Name: My obsession with objects and the stories they tell
Uploaded: 2009-03-18T01:00:00Z
Duration: 15 min 17 s
Description: Adam Savage talks about his fascination with the dodo bird, and how it led him on a strange and surprising double quest. It's an entertaining adventure through the mind of a creative obsessive.

Adam Savage: My obsession with objects and the stories they tell

My obsession with objects and the stories they tell

Adam Savage talks about his fascination with the dodo bird, and how it led him on a strange and surprising double quest. It's an entertaining adventure through the mind of a creative obsessive.

A single photograph of a dodo skeleton sparked an all-consuming quest to recreate lost artifacts with obsessive accuracy. Along the way, a homemade dodo skeleton and a museum-quality Maltese Falcon replica emerged, each built from thousands of collected references and measured details. Through these projects, the pursuit of perfection became its own reward, revealing how the stories we attach to objects give them lasting significance. The real value was not in ownership, but in the act of making and the layers of meaning uncovered in the process.