Designing the National World War I Memorial Sculpture
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Adam Savage meets sculptor Sabin Howard, who is working on a sculpture that will be a national momument to the First World War. In the process of designing the memorial for review, Sabin worked with Weta Workshop to create a scale model of the proposed sculpture, and walks Adam through the story it tells.
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He seemed genuinely validated by Adam’s enthusiasm, it was nice to see. The guy is clearly passionate!
The smaller scale should totally be used in museums, it’s fantastic as is.
Right? I would love a half size reproduction of this
Wow cool to see this realized at full size finally
Thank-you Sabin Howard
Sabin is one of our generation's master sculptor, cool to see some attention given to this project .
An astounding piece of work. Great to see the painstaking process too.
Amazing, I can't wait to see the full bronze version.
Took part in the unveiling. I lack the words.
Absolutely MAGNIFICENT.
I hope they choose this design for the WW1 Memorial. Shame though it won't be ready for several years, considering 2018 is the centennial.
There is nothing glamorous about war, but those who fight and die in the service of their nation deserve a noble and proper tribute.
It's painful, it's powerful, and it helps me appreciate my grandfather's WWI experience.
Jesse Alvin Dale, originally of Missouri, then Kansas, then Phoenix. Late 1880s,- 1975.
It’s really sad to think in my lifetime we saw the last WW1 veterans pass away. It won’t be too long before the last WW2 veterans pass away. It makes me depressed to even think about it.
I’m glad this memorial is being made. It’s important to never forget our history.
You can also think of it as the last living memories have gone and now people can move on and think of the future, hopefully a brighter future.
I really like that thought. For me both are true and needed. We need to move on. At the same time - in some instances - we have a history of repeating past mistakes the moment we feel it can never happened again. World War one was called the "The war to end war". That did not hold true. So many of the postive political systems in place in the Western Hemisphere is becouse World War two did happened, and we realised it could never happened again. Alright, this is a downer. Sorry. YAY WETA!
If your depressed about them leaving. it might be because you believe you don’t live up to them. The men of WW1 and 2 were a different caliber of men, and you can’t even find the same kind of women today. If you truly want to honor them you should imitate them and their character. I don’t mean live like your in the 40s, but ask yourself what your willing to fight for, what your willing to die for. Study what they fought so that you can know the enemy if it re-emerges from the shadows and crush it. You should look at how the acted in the field, you’d be surprised how well heroism translates to the civilian world. If your a dishwasher and your manager is feeling the load go above your job description and help clean the kitchen, and if your in a leadership role and your dishwasher is struggling, strap on an apron and help him out. That attitude translates to any field of work.
The above were all things my great grandfather, grandfather and father taught me, they are all veterans from ww2&1, Vietnam and the war on terror respectively, when my great grandfather was dying I had the pleasure to listen to his story and the foresight to write it down and the most common theme throughout his story and his favorite saying was “when life gets tough, don’t be afraid to ask for help but don’t be afraid to give it too, even if you don’t have the resources.” So don’t be depressed that their leaving us, use that energy to live like them and remember them through your actions, they saved us from something terrible and we owe it to them to not become the thing the fought the second they step off guard.
ArmyBrat, how does RUclips comments and notifications work. I got this because you replied to Nate and Noah, and not me, correct?
Love these comments. Really helping me understand my thoughts about my work...
Its so bitter sweet isn’t it? I’m motivated to capture and tell these stories from these epic moments in world-affected history where people were forced to face such challenging times and either adapt or die and find that part of me is heartbroken to see it forgotten but also extremely hopeful to see the world heal and move on. I love that point though, I think the most important thing we/I need to immortalise in the retelling of some of these moments is the calibre of people/humanity; what people adapted to, how people coped and supported and rose to defend. These are lessons and qualities that we should learn from in a world that is progressively “disappearing into a virtual reality.”
A line from fight club that always stuck with me is, “we are the middle children of history....no great war, no great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives...” And to me what sticks is the internality of our struggle today compared to the external from times in history like these.
It good to see the artist to understand the gravity of his tribute to the men and woman that have all given use our freedoms. We often remember the hero's that go off to war but we forget about the wife and children and the rest of the families that stand with there loved on that may not be coming home. The war never stops for these people. I can't wait to see this in person. Thank you so much!
This is a piece that should be standing in the court yard of the National WWI Memorial and Museum in Kansas City, MO or at the very least a half scale copy of it!
Seriously one of the the best channels on youtube!
truly stunning work, it feels like the sculptor/ sculptors put so much emotion, tears, sweat and blood into this. really hope that there efforts are rewarded with the approval for a full scale memorial to be produced from this. hopefully veterans from any war would be proud to visit it aswell
It's one of the most beautiful monuments I've seen
Absolutely love this video. Well done all.
The Woman holding the Bowl, is the representation of the Goddess Athena...the Journey through the Ocean onto the Battlefield and consequently, back to Athena is none other than the Classical allegory of the Illiad...
What a kind and gifted man
This is Absolutely Amazing and when its Done in Washington DC i will visit it.
Honor the ones that Sacrificed it all
Fantastic! Looking forward to seeing more progress in the future.
Truly awesome job this guy from Weta Works did. What an artist he is. That's the place i would want to Work at.
This is great. Having seen similar pieces at memorials before, I've wondered about the process, and who did it. So now I've seen a little of that process, and gotten to hear from someone who does it.
Thank you for this insightful look at this memorial. Love the journey you present and so complete.
Best of luck👋👋👋👋👋👋
I truly hope they make this
Can't wait to see more,
I would love to follow this memorial wall, from where it is now to final sculpture.
Really wonderful art and messages.
Beautiful in every way!
Amazing....this is an amazing memorial to the heroes of WWI. Thank you for sharing this Adam.
Beautiful. Hope I get to see the real deal in DC someday.
Incredible work. Very moving.
Outstanding!
That detail. Insane.
Beautiful sculpture and story I hope it gets the approval
What an amazing piece of art. It will be nice to see the final version. I also wonder what how the landscape around the memorial will look when completed.
I hope this will be ready by November 11th. 100 years later!!
fantastic art. do more stuff with other creative people. I'm a traditional painter myself so that would of course be top wish.
THIS IS INCREDIBLE AND I HOPE IT IS APPROVED TO BECOME A MEMORIAL! 👍🏼🇺🇸
That is incredible. Amazing.
Looks pretty good to me!
Its great to see this kind of video the remind us of history. Thank you very much!
Stunning work, and to come amazing
I hope this gets excepted, would love to see it when it is finally finished.
Pacificfighter103 45 when you think of accepted vs excepted, remember except is like exclude to remind yourself the difference. Not trying to be a snob, just trying to pass on a little trick! Have a nice day!
Great video. Really cool to see different forms of art on this channel
Amazing
Only people whose nations have never been attacked, invaded, or threatened with annihilation can say with full intent that there is nothing redeeming in war. Yes, war is terrible. But sometimes the terrible is necessary to prevent te horrific.
this was very interesting! Good Job Tested!
Nothing ruins art quite like having it explained to you before you've had a chance to experience it for yourself.
It's a lovely piece. I hope to experience the final result someday.
Erik Beeson doesn't ruin it for me. It actually helps
For sure; I do enjoy hearing about the process from the creator, but I prefer to have the opportunity to enjoy the piece first. It's like if a screenwriter were to explain their script to you before you watched the movie.
More videos with Adam talking with great people/artists.. BTW what ever happened to "The Talking Room"?
Dragon 1/6. And paint
This seems to me a revolutionary sculpture. The developmen of characte,r story, background and history in a narrative three dimensional bronze is totally new to my eyes.. The use of photography and development by drawing is fanatastic and the maquette by itself is astounding
WOW... Well done, Young Son!
Thank you to the people who served a moment of silence
To those who are judging this saying it shouldn't go through i have this for you.There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. john 15:13. I would happily go to war and even die if it meant that my loved ones and friends could remain at home not having to worry about bombs dropping on them or being invaded and having been to France walking in Vimy ridge and Juno beach and walking through the graveyards in France where so many are laid to rest, i believe this was also the mentality of quite a few of those soldiers as well. The point of these memorials is not to glorify war but instead to prove as a reminder of horrors and those who gave their lives fighting so that we may live happily and peacefully in our home countries. This is an amazing memorial and even though I live in Canada I would definitely travel to Washington just to be there for the unveiling of this monument.
I would love to see this made out of quarts or some other hard stone. That way it will stand the weather's of time for thousands of years to come. Metal rusts and degrades too quickly if it's exposed to the elements and not maintained properly.
So I immediately wondered how much it would cost to build such a thing at full scale, and looking up a current market price for bronze (scrap) at $1.68/Ib., and estimated the size of the piece in each dimension on a random calculator online which calculates weight based on dimensions for different alloys- yada yada- came to "very" roughly 1.6 million dollars, and that's JUST for the material cost, nevermind labor and installation fees. I'm sure my math is way off what the actual project will take, even based in where I was looking, but it was a fun little bit of research to do. At the time of writing this I'm only a minute and a half into the video. :P
Beautiful work. See it now, before the birds get to it.
Cool video
My oldest Great Grandfather served in was in WW1 Henry Otto Grill Private First Class United States Army.
Sabin is Savage.
Its hard to believe that there wasn't a WW1 Memorial created when there were still Doughboys alive that could have scene it. It's a shame that it took so long 100 years in fact but at least its finally being done
The OFFICIAL national WW1 memorial has been in Kansas City, MO since 1926. The new memorial in D.C. pales in comparison.
Wow Tested actually have a decent and interesting video .
I love you so much bro 😊
Recently I got my RUclips account up and running with a WWI themed page.
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That looks like Lindybeige.
Hi Adam!
Is this from a while ago? Are you still in the country ?
and here I thought there already was a WWI memorial. cant believe here isnt one already
There is one. It is in Kansas City Missouri
The OFFICIAL national WW1 memorial has been in Kansas City, MO since 1926. The new memorial in D.C. pales in comparison.
Wikipedia has good coverage of the political maneuvering that resulted in the creation of a second National World War One Memorial, with the first one opened in 1926 in Kansas City, Missouri and with this one in Washington being rushed in order to try to get it open in time for the November 11th, 2018 Centennial of the end of the War.
Did you even watch the video? The artist himself said that it will take at least a few more years to actually get the sculpture erected
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Having recently been to DC (before Trump thankfully) and seeing the amazing monuments, I was struck by their power & beauty. I felt emotionally moved at each one in different ways. This sculpture looks incredible and I will travel back to see this when it's done.
MAGA, cry more, baby boy.
Grate video its always grate to see a snap shot of a artist proses .
If you would like to visit a world war 1 memorial in America the Kansas City National world war 1 memorial and museum is excellent.
I have been there...it is excellent!
I spy a big bottle of Bob Smith Ind. CA Accelerator! And some familiar bottles of CA!
The myth of the wartime experience.
I'm not sold on the story of this sculpture. It's really well done, but doesn't feel unique enough.
Where are the stars and stripes
It's sad to keep seeing this heroic interpretations of wars.
Most wars are orcheted by a few for their own interests and the ones who actually go there to kill and die are just blind pawns.
It's not my intention to disrespect any, but to make people realize that when a young child see this characters as heroes, he will feel encouraged to be a hero himself. To go to another part of the world to kill and die.
Can't deny the beauty of the piece. But this not promote peace.
BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH *Yawn*
The willingness to sacrifice ones own life for the continued life of others is a heroic thing...this is not showing the heroics of war, its showing the heroics of those who were willing to fight and die for what they believed in.
They were forced to go to war to protect life. War is not heroic, but it's full of heroes.
Its not heroic
@acousticpsychosis I find it's more born out of self-detriment; a lack of self-worth tends to bring out a desire to be part of something bigger, and for many, that includes martyrdom. Heroes are just people who are a paradigm of contemporary ethos, which I would argue (with plenty of evidence) is arbitrary. Many people who go into military service see it as their only option in the first place. Besides, he's trying to make a point that soldiers aren't inherently martyrs (and in fact are being duped into thinking that they are by the virtuous implication of no ulterior motives), so you can't just reply by saying they're sacrificial heroes, you've really said nothing of substance.
That's gonna be a lot of bronze...
war is stupid
the military is stupid
murica loves to glorify war, stop with this
there's nothing heroic about going to war
it's just sad
this sculpture is great though
@Jon Stauffer searching for misspellings, that's a nice counterargument
at least I'm not a freak war lover
War is stupid. War is always a tragedy. War is politics failing. The thing is, back then, in those wars that wasn't localised, actual world wars, we were forced to fight as to not live under a brutal dictatership. Politics failed. The choice was gone. A generation was sacrificed. It wasn't right. It was the result of human failure at the larges scale. I hope you see what I mean. Its not glorifying war. I fear that this nuanced knowledge will be gone when the last generation is gone. When "only" pictures and text are left and not the living human sacrifice. Again, im not picking a fight :)
This memorial is a condemnation of war, not glorification
@Jon Stauffer's original comment: The point isn't that the war was fought, it's that its being glorified and pushed into the realm of ethical by commissioning an artwork that will influence countless people's deeply-held beliefs in the virtue of service. That's how you get people fighting wars for the wrong reasons.
Besides, is it even the federal government's place to be commissioning artworks? I mean holy hell, it's clearly a very didactic piece with clear political motivations. If we want to memorialize the 100th anniversary of the end of the war, we should at least be honest with the brutality and the emotions, this shit should be at the Goya/Caravaggio level of grime and shock.
I agree with you. Good points all round! :)
Now that's what I call a 'nice piece of art'. Not something like I have to work with in my work. Modern 'art' is total garbage in most cases ;
"Wait, there was a World War I?!" -My ex
The only problem with the memorial, as I see it, is the lack of fixed bayonets when "going over the top". In WWI the fighting was so close in the trenches that much of it was hand to hand, and using the rifle as a pike to spear the enemy. Other than that I think it is a very moving commentary.
Bayonets weren't actually used as much as you'd think. Most preferred clubs and hammers.
...Total non sequitur here: Sabin is rather attractive. I mean of course... He's a genius, but also, he's physically... You got it, no need to elaborate.
I WILL be visiting D.C. at some point to view this. No easy deal, (I'm plop in the mid U.S.A.
man BrandonJLa aged a lot tbh
Good concept for the monument. However I feel as Americans tend to forget about the Harlem Hellfighters
Did you not see the black guy?
Trommari the piece is telling one story. There is definitely a black looking male among the soldiers in the piece. It is wonderfully well done that any veteran, regardless of race, could relate to.
@Tsar Nicholas alot of the black platoons werent taught to fight and were given spades, not guns, so the fact they fought at all was pretty inspiring
It ends in a batlle royale
no wemen with prostetics ? take this down please
Quite, 9 year old! lol
acosticpsychosis The OP is making a joke about the upcoming game Battlefield V. In the game one of the main protagonists is a woman with a prosthetic robot arm. This has caused a fair amount of controversy in the gaming community because the Battlefield franchise advertises itself as being realistic and historically accurate.
lol I know, I saw the pewdiepie video about it, figured thats what he was referencing when he said 'wemen'
Who cares what sexual organs they had and how many there were, if they were supporters, fighters, and willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good, thats good enough
Love u like if u agree
There should be a German WW1 mamoral, the Germans suffered as well
*memorial
In the US? Perhaps the Germans might do one themselves…
zyxw vut I believe they have
Their epic like if you think so
51th
HOW ABOUT THE _WOMEN_ WHO WERE _ALSO_ IN THE WAR??? (at home, nurses, etc...)
Typically secondary and basically left out, as usual. I hope he is not chosen, and someone who is truly inclusive is.
Speaking of women, #JFC: 9:29
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What is this!?!! Men being made to look like hero's?!??! This is 2018 where are the whamonnnn with samurai swords and robot arms!?!?!! How dare these people do something to honor those who died for our country with historical accurate representation?!??!?!
Not enough women with prosthetics...EA will be quite miffed. Surely you could of added more than the 38 figures!
I don´t like war monuments like this. Millions of men on all sides died in a war that did not really end until after world war 2 and centered around the stupidity of nationalism and rasism. The we vs them mentality and the fake ideas about military glory. Sadly we learned only the minimum from all of that blood spilled. Anyway my opinion is that any war monument should center around the soldiers the horror and cost of war. This sculpture hints at the horror but it seams to just be a background theme ment to make the returning victorious hero/soldier more impressive. The ending with the flag and marching and him returning the helmet is neat and perfect like a pr poster. It feels nationalistic and glorifying so i dont like the theme. But the art itself is impressive.
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