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

Translator: Nace Zavrl Reviewer: Matej Divjak

About four years ago, the New Yorker published an article

Pred približno štirimi leti je revija New Yorker objavila članek

about a cache of dodo bones that was found

o najdišču kosti ptiča doda

in a pit on the island of Mauritius.

v kotanji na otoku Mauritius.

Now, the island of Mauritius is a small island

Otok Mauritius je majhen otok

off the east coast of Madagascar

pri vzhodni obali Madagaskarja

in the Indian Ocean, and it is the place

v Indijskem oceanu. Na njem so

where the dodo bird was discovered

doda odkrili in iztrebili

and extinguished, all within about 150 years.

v le 150 letih.

Everyone was very excited about this archaeological find,

Vsi so bili popolnoma navdušeni nad to arheološko najdbo,

because it meant that they might finally be able

saj je pomenila, da bo mogoče končno mogoče

to assemble a single dodo skeleton.

sestaviti okostje iz enega samega doda.

See, while museums all over the world

Veste, muzeji po celem svetu

have dodo skeletons in their collection, nobody --

sicer imajo okostja dodov v svoji zbirki, vendar --

not even the actual Natural History Museum

niti sam Naravoslovni muzej

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

na otoku Mauritiusu -- nima okostja, ki bi bilo narejeno

from the bones of a single dodo.

iz kosti enega samega doda.

Well, this isn't exactly true.

No, to ni popolnoma res.

The fact is, is that the British Museum

Dejstvo je, da je Britanski muzej sicer imel

had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection

popolni primerek doda v svoji zbirki

up until the 18th century --

vse do 18. stoletja.

it was actually mummified, skin and all --

Primerek je bil pravzaprav mumificiran, s kožo in vsem --

but in a fit of space-saving zeal,

vendar v vnemi varčevanja s prostorom

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

so mu dejansko odrezali glavo in noge

and they burned the rest in a bonfire.

ostalo pa zažgali v kresu.

If you go look at their website today,

Če danes obiščete njihovo spletno stran,

they'll actually list these specimens, saying,

imajo ta dva dela na seznamu s pripisom,

the rest was lost in a fire.

da so ostalo izgubili v požaru.

Not quite the whole truth. Anyway.

Rahlo oddaljeno od resnice. Kakorkoli.

The frontispiece of this article was this photo,

Na naslovnici tega članka je bila fotografija,

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

in jaz sem eden od tistih, ki menijo, da je bila Tina Brown

was great for bringing photos to the New Yorker,

odlična pri izbiri fotografij za New Yorker,

because this photo completely rocked my world.

saj je ta fotografija popolnoma pretresla moj svet.

I became obsessed with the object --

Postal sem obseden s tem predmetom --

not just the beautiful photograph itself,

a ne le s čudovito fotografijo samo

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

in njenimi barvami, majhno globinsko ostrino, vsemi detajli,

the wire you can see on the beak there

žico, ki se vidi tam pri kljunu,

that the conservator used to put this skeleton together --

in ki jo je konservator uporabil za sestavo celotnega okostja,

there's an entire story here.

za tem je cela zgodba.

And I thought to myself,

In sem si mislil,

wouldn't it be great

ali ne bi bilo super,

if I had my own dodo skeleton?

če bi imel svoje lastno dodovo okostje?

(Laughter)

(smeh)

I want to point out here at this point that

In tako -- na tej točki želim poudariti, da

I've spent my life obsessed

sem celotno svoje življenje obseden

by objects and the stories that they tell,

s predmeti in zgodbami, ki jih govorijo,

and this was the very latest one.

in to je bila ravno najnovejša.

So I began looking around for --

In tako sem začel iskati --

to see if anyone sold a kit,

če kdo slučajno prodaja komplet,

some kind of model that I could get,

neke vrste model, ki bi ga lahko dobil,

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

in sem našel ogromno materiala, ogromno prelepih slik --

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

a brez sreče - ostal sem brez okostja. A škoda je bila vseeno narejena.

I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons

Nekaj sto fotografij okostij dodov sem shranil

into my "Creative Projects" folder --

v svojo mapo imenovano "Ustvarjalni projekti".

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

To je odlagališče za moje možgane o vsem, kar bi me utegnilo zanimati.

Any time I have an internet connection,

Če le imam možnost povezave na internet,

there's a sluice of stuff moving into there,

prihaja v to mapo nenehno nov in nov material,

everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.

vse od čudovitih prstanov do slik pilotske kabine.

The key that the Marquis du Lafayette sent to George Washington

Denimo ključ, ki ga je markiz de Lafayette poslal Georgu Washingtonu

to celebrate the storming of the Bastille.

za proslavitev zavzetja Bastilje.

Russian nuclear launch key:

Ruski ključ za nuklearno izstrelitev raket.

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

Tistega na vrhu sem našel na eBay-u,

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

tistega na dnu pa naredil sam zase,

because I couldn't afford the one on eBay.

saj si nisem mogel privoščiti tistega z eBay-a.

Storm trooper costumes. Maps of Middle Earth --

Kostumi iz Vojne zvezd. Zemljevidi Srednjega sveta iz Gospodarja prstanov --

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

tega sem narisal sam. Tam je mapa z dodovimi okostji.

This folder has 17,000 photos --

Celotna mapa ima 17.000 slik --

over 20 gigabytes of information --

preko 20 gigabajtov podatkov --

and it's growing constantly.

in še vedno neprestano raste.

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

In nekega dne, morda nekaj tednov pozneje,

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

mogoče eno leto kasneje, sem bil v umetniški trgovini s svojimi otroci

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

in sem kupoval nekaj orodij za glino -- nameravali smo imeti rokodelski dan.

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

Kupil sem nekaj gline, žic in raznih materialov.

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

In ko sem gledal to glino, sem si mislil,

maybe,

mogoče,

yeah, maybe I could make my own dodo skull.

ja, mogoče pa bi lahko naredil svojo lastno dodovo lobanjo.

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

Tukaj moram poudariti -- jaz nisem kipar.

I'm a hard-edged model maker.

Sem čisti izdelovalec modelov.

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

Dajte mi risbo, predmet iz filma, da naredim kopijo,

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

dajte mi žerjav, ogrodje, dele iz Vojne zvezd --

especially parts from "Star Wars" --

še posebej dele iz Vojne zvezd --

I can do this stuff all day long.

te stvari lahko ustvarjam cele dneve.

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

Prav s tem sem si zadnjih 15 let služil kruh.

But you give me something like this --

Ampak, če dobim v roke nekaj takšnega --

my friend Mike Murnane sculpted this;

moj prijatelj Mike Murnane je skiparil tole;

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

to je maketa za Vojno zvezd, Epizodo 2 --

this is not my thing --

to ni stvar zame, jaz --

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

to je nekaj, kar počnejo drugi ljudje -- zmaji, mehke skulpture.

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

Vendar, tokrat sem imel občutek, da sem videl že dovolj slik dodovih lobanj,

to actually be able to

da bi bil dejansko sposoben

understand the topology and perhaps replicate it --

razumeti topologijo doda in jo morda poustvariti --

I mean, it couldn't be that difficult.

Mislim, saj ne more biti tako težko.

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

Tako sem začel gledati najboljše fotografije, ki sem jih našel.

I grabbed all the reference,

Zagrabil sem vse vire

and I found this lovely piece of reference.

in vmes našel tale prelep kos za primerjavo.

This is someone selling this on eBay;

To je slika nekoga, ki to prodaja na eBay-u;

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

bila je ženska -- očitno ženska roka, upam, da je to ženska roka.

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

Predvidevajoč, da je približno enako velika kot roka moje žene,

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

sem naredil nekaj meritev njenega palca in jih primerjal z velikostjo lobanje.

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

Sliko sem povečal na dejansko velikost in jo začel uporabljati

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

skupaj z ostalim nabranim materialom

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

kot referenco za velikost, da bi ugotovil, kako velik mora biti kljun,

exactly how long, etc.

ugotovil njegovo točno dolžino itd.

And over a few hours, I eventually achieved

In po nekaj urah dela sem sčasoma prišel do

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

precej sprejemljive dodove lobanje. In nisem nameraval nadaljevati --

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

to je nekako tako, veste, zelo razmetano sobo lahko pospravite

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

le s pobiranjem vsakega koščka posebej; ne morete razmišljati o celoti.

I wasn't thinking about a dodo skeleton;

Nisem razmišljal o dodovem okostju;

I just noticed that as I finished this skull,

opazil sem le, da, ko sem končal lobanjo,

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

je žica, ki sem jo uporabil za držanje lobanje na mestu,

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

štrlela iz zadnje strani, ravno tam, kjer bi se nahajala hrbtenica.

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

In ravno ena izmed stvari, s katerimi sem bil obseden v zadnjih letih,

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

so hrbtenice in okostja, katerih sem zbral nekaj sto.

I actually understood the mechanics

Dejansko sem mehaniko vretenc

of vertebrae enough to kind of start to imitate them.

razumel dovolj, da bi jo lahko posnemal.

And so button by button,

In tako sem gumb za gumbom,

vertebrae by vertebrae, I built my way down.

vretence za vretencem, gradil svojo pot navzdol.

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

Proti koncu dneva sem tako imel sprejemljivo lobanjo,

a moderately good vertebrae and half of a pelvis.

še kar dobra vretenca in polovico medenice.

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

In spet sem še naprej iskal referenčni material,

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

karkoli uporabnega -- risbe, lepe fotografije.

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

Tale človek -- obožujem ga! Skeniral je dodove nožne kosti --

with a ruler.

z ravnilom.

This is the kind of accuracy that I wanted,

Prav takšno natančnost sem hotel

and I

in tako sem čisto vsako kost

replicated every last bone and put it in.

repliciral in jo vstavil v okostje.

And after about six weeks,

Po približno -- rekel bi, da šestih tednih,

I finished, painted, mounted

sem dokončal, pobarval in postavil

my own dodo skeleton.

svoje lastno dodovo okostje.

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

Lahko vidite, da sem zanj ustvaril celo muzejsko oznako,

that includes a brief history of the dodo.

ki vsebuje kratko zgodovino doda.

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

In TAP Plastics so mi naredili -- čeprav je nisem fotografiral --

a museum vitrine.

muzejsko vitrino.

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

Za ta izdelek v svoji hiši nimam prostora,

but I had to finish what I had started.

a vseeno sem moral dokončati, kar sem začel.

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

In to je zame pravzaprav predstavljalo kar veliko spremembo.

Again, like I said, my life has been about

Kot sem že rekel, moje življenje je polno

being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell,

očaranosti nad predmeti in njihovimi zgodbami

and also making them for myself, obtaining them,

in tudi izdelovanja njih zase, pridobivanja njih,

appreciating them and diving into them.

cenjenja njih in poglabljanja vanje.

And in this folder, "Creative Projects,"

In v tej mapi "Ustvarjalni projekti"

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

je na tone projektov, s katerimi se trenutno ukvarjam,

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

s katerimi sem se že ukvarjal in s katerimi se morda še bom ukvarjal,

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

ali pa stvari, ki bi jih rad samo našel in jih kupil,

and look at and touch.

jih opazoval in se jih dotikal.

But now there was potentially this new category of things

A sedaj je bila tu potencialno ta nova kategorija stvari,

that I could sculpt

ki bi jih lahko kiparil,

that was different, that I -- you know,

ki so bile drugačne, ki bi jih -- veste,

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

imam svojega R2D2 robota, ampak to je --

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

iskreno povedano, v primerjavi s kiparjenjem je zame to lahko.

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

Tako sem šel nazaj skozi mapo "Ustvarjalni projekti",

and I happened across the Maltese Falcon.

in tam sem opazil malteškega sokola.

Now, this is funny for me:

No, to je kar smešno zame:

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

da se zaljubim v predmet iz Hammettovega romana,

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

ker, če je res, da se svet deli na dve vrsti ljudi,

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

tiste za Chandlerja in tiste za Hammetta, sem brez dvoma za Chandlerja.

But in this case,

Vendar v tem primeru ne gre --

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

ne gre za avtorja, ne za knjigo ali za film ali zgodbo,

it's about the object in and of itself.

ampak za predmet sam.

And in this case, this object is --

In v tem primeru je predmet

plays on a host of levels.

prisoten na več nivojih.

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

Kot prvo - obstaja predmet v svetu.

This is the "Kniphausen Hawk."

To je "Kniphausenov sokol."

It is a ceremonial pouring vessel

Je obredna posoda za nalivanje,

made around 1700 for a Swedish Count,

narejena okoli leta 1700 za švedskega grofa,

and it is very likely the object from which

in je zelo verjetno predmet, iz katerega

Hammett drew his inspiration for the Maltese Falcon.

je Hammett dobil navdih za Malteškega sokola.

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

Nato imamo izmišljeno ptico, ki jo je Hammett ustvaril za knjigo.

Built out of words, it is the engine

Ustvarjena iz besed poganja

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

celotno zgodbo njegove knjige in tudi filma,

in which another object is created:

za katerega je ustvarjen še en predmet:

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

rekvizit, ki je predstavljal Hammettovo izmišljeno ptico,

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

navdihnjen s Kniphausenovim sokolom in ta predstavlja sokola v filmu.

And then there is this fourth level, which is

Potem pa imamo še četrti nivo, ki je

a whole new object in the world:

popolnoma nov predmet v svetu:

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

rekvizit narejen za film, ki predstavlja sokola,

becomes, in its own right,

postane sam po sebi,

a whole other thing,

čisto nova stvar,

a whole new object of desire.

čisto nov predmet poželenja.

And so now it was time to do some research.

Tako je sedaj bil čas za nekaj raziskovanja.

I actually had done some research

Pravzaprav sem nekaj raziskoval že pred

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

nekaj leti -- zato je bila mapa tam.

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

Kupil sem repliko, izjemno slabo repliko,

of the Maltese Falcon on eBay,

malteškega sokola na eBay-u

and had downloaded enough pictures to actually

in si ogledal že dovolj slik, da sem dejansko

have some reasonable reference.

imel nekaj primernih referenc.

But I discovered,

A sem pri nadaljnjem

in researching further,

raziskovanju ugotovil,

really wanting precise reference, that

ker sem želel res natančno referenco, da je ptica bila --

one of the original lead birds

ena izmed originalnih svinčenih ptic

had been sold at Christie's in 1994,

je bila prodana leta 1994 na dražbi,

and so I contacted an antiquarian bookseller

zato sem kontaktiral antikvariat,

who had the original Christie's catalogue,

ki je imel originalni katalog z dražbe,

and in it I found this magnificent picture,

in v njem našel to veličastno sliko,

which included a size reference.

ki je imela tudi podatek o velikosti.

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

Omogočili so mi, da sem sliko skeniral in jo povečal na dejansko velikost.

I found other reference. Avi [Ara] Chekmayan,

Našel sem tudi druge reference. Avi Chekmayan,

a New Jersey editor, actually found this

urednik iz New Jerseyja, je našel tale primerek

resin Maltese Falcon

malteškega sokola iz smole

at a flea market in 1991,

na bolšjem trgu leta 1991,

although it took him five years

čeprav mu je vzelo 5 let,

to authenticate this bird to

da je preveril njegovo pristnost

the auctioneers' specifications,

po specifikacijah dražbene hiše,

because there was a lot of controversy about it.

saj je bilo okoli njega veliko kontroverznosti.

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

Narejen je bil iz smole, kar ni bil običajen material za rekvizite

about the time the movie was made.

v filmih v tistem času.

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

Hecno se mi zdi, da je bilo potrebnih 5 let za overitev,

because I can see it compared to this thing,

ker ga jaz lahko vidim v primerjavi s tem,

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

in lahko vam rečem -- pravi je, originalen,

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

narejen je iz popolnoma enakega modela kot ta.

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

Pri tem, ker je bila dražba tako kontroverzna,

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

je dražbena hiša Profiles in History, ki ga je prodala --

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

mislim, da leta 1995 za okoli 100.000 dolarjev --

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

dejansko vključila -- kot lahko vidite tu na dnu --

not just a front elevation, but also

ne le pogled od spredaj, ampak tudi

a side, rear

s strani, od zadaj

and other side elevation.

in z druge strani.

So now, I had all the topology I needed

Sedaj sem imel vso potrebno topologijo,

to replicate the Maltese Falcon.

da bi repliciral malteškega sokola.

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

Ampak, kako bi začel, kako se to sploh naredi? Res ne vem.

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

Torej, ponovno sem, tako kot pri dodovi lobanji, začel

I blew all my reference up to full size,

s povečavo materiala na naravno velikost,

and then I began cutting out the negatives and using

nato pa sem začel izrezovati negative in te

those templates as shape references.

predloge uporabljati kot reference za obliko.

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

Tako sem vzel v roke glino, iz nje naredil veliko klado

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

in jo preoblikoval, dokler nisem dobil pravih oblik.

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

Nato pa počasi, pero za peresom, detajl za detajlom,

I worked out and achieved --

sem ustvaril --

working in front of the television and Super Sculpey --

med delom pred televizijo -- in tista glina --

here's me sitting next to my wife --

tukaj sedim zraven svoje žene --

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

to je edina slika, ki sem jo posnel med celotnim procesom.

As I moved through, I achieved

Ko sem se prebijal skozi, sem ustvaril

a very reasonable facsimile of the Maltese Falcon.

precej sprejemljivo kopijo malteškega sokola.

But again, I am not a sculptor,

Ampak spet, jaz nisem kipar

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

in zato tudi ne vem mnogo kiparskih trikov kot, veste,

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

ne vem, kako moj prijatelj Mike ustvari tako lepe, bleščeče glinene površine;

I certainly wasn't able to get it.

meni to zagotovo ni uspelo.

So, I went down to my shop,

In sem šel v svojo delavnico,

and I molded it and I cast it in resin,

ustvaril model kipca in ga oblikoval v smoli,

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

saj sem zaradi nje lahko končno dobil gladko končno površino.

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

Seveda obstaja mnogo načinov modeliranja, da dobite lep gladek izdelek.

My preference is about 70 coats of this --

Moja izbira je približno 70 nanosov tega --

matte black auto primer.

matirane črne avtomobilske barve.

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

Nanašam jo približno 3 ali 4 dni, sicer ogromno kaplja,

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

a mi omogoča zelo, zelo nežno površino za brušenje,

and I can get it glass-smooth.

ki jo lahko naredim gladko kot steklo.

Oh, finishing up with triple-zero steel wool.

In še dokončam z nekaj posebej fine jeklene volne.

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

Kar je bilo v izjemno pomoč, da sem prišel do sem,

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

je prizor proti koncu filma, ko sokola končno prinesejo na plano,

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

ga postavijo na mizo in ga celo zavrtijo.

So I was able to actually

Tako sem lahko dejansko

screen-shot and freeze-frame to make sure.

vsako sličico filma posebej preverjal, da bi se prepričal.

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

In sledim vsem svetlobnim odbojem na tej reči, da ob držanju svetlobe

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

v enakem položaju, dobim enako vrsto odseva na njej --

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

v tako natančnost sem se spustil.

I ended up with this: my Maltese Falcon.

Na koncu sem imel to: moj malteški sokol.

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

In res je lep. Lahko rečem z avtoriteto,

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

da je zdaj, ko sem kipec končal,

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

izmed vseh primerkov, ki obstajajo -- in nekaj jih je --

this is by far the most accurate

to brez dvoma najbolj natančna

representation of the original Maltese Falcon

reprodukcija originalnega malteškega sokola,

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

kar jih je kdo ustvaril. No, originalni primerek

is sculpted by a guy named Fred Sexton.

pa je ustvaril mož z imenom Fred Sexton.

This is where it gets weird.

Tukaj -- stvar postane čudaška.

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

Fred Sexton je prijatelj tega človeka, Georga Hodela.

Terrifying guy -- agreed by many to be the killer

Strašljiv tip -- mnogi se strinjajo, da je morilec

of the Black Dahlia.

Črne dalije.

Now, James Ellroy believes

No, James Ellroy verjame,

that Fred Sexton, the sculptor of the Maltese Falcon,

da je Fred Sexton, kipar malteškega sokola,

killed James Elroy's mother.

ubil mater Jamesa Ellroya.

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

Stvar postane še bolj čudaška. Leta 1974,

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

med snemanjem čudnega komičnega nadaljevanja Malteškega sokola,

called "The Black Bird," starring George Segal,

imenovanega "Črna ptica", z Georgeom Segalom v glavni vlogi,

the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

so Los Angeleškem muzeju umetnosti

had a plaster original of the Maltese Falcon --

originalni malteški sokol iz mavca --

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

enega izmed šestih originalnih, se mi zdi, narejenih za film --

stolen out of the museum. A lot of people thought

ukradli iz muzeja. Mnogi so mislili,

it was a publicity stunt for the movie.

da je le reklama za prihajajoči film.

John's Grill, which actually

John's Grill, ki se pravzaprav

is seen briefly in "The Maltese Falcon,"

za trenutek vidi v Malteškem sokolu,

is still a viable San Francisco eatery,

je še vedno dejavna gostilna v San Franciscu,

counted amongst its regular customers Elisha Cook,

med njenimi rednimi gosti pa je recimo Elisha Cook,

who played Wilmer Cook in the movie,

ki je igral Wilmerja Cooka v filmu,

and he gave them

in jim je dal

one of his original plasters of the Maltese Falcon.

enega od originalnih primerkov malteškega sokola.

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

In so ga imeli v svoji omari približno 15 let,

until it got stolen

dokler tudi ta ni bil ukraden

in January of 2007.

januarja leta 2007.

It would seem that the object of desire

Zdi se, da predmet poželenja

only comes into its own by disappearing repeatedly.

postane to šele, ko večkrat zaporedoma izgine.

So here I had this Falcon,

Tu sem torej imel svojega sokola

and it was lovely. It looked really great,

in bil je prelep. Izgledal je res super,

the light worked on it really well,

svetloba je na njega delovala odlično,

it was better than anything that I could achieve

bil je boljši kot karkoli, kar bi

or obtain out in the world.

lahko naredil ali pridobil.

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

A bil je težava. In sicer,

I wanted the entirety of the object,

hotel sem celoto tega predmeta,

I wanted the weight behind the object.

hotel sem težo predmeta.

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

Ta stvar je bila iz smole in prelahka.

There's this group online that I frequent.

Na internetu je ena skupina, ki jo pogosto obiščem.

It's a group of prop crazies just like me

To je skupina norcev na rekvizite, kot sem jaz,

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

imenovana Forum replik rekvizitov, in to so ljudje ki trgujejo,

make and travel in information about movie props.

izdelujejo, potujejo in pridobivajo informacije o takih rekvizitih.

And it turned out that one of the guys there,

In izkazalo se je, da je eden izmed ljudi v tej skupini,

a friend of mine that I never actually met,

moj prijatelj, ki ga sploh nikoli nisem srečal, a sva se spoznala

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

skozi posle z rekviziti, hkrati poslovodja v lokalni livarni.

He took my master Falcon pattern,

Vzel je model mojega sokola,

he actually did lost wax casting

s tehniko izgubljenega voska

in bronze for me,

zame naredil odlitek iz brona

and this is the bronze I got back.

in to je bron, ki sem ga dobil nazaj.

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

In tole je, po nekaj jedkanja, končni izdelek, ki mi je ostal.

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

In ta stvar -- me globoko, globoko zadovoljuje.

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

Kar tukaj ga bom postavil,

later on tonight, and

da boste lahko kasneje nocoj...

I want you to pick it up and handle it.

Želim, da ga primete in si ga ogledate.

You want to know

Želite vedeti --

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

kako obseden sem. Ta projekt je samo zame,

and yet I went so far as to buy on eBay

a sem vseeno šel tako daleč, da sem na eBay-u

a 1941 Chinese San Francisco-based newspaper,

kupil kitajski časopis iz San Francisca iz leta 1941,

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

da bi lahko svojega sokola zavil točno tako...

like it is in the movie.

kot v filmu.

(Laughter)

(smeh)

Yeah, I know!

Ja, saj vem!

(Laughter) (Applause)

(smeh) (aplavz)

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

Tukaj lahko vidite, da tehta okoli 12 kilogramov in pol.

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

To je polovica teže mojega psa, Huxleya.

But there's a problem.

Ampak tu je težava.

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

Tukaj je najnovejši razvoj sokolov.

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

Na skrajni levi je drek -- replika, ki sem jo kupil na eBay-u.

There's my somewhat ruined Sculpey Falcon,

Tam je moj nekoliko uničen glineni sokol,

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

saj sem ga moral dobiti nazaj ven iz modela. Tukaj je moje prvi odlitek,

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

tam je moj glavni izdelek in tukaj je moj bronasti sokol.

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

Pri vlivanju in modeliranju se nekaj zgodi,

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

in sicer, vsakič ko ga vržeš v silikon in ga odliješ v smoli,

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

izgubiš nekaj volumna in velikosti.

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

In ko sem svojega bronastega sokola držal pri svojem glinenem,

it was shorter by three-quarters of an inch.

je bil krajši za približno 2 centimetra.

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

Ja. Ne, res, bil sem šokiran --

why didn't I remember this?

zakaj se nisem na to spomnil?

Why didn't I start and make it bigger?

Zakaj nisem že začel z večjim modelom?

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

Torej, kaj naj naredim? Vidim dve možnosti.

One, I can fire a freaking laser at it,

Prva, lahko kar ustrelim laser proti sokolu,

which I have already done,

kar sem pravzaprav že naredil,

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

da bi ustvaril 3D načrt -- tukaj je 3D slika tega sokola.

I had figured out the exact amount of shrinkage I achieved

Ugotovil sem natančno, koliko prostornine sem izgubil

going from a wax master to a bronze master

s prehodom od voščenega do bronastega,

and blown this up big enough to make

in načrt povečal dovolj,

a 3D lithography master of this,

da bi ustvaril 3D litografijo sokola,

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

ki ga bom spoliral, nato poslal izdelovalcu kalupov,

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

da ga naredi še v bronu. Ali pa --

There are several people who own originals,

obstajajo še ljudje, ki imajo originalne sokole,

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

in sem poskušal priti v stik z njimi,

hoping that they will let me spend a few minutes

upajoč, da mi bodo pustili nekaj minut

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

v prisotnosti enega izmed originalov, da morda naredim fotografijo

or even to pull out the hand-held laser scanner

ali pa, da celo privlečem ročni laserski čitalnik,

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

ki ga slučajno imam in se prilega škatli s kosmiči

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

in bi morda, ne da bi se ptice dotaknil, prisežem,

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

dobil perfektno 3D sliko. Pripravljen sem celo podpisovati dokumente,

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

da ne bom nikoli nikomur dovolil dostop do nje, razen mene v moji pisarni, obljubim.

I'll give them one if they want it.

Dal jim bom eno, če želijo.

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

I nato, morda, bom dosegel konec te vaje.

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

Ampak, če smo iskreni,

I have to admit that achieving the end of the exercise

moram priznati, da priti do cilja vaje,

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

že od začetka sploh ni bil namen, kajne?

Thank you.

Hvala.