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

Prevodilac: Ivana Krivokuća Lektor: Tijana Mihajlović

About four years ago, the New Yorker published an article

Pre oko četiri godine, Njujorker je objavio članak

about a cache of dodo bones that was found

o skupini kostiju dodo ptice koja je pronađena

in a pit on the island of Mauritius.

u rupi na ostrvu Mauricijus.

Now, the island of Mauritius is a small island

Mauricijus je malo ostrvo

off the east coast of Madagascar

sa istočne strane Madagaskara

in the Indian Ocean, and it is the place

u Indijskom okeanu, a ovo je mesto

where the dodo bird was discovered

gde je otkrivena i izumrla ptica dodo,

and extinguished, all within about 150 years.

sve to u okviru od 150 godina.

Everyone was very excited about this archaeological find,

Svi su bili uzbuđeni zbog ovog arheološkog otkrića,

because it meant that they might finally be able

jer je to značilo da će konačno možda moći da sastave jedan ceo kostur dodoa.

to assemble a single dodo skeleton.

See, while museums all over the world

Vidite, iako muzeji širom sveta

have dodo skeletons in their collection, nobody --

imaju kosture dodoa u svojim postavkama -

niko, čak ni Muzej prirodne istorije na ostrvu Mauricijus,

not even the actual Natural History Museum

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

nema kostur sastavljen od kostiju jednog dodoa.

from the bones of a single dodo.

Well, this isn't exactly true.

U stvari, to i nije baš istina.

The fact is, is that the British Museum

Zapravo, Britanski muzej je imao ceo primerak dodoa u svojoj kolekciji

had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection

up until the 18th century --

sve do 18. veka - bio je u stvari mumificiran,

it was actually mummified, skin and all --

sa kožom i svim ostalim - ali u naletu zanosa za uštedom prostora,

but in a fit of space-saving zeal,

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

odsekli su glavu i noge

and they burned the rest in a bonfire.

i spalili ostatak na lomači.

If you go look at their website today,

Ako pogledate njihov sajt danas,

nabrojali su ove uzorke,

they'll actually list these specimens, saying,

navodeći da je ostatak izgubljen u vatri.

the rest was lost in a fire.

Not quite the whole truth. Anyway.

Nije baš cela istina. Bilo kako bilo,

naslovnica ovog članka je bila ova fotografija,

The frontispiece of this article was this photo,

a ja sam jedan od onih koji misle da je Tina Braun bila odlična

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

was great for bringing photos to the New Yorker,

za podnošenje fotografija Njujorkeru, jer je ova fotografija

because this photo completely rocked my world.

potpuno prodrmala moj svet.

I became obsessed with the object --

Postao sam opsednut predmetima -

not just the beautiful photograph itself,

ne samo prelepom fotografijom,

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

bojom, plitkom dubinom polja, detaljima koji su vidljivi,

the wire you can see on the beak there

žicom koju možete videti ovde na kljunu

that the conservator used to put this skeleton together --

koju je konzervator koristio da sastavi ovaj skelet -

there's an entire story here.

tu postoji čitava priča,

And I thought to myself,

pa sam pomislio:

wouldn't it be great

„Zar ne bi bilo sjajno

if I had my own dodo skeleton?

kada bih imao sopstveni skelet dodoa?”

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

I want to point out here at this point that

Hteo bih da istaknem u ovom trenutku

da sam proveo život sa opsesijom

I've spent my life obsessed

by objects and the stories that they tell,

predmetima i pričama koje oni pričaju,

and this was the very latest one.

a ovo je bila najnovija.

So I began looking around for --

Stoga sam počeo da tragam -

to see if anyone sold a kit,

da vidim da li je neko prodao komplet,

some kind of model that I could get,

nekakav model koji bih mogao da nabavim

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

i našao sam mnogo materijala vezanog za to, puno divnih slika.

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

Ništa od toga; nema skeleta dodoa za mene. Šteta je, međutim, već načinjena.

I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons

Sačuvao sam nekoliko stotina fotografija skeleta dodoa

into my "Creative Projects" folder --

u svom folderu „Kreativni projekti” -

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

to je skladište za moj mozak, sve ono što bi me moglo interesovati.

Any time I have an internet connection,

Svaki put kada imam internet vezu,

there's a sluice of stuff moving into there,

tamo dospeva priliv stvari,

everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.

sve od prelepog prstenja do fotografija pilotskih kabina.

The key that the Marquis du Lafayette sent to George Washington

Ključ koji je Markiz de Lafajet poslao Džordžu Vašingtonu

to celebrate the storming of the Bastille.

da bi proslavio pad Bastilje.

Ruski taster za nuklearno lansiranje:

Russian nuclear launch key:

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

na vrhu je slika onog koji sam našao na Ibeju;

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

na dnu je onaj koji sam napravio za sebe,

because I couldn't afford the one on eBay.

jer ne mogu da priuštim onaj na Ibeju.

Storm trooper costumes. Maps of Middle Earth --

Kostimi Stormtrupera. Mape Srednje zemlje -

ovu sam lično nacrtao.

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

Evo foldera dodo skeleta.

This folder has 17,000 photos --

Ovaj folder ima 17 000 slika -

over 20 gigabytes of information --

preko 20 gigabajta informacija -

and it's growing constantly.

i neprekidno raste.

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

Jednog dana, nekoliko nedelja kasnije,

možda godinu dana kasnije, bio sam u umetničkoj radnji sa decom

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

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

i kupovao sam neku glinu - planirali smo dan majstorija.

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

Kupio sam malo Super Skalpija, žičanu armaturu, razne materijale.

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

Pogledao sam Skalpija i pomislio sam,

maybe,

možda,

yeah, maybe I could make my own dodo skull.

da, možda bih mogao da napravim svoju lobanju dodoa.

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

Treba da naglasim u ovom trenutku - nisam vajar;

I'm a hard-edged model maker.

ja sam naoštreni stvaralac modela.

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

Dajte mi crtež, dajte mi rekvizit da kopiram,

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

dajte mi kran, skele, delove iz „Ratova zvezda” -

especially parts from "Star Wars" --

naročito delove iz „Ratova zvezda” -

I can do this stuff all day long.

mogu takve stvari da radim po ceo dan.

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

Upravo tako sam 15 godina zarađivao za život.

But you give me something like this --

Međutim, ako mi date ovako nešto -

my friend Mike Murnane sculpted this;

moj prijatelj Majk Murnejn je izvajao ovo;

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

to je maketa za „Ratove zvezda, Epizodu 2” -

this is not my thing --

ovo nije baš moj fazon -

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

ovo je nešto što drugi ljudi rade - zmajevi, nežne stvari.

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

Ipak, činilo mi se kao da sam video dovoljno fotografija lobanja dodoa

to actually be able to

da bih zaista umeo

understand the topology and perhaps replicate it --

da razumem topologiju i možda je kopiram -

I mean, it couldn't be that difficult.

mislim, ne može da bude toliko teško.

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

Tako sam počeo da gledam najbolje slike koje sam mogao da nađem.

I grabbed all the reference,

Dohvatio sam sve reference

and I found this lovely piece of reference.

i našao sam ovu divnu referencu.

This is someone selling this on eBay;

Tu neko prodaje ovo na Ibeju;

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

to je očigledno ženska ruka, nadajmo se, ženska ruka.

Pretpostavivši da je otprilike veličine ruke moje žene,

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

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

izmerio sam njen palac i odredio razmeru u odnosu na veličinu lobanje.

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

Povećao sam je na stvarnu veličinu i počeo sam to da koristim

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

zajedno sa drugim referencama koje sam imao,

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

upoređujući ih sa njom kao referentnom veličinom za utvrđivanje

exactly how long, etc.

koliko kljun treba da bude veliki, koliko tačno da bude dug itd.

And over a few hours, I eventually achieved

Nakon nekoliko sati,

na kraju sam uspeo da napravim prilično prihvatljivu lobanju dodoa.

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

Nisam planirao da nastavim -

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

to je kao kad čistite veoma neurednu sobu

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

skupljajući jednu po jednu stvar; ne možete da mislite o celini.

I wasn't thinking about a dodo skeleton;

Nisam mislio o skeletu dodoa;

I just noticed that as I finished this skull,

samo sam primetio da, kad sam završio tu lobanju,

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

žičana armatura koju sam koristio da je drži uspravno

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

je virila pozadi baš gde bi bila kičma,

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

a jedna od drugih stvari koje su me godinama interesovale

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

i kojima sam bio opsednut su kičme i kosturi, prikupio sam nekoliko stotina.

I actually understood the mechanics

Zapravo sam razumeo mehaniku pršljenova

of vertebrae enough to kind of start to imitate them.

dovoljno da počnem da ih podražavam.

And so button by button,

I tako, dugme po dugme,

vertebrae by vertebrae, I built my way down.

pršljen po pršljen, gradio sam sve do dole

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

i stvarno sam do kraja dana imao pristojnu lobanju,

a moderately good vertebrae and half of a pelvis.

srednje dobre pršljenove i pola karlice.

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

Ponovo sam nastavio, tragajući za još referenci,

svakom referencom koju sam mogao pronaći - crteži, prelepe fotografije.

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

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

Ovaj lik - volim ovog lika! Stavio je kosti noge dodoa na skener

with a ruler.

sa lenjirom.

This is the kind of accuracy that I wanted,

To je preciznost kakvu sam želeo

and I

i kopirao sam svaku do poslednje kosti i sastavio ih.

replicated every last bone and put it in.

And after about six weeks,

Nakon oko šest nedelja,

I finished, painted, mounted

završio sam, obojio, montirao

my own dodo skeleton.

svoj lični skelet dodoa.

Možete videti da sam čak napravio i muzejski natpis za njega

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

that includes a brief history of the dodo.

koji obuhvata kratku istoriju dodoa.

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

U „TAP Plastici” su mi napravili - mada nisam to slikao -

a museum vitrine.

muzejsku vitrinu.

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

Nemam mesta za ovo u svojoj kući,

but I had to finish what I had started.

ali morao sam da završim šta sam započeo.

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

I to je zapravo predstavljalo more promena za mene.

Again, like I said, my life has been about

Još jednom, kao što sam rekao,

moj život se vrteo oko fascinacije objektima i pričama koje oni pričaju

being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell,

and also making them for myself, obtaining them,

i oko njihovog pravljenja, pribavljanja,

appreciating them and diving into them.

njihovog uvažavanja i uranjanja u njih.

And in this folder, "Creative Projects,"

U tom folderu „Kreativni projekti” postoji gomila projekata

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

na kojima trenutno radim, projekata na kojima sam već radio,

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

stvari na kojima bih hteo da radim jednog dana

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

i stvari koje bih možda samo hteo da kupim i imam, gledam i dodirnem.

and look at and touch.

But now there was potentially this new category of things

A sada je tu bila potencijalno nova kategorija stvari

that I could sculpt

koje sam mogao da oblikujem

that was different, that I -- you know,

koje su drugačije, koje - znate,

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

imam svog Artu Ditua, ali to je -

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

iskreno, u odnosu na vajanje, to je lako, prema mom mišljenju.

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

Vratio sam se na pregledanje svog foldera „Kreativni projekti”

and I happened across the Maltese Falcon.

i desilo se da sam naleteo na Malteškog sokola.

Now, this is funny for me:

E, sad, ovo mi je smešno:

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

zaljubiti se u predmet iz Hametovog romana,

jer ako je istina da se svet deli na dve vrste ljudi,

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

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

one koji vole Čendlera i one koji vole Hameta,

ja sam apsolutno Čendlerov tip.

But in this case,

Ipak, u ovom slučaju,

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

ne radi se o autoru, ne radi se o knjizi niti filmu niti priči,

it's about the object in and of itself.

radi se o predmetu samom po sebi,

And in this case, this object is --

a u ovom slučaju, ovaj predmet je -

plays on a host of levels.

ima više nivoa.

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

Pre svega, postoji predmet u svetu.

This is the "Kniphausen Hawk."

Ovo je Niphausenov soko.

It is a ceremonial pouring vessel

To je ceremonijalna posuda za polivanje

made around 1700 for a Swedish Count,

napravljena oko 1700. godine za švedskog grofa

and it is very likely the object from which

i vrlo je verovatno da je to predmet

Hammett drew his inspiration for the Maltese Falcon.

koji je inspirisao Hameta da napiše „Malteškog sokola”.

Zatim imamo izmišljenu pticu, onu koju je Hamet stvorio za knjigu.

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

Built out of words, it is the engine

Sačinjen od reči, to je pokretač

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

koji pokreće zaplet knjige, kao i filma

in which another object is created:

u kome je stvoren još jedan predmet:

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

rekvizit koji treba da predstavlja stvar koju Hamet stvorio od reči,

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

inspirisan Niphausenovim sokolom i ovo predstavlja sokola u filmu.

Onda je tu i četvrti nivo,

And then there is this fourth level, which is

a to je potpuno novi predmet u svetu -

a whole new object in the world:

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

rekvizit napravljen za film, predstavnik stvari,

becomes, in its own right,

postaje, sam za sebe,

a whole other thing,

potpuno druga stvar,

potpuno novi predmet požude.

a whole new object of desire.

And so now it was time to do some research.

Sad je bio trenutak za istraživanje.

I actually had done some research

Zapravo sam pomalo istraživao

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

nekoliko godina ranije - zato je folder bio tu.

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

Kupio sam repliku, zaista lošu repliku

of the Maltese Falcon on eBay,

Malteškog sokola na Ibeju

and had downloaded enough pictures to actually

i skinuo sam dovoljno slika

have some reasonable reference.

da bih imao neke pristojne reference.

But I discovered,

Međutim, otkrio sam,

in researching further,

kroz dalje istraživanje,

really wanting precise reference, that

zaista želeći preciznu referencu,

da je jedna od originalnih olovnih ptica

one of the original lead birds

prodata u „Kristiju” 1994. godine,

had been sold at Christie's in 1994,

and so I contacted an antiquarian bookseller

pa sam kontaktirao sa antikvarnicom knjiga

who had the original Christie's catalogue,

koja je imala originalni Kristijev katalog,

and in it I found this magnificent picture,

i u njemu sam pronašao ovu veličanstvenu sliku,

which included a size reference.

koja je uključivala referencu o veličini.

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

Mogao sam da skeniram sliku, uvećam je na punu veličinu.

Pronašao sam drugu referencu.

I found other reference. Avi [Ara] Chekmayan,

Avi Čekmajan, urednik iz Nju Džersija,

a New Jersey editor, actually found this

resin Maltese Falcon

pronašao je Malteškog sokola od smole

at a flea market in 1991,

na buvljoj pijaci 1991. godine,

although it took him five years

mada mu je trebalo pet godina

to authenticate this bird to

da potvrdi autentičnost ove ptice

the auctioneers' specifications,

u odnosu na specifikacije aukcijske kuće,

because there was a lot of controversy about it.

jer je bilo dosta kontroverze oko toga.

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

Napravljen je od smole, što nije bio čest materijal

about the time the movie was made.

za filmske rekvizite u vreme kada je napravljen.

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

Smešno mi je da je trebalo toliko da se potvrdi autentičnost,

because I can see it compared to this thing,

jer mogu da vidim kada se uporedi sa ovim, mogu da vam kažem

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

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

- pravi je, prava stvar, napravljen je u potpuno istom kalupu kao i ovaj.

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

Sa ovim, pošto je aukcija bila tako kontroverzna,

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

profili istorije, aukcijska kuća koja ga je prodala -

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

mislim 1995. godine za oko 100 000 dolara -

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

uključili su - možete videti ovde na dnu -

not just a front elevation, but also

ne samo prednje uzdignuće,

a side, rear

već i sa bočne i zadnje strane

and other side elevation.

i uzdignuće sa druge strane.

So now, I had all the topology I needed

Dakle, sada sam imao topologiju koja mi je bila potrebna

to replicate the Maltese Falcon.

da bih kopirao Malteškog sokola.

Šta rade sa tim, kako da započnete tako nešto? Zaista ne znam.

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

Tako sam opet, kao i sa lobanjom dodoa,

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

I blew all my reference up to full size,

uveličao sve svoje reference na punu veličinu,

and then I began cutting out the negatives and using

a zatim sam počeo da sečem negative

i koristim te šablone kao referentne oblike.

those templates as shape references.

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

Uzeo sam Skalpija, napravio veliku kocku od njega

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

i prolazio kroz nju dok nisam dobio prave profile,

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

a onda polako, pero po pero, detalj po detalj,

I worked out and achieved --

radio sam i uspeo -

working in front of the television and Super Sculpey --

radeći ispred televizora i Super Skalpija -

here's me sitting next to my wife --

ovde sedim pored svoje žene -

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

to je jedina slika koju sam uslikao u celom tm procesu.

As I moved through, I achieved

Dok sam napredovao, stigao sam

a very reasonable facsimile of the Maltese Falcon.

do vrlo pristojne kopije Malteškog sokola.

But again, I am not a sculptor,

Opet, ja nisam vajar,

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

tako da ne znam mnogo trikova, na primer,

ne znam kako moj drug Majk dobija lepe, uglačane površine sa svojim Skalpijem;

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

I certainly wasn't able to get it.

ja svakako nisam mogao da ih dobijem.

So, I went down to my shop,

Tako, otišao sam u svoju radnju,

and I molded it and I cast it in resin,

ukalupio sam ga i izlio u smoli,

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

jer u smoli sam apsolutno mogao da dobijem glatku završnu obradu.

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

E, sad, ima mnogo načina za popunjavanje i da se dobije fina glatka završna obrada.

My preference is about 70 coats of this --

Meni se najviše dopada 70 premaza ovoga -

matte black auto primer.

mat crni osnovni auto premaz.

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

Naprskam ga oko tri ili četiri dana, kaplje kao ludo,

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

ali mi daje baš, baš finu nežnu izbrušenu površinu

and I can get it glass-smooth.

i mogu da dobijem uglačanost poput stakla.

Oh, finishing up with triple-zero steel wool.

O, završivši sa 000 čeličnom vunom.

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

A sad, ono što je bilo bitno kad se dođe do ovog trenutka je,

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

pošto u filmu, kada konačno iznesu pticu na kraju

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

i stave je na sto, oni je zapravo zavrte.

So I was able to actually

Tako da sam mogao

da zamrznem kadar da bih bio siguran.

screen-shot and freeze-frame to make sure.

I pratim sve udare svetlosti na ovome i brinem da, dok držim svetlo

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 --

u istom položaju, dobijam isti odraz na njemu -

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

do te mere se detaljno unosim u ovo.

I ended up with this: my Maltese Falcon.

Na kraju sam dobio ovo: moj Malteški soko.

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

Prelep je. I mogu da izjavim sa pravom da,

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

u tom trenutku kada sam ga završio,

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

od svih kopija koje postoje - a ima ih nekoliko -

this is by far the most accurate

ovo je ubedljivo najtačniji prikaz originalnog Malteškog sokola

representation of the original Maltese Falcon

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

koji je iko ikada izvajao.

Originalnog sokola je, treba da vam kažem, izvajao tip po imenu Fred Sekston.

is sculpted by a guy named Fred Sexton.

This is where it gets weird.

Ovde stvari postaju čudne.

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

Fred Sekston je bio prijatelj ovog tipa, Džordža Hodela.

Terrifying guy -- agreed by many to be the killer

Zastrašujući tip - mnogi se slažu da je on ubica Crne Dalije.

of the Black Dahlia.

Now, James Ellroy believes

E, sad, Džejms Elroj smatra

that Fred Sexton, the sculptor of the Maltese Falcon,

da je Fred Sekston, vajar Malteškog sokola,

ubio majku Džejmsa Elroja.

killed James Elroy's mother.

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

Izneću vam i nešto čudnije od toga: 1974. godine,

za vreme produkcije čudnog komičnog nastavka „Malteškog sokola”,

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

zvanog „Crna ptica”, sa Džordžem Sigalom u glavnoj ulozi,

called "The Black Bird," starring George Segal,

the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Muzeju umetnosti okruga Los Anđeles

had a plaster original of the Maltese Falcon --

je gipsani original Malteškog sokola -

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

jedan od originalnih šest, čini mi se, napravljenih za film -

stolen out of the museum. A lot of people thought

ukraden je iz muzeja.

Mnogi su mislili da je to bio medijski potez zbog filma.

it was a publicity stunt for the movie.

John's Grill, which actually

Džonov Roštilj, koji se vidi nakratko u „Malteškom sokolu”,

is seen briefly in "The Maltese Falcon,"

is still a viable San Francisco eatery,

i dalje je isplativ restoran u San Francisku,

counted amongst its regular customers Elisha Cook,

među svojim stalnim gostima broji Elišu Kuk,

who played Wilmer Cook in the movie,

koji je igrao Vilmera Kuka u filmu,

and he gave them

a on im je dao

jednog od svojih originalnih gipsanih Malteških sokolova.

one of his original plasters of the Maltese Falcon.

Držali su ga u ormaru oko 15 godina,

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

until it got stolen

dok nije ukraden

in January of 2007.

u januaru 2007. godine.

It would seem that the object of desire

Izgleda kao da predmet požude

only comes into its own by disappearing repeatedly.

postaje to samo ponavljanim nestajanjem.

So here I had this Falcon,

Dakle, ovde sam imao tog sokola i bio je divan.

and it was lovely. It looked really great,

Izgledao je zaista sjajno,

the light worked on it really well,

svetlost je baš bila dobra na njemu,

it was better than anything that I could achieve

bio je bolji od bilo čega što sam mogao postići

or obtain out in the world.

ili nabaviti u svetu.

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

Ipak, postojao je problem, a problem je bio -

I wanted the entirety of the object,

želeo sam celokupan predmet,

I wanted the weight behind the object.

želeo sam i težinu koja pripada predmetu.

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

Bio je napravljen od smole i suviše svetao.

There's this group online that I frequent.

Postoji jedna grupa na internetu koju često posećujem.

It's a group of prop crazies just like me

To je grupa zaluđenika rekvizitima poput mene

nazvana Forum za replike rekvizita,

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

i tu su ljudi koji trguju filmskim rekvizitima,

make and travel in information about movie props.

izrađuju ih i putuju radi informacija o njima.

And it turned out that one of the guys there,

Ispostavilo se da je jedan od likova tamo,

a friend of mine that I never actually met,

moj prijatelj koga nikad nisam sreo,

ali smo se sprijateljili kroz dogovore, bio je menadžer lokalne livnice.

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

He took my master Falcon pattern,

Uzeo je kalup mog skola,

he actually did lost wax casting

zapravo je uradio izlivanje izgubljenog voska

in bronze for me,

u bronzi,

i ovo je bronza koju sam dobio,

and this is the bronze I got back.

a ovo je, nakon graviranja kiselinom, onaj koji sam imao na kraju.

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

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

To je me učinilo veoma, veoma zadovoljnim.

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

Evo, staviću je tamo

later on tonight, and

kasnije u toku večeri

I want you to pick it up and handle it.

i hoću da ga uzmete i opipate.

You want to know

Hoćete da znate koliko sam opsednut?

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

Ovaj projekat je samo za mene,

and yet I went so far as to buy on eBay

a ipak sam otišao toliko daleko da na Ibeju kupim

a 1941 Chinese San Francisco-based newspaper,

kineske novine iz San Franciska iz 1941. godine

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

da bi ptica bila propisno zamotana...

like it is in the movie.

kao što je u filmu.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

Yeah, I know!

Da, znam!

(Laughter) (Applause)

(Smeh) (Aplauz)

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

Vidite, teži 12,5 kilograma.

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

To je polovina težine mog psa Hakslija.

But there's a problem.

Međutim, tu nastaje problem.

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

Evo najskorijeg napretka sokolova.

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

Ovo skroz levo je glupost - kopija koju sam kupio na Ibeju.

There's my somewhat ruined Sculpey Falcon,

Evo mog donekle uništenog sokola od Skalpija,

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

jer sam morao da ga izvadim iz kalupa.

Tu je moj prvo izlivanje, tu je moj model i tu je moja bronza.

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

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

Ima nešto što se dešava kada se oblikuju i izlivaju stvari,

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

a to je da svaki put kada je ubacite u silikon i izlijete u smoli,

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

izgubite malo obima, gubite malo veličine,

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

a kada sam postavio bronzanog naspram onog od Skalpija,

it was shorter by three-quarters of an inch.

bio je kraći za dva centimetra.

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

Da, ne, stvarno, aaa -

(Smeh)

why didn't I remember this?

kako se nisam setio toga?

Why didn't I start and make it bigger?

Zašto ga nisam na početku napravio većeg?

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

Pa, šta da radim? Kapiram da imam dve opcije.

One, I can fire a freaking laser at it,

Prvu, da ispalim prokleti laser u njega,

which I have already done,

što sam već uradio,

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

da bih obavio 3D skeniranje - evo 3D slike ovog sokola.

I had figured out the exact amount of shrinkage I achieved

Izračunao sam tačan iznos smanjenja koje sam stvorio

going from a wax master to a bronze master

prelazeći sa voskanog na bronzani model

and blown this up big enough to make

i uveličao ovo dovoljno da napravim

a 3D lithography master of this,

3D litografski model od toga,

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

koji ću doterati, zatim ga poslati proizvođaču kalupa,

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

a onda ga uraditi u bronzi ili -

There are several people who own originals,

ima nekoliko ljudi koji poseduju originale

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

i pokušavao sam da kontaktiram sa njima i da doprem do njih,

hoping that they will let me spend a few minutes

nadajući se da će mi dopustiti da provedem nekoliko minuta

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

u prisustvu jedne od pravih ptica, možda da je uslikam,

or even to pull out the hand-held laser scanner

ili čak da izvadim ručni laserski skener

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

koji slučajno posedujem i koji staje u kutiju žitarica,

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

i mogao bih možda,

čak i bez dodirivanja ptice, kunem se, da dobijem savršenu 3D sliku.

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

Čak sam spreman da potpišem izjavu da je niko nikada neće uzimati,

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

osim mene u mojoj kancelariji, obećavam.

I'll give them one if they want it.

Daću im jednu ako je žele.

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

A tada, možda, stići ću do kraja ove vežbe.

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

Ipak, u stvari, ako ćemo biti iskreni,

I have to admit that achieving the end of the exercise

moram da priznam da stizanje do kraja vežbe

nije ni nije bila poenta vežbe na početku, zar ne?

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

Thank you.

Hvala.

(Aplauz)