Adam Savage's Live Builds: Weathering Prop Money!
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- In this live stream, Adam shows the process of weathering a stack of prop money (which you can find here amzn.to/2T1ZvId). It's the same aging process set decorators and propmasters would use for film work, adding random wear and grime to a stack of bills to create the illusion that it's been used thousands of times. Plus, it's a chance for Adam to put his workshop oven to use! (This livestream took place on 5/12/20)
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Quarantine is the best thing to ever happen to Tested members that enjoy the shop talk and building. Thank you so much!
It's awesome it's the only reason I'm subbed and now I get hours of it a day.
Garage Barrage cardboard, tape, and razor blades! Use coffee, shoe polish and dirt for weathering, and paint is pretty inexpensive!
@@XX-hz2bs no it isn't but you didn't use logic to get to that position so I can't use logic to get you out of it.
I feel the same. This has been a saving series for me, but also has inspired more personal projects around the house even though I don't consider myself a maker.
My thoughts exactly. I love these super long videos. Please keep doing it after!!
Damn it, I just spent 5 Minutes trying to figure out what was wrong with my internet connection
just to hear Adam say "Sorry I was low-res for a while!".
lol , you wern't the only person
right there with you
Thank you just saved me from rebooting everything trying to figure why I'm losing connection.
"There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture."
Lol, he wasn't "low res", he was no res.
Adam, I am a graphic artist and printer. Many years ago, as a young man, I worked with a gentleman who had, in his day, been a quite successful and notorious counterfeiter. He was also an example of how the rehabilitative aspect of the criminal justice system can get things right. He rarely told "war stories" and conscientiously avoided glamorizing what he had been and done. Nonetheless, from time to time he'd share interesting bits of his knowledge, often in an offhand way that seemed like just mundane "shop talk."
One of the things I remember him talking about, lamenting really, was the difficulty in making counterfeit currency look legitimately circulated and used. He described a number of things he'd done, but the one he seemed like best was putting the money in a feed sack or pillow case with coffee can's worth of roadside gravel and leftover fresh coffee grounds, then tumbling it for a couple of hours without heat in a clothes dryer. He'd laugh about bribing laundromat attendants to let his crew in after hours where they would load dozens of dryers with scores of bags of "money" to be aged. And, of course, immediately point out that it wasn't perfect since he'd been caught more than once. He was, if nothing else, colorful.
I feel like there is a money laundering joke to be made here
Seems unwise to take a bribe from a counterfeiter. Even if they claim they are paying you with legitimate currency... who is going to trust that?
A coffee can worth of dirt can't have much value, it won't be worth much at all.
Hard coffee soup + light weight (or diluted with water) wood glue (not the acrylic type) + green dust used in making maquettes + and a few pinches of salt. Mixed well on a hot plate at around 20C for about an hour. Paper dipped, dried, dipped again, dried again, dipped a third time, dusty pillows beaten in proximity, left to dry then a good tumble with a steel barrel filled with broken chunks of hardwood for half an hour to an hour.
@@kj1h5kj At the end of the day the dead giveaway to fake money is the serial #. Every bill has its own unique serial #. Many counterfeiters dont bother changing the serial # as they are just using the same plates or images to make their money. All you have to do is compare a handful of bills to see that they are all using the same serial #'s.
about this blood colour question; for a video we did some experiments and a mix of 70% cocoa and 30% tomato mash [leave this for a few days] gives a convincing result. dark, brow and a little reddish. Simple and effective
24:30 150 degrees Fahrenheit should be fine, I've heard paper only ignites at Fahrenheit 451...
but that's BOOK paper
My friend had a remote control for his 60s era TV. It was a broom stick with a nail driven into one end to push buttons and a notch cut into the other to turn knobs. The TV was just close enough to his bed that he could reach it with the stick without having to get up.
I think it was one of the most clever, most lazy things I've ever seen.
I inherited an old TV that was of the pre-remote generation when I was a kid that was in my bedroom. I had a fake spear that was made out of bamboo that I discovered would serve the same purpose.
Love to see weathering jobs, just so satisfying to watch the before and after!
Build the "Back to the Future" Briefcase that was full of Bills for "Emergency" :)
"Destruction is part of the job."
How many t-shirt slogans can Adam
Toss out when not thinking about it .
That brush is something similar to what we use in the uk, it’s called a “tarmac brush” generally used to rubbing diesel or your tools when your laying tarmac to stop it sticking to your tools
It's the Nimbus 1000.
I use a similar style brush set for both cleaning car rims and in my parts washer. And obviously not the same set of brushes.
So now I learn this, how many paved drives have I closed up with bitumen and gravel, only to have my tools get sticky with bitumen. It's not quite as bad as the resin in a cable joint, but still not nice.
Regarding the weathering process, most $100 bills that I've run across are, in fact, rolled up tightly 🤣
Or have been, in their recent history. They weren't stress tested though, they got the 'sniff test' where they were checked for foreign odors....
I see what u did there ❄️💰😂
I'm very grateful to have Adam and his heartwarming personality he shares with us, his process at making and sharing his thoughts and problem solving. As much as I miss mythbusters, I am thrilled to have his Tested channel. Inspiring.
That money really looks dirty, you're gonna have to launder it!
Ha!
For an accurate "wear" of the money it also have to carry some "interesting" traces of various substances.
@@ehsnils, for authenticity, clearly!
Adam PLEASE keep making the *"Week 1,356 of lockdown joke"* , not even being sarcastic. Some of us have to keep the Dad jokes alive 🦾.
It's even funnier when you explain that you should stop doing it, and then do it again 🤣.
Do we know it is a joke? Maybe it's Adam accidentally admitting to be broadcasting from the future.
You are the Bob Ross of engineering, I can watch your videos and just relax, it's really amazing, keep it up Adam!
“Human beings are bad at being random” as he folds 10 bills exactly the sane
Most bills will be folded that way in their lifetime.
I, personally, only fold my Bill's 1 at a time before I store them.
This is exactly how they know that it's someone pretending to be be random.
Real randomness will have sequences in it that people find a meaning in, meaning that doesn't exist in the math.
In a real random sequence you're going to occasionally get five zeros in a row, or four through eight in order. But because humans find those patterns to have significance we won't choose them when we're trying to be random.
@@FossilFishy instead of trying to be "random" its easier to just fold every 10 bills the same way and then when you put them all together and mix them up they come out as actually being random folds.
Actually the fastest way to find fake random over real is fake lacks groupings.
Take a coin, flip it 100 times and record that H and T on a piece of paper.
Then, go to a bar, bet your friends 100 dollars that if you give them a piece of paper and a coin to toss and then walk away you will be able to tell when they are done if they actually record coin tosses or just right down random numbers.
Look at your real coin tosses and you will be surprised how many more groupings of 3 4 5 and 6 occur the more tosses you do.
8:24 As long as you keep coming out with all these live/one day builds every week, you can upload at 140p for all i care.
That will look great on my 21" monitor ;)
I love how dainty Adam ISNT! Just throwing, banging stuff around. Great stuff!
The part where he raised the brush above the money bucket, and I was sure that he was going to just toss the coffee down in droplets.
But no, he smashed the brush into the bucket
I'm usually the most anxious person but watching adam work on things with such enthusiasm gives me the most relaxing feeling its weird😂
YES FINALLY footage of Adam using his ruler tattoo!! I have been waiting so long to actually see it in use.
Adam: "dang. i have so much stuff to do i dont have time to do them all! i should do something else "
relatable right xD
16:43 made me bust out laughing - he starts like he's going to be so dainty with it and then just starts smashing it
Went looking for this comment. Glad I found it lol.
Such wholesome lockdown content, listening to Adam telling stories is so satisfying
one of the good things this pandemic has given us is more adam videos. last month, we had more than double the videos of him that we got in the entirety of last year.
“Cooking with Adam”. Totally need to have Alton Brown back.
Alton's been streaming weekly throughout quarantine, go check out his youtube channel!
Then you realize the prop money is worth more than real currency from Zimbabwe
Also, along side the random British money fact I posted, I really want to thank you, and your team. Your daily uploads really have helped to break monotony of our current situation. I can well imagine I'm not the only one to be so grateful. Cheers Adam, all the way from the little town of Washington, in the North East of England!
I kept waiting for the Secret Service to come in from behind!
In response to Adam's query about youtube not being able to give good feedback, i wonder if you could generate word clouds based on comments?
Wolfram has such AI tools for video.
Finally!
I learn how to make perfect fake money!
The only problem... We have Euro in Germany.
Over 50% of United States currency is circulated outside the USA, so especially in black markets you can still spend your fake dollars!
DJFelixChester Neat fun fact, let me follow up with another one: Only 8% of the worlds currency exists physically, the rest are just numbers on computers everywhere
@@dismiggo oh sh*t, how can you weather fake digital money?...
Plastic is easy. Put them in your washing machine at the hardest cycle, no heat, with a few chunks of hardwood. No sharp corners. It's actually harder to do prop money from "paper" because it tears so damn easily, unless you use the same material, at which point you get into trouble.
I have a friend who does a lot of prop stuff for a few studios and he and a couple of our friends and i brain stormed various methods for a flick about a robbery or some shit like that. Funny thing is he went to their spec, but they showed so little in the flick that it wasn't even worth it.
@@takix2007 Change a few 0's to 1's or vice versa
The tech aspect of Adam having to setup his own shots and deal with problems like low res is super relatable and makes these videos a bit more personal and awesome.
I don't know if you read the comments, but I just wanted to say that you're a huge inspiration and a hero to me! I loved watching MythBusters as a kid (still do but I rarely watch TV anymore) and everything from your cheery and energetic attitude to your love for your craft somehow just really gets to me. I'm not a maker myself, but a general lover of science and (hopefully) a future medical doctor, and your continued nerdy antics always cheer me up!
- A hello from Finland, I hope you never stop doing your thing
Please design a t-shirt with "It's hard to remember all the things" :) on it
Adam. FYI, Leicester is pronounced 'Lesta'. Don't worry, everyone gets it wrong 8-)
Greetings from Leicestershire.
You mean Lestasha? 😀😀
😀
It could have been Wors('ta)
Molestershire
True
Just found your video because I was trying to figure out how to make prop money look aged, and you were WONDERFUL! Your directions worked great, and my prop money looks perfect. Thank you so much… (I also love to play with prop money 😂, glad you enjoy it too)
38:35 - I love that you use the word excelsior... as someone who's lived in SF, it feels like a very SF word, and yet, it's more than just the name of a place. :)
you know it's Adam when he gets excited about old book colognes
20:19
If you just keep skipping through the video with the 10 seconds skip, you can see the money shrink down as it dries
Holy shit !
Words from a cashier. The easiest way to weather bills then just stuff them in the back pocket of your jeans for a few weeks. You can fold them sure or just wad the bills into your pocket. The amount of bills I get that are ripped, torn, missing a bit of it, crumpled beyond belief, etc. would boggle your mind. This is the easiest way to do it truthfully. Soaking some in sweat or a sweat like substance (as gross as this sounds it IS true) will also add a realistic look and feel
16:40 "I'm going to..." * drip drip * ... * WHAP WHAP WHAP! * i just found that slight pause hilarious even though it was such a small thing.
Could you use a rock tumbler with random items to get a similar effect on the bills?
I reckon, or a lotto cage or (if you can remember) a hand washing machine called a sputnik...
16:17 I believe those are used by witches for flying on.
Adam saying "It's not my bag baby" at 2:43 xD. Adam picked up some new slang in quarantine
Adam, You are my favorite person on this planet. I remember when i saw you at your mythbusters convention and even shook your hand. Thank you for being my hero sir.
In fact i remember when you poked your hand on the nail bed and said sh*t and then you said " cursing is only cool for adults"
Adam: Getting excited about durable cotton US money.
Everyone in Europe looking at their polymer notes: I can boil this in a stew for 6 hours, then just wipe it and it's good to go.
congrats on 5 million subs Adam BTW you are so cool this is a relay good video don't stop the content!
Thank you for keeping us sane during lockdown without your RUclips videos I think we would all go mad. You even persuaded me to get a router and play with it !? Never used one before! They are great for improving woodwork it makes it fun
I liked his point about not being sad about props that were made to be destroyed. In a way, the prop is not truly complete *until* is has been destroyed. There are props who's purpose is to look a certain way to the eye at rest. Other props' sole purpose is to look a certain way for a very brief moment in time, and that *moment* is the art.
Hi Adam, is your finger allright? I hope it is. Thank you for everything.
“I’m going to...” *smashes money*
"don't send me counterfeit shit." - Best part of the episode lol
A popular story about ww2 Germany was that a man takes a wheel burrow full of money to the bank and he leaves it outside for whatever reason. Another man sees the wheel burrow full of cash and dumps it out and steals the wheel burrow.
*I.R.S.:* _My, that looks like a lot of weight you're carrying, let me take some off your hands!_
*F.B.I.:* _Hold on now, I need to look at it first for... uh... "research purposes"_
don't mind if no side wins that fight
Battle of the crooked agencies. 😂
Ahhh 240p we meet again
Great. Not just me then.
You are such a nice person, and an inspiration to many. The world needs more people like you.
Coffee is such a universal stain producer in prop making. I shouldn't be surprised you're using it.
Any chance of discovery releasing every episode of Mythbusters on Blu-ray?
Also rust leaves a dried blood like colour on paper and other fabrics.
You'd probably have to harass discovery about the Blu-ray. They likely own the copyright.
Austin Shoupe I know that they own the rights to them, my question was out of curiosity if Adam, or anyone who read the comments have heard about a physical release. I’ve always been a big fan and watching the explosions in full 1080 Blu-ray quality would be fun.
Where are these livestreamed? I haven't been able to find them and Id love to watch along live.
Live on this channel :)
Probably livestreamed as private with the link shared to paying members on tested.com, then edited and uploaded for us to enjoy for free.
@@pileofstuff I don't know about that. I've caught a couple live on his youtube channel and I'm not a tested member. He usually does them in the middle of the day (noonish Pacific time) when he does stream. They had to turn off the chat when he started due to his poor internet.
I think there might be Website called Vimeo,It really is kind of stupid that RUclips considers this illicit content, he's not encouraging people to Try to pass this as real money or leave it where people could find it and try to spend it, but RUclips doesn't have a sense of humor apparently and are pulling down videos for all sorts of ridiculous reasons maybe this can be found on Patreon ,
They are livestreamed on this channel, but when the stream finishes they are immediately made private and are then chopped up into sections and released as edited videos like this. I wish that they just made them unlisted rather than private, as it is super annoying watching live as if you pause for any length of time and resume it ends up cutting off the stream before you finish watching it.
I love that he just uses his tattoo so instinctively. It seems so useful!
As an Australian, one thing I really like about our plastic money is the transparent windows and the iridescent foil, I think it looks really neat.
One thing that's really cool is the accessibility features of our money. Each value of note is a slightly different width and length, so if you have a stack in your hand you can tell how many are of each value without looking, and some values have a small design embossed. Also each value is a different colour, so you can tell what the notes are at a glance, even without my glasses (I'm very shortsighted) I know immediately what note I'm looking at. Even our coins are all different sizes and thicknesses with different lines around the rim.
In addition to all of that, the money has special printing that only shows under UV light. It's very difficult for a counterfeit to have all those features (not that the average person carries a UV torch to use at every transaction).
24:44 : If my literature classes are of any help, I'd wager a dollar or two that 150°F won't make paper burn, and that you'd have to ramp it up to, say, something like 301°F more...
Paper burns around 450°
@@TheRealUmbellaCorporation Fahrenheit? 450 or so?
@@TheRealUmbellaCorporation Actually Fahrenheit 451 ;)
@@timmcbridee I'm no FIREFIGHTER but this seems about right.
Discord is a cool thing for letting audience to give some live feedback. I would happily connect to your videos :)
My favorite part about prop money is getting to test all the different counterfeit detection methods. I own an iodine pen and a solvent pen, and have access to one of the blacklight bill checkers that has a guide to all the UV stripes and security features labeled on it. Doing it with kids is awesome.
My country moved to plastic money a couple of years ago, and this video made me realise that I miss the smell of money really quite badly, like you miss an old friend or a drug you're recovering from an addiction to.
Money laundering: step one
That's not how money laundering works.
@@ericstoverink6579 Obviously not. Everybody knows that you run it through the heavy soil cycle of a washing machine, warm - no bleach - extra rinse, then, tumble dry on low, do not iron. Duh.
21:07 It’s pronounced “Lester”
Thank you! I was just coming here to put that.... 👍🏼
Can confirm. I live in Leicester.
First I was just wondering if that's what he meant... Then I was asking my screen out loud if that's what he meant... By the 23rd time I was yelling at the screen to STOP SAYING IT BECAUSE IT MADE MY EARS BLEED! 😂😅
If you make a precise machine imprecisely is it still a precise machine? This is the type of question we now ask ourselves in these times of isolation.
Really enjoy these style of videos. It's like sitting with you as you chat (which it is in a way) and also very much enjoy the energy.
Leicester is pronounced “Lester” not “lie-sester” or “lie-Chester”
Came to the comments looking for this
then what the fuck are all those other letters doing in there?
Just like Worcestershire sauce is pronounced 'Woostashire sauce'
Ok fucking grammar police
I wasn’t trying to be a dick sorry...
16:42 Ådam Såvåge the Swedish chef låundering møney
I just started the video and saw your comment. Had to check it out; love the Swedish Chef. He does resemble him cooking there. 😂🤣😂👍👍✌✌
As someone formerly 'in the business' in northern califorrnia, it's not kept in flat stacks like that. It tends to be folded-in-half wads of 2500 or 5g, and then just counting out those wads.
Edit: At least in any of the deals I did, but I never dealt more than 300k in a single go either.
Adam channels his internal Bob Ross with this weathering technique.
Beat the devil outta the dang thing
Just watch "To Live and Die in L.A."
That's what I thought of too
too bad for video quality...
I love these videos but sadly this one is unwatchable. I cant see any detail on what Adam is doing. I will come back and hope a higher quality version is uploaded.
Adam doing the camera work and directing is probably the best thing I’ve ever seen
This is the tested I know and love. I have missed the one to one you and a camera just having random conversations or thoughts and builds or walkthroughs of the shop. Do these every day and I will watch everyday.
Adam is the person I most want to meet in person, followed only by Matt Mercer. Thank you for making me feel good about becoming a maker.
Today was great weather around Philly actually. 83 and sunny. I've actually got the sliding door open late at night for the first time this year.
Your brush looks like something the Chef would use in a BBQ pit to soak the meat with their secret marinade sauce
My mom used to work in a bank. According to her, handling stacks of money over an extended period of time is pretty gross. After a couple of hours your fingertips take on a blackish-brownish color that has a not very nice smell and is hard to wash off. Edit: apparently it’s also slightly sticky. Not sure if I‘d want to smell of money.
Regarding the blood stained money: there is a fountain pen ink by a company called Diamine that they named „Oxblood“. It dries a very darkish-red-brownish color that might just be up your alley. When I refill my fountain pen with it and have a spill, my desk looks like a murder scene 😅
I believe the brush was used for gluing up large posters when they were common for things like the circus and shoes coming to town. When you would "plaster" the town.
I made a lot of props for the TV show "The Carbonaro Effect". Lots of magic props. But we also did a lot of tricks with money. Most of the money tricks used fake money because we had to build it to be special in some gimmicky way. So we circumvented a lot of the counterfeit rules by making our own money. We found great paper that matched the feel of US currency after we worked it a bit. It was quite amazing. But we aged our fake bills in similar fashion by beating and staining it with coffee. Bending the corners to 'break' the stiffness.
Grateful just for your company again today Adam! Now go tackle that big ten episode project!
I love that he's explaining how to recreate blood, when the easiest way is use blood. Some of best art has my actual blood on it/ in it. Weather's beautifully, especially on nice old style paper and canvas.
I really want to see the shop in all its glory, like a really close up view to all the different things that were created. It's really interesting.
36:10 Maggie doesn't like the word "Destroy".
38:19 Those "air quotes" you did made me laugh haha
I live in the uk we gave just changed our money to the plastic money watching this I relished how much I miss I smell and feel of paper money
Would be cool to see you build the money case Doc Brown uses in Back to The Future!
My store got successfully passed one of these exact fake 100's! It was TOTALLY FUN and I'm totally bummed I wasn't the cashier that day and didn't get to NOT pen test the bill or even look at it long enough to know it was fake! I didn't even get yelled at by my boss! The company LOVED IT.
Years ago I needed “money” for a play. I had art students draw the money. I had a picture of the school’s mascot, said it was the school’s cash, and was an inch longer and an inch longer that a US bill!
I now have a great respect of the prop makers that worked on Breaking Bad
When I was in graduate school Boggs did a lecture And afterwords we went out with him and he bought us all drinks with one of his $50 bills I also got him to sign a camel buck and do a little drawing on that. He was one amazing artist.
A counterfeit 50?
I’ve been mesmerised with prop money since I saw the Cincinnati Kid with Steve McQueen. Love playing cards with prop bills.
Household oven: The inside surfaces will get considerably hotter than the set temperature and the temperature will overshoot while warming up.
Learned these while curing some epoxy in urethane molds.
that laught at 11:06 talking about the adventures of the $100 bills...whatever could Adam be thinking of ;)
I met JSG Boggs once. He was staying at a hotel I worked at at the time. The owners accepted his money as payment. It was pretty cool.
Super stoked to see Grandad’s mechanical volume remote
Adam your vids theas days has bin great and a Really great way of passing time😄
A long time ago I was working for a company that had a thousand bank note acceptors. When the new edition of $20 was about to be released my boss was friends with the local Federal Reserve Bank and he arranged for me have a few of the new pre-release notes to test our modified bill acceptors. When they were later released for circulation the lunch counter clerk asked me if I had seen the new $20s yet. I said, "Yes, three months ago." She was totally blown away, "How!" she asked. So I told the story.
The banker also told us that money ages differently on the east coast and old money is thicker than new money.
Haha ADAM SAVAGE everyone... One of the few humans who thinks forever isn’t enough time.