I like these videos because he just keeps pushing the problem and figuring out how to fix it.
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I like these videos because he just keeps pushing the problem and figuring out how to fix it.
I punched a hole in a piece of blue celluloid one day, and I was experimenting with this stuff, and I saw this made a spotlight. I took it in to the cameraman, and I said, “Why can’t we do something like this?” I argued with him, and I got him to try it under the lens, and we made a spotlight out of it [with a double exposure]. … I was always trying something, and sometimes it would backfire. That’s what kept the job interesting all those years.
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Sometimes when you experiment you will fail. Some way-out ideas may not work the way you thought they would. But that’s okay! That’s the nature of being on the edge of exciting design. You will never do anything interesting if you don’t take chances.
“Every day is a hackathon.”
I like these videos because he just keeps pushing the problem and figuring out how to fix it.
“See the world and everything in it as a system to be tinkered with.”
He is able to do whatever, because he sees the motorcycle as a system instead of a consumer product that can't be touched; know the function of each part and try to make it yourself when you are in a pinch. This has the Zen of Motorcycle maintenance vibe.
I like these videos because he just keeps pushing the problem and figuring out how to fix it.
I punched a hole in a piece of blue celluloid one day, and I was experimenting with this stuff, and I saw this made a spotlight. I took it in to the cameraman, and I said, “Why can’t we do something like this?” I argued with him, and I got him to try it under the lens, and we made a spotlight out of it [with a double exposure]. … I was always trying something, and sometimes it would backfire. That’s what kept the job interesting all those years.
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Sometimes when you experiment you will fail. Some way-out ideas may not work the way you thought they would. But that’s okay! That’s the nature of being on the edge of exciting design. You will never do anything interesting if you don’t take chances.