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

Translator: Ivan Rafaj Reviewer: Zuzana Munzarová Dziaková

About four years ago, the New Yorker published an article

Asi pred štyrmi rokmi New Yorker uverejnil článok

about a cache of dodo bones that was found

o skrýši s kosťami vtáka dodo,

in a pit on the island of Mauritius.

ktoré sa našli v jame na ostrove Maurícius.

Now, the island of Mauritius is a small island

Maurícius je malý ostrov

off the east coast of Madagascar

neďaleko východného pobrežia Madagaskaru

in the Indian Ocean, and it is the place

v Indickom oceáne a je to miesto,

where the dodo bird was discovered

kde bol vták dodo objavený,

and extinguished, all within about 150 years.

ale aj vyhubený, všetko v priebehu 150 rokov.

Everyone was very excited about this archaeological find,

Všetci boli z tohto archeologického nálezu nadšení.

because it meant that they might finally be able

Znamenalo to, že sa im možno konečne podarí

to assemble a single dodo skeleton.

poskladať kompletnú kostru vtáka dodo.

See, while museums all over the world

Hoci múzeá po celom svete

have dodo skeletons in their collection, nobody --

majú v zbierkach kostry vtáka dodo,

nik, dokonca ani Prírodopisné múzeum

not even the actual Natural History Museum

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

na Mauríciu, nemá kostru

from the bones of a single dodo.

pozostávajúcu z kostí jedného vtáka dodo.

Well, this isn't exactly true.

No, nie je to celkom pravda.

The fact is, is that the British Museum

Pravdou je, že Britské múzeum malo

had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection

v zbierke kompletný exemplár vtáka dodo až do 18. storočia.

up until the 18th century --

it was actually mummified, skin and all --

Bolo mumifikované, s kožou a všetkým,

but in a fit of space-saving zeal,

ale v prozreteľnom zápale

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

mu odsekli hlavu a nohy

and they burned the rest in a bonfire.

a zvyšok spálili v ohni.

If you go look at their website today,

Keď sa dnes pozriete na ich stránku,

they'll actually list these specimens, saying,

pri týchto vzorkách majú uvedené,

the rest was lost in a fire.

že o zvyšok sa prišlo pri požiari.

(smiech)

Not quite the whole truth. Anyway.

Nie je to úplná pravda, ale nevadí.

Titulnou ilustráciou článku bola táto fotka.

The frontispiece of this article was this photo,

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

Som z tých, ktorí si myslia, že Tina Brownová

was great for bringing photos to the New Yorker,

bola pre New Yorker veľkým prínosom,

because this photo completely rocked my world.

pretože táto fotka ma úplne odrovnala.

I became obsessed with the object --

Bol som posadnutý týmto objektom,

not just the beautiful photograph itself,

nie iba samotnou skvelou fotkou,

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

farbou, plytkou hĺbkou poľa, viditeľným detailom,

the wire you can see on the beak there

drôtom viditeľným na zobáku,

that the conservator used to put this skeleton together --

ktorým si reštaurátor pomohol pri skladaní kostry.

there's an entire story here.

Je za tým celý príbeh.

And I thought to myself,

Pomyslel som si,

wouldn't it be great

nebolo by to skvelé,

if I had my own dodo skeleton?

keby som mal vlastnú kostru vtáka dodo?

(Laughter)

(smiech)

I want to point out here at this point that

Chcel by som teraz upozorniť,

I've spent my life obsessed

že celý život som posadnutý

by objects and the stories that they tell,

predmetmi a ich príbehmi.

and this was the very latest one.

No a tento bol najnovší.

So I began looking around for --

Začal som hľadať,

to see if anyone sold a kit,

či niekto nepredáva súpravu,

some kind of model that I could get,

nejaký dostupný model.

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

A našiel som mnoho referencií s krásnymi obrázkami.

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

Smola, žiadnu kostru som nezohnal. Cesty späť však už niet.

I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons

Uložil som si stovky fotiek vtáka dodo

into my "Creative Projects" folder --

v mojom priečinku Kreatívne projekty,

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

kam si ukladám všetko, čo by ma mohlo zaujímať.

Any time I have an internet connection,

Vždy, keď som na internete,

there's a sluice of stuff moving into there,

tam pribudne niekoľko vecí,

everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.

všetko od krásnych prsteňov po fotky kokpitu.

The key that the Marquis du Lafayette sent to George Washington

Kľúč, ktorý markíz du Lafayette poslal Georgeovi Washingtonovi

to celebrate the storming of the Bastille.

v rámci osláv dobytia Bastily.

Ruský nukleárny odpaľovací kľúč:

Russian nuclear launch key:

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

horný som našiel na stránkach eBay,

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

spodný som si vyrobil sám,

because I couldn't afford the one on eBay.

pretože ten na eBay som si nemohol dovoliť.

Storm trooper costumes. Maps of Middle Earth --

Kostými Storm Trooperov, mapy Stredozeme, túto som nakreslil sám,

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

Tu sú kostry vtáka dodo.

This folder has 17,000 photos --

Priečinok má 17 000 fotiek,

over 20 gigabytes of information --

vyše 20 gigabajtov informácií,

and it's growing constantly.

a stále ich pribúda.

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

Jedného dňa, o pár týždňov, možno aj rok neskôr,

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

som bol s deťmi v obchode

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

a kupoval nástroje na hlinu, lebo sme plánovali vyrábať.

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

Kúpil som hlinu, drôty, rôzne materiály.

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

Pozrel som sa na tú hlinu a napadlo mi,

maybe,

čo keby,

yeah, maybe I could make my own dodo skull.

čo keby som si vyrobil vlastnú lebku vtáka dodo.

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

Chcel by som pripomenúť, že nie som sochár.

I'm a hard-edged model maker.

Som nekompromisný modelár.

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

Dáte mi nákres, predlohu na reprodukciu,

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

žeriav, lešenie, diely z Hviezdnych vojen,

especially parts from "Star Wars" --

najmä z Hviezdnych vojen,

I can do this stuff all day long.

a venujem tomu všetok čas.

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

Presne takto som sa živil 15 rokov.

But you give me something like this --

No dajte mi niečo takéto –

my friend Mike Murnane sculpted this;

vyrobil to môj priateľ Mike Murnane –,

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

maketu z Hviezdnych vojen, druhej epizódy,

this is not my thing --

to už nie je pre mňa,

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

také vyrábajú iní – draky, jemné veci.

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

Mal som však pocit, že som už videl dosť fotiek lebky

to actually be able to

vtáka dodo na to, aby som dokázal

understand the topology and perhaps replicate it --

pochopiť topológiu a možno zhotoviť duplikát.

I mean, it couldn't be that difficult.

Hovorím si, nemôže to byť až také ťažké.

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

Začal som si teda pozerať najlepšie fotky, aké som našiel.

I grabbed all the reference,

Zhromaždil som si všetky referencie

and I found this lovely piece of reference.

a našiel aj takúto krásnu.

This is someone selling this on eBay;

Niekto to predáva na eBay,

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

drží to ženská ruka, aspoň teda dúfam.

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

Keďže je asi rovnako veľká ako mojej ženy,

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

odmeral som si jej palec a prispôsobil ho veľkosti lebky.

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

Upravil som to na skutočnú veľkosť, ktorú som začal používať,

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

ako aj všetky ostatné dostupné referencie,

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

aby som dokázal určiť veľkosť zobáka,

exactly how long, etc.

jeho dĺžku a podobne.

And over a few hours, I eventually achieved

Po niekoľkých hodinách sa mi podarilo niečo, čo vyzeralo

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

ako naozaj primeraná lebka.

Nechcel som už pokračovať,

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

pretože je to, ako keby ste upratovali izbu zdvihnutím

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

vždy iba jednej veci, nesmiete to brať ako celok.

I wasn't thinking about a dodo skeleton;

Neuvažoval som o kostre vtáka dodo,

I just noticed that as I finished this skull,

len som si po dokončení lebky všimol,

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

že drôt použitý na držanie trčal

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

zo zadnej strany, kde mala byť chrbtica.

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

No a jednou z vecí, ktoré ma zaujímajú a som nimi posadnutý,

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

sú chrbtice a kostry, mám ich pár stoviek.

I actually understood the mechanics

Rozumiem mechanike chrbtice dosť na to,

of vertebrae enough to kind of start to imitate them.

aby som ich dokázal napodobniť.

And so button by button,

Takže krok po kroku,

vertebrae by vertebrae, I built my way down.

stavec po stavci, pokračoval som nadol.

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

Na konci dňa som mal obstojnú lebku,

a moderately good vertebrae and half of a pelvis.

chrbticu a polovicu panvy.

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

Znova som začal hľadať ďalšie referencie,

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

všetko, čo sa dalo – kresby, krásne fotky.

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

Tento chlapík, milujem ho!

Dal kosti nôh vtáka dodo na skener s pravítkom.

with a ruler.

This is the kind of accuracy that I wanted,

Presne niečo také som potreboval,

and I

takže som

replicated every last bone and put it in.

zhotovil duplikát každej jednej kosti.

And after about six weeks,

Asi po šiestich týždňoch

I finished, painted, mounted

som to dokončil, natrel, a mohol si vystaviť

my own dodo skeleton.

vlastnú kostru vtáka dodo.

(potlesk)

Ako vidíte, vyrobil som si aj štítok ako z múzea,

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

that includes a brief history of the dodo.

na ktorom je stručná história vtáka dodo.

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

Spoločnosť TAP Plastics mi vyrobila, hoci nemám fotku,

a museum vitrine.

múzejnú vitrínu.

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

Nemám na to doma miesto,

but I had to finish what I had started.

ale už som to musel dokončiť.

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

Bola to pre mňa vlastne istá zmena.

Again, like I said, my life has been about

Ako som hovoril, celý život

being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell,

som fascinovaný vecami a ich príbehmi,

and also making them for myself, obtaining them,

ich výrobou, získaním.

appreciating them and diving into them.

Vážim si ich a nechám sa nimi pohltiť.

And in this folder, "Creative Projects,"

V priečinku Kreatívne projekty

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

je mnoho projektov, na ktorých práve pracujem,

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

na ktorých som pracoval, na ktorých možno budem pracovať.

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

Mnoho vecí, ktoré chcem nájsť, kúpiť si,

and look at and touch.

môcť sa na ne pozerať a dotýkať sa ich.

But now there was potentially this new category of things

Teraz ale pribudla nová kategória vecí,

that I could sculpt

ktoré by som mohol modelovať,

that was different, that I -- you know,

ktoré sú iné, ktoré...

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

Mám vlastného R2D2.

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

Z pohľadu modelovania to je pre mňa naozaj jednoduché.

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

Znova som začal hľadať v spomínanom priečinku

and I happened across the Maltese Falcon.

a narazil na Maltézskeho sokola.

(smiech)

Now, this is funny for me:

Toto je pre mňa vtipné,

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

zamilovať sa do predmetu z Hammettovej novely,

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

pretože ak sa ľudia ozaj delia na dva typy,

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

Chandlerových a Hammettových, určite patrím k prvým.

But in this case,

V tomto prípade nejde o autora, knihu, film ani príbeh.

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

it's about the object in and of itself.

Ide o samotný predmet.

And in this case, this object is --

V tomto prípade ide o predmet na viacerých úrovniach.

plays on a host of levels.

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

V prvom rade ide o skutočný predmet.

This is the "Kniphausen Hawk."

Tým je Kniphausenov sokol.

It is a ceremonial pouring vessel

Ide o obradnú nádobu na nalievanie,

made around 1700 for a Swedish Count,

ktorá bola vyrobená okolo roku 1700 pre švédskeho grófa.

and it is very likely the object from which

Ide pravdepodobne o predmet,

Hammett drew his inspiration for the Maltese Falcon.

z ktorého čerpal Hammett inšpiráciu pre Maltézskeho sokola.

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

Potom máme fiktívneho vtáka, ktorého Hammett vymyslel pre knihu.

Built out of words, it is the engine

Vytvorený zo slov,

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

ide o hnaciu silu zápletky knihy a tiež filmu,

in which another object is created:

v ktorých bol vytvorený ďalší predmet,

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

rekvizita reprezentujúca vec vytvorenú Hammettom zo slov

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

a inšpirovaná Kniphausenovým sokolom, ktorý reprezentuje sokola vo filme.

And then there is this fourth level, which is

Na štvrtej úrovni ide o úplne nový skutočný predmet,

a whole new object in the world:

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

rekvizita vyrobená pre film, reprezentujúca vec,

becomes, in its own right,

ktorá sa sama stane úplne inou vecou,

a whole other thing,

a whole new object of desire.

úplne novým predmetom túžby.

And so now it was time to do some research.

Nastal čas na výskum.

I actually had done some research

Pred pár rokmi som si ho vlastne už urobil,

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

preto mám aj ten priečinok.

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

Na eBay som kúpil naozaj veľmi zlý

of the Maltese Falcon on eBay,

duplikát Maltézskeho sokola

and had downloaded enough pictures to actually

a stiahol dosť obrázkov,

have some reasonable reference.

takže som mal veľa referencií.

But I discovered,

No pri ďalšom výskume som zistil,

in researching further,

really wanting precise reference, that

že potrebujem presnú referenciu,

one of the original lead birds

že jeden z pôvodných olovených vtákov

had been sold at Christie's in 1994,

sa v aukčnom dome Christie's predal v roku 1994,

and so I contacted an antiquarian bookseller

takže som kontaktoval kníhkupca so starožitnosťami,

who had the original Christie's catalogue,

ktorý vlastnil pôvodný katalóg Christie's.

and in it I found this magnificent picture,

V ňom som našiel vynikajúci obrázok,

which included a size reference.

ktorý obsahoval referenciu k rozmerom.

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

Obrázok som naskenoval a zväčšil na skutočné rozmery.

I found other reference. Avi [Ara] Chekmayan,

Našiel som aj ďalšiu referenciu.

Avi [Ara] Chekmayan, editor z New Jersey,

a New Jersey editor, actually found this

resin Maltese Falcon

našiel Maltézskeho sokola zo živice

at a flea market in 1991,

na blšom trhu v roku 1991,

although it took him five years

hoci mu overenie vtáka

to authenticate this bird to

podľa špecifikácií dražiteľa trvalo päť rokov,

the auctioneers' specifications,

because there was a lot of controversy about it.

pretože to bolo dosť kontroverzné.

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

Bol vyrobený zo živice,

ktorá sa v čase filmovania bežne nepoužívala.

about the time the movie was made.

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

Príde mi vtipné, že to trvalo tak dlho,

because I can see it compared to this thing,

pretože pri tomto porovnaní vidím,

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

že je to naozaj ono.

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

Je úplne rovnako vytvarovaný.

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

Pretože išlo o kontroverznú dražbu,

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

Profiles in History, predávajúci aukčný dom,

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

myslím, že v roku 1995 za asi 100 000 dolárov,

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

pridal – môžete vidieť dolu –

not just a front elevation, but also

nie iba predné vyvýšenie,

a side, rear

ale aj bočné, zadné

and other side elevation.

a vyvýšenie druhej strany.

So now, I had all the topology I needed

Takže teraz som už mal potrebnú topológiu

to replicate the Maltese Falcon.

na zhotovenie duplikátu Maltézskeho sokola.

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

Ako vlastne s niečím takým začať? Naozaj som nevedel.

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

Znova som urobil to, čo s lebkou vtáka dodo,

I blew all my reference up to full size,

zväčšil som všetky referencie na skutočnú veľkosť,

and then I began cutting out the negatives and using

potom som si povystrihoval šablóny

those templates as shape references.

a tie som použil ako referenciu pre tvary.

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

Vzal som hlinu, urobil z nej veľký blok

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

a pracoval s ňou, kým som nemal správne obrysy.

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

Potom som pierko po pierku, detail po detaile,

I worked out and achieved --

vypracoval –

working in front of the television and Super Sculpey --

sediac pred televíziou a hlinou –,

here's me sitting next to my wife --

tu sedím vedľa manželky,

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

jediná fotka z celého procesu.

As I moved through, I achieved

Ako som napredoval, podarila sa mi

a very reasonable facsimile of the Maltese Falcon.

presná kópia Maltézskeho sokola.

But again, I am not a sculptor,

Ešte raz, nie som sochár,

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

takže nepoznám triky, napríklad neviem,

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

ako priateľ Mike dokáže vytvoriť lesklé povrchy.

I certainly wasn't able to get it.

Mne sa to fakt nepodarilo.

So, I went down to my shop,

Zišiel som do dielne,

and I molded it and I cast it in resin,

dal to do formy a odlial do živice,

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

pretože s ňou som mohol dosiahnuť hladký povrch.

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

Existuje mnoho spôsobov, ako to urobiť.

My preference is about 70 coats of this --

Rozhodol som sa pre 70 náterov tohto –

matte black auto primer.

matný čierny lak.

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

Sprejoval som to asi tri či štyri dni, strašne z toho tieklo,

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

ale umožnilo to dosiahnuť jemný povrch,

and I can get it glass-smooth.

naozaj pekne hladký.

Oh, finishing up with triple-zero steel wool.

Zakončil som to drôtenkou.

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

Skvelou vecou bolo, že vo filme,

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

keď sa na konci vták konečne objaví,

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

roztočia ho na stole.

So I was able to actually

Mohol som si teda obraz zastaviť, aby som mal istotu.

screen-shot and freeze-frame to make sure.

Snažím sa kopírovať všetky tiene a keď ho držím v rovnakej polohe,

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

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

dosiahnem ten istý odraz.

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

Išlo mi až o takéto detaily.

I ended up with this: my Maltese Falcon.

Toto je výsledok – môj Maltézsky sokol.

Je krásny.

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

Môžem oprávnene povedať, keď je už hotový,

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

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

že zo všetkých duplikátov – je ich niekoľko –,

this is by far the most accurate

je táto najpresnejšou napodobeninou pôvodného Maltézskeho sokola,

representation of the original Maltese Falcon

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

akú ktokoľvek vyrobil.

Originál vytvoril Fred Sexton.

is sculpted by a guy named Fred Sexton.

This is where it gets weird.

Teraz sa to trochu zamotá.

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

Fred Sexton bol priateľom Georgea Hodela.

Terrifying guy -- agreed by many to be the killer

Desivý chlapík – mnohí sa zhodujú,

of the Black Dahlia.

že išlo o vraha v prípade Black Dahlia.

Now, James Ellroy believes

James Ellroy je presvedčený,

that Fred Sexton, the sculptor of the Maltese Falcon,

že Fred Sexton, tvorca Maltézskeho sokola,

killed James Elroy's mother.

zavraždil jeho matku.

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

Pridám ešte niečo čudnejšie – v roku 1974

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

počas produkcie pokračovania divnej komédie Maltézsky sokol

called "The Black Bird," starring George Segal,

s názvom Čierny vták s hercom Georgom Segalom,

the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

bol z múzea umenia v Los Angeles,

had a plaster original of the Maltese Falcon --

ktoré vlastnilo sadrový originál Maltézskeho sokola,

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

ukradnutý jeden zo šiestich odliatkov vyrobených pre film.

stolen out of the museum. A lot of people thought

Mnoho ľudí si myslelo, že šlo len o propagáciu filmu.

it was a publicity stunt for the movie.

John's Grill, which actually

Reštaurácia John's Grill,

is seen briefly in "The Maltese Falcon,"

na okamih zobrazená vo filme,

is still a viable San Francisco eatery,

dnes v San Franciscu stále funguje

a medzi jej pravidelných zákazníkov patrí Elisha Cook,

counted amongst its regular customers Elisha Cook,

who played Wilmer Cook in the movie,

ktorý hral Wilmera Cooka

and he gave them

a dal im jeden z pôvodných odliatkov Maltézskeho sokola.

one of his original plasters of the Maltese Falcon.

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

Mali ho vo vitríne asi 15 rokov,

until it got stolen

kým nebol v januári 2007 ukradnutý.

in January of 2007.

It would seem that the object of desire

Zdá sa, že predmetu túžby

only comes into its own by disappearing repeatedly.

je predurčené stále sa strácať.

So here I had this Falcon,

Takže tu mám tohto sokola a je krásny.

and it was lovely. It looked really great,

Vyzerá skvelo, hra svetla sa naozaj vydarila.

the light worked on it really well,

it was better than anything that I could achieve

Bol tým najlepším, čo sa mi mohlo podariť

or obtain out in the world.

vytvoriť alebo získať.

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

Ale bol tu problém – a to –

I wanted the entirety of the object,

chcel som ho mať kompletný,

I wanted the weight behind the object.

jeho skutočnú váhu.

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

Bol vyrobený zo živice a bol príliš ľahký.

There's this group online that I frequent.

Na internete navštevujem jednu skupinu.

It's a group of prop crazies just like me

Ide o rovnakých bláznov do rekvizít ako ja,

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

volajú sa Replica Props Forum a ide o ľudí,

make and travel in information about movie props.

ktorí vymieňajú a vyrábajú filmové rekvizity.

And it turned out that one of the guys there,

Zistil som, že jeden z ľudí,

a friend of mine that I never actually met,

priateľ, ktorého som nikdy nestretol,

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

bol manažérom miestnej zlievarne.

He took my master Falcon pattern,

Vzal si môj model sokola,

he actually did lost wax casting

vytvoril voskový odliatok,

in bronze for me,

a použil bronz.

and this is the bronze I got back.

Vrátilo sa mi toto.

Toto je finálna podoba po vyleptaní kyselinou.

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

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

S týmto som naozaj, naozaj spokojný.

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

Vyložím to tu

later on tonight, and

a potom neskôr večer

I want you to pick it up and handle it.

si ho môžete vziať do ruky.

(potlesk)

You want to know

Áno, až takto som posadnutý.

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

Celý projekt je iba pre mňa.

and yet I went so far as to buy on eBay

No zašiel som tak ďaleko, že som si na eBay kúpil

a 1941 Chinese San Francisco-based newspaper,

čínske noviny zo San Francisca z roku 1941,

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

aby som vtáka mohol správne zabaliť...

like it is in the movie.

Presne ako vo filme.

(Laughter)

(smiech)

Yeah, I know!

Áno, ja viem!

(Laughter) (Applause)

(smiech) (potlesk)

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

Tu to vidíte, váži 27,5 libry.

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

Polovicu z váhy môjho psa Huxleyho.

But there's a problem.

Ale je tu problém.

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

Najnovšie novinky o sokoloch.

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

Úplne vľavo je nepodarok – duplikát z eBay.

There's my somewhat ruined Sculpey Falcon,

Ďalej môj trochu zničený hlinený sokol,

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

pretože som ho musel vybrať z formy.

Je tam môj prvý odliatok, hlavný model a bronzový model.

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

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

Pri formovaní a odlievaní

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

sa pri použití silikónu a odliatí do živice

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

stratí časť objemu, veľkosti.

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

Keď pridržím bronzového k hlinenému,

it was shorter by three-quarters of an inch.

je kratší o 2 cm.

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

Fakt, bolo to...

(smiech)

why didn't I remember this?

Prečo som si na to nespomenul?

Why didn't I start and make it bigger?

Prečo som ho na začiatku neurobil väčší?

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

Takže čo robiť? Mám dve možnosti.

One, I can fire a freaking laser at it,

Po prvé, mohol by som použiť laser,

which I have already done,

čo sa už aj stalo,

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

a urobiť 3D sken – už ho mám.

I had figured out the exact amount of shrinkage I achieved

Zistil by som presné množstvo úbytku

going from a wax master to a bronze master

pri prechode z vosku na bronz

and blown this up big enough to make

a zväčšil tak, aby z toho bolo možné

a 3D lithography master of this,

vyrobiť 3D litografiu.

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

Tú by som potom vyleštil a poslal na odliatie,

aby sa mohla vyrobiť z bronzu.

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

Alebo:

There are several people who own originals,

niekoľko ľudí vlastní originál.

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

Snažil som sa s nimi spojiť

hoping that they will let me spend a few minutes

dúfajúc, že mi umožnia stráviť pár minút

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

s originálom, možno si urobiť fotku,

or even to pull out the hand-held laser scanner

či vytiahnuť laserový skener,

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

ktorý mám, a s ktorým

by som možno mohol bez dotyku, prisahám,

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

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

urobiť perfektný 3D sken.

Ochotne podpíšem, že to nikomu inému nedám, prisahám.

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

I'll give them one if they want it.

Ak budú chcieť, jeden im dám.

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

A až možno potom dosiahnem to, čo chcem.

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

Ale ak máme byť k sebe úprimní,

I have to admit that achieving the end of the exercise

musím priznať, že dostať sa až na koniec

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

nebolo pointou tohto celého, že nie?

Thank you.

Ďakujem.

(potlesk)