How "Selling Out" Has Changed for Adam Savage
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Do professional makers look down on hobbyists? Does Adam Savage plan projects in steps or in one go? What's the most insightful information Adam received while working at ILM? Which age-inappropriate film did Adam see that shaped him? What's up with the hole-y chair that occasionally shows up in the background? In this live stream excerpt Adam answers these questions from Michael Schnell, Zercell, BK94, Martin Hooker and ThePoppedBubble. Which movies shaped you?
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A lot of my approach to how to become who I want to be has been shaped by the Iron Man movies. Something about a guy who is constantly failing but who is choosing to get back up and learn from those failures really speaks to me.
So I don't know if you folks at the channel have anything to do with it, but I've recently had a lot of 'members only' videos recommended to me, especially from your channel. Perhaps it's just because you have a lot of 'members only' videos, but as a person who is really vigilant when it comes to identifying psychological manipulations, it doesn't sit right with me. I don't tolerate fomo being weaponized against me. I love Adam and this channel, but the reality is that I'll unsubscribe and stop watching all videos from this channel if it gets beyond a certain point.
Not that I think i'm that important, you can do you and I can do me, but I think you should be aware that there are downsides to this members only business that you may not have accounted for.
Geriatric Millennial here. We just had antenna for the first 10 years or so of my life so I consumed movies by recording like the network Saturday evening movie. If I liked it, I kept it and watched it a ton. I would record on EP so I could stack 3 movies per tape if I paused recording at commercials.
One of the ones I watched the most was Back to the Future.
Then once we got basic cable in the mid-90s I’d be watching the Sci-fi channel a lot and would typically tune in for their Saturday original movie
I would relish the occasional premium channel (showtime, HBO, etc) free previews as I could see uncut more recent releases on TV.
I was 8 when I saw Star Wars at the cinema, confirmed geek ever since.
I was 9 when I saw Watership Down, traumatised me and shaped my view on animal cruelty.
I was 10 when I saw Salem's Lot on TV (with David Soul), slept for years with a pillow over my neck.
I was 10 and a friend of my mom's bought tickets for my 15 year old brother and I to see Blade Runner. Completely inappropriate for my age, but it rocked my world. Been a lover of sci-fi ever since.
Let's go do some crimes. Let's eat sushi and not pay. Re-po, Re-po, Repo Repo, Repo Man! 😁
My childhood movie is steeped in trauma. For some reason, my parents thought I would be asleep in the backseat as we went to the drive-in and they watched Jaws. Now at 57 years old, I still can't swim, hate boats and being on the water, and am terrified of sharks. Multiple combat tours, been blown up, but cringe at sharks. Totally unrealistic phobia, but there ya go.
Was 7 years old when I found out cool movies would play after dark on the basic cable channels. Saw stuff like the original Star Wars trilogy and then.. "Alien", "Predator", and "The Thing" traumatized me to the point I thought the Xenomorph, the Predator, and the final form of the Thing with the screaming husky that Macready blows up were all hiding under my bed in some Axis of Child Terror tag team. I'd jump out of bed and try to land as far away from the bed and as quietly as possible until I was like.. 14. In my 30s I still catch myself avoiding peeing in the water of the toilet cause I thought the splashing would awaken them all those years ago.
I was 10 when I first saw the billboards advertising "Alien". I loved sci-fi and I got really excited about the movie. Of course, I didn't know anything about it other than it was sci-fi. When I went to my older brother (he is 8 years older than me) to get him to take me into the movie he wouldn't do it. He told me I was too young and that movie wasn't for me. Later, as a teenager, when I did see the movie I learned that, as much as it frustrated me at the time, my brother was right to not take me to that movie when I was that young 🙂
Is it really selling out if you can pay your bills and still do what you love?
Depends
I don't know about being *nostalgic* for it, but my experience with changing consumption of media involves using Bearshare and Limewire as a kid in the 90s and downloading a song never knowing if it is 1) labelled correctly, 2) the song you're even looking for, 3) not a troll, and 4) not a virus until it's finished downloading, which itself could take hours for a single song. I remember thinking that Wheel in the Sky was NOT Journey but some other person for years because the version I got from Limewire was mislabelled. I even remember thinking "man, this sounds a lot like Journey".
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1:01 when I was younger I loved offloading and working on jeeps. I started working in a offroad shop. One time I went to an jeep event, and never unloaded my own vehicle because the whole time I was working on others vehicles. I decided then, that I didn't want this to be a job. If you find a way to make you Hobbie into a job, you will never work again, saying isn't always true. Sometimes it take the fun out of your hobbies.
"It's a project that I thought would take a couple of days that is now eight months and counting. But you know, which amoung us can throw stones?"
Might need this one on a shirt @tested
I love your channel so much Mr. Savage!!!
Selling out is more like helping people learn science and pretending to be a cool guy and then promoting energy drinks made by people that run crypto scams.
*COUGH* markrober *COUGH COUGH*
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And every RUclipsr supporting BetterHelp. Although the idea of telehealth therapy services is good, it's been clearly shown for quite a while that BetterHelp is doin it rong.
1. BetterHelp exploits its therapists.
2. BetterHelp does not protect clients adequately:
a. Therapists' credentials and backgrounds are not verified and there are unqualified people registered to do therapy
b. At one point, though they may have stopped this, they were selling clients' answers to very personal assessments without their consent to share this information
c. Despite doing these detailed personal assessments to match clients to the best therapists, the process often does not work and people are matched to inappropriate therapists (also see a above) who do them harm
I realize BetterHelp pays their affiliates very well, but accepting money from a company this unethical that harms vulnerable people who are trying to use it as intended is definitely selling out.
10:20 I think about limited choice in media, particularly video games (90s), quite a bit. When you have fewer choices you have to make more meaning out of things. It wasn't just mindless content, but something a little more artful or purposeful. We are too inundated with content now to appreciate things the same way.
Games now don’t even come out finished now at least they had to work out most of the bugs before releasing it. Modern games made for modern audiences is hot garbage
I vaguely remember Beastmaster and I was fond of it at the time. I remember that I loved Buckaroo Banzai and never realized it wasn't a hit in the theaters because my family almost always waited until movies came out on HBO to see them. I was shocked in college when they had it for student movie night and my boyfriend had never heard of it.
Buckaroo Banzai is amazing. The only quibble I have with it is that they saved the absolute best track of the score for the end credits. A pity none of the planned sequels/TV shows ever came to pass.
Taking commissions isn't necessarily the same thing as selling out. If you're making someone else's vision to their specifications using their input that's just doing a good job. Selling out is when you compromise your own vision or principles for money, fame, success, etc.
For example, if an artist who advertised themselves as an anti-establishment human rights activist accepted a contract to make promotional materials for the IDF then that person could reasonably be considered a sellout.
My confusion at Adam talking about Repo Man and for a second I thought he was talking about Repo! The genetic opera. Have seen both and would not recommend either for children, but then the latter is an early 2000's movie so that's definitely too late for Adam's childhood.
Both are amazing films.
I think 2010 is a little late for "early 2000s". :P
Battleship New Jersey has an episode on the Emeco Navy Chairs. There's a lot of them that were bought for WWII that are still in use in the navy. A major case of "You get what you pay for"... those chairs are many hundreds of dollars new.
My job as a web designer is primarily a hobby. It's nice that I get paid to do it.
You are the best question answerer on earth lol
THE MAN WHO INSPIRED MY DREAMING 🤩
Beastmaster was one of my lost movies. Saw it at the age of... 7? ... when video rentals were a new thing in Norway. No HBO in Norway so I did not re-discover it there. It was one of those few things you have several very clear memories of, but no idea of the actual title.
Internet came and I tried several times to find it. Unsuccessfull at first but after some years and possibly after it's region 1 DVD release I found it. Bought it. Watched it. Loved it. Then the soundtrack became available. Bought it. Listened to it. Loved it.
I always thought the chair looked like furniture from a Zeppelin.
It really helps that I watched Repo Man just last week. I like where you say it's about repossessing cars. That's like "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" being about fixing motorcycles. Well, kinda, but...
When I was eight, my parents took me to see the original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956). I checked under my bed for a week after that, but here I am. Also, during the summers in Texas the local channel, 11 at the time - we only had four - would show 'old' 30s to 40s movies like the "Thin Man" series and lots of the musicals. And I never tired of watching the B movies of the time, especially the sci-fi variety, many of which I saw first run at the local theater. I could go on...
The explanation of workflow really resonated with me as a cgi content creator, in particular 'I go back and forth; sometimes the only way you're going to know what the next step is is to build the previous step'
I'm a big believer that a lot of stuff in life is transitive, that one area of knowledge/skill has familiarity with totally 'different' fields.
This back and forth is SUPER familiar to, say, writing. One of the biggest challenges writers have is that you need to write a bunch of stuff you end up changing completely or even just don't end up using, even if its good. Because it doesn't work. But you NEED those attempts, or sketches, or test builds, or whatever it is in whatever you are doing to get the ideas you DO end up doing.
That ended up a little incoherent, but anyway, back and forth, absolutely.
I remember watching Alien as a young kid in the 80s and having nightmares for weeks.
First time I saw it was as a kid in the 80's too, maybe around the start of my teens. It was on late night so I snuck downstairs after everyone was in bed and watched it in the dark while lying on the settee. After it was over the end of programmes screen came on and I didn't dare go upstairs, or even put my feet to the floor. I was still there in the morning.
Mine was Jaws, go figure lol
@@durangodave I'd say that's on a par with Alien for scares.
Saw the camera in the back and the phone stand, and thought you had some kind of phone stand to make it look like a retro camera, was a bit sad to realise it isn't, but happy to see the more "retro" camera
Tome "selling out " isn't profiting or heeding a customers requests, it's working for or profiting off someone that morally comprises me like if Haliburton came to me and said hey well pay you 20 million dollars to make a high end diorama that depicts a grotesque battle scene but makes it seem like this really cool, happy, hero scene that makes fascism good for the whole family especially the kids. Of course this is an extreme black and white example but compromises of your morality usually are much more subtle and shades of grey.
Good because I’m a hobbyist 😅 I love the maker community.
Repo Man is one of my favorite films. I don't know many that have ever seen it, and even fewer that loved it.
The life of a Repo Man is INTENSE
'Yeah. Let's go get sushi and not pay.'
A repo man's life is always intense!
Yay! Repo Man!
90s and early 2000s movies and cartoons are what currently make me nostalgic at 28!! Born in 96'
For me, selling out would be doing something I find morally objectionable just for the money. I took a commission from a TechShop lead to lasercut a pendant from a design he got from the internet and didn't have the copyright. The artist specifically wanted people to ask permission. I had requested permission but not heard back, but the client was bugging me about his deadline and implying he'd make my life difficult as a TechShop member if I backed out of the deal. I went ahead and made it, but I was worried enough I didn't notice the seat belt was stuck in the door of my car. Someone stole my car and it wasn't located for 6 weeks, I had to pay $500 to get it out of impound the same day it was taken, and about $500 in booth fixtures (and my beloved decorated top hat) were all gone. All this for a $25 pendant.
Currently, I design and manufacture laser-cut California/Bay Area souvenirs. I have decided NOT to do the Balclutha/Star of India or any of the missions because of their legacy of slavery. Depicting a beautiful ship (that was built to carry human cargo like cordwood in the hold) or a historic church (that coordinated the slavery and genocide of Indigenous people) will only perpetuate the romanticization of our white supremacist past. (Junipero Serra should never have been beatified, because it isn't like he repented from enslavement and genocide and that's what was holy about him.)
Ok this is a crazy connection but the way adam speaks about "a narrative unexplored" brings to mind the jazz fills Colin Greenwood gets up to at the end of The National Anthem. I always thought he was teasing the listener as if saying "oh what's going on over here?"
Some makers go pro, outsource their products overseas which drastically reduce the quality of the product, but still charge the same or often charge even more and their customers notice. One recent example is the couple who makes cloaks on Instagram. It went from a family business with handmade products to a manufactured pile of crap that they charge HUNDREDS for and their followers are not having it.
Repo Man!
To me, selling out generally means you're betraying what people come to you for. So if you review video games for a living but you're also accepting deals to say good things about bad games in exchange for money, you're 100% selling out as you undermine your own purpose.
But if you review video games and are doing ads for like... frozen dinners or something, I don't see an issue.
I also can understand someone wanting to make money off something slightly unsavory to attain capital to do something good with it, as often good people who would do good things if they had the access to wealth never attain wealth. Sort of playing the meta.
I've been what we now call a "maker" since I was 8 years old. I'm 61 now. I semi-retired in 2017. The "making" aspect of my life has almost never been a significant source of income for me. I have *NEVER* met a maker who "looks down" on people who also work for a living doing something else entirely. I myself was full-time employed in the computer and network tech development industry from 1979 to 2017 (and I still do it part-time). I was *always* "making" in the background. Whether it was electronics or mechanical things. The last 3 years, I've spent a huge number of volunteer hours restoring a large (12.8m) former-NATO satellite ground terminal for use in undergraduate astrophysics education. Turning ones maker skills to something like that is decidedly rewarding, if not particularly remunerative :)
That method of creating a dome in plaster sounds very similar to how the detailed plaster coving was made for houses 100+ years ago.
I considered making woodworking a full time career rather than my biotech job. As I ran the numbers and realized I would have to make what the client wants rather than what I want, I decided to go a startup to reinvigorate my biotech career and keep woodworking as a hobby where I can make what I want and take as long as I want.
You can end up in a job that closely aligns with your hobby but the freedom of the shed will always be unbounded compared to a frightened corporate NDA workplace. My wokplace has wonderful tools but would take weeks to get a risk assesment in place for what Applied Science/ Codys Lab Etc. does on a table.
Adam on the topic of the Emeco chair and A pilot system for drilling holes, that’s what I have used my 3D printer for a few times in car projects. You can draw it and print it on paper to see what the pattern looks like then 3D print it with thickness as a disposable pilot template for drilling holes.
:HEY! Beastmaster is On!"
OMFG that is hilarious! 🤣
I have this problem. I loved welding in highschool but knew I'd hate every job that involved it. The 5am to 5pm kinda work life in general would be massively negative on my mental health. Also, I do traditional pen and ink artwork every once in a while, and again I only work when the inspiration hits. If I ever made a job out of the things I love to do, it would kill all love I have for them. I'll take BS jobs that I don't really have to think about so I can enjoy the things I do at my own pace, and not the pace of customer or a company.
I was 15 when "Heavy Metal" premiered in theaters. I wanted to see it sooo badly. My older brother did go and see it, and i begged him to take me (it was R rated), and he told me "you're not old enough to see that." Which was BS, i had already been reading the Heavy Metal Magazine in book stores anyway. A few cartoon breasts wasn't going to ruin me.
I'm older than Adam Savage. I've never seen "Repo Man." Made me curious to see it.
here in my later life i find myself creating her ideas & building the projects my wife wants. and change from my interests of go-carts, motorcycles, 4x4 bumpers. Now i make planter boxes, patio, deck chairs, kitchen cabinets
The Phantasm series of movies. Totally underrated.
I was allowed to watch most of The Shining when i was much too young. I feel like I was the same age as Danny when we got it on Selectavision video disk. Most of it didn't scare me as a kid. The scariest parts were the blood in the elevator and Mrs Massey. I wasn't supposed to watch her scene. I was sent outside but sometimes watched through the window.
Growing up i realised the scariest parts of the movie were part of my real life with the history of substance abuse in my family
Over on the RUclips feed for Battleship New Jersey, they did an episode on the Emco Navy Chairs as well. Worth a watch if you have the desire.
I used the “sweep” technique to make the top of my 11 ft. Enterprise. It worked really well.
selling out. now theres a loaded sentence that means different things to different people.
Caveman was always on...and never failed to entertain!
MMM...Lana....zug zug!
All in one go…. Impossible. I’ve been working on one project for 10 years and finally finishing it up now. Many twists and turns along the way. Love your channel!
Hilarious - I have had this yearning to watch Beastmaster and I couldn't figure out why - and that's it! It was on HBO a lot and that must be why I have a hankering to watch it now =)
If I only built the guitars that I want to build, I would not be able to afford to continue
Forty years after seeing The Tenent I have no desire to see it again. It made me so bloody uncomfortable and still does.
Better assemble my PERPETUAL MOTOR
i have been into hobby building for many years.. i paint miniatures. make models.. carve wood do Celtic artwork and stone carving and metal work and many other things 3d resin and 3d scanning.. and everyone wants to buy what i make. and say you should sell this stuff.. problem is. everything is a one of a kind.. and i know if i sell it i will never have it again.. and i have tried making money from my hobbies. but you are so right.. hobbies become a job.. and loose all the fun of a hobby.. so i stopped selling again.. and now and then i will give a piece away or make something for someone special.. but could not sell them..
Yeah, i used to throw pots, and it's hard to sell something later that you made for yourself. If you have to sell a lot, as you often would as a potter, that would definitely be a job, vs a high level with unique glazes that you could sell a few pieces of.
@@emu314159 yea and i also find people do not realise the amount of work that is put into some items.. and they then complain and try and knock you down on the price.. i rather keep the items.. i only did a small amount of pottery.. always wanted to get into it a lot more but setting up kilns and everything was way out of my price range.. i have done some celtic work though in glazes on stuff but they sit on my shelves.. i enjoyed doing it..
I want a movie marathon of Repo Men, Repo Man and Repo the Genetic Opera.
perfect timing!
Um, off subject for a moment. Is that and ARRIFlex behind you there? I'd love to get my hands on one. Do you know where I might be able to get one for a low budget?
When someone asks me to make something, I tell them I have two rules: I have to find the job interesting (I usually do), and I don’t want money. Nothing ruins a perfectly good hobby quicker than turning it into a job.
Not a maker thing but I also have to find it interesting. When a mate asked me to design a website for his sister's side business and offered to pay, he couldn't understand why I said no and that it wasn't about money.
You need that rebellious "F*** you I'm never selling out" mentality when you're younger. It's a part of that creative fire that you need to produce work fueled by your true passionate feelings.
When you start to gain understanding of your craft, how it fits into the larger picture, and how you address real financial needs, it is then beneficial to add to your understanding of "selling out"-- in that not only is it OK to do business with others, but it makes you an even better creator by doing so.
But we should never really let go on that initial spark. Always hang on to a small part of it.
The hobbyists ARE the glue for the Maker Community.
Bagpus, fixing things, the Wombles, Clangers, wow wow Wubsy, Inspector gadget. These were inspiring engineering based series
that truck going by would have made a great foley sound.
Jurassic in nature.
I always imagined the gift going out the window represented an alternate script that didn't work.
Selling out is when you flip your moral compass in favour of monetary reward*. It needs to have a sense of irony, otherwise it's just monetising one's skills or hobbies.
*not including those who are desperate due to personal circumstance.
*Selling out:*
Advocating for equal pay, then accepting 'donations' to change your public view, or paying unfairly when given the power in order to better fund oneself.
Advocating for climate justice, then taking a sponsorship from an airline.
Advocating for fair trade, then working for GAP, Nestle, Nike.
Advocating for right to repair, then releasing an unrepairable product with strict warranty
Advocating for reduced arms manufacture/ military expenditure, then working for defence company designing weapons
Advocating for one political party and against another, then switching sides when given a large sum prompting you to do so. (This includes directly from that party, but also say winning the lottery or earning more prompting one to decide they want the tax breaks they previously claimed to be unfair)
*Not selling out:*
Signing to a major record label.
Selling your art.
Working a low level job at somewhere like McDonalds.
Taking a job at a bank because you're struggling with money and it's the offer you got.
Using a product or service from a company you don't like, but it's a monopoly and one isn't really given a choice. (Promoting it would be selling out)
Doing any of the the things previous mentioned as selling out _IF_ you were never one to advocate the opposite, or there's genuine new evidence provided that shifts one's view. The Kardashians aren't sells out for using a private jet because they never promoted climate justice. Elon Musk is because he's built his career (at least so far as Tesla) on improving the climate crisis.
Lying about the apollo mission, globe earth and moon landing for mythbusters is unforgivable. He knows damnwell he sold out to holyweird
Why would anyone look down on someone having a hobby? If you end up creating something useful/practical/game changing, sell it. Not as a business but to stay out. Then continue doing what you were doing.
I think gene simmons said it best when people give him crap about his merchandising "Yea we sell out, we sell out every concert"
I was born in 79, all those mid 80s action movies like "The Delta Force" and "Commando" and the 2nd and 3rd Rambo movies. Those were the ones I was watching on HBO and Showtime free preview weekends when I was 8 or 9
"It's a project that I thought would take a couple of days that is now eight months and counting, but you know, which among us can throw stones?"
Adam definitely knows his audience, lol.
When I was 7 my grandmother thought it would be a good idea to see Jaws as "I like the sea" - she clearly had no idea what the film was about. I didn't get back in the water for almost a decade and I live in the UK where there are no dangerous sharks. To make matters worse at 12 one of my friends had a party and somehow got a copy of .... wait for it...... American Werewolf in London. Nights were not a fun time for me for quite a long time after that as well - and just to add the cherry, I was at a boarding school set in the south downs, with LOTS of dark places and not much lighting. I don't watch ANY form of horror type film as an adult.
Repo Men is one of the few movies I have watched several times. (Written before I realized that I meant another movie with the exact same name but different release year.)
Nostalgia: going to a movie store, taking the white box to the desk, to get the actual video tape.
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Im architect in my own starship Enterprise scheme"/ getting haxed
you made millions off your show why are you still even working... and finally you admit to selling out...this is why i stopped watching your show seems more like commercials.. and now you do these videos i find no value in the video i find no learning etc... you bring on those auction houses to sell stuff on your channel and its a giant commercial desquised as a video.. this is why i dont come here no more
"Selling Out" - When you claim you're not for sale when no one wants to hire you.
I am nostalgic for scarcity as well. It used to be that when something would come out new everyone was talking about it and it was just exciting. Nowadays there's so much new stuff coming out that chances are no one you know knows about it until you say something and it's all forgotten about next week. I don't know that I would rather it be like it used to be because I've been spoiled by how much there is nowadays but I do sometimes miss it.
Beastmaster, what's not to like? The dude has two ferrets, and ferrets are like valium for the soul. If you are feeling depressed, or down, or unloved, whatever, go and watch ferrets play. Pure joy. Otters are a close second, for just a fun animal watching experience.
My parents fed me a diet of SciFi when I was a kid, We watched Star Trek, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, etc. at home. Movies of course were The Planet of the Apes, Fantastic Voyage, 2001... But the movie that changed me was Silent Running, (1972). It made me the music loving, tree hugging, aging hippie liberal that I am today. It also made me a huge Bruce Dern fan, who also fantastic in the Zanti Misfits episode of The Outer Limits, by the way.
I saw 2001 in the theater at 18mos. and as far as I can tell, I still remember the last parts of it from that. I remember being terrified and fascinated at the same time. I also remember being very young and hearing "Thus Spake Z" in a salad commercial afterwards and being furious that they would rip this fabulous movie thing off like that. They were messin' with my holy experience, man! And of course I'm a SERIOUS space & SF geek.
RE: The chair. I'm curious if you ever considered dimple dies to remove weight. You can save a lot of strength while trimming the fat, even with small ones.
10:14 When I was a kid and first got to see HBO in 1983ish, I swear that they would show little more than the first two Peanuts movies (A Boy Named Charlie Brown and Snoopy Come Home), Bill Cosby: Himself, Eddie and the Cruisers, and another movie called Eddie Macon's Run. There were also reruns of Fraggle Rock and Not Necessarily the News, but seemingly little else.
Beastmaster, though? Don't remember ever seeing an HBO promo for it.
One person’s “selling out” is another person’s “professional craftsmanship, executing the needs and desires of their valued client with care, dedication, and skill”. To be clear, I’m talking about valued clients, not the clients that you fire for cause.
Many times, I find the online arguments disappear once you realize the true area of contention lies in differing definitions of terms. (“You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.😁)
I wonder if zoomers won't often be nostalgic about the metas (themes of the moment, rather than individual videos). Very cool that Adam grew up watching those movies. I bet that does explain a lot about his life's trajectory.
I loved the movie Sphere!!!!
Thank you!!!!
I don't believe you ever sold out for money because you always stayed within the dynamic of who you are as a genuine person. However, it was very sad to see Kari Byron sell out to Shell Oil after she'd claimed to be an environmentalist for so many years. Kari Byron is the absolute definition of selling out one's moral center when she shilled for Shell Oil.
For me it was the film "Jaws". I refused to have a bath for years in case something came up the plug hole.
On the first topic about 'making' as a hobby or profession, does anyone feel like there's an increased amount of pressure toward turning it into a side-hustle? Or am I just in the wrong circles?
My 14yo just commented that it was funny as what sticks out in his mind as childhood (yes, I know) watching things nostalgia… is you.
I’m super curious if you ever considered testing the 3M Electrostatic Wall Myth, because I never saw an episode on it.
It just seems so you to test! Even if you needed a suit!
Ah, the navy chair.
Such a good episode.
That is not a correct sentence
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Speaking of "selling out," this whole thing was just a Snapple commercial! /s
We wish. It’s not sponsored - he just likes Snapple. But in this case we’d be happy to take in free Snapples!
Damn. I’m finally the first person to watch a video, and I’ve got nothing good to say.
Truely "Selling out" is really only the point at which you stop holding personal integrity, pride, and happiness out of something. At different times in your life those things will all change. In reality most people have to 'sell' or compromise part of their vision for a multitude of reasons. Sometimes its money, sometimes is a deadlines, sometimes it's your own energy or well-being, and very often its selling out to admitting a lack of knowledge or experience. In a way all projects have some level of sell-out involved, it really comes down to what aspects of it are important to you and if you hold on to some of those for yourself.
People ' selling out ' are scum. It's a general philosophy of mine. Like the current guns and roses tour. Somehow some idiots are complaining that they're a washed out waste, not seeing that their even there because of that band. I consider complainers aell outs. That don't deserve the waste of space they occupy 💀