan,

not even the actual Natural History Museum

pa čak ni Prirodoslovni muzej

on the island of Mauritius -- has a skeleton that's made

na Mauricijusu, nema kostur sastavljen

from the bones of a single dodo.

od kostiju jednog jedinog dodoa.

Well, this isn't exactly true.

Ustvari, to nije istina.

The fact is, is that the British Museum

Britanski muzej je zapravo

had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection

posjedovao čitavog dodoa u svojoj zbirci

up until the 18th century --

sve do 18. stoljeća.

it was actually mummified, skin and all --

Bio je mumificiran, s kožom i svim,

but in a fit of space-saving zeal,

ali kako im je bilo jako važno uštedjeti na prostoru,

they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet

tadašnji su djelatnici dodou odrezali glavu i noge,

and they burned the rest in a bonfire.

a ostatak spalili u krijesu.

If you go look at their website today,

Danas na njihovoj internetskoj stranici

they'll actually list these specimens, saying,

postoji popis ovih primjeraka, uz napomenu

the rest was lost in a fire.

da je ostatak "izgorio u požaru".

Not quite the whole truth. Anyway.

To baš i nije cijela priča. Uglavnom...

The frontispiece of this article was this photo,

Ovo je glavna fotografija tog članka.

and I'm one of the people that thinks that Tina Brown

Ja sam jedan od onih koji misle da je Tina Brown

was great for bringing photos to the New Yorker,

sjajna jer je uvela fotografije u New Yorker.

because this photo completely rocked my world.

I to zato jer je ova fotografija uzdrmala moj svijet.

I became obsessed with the object --

Postao sam opsjednut tim predmetom,

not just the beautiful photograph itself,

i to ne samo zbog ljepote same fotografije,

and the color, the shallow depth of field, the detail that's visible,

boje, male dubljine polja, detalja,

the wire you can see on the beak there

ili žice koja se vidi na kljunu,

that the conservator used to put this skeleton together --

koju je konzervator koristio pri sastavljanju kostura.

there's an entire story here.

Iza ovog leži cijela priča.

And I thought to myself,

Pomislio sam:

wouldn't it be great

ne bi li bilo sjajno

if I had my own dodo skeleton?

imati vlastiti kostur dodoa?

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

I want to point out here at this point that

Moram vam sada priznati

I've spent my life obsessed

da sam cijeli život opsjednut

by objects and the stories that they tell,

predmetima i njihovim pričama,

and this was the very latest one.

a ovo je bila najnovija opsesija.

So I began looking around for --

Tako sam počeo tražiti

to see if anyone sold a kit,

nekoga tko prodaje pribor za izrađivanje

some kind of model that I could get,

ili nekakav model te ptice.

and I found lots of reference material, lots of lovely pictures.

I našao sam puno referenci, mnogo lijepih slika,

No dice: no dodo skeleton for me. But the damage had been done.

ali nažalost, nijednog kostura. No, povratka nije bilo.

I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons

Sačuvao sam nekoliko stotina slika kostura dodoa

into my "Creative Projects" folder --

u svoju mapu za "Kreativne projekte".

it's a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.

To je riznica za moj mozak, sve što me zanima.

Any time I have an internet connection,

Kad god sam na internetu

there's a sluice of stuff moving into there,

u tu mapu spremam slike svega i svačega,

everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.

od prekrasnih prstenova do pilotskih kabina.

The key that the Marquis du Lafayette sent to George Washington

Ključ kojeg je markiz od Lafayettea poslao Georgeu Washingtonu

to celebrate the storming of the Bastille.

povodom pada Bastille.

Russian nuclear launch key:

Ruski ključ za nuklearno lansiranje.

The one on the top is the picture of the one I found on eBay;

Na vrhu je ključ kojeg sam našao na eBayu,

the one on the bottom is the one I made for myself,

a ovog na dnu sam napravio za sebe

because I couldn't afford the one on eBay.

jer si nisam mogao priuštiti onog s eBaya.

Storm trooper costumes. Maps of Middle Earth --

Kostimi imperijalnih jurišnika, karte Međuzemlja.

that's one I hand-drew myself. There's the dodo skeleton folder.

Ovu sam nacrtao sam. Tu je i mapa s kosturima dodoa.

This folder has 17,000 photos --

Ova mapa ima 17 000 fotografija i

over 20 gigabytes of information --

preko 20 gigabajta podataka,

and it's growing constantly.

a stalno se povećava.

And one day, a couple of weeks later, it might have been

Jednog dana, nakon par tjedana ili možda

maybe a year later, I was in the art store with my kids,

godine dana, bio sam s djecom u dućanu

and I was buying some clay tools -- we were going to have a craft day.

i kupovao glinu za modeliranje. Imali smo Kreativni dan.

I bought some Super Sculpeys, some armature wire, some various materials.

Kupio sam glinu Super Sculpeys, alu-žicu i slično.

And I looked down at this Sculpey, and I thought,

Pogledao sam ovu kutiju Sculpey gline i pomislio:

maybe,

možda,

yeah, maybe I could make my own dodo skull.

možda bih mogao napraviti vlastiti kostur dodoa.

I should point out at this time -- I'm not a sculptor;

Moram vam reći da ja nisam kipar,

I'm a hard-edged model maker.

ali sam stručnjak za izrađivanje modela.

You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate,

Dajte mi crtež, rekvizit koji mogu kopirati,

you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from "Star Wars" --

dizalicu, skelu, dijelove iz Ratova zvijezda.

especially parts from "Star Wars" --

Posebno dijelove iz Ratova zvijezda.

I can do this stuff all day long.

Mogao bih to raditi cijeli dan.

It's exactly how I made my living for 15 years.

Upravo sam tako zarađivao za život 15 godina.

But you give me something like this --

Ali dajte mi nešto poput ovoga...

my friend Mike Murnane sculpted this;

Moj prijatelj Mike Murnane je oblikovao

it's a maquette for "Star Wars, Episode Two" --

ovu lutku za Ratove zvijezda II.

this is not my thing --

To nije moje područje.

this is something other people do -- dragons, soft things.

Tim se bave drugi - zmajevima i mekanim oblicima.

However, I felt like I had looked at enough photos of dodo skulls

No, pogledao sam dovoljno slika tog kostura

to actually be able to

i mislio sam da

understand the topology and perhaps replicate it --

razumijem topologiju lika i da ga mogu kopirati.

I mean, it couldn't be that difficult.

Koliko to može biti teško?

So, I started looking at the best photos I could find.

Počeo sam tražiti najbolje fotografije.

I grabbed all the reference,

Uzeo sam sve prikupljene reference

and I found this lovely piece of reference.

i našao ovu prekrasnu fotografiju.

This is someone selling this on eBay;

Netko je ovo prodavao na eBayu.

it was clearly a woman’s hand, hopefully a woman's hand.

To je očito ženska ruka. Barem se nadam.

Assuming it was roughly the size of my wife's hand,

Vjerojatno je iste veličine kao i od moje žene.

I made some measurements of her thumb, and I scaled them out to the size of the skull.

Izmjerio sam njen palac i usporedio sve s veličinom lubanje.

I blew it up to the actual size, and I began using that,

Povećao sam sliku do prirodne veličine i to koristio,

along with all the other reference that I had, comparing it to it

uz ostale reference. Sve sam uspoređivao kako bih

as size reference for figuring out exactly how big the beak should be,

odredio koliko velik treba biti kljun,

exactly how long, etc.

koliko dugačak, i slično.

And over a few hours, I eventually achieved

Nakon par sati sam uspio napraviti

what was actually a pretty reasonable dodo skull. And I didn't mean to continue, I --

prilično dobru lubanju dodoa. Nisam namjeravao nastaviti.

it's kind of like, you know, you can only clean a super messy room

Ali, kao i kod čišćenja jako neuredne sobe,

by picking up one thing at a time; you can't think about the totality.

uspjet ćete samo ako radite stvar po stvar, a ne odjednom.

I wasn't thinking about a dodo skeleton;

Nisam mislio o cijelom kosturu.

I just noticed that as I finished this skull,

Ali kad sam dovršio lubanju vidio sam

the armature wire that I had been used to holding it up

da žica koja ju je pridržavala

was sticking out of the back just where a spine would be.

viri iz njenog kraja točno poput kralježnice.

And one of the other things I'd been interested in and obsessed with over the years

Godinama su me zanimali i fascinirali

is spines and skeletons, having collected a couple of hundred.

kosturi i kralježnice. Skupio sam ih na stotine.

I actually understood the mechanics

Dovoljno sam poznavao svojstva

of vertebrae enough to kind of start to imitate them.

kralježaka i mogao sam ih imitirati.

And so button by button,

Tako sam gumb po gumb,

vertebrae by vertebrae, I built my way down.

kralježak po kralježak, nastavio raditi.

And actually, by the end of the day, I had a reasonable skull,

Do kraja dana imao sam lubanju,

a moderately good vertebrae and half of a pelvis.

prilično dobre kralješke i pola zdjelice.

And again, I kept on going, looking for more reference,

Nastavio sam tražiti materijale,

every bit of reference I could find -- drawings, beautiful photos.

sve što se moglo naći - crteže, prekrasne fotografije.

This guy -- I love this guy! He put a dodo leg bones on a scanner

Ovaj tip - obožavam ga! Skenirao je nogu dodoa

with a ruler.

zajedno s ravnalom.

This is the kind of accuracy that I wanted,

Takvu sam preciznost tražio,

and I

te sam jednostavno

replicated every last bone and put it in.

napravio kopije svih kostiju i sastavio ih.

And after about six weeks,

Nakon otprilike šest tjedana

I finished, painted, mounted

dovršio sam, obojao i postavio

my own dodo skeleton.

vlastitog kostura ptice dodo.

You can see that I even made a museum label for it

Čak sam napravio natpis kao u muzeju

that includes a brief history of the dodo.

s kratkom poviješću ptice.

And TAP Plastics made me -- although I didn't photograph it --

Nemam fotografiju, no tvrtka TAP Plastics mi je izradila

a museum vitrine.

i muzejsku vitrinu.

I don't have the room for this in my house,

U mojoj kući nema mjesta za ovo,

but I had to finish what I had started.

ali morao sam dovršiti započeto.

And this actually represented kind of a sea change to me.

Ovo je za mene bila značajna promjena.

Again, like I said, my life has been about

Moj se život sastojao od

being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell,

fascinacije predmetima i njihovim pričama,

and also making them for myself, obtaining them,

te njihovom izradom. Želio sam ih imati,

appreciating them and diving into them.

cijeniti i dati im da me obuzmu.

And in this folder, "Creative Projects,"

U ovoj mapi "Kreativni projekti"

there are tons of projects that I'm currently working on,

su projekti na kojima sada radim,

projects that I've already worked on, things that I might want to work on some day,

oni koje sam napravio, ili koje namjeravam raditi,

and things that I may just want to find and buy and have

i stvari koje mislim pronaći, kupiti, imati,

and look at and touch.

gledati ih i dodirivati.

But now there was potentially this new category of things

No sada se pojavila nova kategorija - skulpture,

that I could sculpt

stvari koje mogu oblikovati,

that was different, that I -- you know,

a to je drukčije, znate.

I have my own R2D2, but that's --

Imam vlastitog R2D2, ali to je

honestly, relative to sculpting, to me, that's easy.

lako, u usporedbi s izradom skulpture.

And so I went back and looked through my "Creative Projects" folder,

Opet sam pogledao svoju mapu "Kreativni projekti

and I happened across the Maltese Falcon.

i naišao sam na Malteškog sokola.

Now, this is funny for me:

Ovo je meni smiješno:

to fall in love with an object from a Hammett novel,

zaljubiti se u predmet iz Hammettovog romana,

because if it's true that the world is divided into two types of people,

jer ako se svijet dijeli na dvije vrste ljudi,

Chandler people and Hammett people, I am absolutely a Chandler person.

one koji vole Hammetta i one koji vole Chandlera, ja sam za Chandlera.

But in this case,

No, ovdje se ne radi o

it's not about the author, it's not about the book or the movie or the story,

autoru, knjizi, filmu ili priči.

it's about the object in and of itself.

Tu je važan sam predmet i njegova bit.

And in this case, this object is --

U ovom slučaju, predmet

plays on a host of levels.

postoji na više razina.

First of all, there's the object in the world.

Prvo, on je predmet u stvarnom svijetu.

This is the "Kniphausen Hawk."

Ovo je kniphausenški sokol,

It is a ceremonial pouring vessel

to je obredna posuda

made around 1700 for a Swedish Count,

izrađena oko 1700. za jednog švedskog grofa.

and it is very likely the object from which

To je predmet koji je vjerojatno

Hammett drew his inspiration for the Maltese Falcon.

inspirirao Hametta da stvori Malteškog sokola.

Then there is the fictional bird, the one that Hammett created for the book.

Zatim je tu ptica koju je Hammet stvorio za roman.

Built out of words, it is the engine

Napravljena je od riječi i ona

that drives the plot of his book and also the movie,

pokreće radnju. Tu je i film,

in which another object is created:

u kojem je stvoren još jedan predmet:

a prop that has to represent the thing that Hammett created out of words,

rekvizit koji predstavlja Hammettovog lika od riječi,

inspired by the Kniphausen Hawk, and this represents the falcon in the movie.

koji je inspiriran kniphauserškim sokolom.

And then there is this fourth level, which is

Zatim imamo četvrtu razinu, a nju čini

a whole new object in the world:

potpuno novi predmet u stvarnosti:

the prop made for the movie, the representative of the thing,

rekvizit za film, koji predstavlja originalni predmet,

becomes, in its own right,

postaje na svoj način

a whole other thing,

jedna potpuno nova stvar.

a whole new object of desire.

Novi predmet čežnje.

And so now it was time to do some research.

Uslijedilo je novo istraživanje,

I actually had done some research

iako me to već i prije par godina

a few years before -- it's why the folder was there.

zanimalo. Zato sam imao i mapu s tim.

I'd bought a replica, a really crappy replica,

Kupio sam stvarno lošu kopiju

of the Maltese Falcon on eBay,

Malteškog sokola na eBayu,

and had downloaded enough pictures to actually

te sačuvao dovoljno fotografija

have some reasonable reference.

kako bih imao dobre reference.

But I discovered,

No, otkrio sam

in researching further,

dalje istražujući

really wanting precise reference, that

u potrazi sa boljim referencama, da je

one of the original lead birds

jednu od originalnih olovnih ptica

had been sold at Christie's in 1994,

prodao Christie's 1994.

and so I contacted an antiquarian bookseller

Kontaktirao sam antikvarijat

who had the original Christie's catalogue,

koji je imao originalni katalog Christie'sa

and in it I found this magnificent picture,

i u njemu našao ovu sjajnu fotografiju

which included a size reference.

zajedno s mjerama.

I was able to scan the picture, blow it up to exactly full size.

Skenirao sam ju i povećao do prirodne veličine.

I found other reference. Avi [Ara] Chekmayan,

Našao sam još materijala. Avi (Ara) Chekmayan,

a New Jersey editor, actually found this

urednik iz New Jerseyja, pronašao je

resin Maltese Falcon

ovog Malteškog sokola od smole

at a flea market in 1991,

na buvljaku 1991.

although it took him five years

No, trebalo mu je pet godina da

to authenticate this bird to

dobije potvrdu autentičnosti

the auctioneers' specifications,

prema specifikacijama aukcijske kuće,

because there was a lot of controversy about it.

jer je predmet pratila kontroverza.

It was made out of resin, which wasn't a common material for movie props

Izrađena je od smole koja se nije koristila za filmske rekvizite

about the time the movie was made.

u vrijeme snimanja tog filma.

It's funny to me that it took a while to authenticate it,

Smiješno je da je potvrda autentičnosti trajala dugo

because I can see it compared to this thing,

jer je u usporedbi s originalom meni očito,

and I can tell you -- it's real, it's the real thing,

da je to prava stvar.

it's made from the exact same mold that this one is.

Izrađena je iz istog kalupa kao i ova.

In this one, because the auction was actually so controversial,

Aukcija je bila toliko kontroverzna da je

Profiles in History, the auction house that sold this --

aukcijska kuća Profiles in History,

I think in 1995 for about 100,000 dollars --

koja ju je 1995. prodala za 100 000 dolara,

they actually included -- you can see here on the bottom --

navela, vidite ovdje na dnu,

not just a front elevation, but also

ne samo prednju stranu sokola, već i

a side, rear

obje strane i

and other side elevation.

pozadinu.

So now, I had all the topology I needed

Imao sam svu topologiju potrebnu

to replicate the Maltese Falcon.

za izradu kopije Malteškog sokola.

What do they do, how do you start something like that? I really don't know.

Kako uopće započeti nešto takvo? Nemam pojma.

So what I did was, again, like I did with the dodo skull,

Ponovno sam, kao i s kosturom dodoa,

I blew all my reference up to full size,

sve slike povećao na prirodnu veličinu

and then I began cutting out the negatives and using

i izrezao negative, te ih

those templates as shape references.

poput šablona koristio za određivanje oblika ptice.

So I took Sculpey, and I built a big block of it,

Uzeo sam glinu Sculpey i napravio veliku gromadu,

and I passed it through until, you know, I got the right profiles.

te ju polako oblikovao, dok nisam dobio prave mjere.

And then slowly, feather by feather, detail by detail,

Zatim sam polako, pero po pero, detalj po detalj,

I worked out and achieved --

radio i uspio.

working in front of the television and Super Sculpey --

Radio sam pred televizijom. Tu je Super Sculpey i

here's me sitting next to my wife --

ja kraj svoje žene.

it's the only picture I took of the entire process.

To je jedina fotografija cijelog procesa.

As I moved through, I achieved

Postupno sam uspio napraviti

a very reasonable facsimile of the Maltese Falcon.

poštenu kopiju Malteškog sokola.

But again, I am not a sculptor,

No, ja inače ne izrađujem skulpture

and so I don't know a lot of the tricks, like,

pa ne znam puno trikova.

I don't know how my friend Mike gets beautiful, shiny surfaces with his Sculpey;

Ne znam kako moj prijatelj Mike dobije glatke, sjajne površine.

I certainly wasn't able to get it.

Meni sigurno nije uspjelo.

So, I went down to my shop,

Zato sam otišao u svoju radionicu

and I molded it and I cast it in resin,

i napravio odljev od smole,

because in the resin, then, I could absolutely get the glass smooth finished.

jer sa smolom mogu dobiti glatki sjaj poput stakla.

Now there's a lot of ways to fill and get yourself a nice smooth finish.

Postoji više načina kako postići taj fini glatki sjaj.

My preference is about 70 coats of this --

Osobno volim staviti oko 70 slojeva ove

matte black auto primer.

crne mat boje za auto.

I spray it on for about three or four days, it drips to hell,

Nanosim je tri do četiri dana, kapa kao sam vrag,

but it allows me a really, really nice gentle sanding surface

ali na kraju imam finu površinu za brušenje

and I can get it glass-smooth.

koju ispoliram da bude glatka poput stakla.

Oh, finishing up with triple-zero steel wool.

Na kraju ju obradim čeličnom vunom.

Now, the great thing about getting it to this point was that

Pravo zadovoljstvo je uslijedilo kad sam bio skoro gotov.

because in the movie, when they finally bring out the bird at the end,

Na kraju filma, kad napokon donesu pticu i

and they place it on the table, they actually spin it.

stave je na stol, zavrte ju.

So I was able to actually

Zato sam mogao

screen-shot and freeze-frame to make sure.

zaustaviti svaki kadar kako bih bio siguran da je sve dobro.

And I'm following all the light kicks on this thing and making sure that as I'm holding the light

Pratio sam svaki odsjaj svjetla i pazio da držim

in the same position, I'm getting the same type of reflection on it --

kip na istom mjestu kako bi svjetlo isto padalo.

that's the level of detail I'm going into this thing.

Toliko sam pazio na sve detalje.

I ended up with this: my Maltese Falcon.

I na kraju sam imao ovo: svog vlastitog Malteškog sokola.

And it's beautiful. And I can state with authority

Prekrasan je. I tvrdim da

at this point in time, when I'd finished it,

je u trenutku kada sam dovršio sokola,

of all of the replicas out there -- and there is a few --

od mnogobrojnih kopija

this is by far the most accurate

upravo moja najtočnija replika

representation of the original Maltese Falcon

originalnog Malteškog sokola.

than anyone has sculpted. Now the original one, I should tell you,

Originalnog sokola je izradio

is sculpted by a guy named Fred Sexton.

tip koji se zvao Fred Sexton.

This is where it gets weird.

Tu stvari postaju čudne.

Fred Sexton was a friend of this guy, George Hodel.

Fred Sexton je bio prijatelj Georgea Hodela.

Terrifying guy -- agreed by many to be the killer

Zastrašujući tip kojeg većina smatra

of the Black Dahlia.

ubojicom Crne Dalije.

Now, James Ellroy believes

James Ellroy vjeruje

that Fred Sexton, the sculptor of the Maltese Falcon,

da je Fred Sexton, koji je izradio Malteškog sokola,

killed James Elroy's mother.

ubio majku Jamesa Elroya.

I'll go you one stranger than that: In 1974,

Postaje još čudnije. To se dogodilo 1974.

during the production of a weird comedy sequel to "The Maltese Falcon,"

tijekom snimanja nastavka "Malteškog sokola", čudne komedije

called "The Black Bird," starring George Segal,

zvane "Crna ptica", u kojoj je glumio George Segal.

the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Muzej umjetnosti Los Angelesa

had a plaster original of the Maltese Falcon --

imao je gipsani original Malteškog sokola.

one of the original six plasters, I think, made for the movie --

Za film ih je napravljeno šest.

stolen out of the museum. A lot of people thought

Tog su sokola ukrali iz muzeja. Mnogi su

it was a publicity stunt for the movie.

mislili da je to marketinški trik za film.

John's Grill, which actually

John's Grill je zalogajnica koja se može

is seen briefly in "The Maltese Falcon,"

na kratko vidjeti u "Malteškom sokolu",

is still a viable San Francisco eatery,

i koja još uvijek nudi poštenu hranu.

counted amongst its regular customers Elisha Cook,

U nju je često dolazio Elisha Cook

who played Wilmer Cook in the movie,

koji glumi Wilmera Cooka u filmu.

and he gave them

On im je darovao

one of his original plasters of the Maltese Falcon.

jedan od originalnih Malteških sokola.

And they had it in their cabinet for about 15 years,

Imali su ga 15 godina u vitrini

until it got stolen

dok nije ukraden

in January of 2007.

u siječnju 2007.

It would seem that the object of desire

Čini se da predmet čežnje postaje

only comes into its own by disappearing repeatedly.

ono što jest samo kroz neprestano nestajanje.

So here I had this Falcon,

I tako sam imao ovog sokola i

and it was lovely. It looked really great,

bio je divan. Izgledao je sjajno.

the light worked on it really well,

Svjetlo je na njega padalo savršeno i

it was better than anything that I could achieve

nisam mogao boljeg napraviti

or obtain out in the world.

ili nabaviti nigdje drugdje.

But there was a problem. And the problem was that:

Ali, postojao je problem:

I wanted the entirety of the object,

želio sam taj predmet u njegovoj potpunosti,

I wanted the weight behind the object.

želio sam težinu koju je imao original.

This thing was made of resin and it was too light.

Kopija od smole bila je prelagana.

There's this group online that I frequent.

Na internetu često posjećujem grupu

It's a group of prop crazies just like me

koju čine zaljubljenici u rekvizite poput mene.

called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade,

Zove se Forum rekvizita i na njemu ljudi nude

make and travel in information about movie props.

i traže informacije o filmskim rekvizitima.

And it turned out that one of the guys there,

Ispostavilo sa da je jedan od članova

a friend of mine that I never actually met,

moj prijatelj, kojeg nisam osobno poznavao,

but befriended through some prop deals, was the manager of a local foundry.

ali smo razmjenjivali rekvizite. On je bio vlasnik ljevaonice.

He took my master Falcon pattern,

Uzeo je moj glavni primjerak sokola

he actually did lost wax casting

i napravio odljev u vosku, a zatim

in bronze for me,

u bronci za mene.

and this is the bronze I got back.

Ovo je bronca koju sam dobio.

And this is, after some acid etching, the one that I ended up with.

A ovo je, nakon bakroreza, konačni proizvod.

And this thing, it's deeply, deeply satisfying to me.

Ova me stvar duboko ispunjava.

Here, I'm going to put it out there,

Evo, stavit ću je ovdje

later on tonight, and

da je kasnije možete pogledati izbliza.

I want you to pick it up and handle it.

Želim da ju uzmete i promotrite.

You want to know

Želite li znati koliko sam

how obsessed I am. This project's only for me,

opsjednut? Ovaj je projekt samo za mene,

and yet I went so far as to buy on eBay

ali sam ipak otišao na eBay i kupio

a 1941 Chinese San Francisco-based newspaper,

kineske novine tiskane u San Francisu 1941.,

in order so that the bird could properly be wrapped ...

samo kako bi ptica mogla biti u njih umotana...

like it is in the movie.

baš kao u filmu.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

Yeah, I know!

Da, znam!

(Laughter) (Applause)

(Smijeh) (Pljesak)

There you can see, it's weighing in at 27 and a half pounds.

Sokol teži 12 i pol kilograma.

That's half the weight of my dog, Huxley.

To je pola težine mog psa Huxleyja.

But there's a problem.

No, postoji problem.

Now, here's the most recent progression of Falcons.

Ovdje vidite sve moje sokole.

On the far left is a piece of crap -- a replica I bought on eBay.

Lijevo je loša kopija s eBaya.

There's my somewhat ruined Sculpey Falcon,

Zatim moj sokol od gline Sculpey,

because I had to get it back out of the mold. There's my first casting,

oštećen od vađenja iz kalupa. Tu je moj prvi odljev,

there's my master and there's my bronze.

moj glavni sokol i na kraju, odljev u bronci.

There's a thing that happens when you mold and cast things,

Kad radite odljev ili gipsate nešto događa se to

which is that every time you throw it into silicone and cast it in resin,

da svaki put kad napravite odljev u smoli

you lose a little bit of volume, you lose a little bit of size.

gubite malo volumena, veličina se smanjuje.

And when I held my bronze one up against my Sculpey one,

Kada sam usporedio sokola od gline i od bronce

it was shorter by three-quarters of an inch.

vidio sam da je brončani sokol manji dva centimetra.

Yeah, no, really, this was like aah --

Ne, ozbiljno, bio sam šokiran.

why didn't I remember this?

Zašto se nisam toga sjetio?

Why didn't I start and make it bigger?

Zašto ga nisam od početka napravio većeg?

So what do I do? I figure I have two options.

Što sad? Imao sam dvije opcije.

One, I can fire a freaking laser at it,

Prvo, mogao sam naciljati laser u njega.

which I have already done,

To sam već napravio, kako

to do a 3D scan -- there's a 3D scan of this Falcon.

bih ga skenirao u 3D. Evo ga ovdje.

I had figured out the exact amount of shrinkage I achieved

Izračunao sam koliko se smanjio

going from a wax master to a bronze master

dok je bio odljevan u vosku, a onda u bronci.

and blown this up big enough to make

Povećao sam ga i napravio

a 3D lithography master of this,

3D litografiju originala

which I will polish, then I will send to the mold maker

koju sam htio ispolirati i poslati na odljev

and then I will have it done in bronze. Or:

kako bih je mogao imati u bronci. Ili...

There are several people who own originals,

Postoje ljudi koji posjeduju originalne sokole.

and I have been attempting to contact them and reach them,

Pokušao sam doći do njih

hoping that they will let me spend a few minutes

u nadi da će mi dopustiti par trenutaka

in the presence of one of the real birds, maybe to take a picture,

s originalnom pticom. Možda bih ju mogao fotografirati,

or even to pull out the hand-held laser scanner

ili čak izvući ručni skener

that I happen to own that fits inside a cereal box,

koji posjedujem, a stane u kutiju pahuljica.

and could maybe, without even touching their bird, I swear,

Možda bih mogao, bez diranja ptice, obećajem,

get a perfect 3D scan. And I'm even willing to sign pages

dobiti savršenu 3D sliku. Voljan sam potpisati ugovor

saying that I'll never let anyone else have it, except for me in my office, I promise.

da pticu neće vidjeti nitko osim mene, u mom uredu.

I'll give them one if they want it.

Čak ću im i dati jednu kopiju ako žele.

And then, maybe, then I'll achieve the end of this exercise.

Tada ću možda napokon ovo privesti kraju.

But really, if we're all going to be honest with ourselves,

No, budimo sada iskreni.

I have to admit that achieving the end of the exercise

Moram priznati da privesti kraju ovo putovanje

was never the point of the exercise to begin with, was it.

nikad nije bila njegova svrha, zar ne?

Thank you.

Hvala vam.