Adam savage biography book
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Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You man It SIGNED / AUTOGRAPHED - Hardcover
Synopsis
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, ADAM SAVAGE! Adam Savage-star of Discovery Channel's Mythbusters and one of the most beloved figures in science and tech-shares his golden rules of creativity, from finding inspiration to following through and successfully making your idea a reality. Every Tool's a Hammer is a chronicle of my life as a maker. It's an utforskning of making and of my own productive obsessions, but it's also a permission slip of sorts from me to you. Permission to grab hold of the things you're interested in, that fascinate you, and to dive deeper into them to see where they lead you. Through stories from forty-plus years of making and molding, building and break�ing, along with the lessons inom learned along the way, this book is meant to be a toolbox of bekymmer solving, complete with a shop's worth of notes on the tools, techniques, and materials that inom use most o
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Every Tool's A Hammer
'Adam has drawn for us an imperative how-to for creativity that goes well beyond scissors, saws and glue, to include vulnerability, self-confidence and self-deprecating humour. I am aware of no human outside of fiction more qualified to pen this rousing paean to making. I adore this book'
– Nick Offerman, Star of Parks and Recreation
'Careful, close, often repetitive work lets the brain wander back and forth, from the micro-task literally at hand to the bigger problems, solutions, insights and emotions that we usually drown out with stimulus. Believe me when I say: when you’ve made as many Blade Runner blasters as Adam Savage has, you’ve learned a lot about yourself. Adam has stocked up a lot of deep thought and deeper wisdom: about how to make things large and small, decisions large and small, and how to make sure you’re making the things that matter. Consider this book as a 3D print out of Adam’s brain, and be glad you have it'
– John H
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Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It
Savage is a maker. He's done it from an early age & made it his life's work as well as his hobby. We have a lot in common & learned many of the same lessons the same hard way, even though what we make is different. Some of us just have to fiddle & no matter what medium you work in, his lessons for every step of the project are important. Interspersed among these great lessons are bits of his life working on stages, movie props, & Myth Busters. That's icing on the cake & it's fabulous icing. I l