Adam Savage Tours Tom Sachs' Space Program Exhibit!
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- Adam takes you on a tour of Tom Sachs' Space Program: Europa exhibit, currently on display at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The massive gallery is filled with Tom's plywood creations, including the mission control and LEM replicas used for his Europa mission.
Find out more about this exhibit here: ybca.org/tom-sachs
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I would love to see this in person. I really love Tom's level of detail and thoroughness all of simple materials and techniques. Inspiring
The amount of detail in this exhibit is astounding
To all people that can't understand this, think how this guy is mocking with the notion that the whole space program could be made in a garage, there's even a special effects station. Or you could see him as a grown up kid, can't you guys relate the camera he made to his father to what kind of replica he is making right now? i know there's a ton lot of crap when we talk about contemporary art, but this is real good and entertaining so, what's wrong?
that's a great comment.
What's wrong is that there is no context in this video. Art is all about context, without context, nobody can tell what the art is about.
I had no idea why this is such a big deal from this video alone, I even thought at one point that this video is trying to show how the moon landing can be faked and other conspiracy nonsense.
Art requires much more than just "it's ironic". Mocking something is not sufficient to display it in an exhibit.
@fernandoanimator I'm just not into it. The models are simple... and I know that's the idea, but just not my cup of tea. The performance aspect of it adds a layer of seriousness and dedication that is taken a bit too far, IMO. But that's fine; if art wasn't subjective then no one would have fun.
*****
I really don't believe that art is subjective though. You should read this article from the Art Renewal Center: www.artrenewal.org/articles/Philosophy/ArtScam/artscam.php
It may seem a little too cynical and although you may not agree with all of it, I think that it's a really good read regardless.
Adam can barley contain his excitement during this video...I really wish this would showcase somewhere that wasn't a coast so middle-America could experience it.
It's so cool to get to see Adam talking about things he's passionate about, and I think this is the first time he's gotten to talk about art. So yeah! This is awesome!
I'm surprised they didn't include a honda ridgeline lol
Well done!
This genuinely so cool.
I just found out about Tom Sachs reading up on him after watching his "10 Bullets." video, after watching Laura Kampf's "Always be Knolling" video and wondering what Knolling was. I've always Knolled, without knowing it was a thing. Brings peace to me.
Thanks Adam for introducing me to Toms work a while back!
You can defiantly see where Casey Neistat gets his inspiration from.
casey worked for him, i guess thats where he got his whole studio style from. also casey's brother made a film for tom, 10 bullets.
10000% can’t be more true
Van, dude..
Yesterday I had not heard of Tom, now I have watched Van, Casey, and Adam all gush. Fascinating
Perhaps the mop bucket is honoring the least recognized people in a space program who have to clean the floors and the "don't fuck up" is the constant pressure put on the entire team.
I wish he would have turned on the blow torch i totally wanted to see that one shot
This is amazing!! Thanks Adam for the introduction and Tom for such an inspiration show.
Thanks Adam and team Tested for this most excellent review. Was a pleasure to watch.
I think I binge watched too much tested yesterday, cause I actually had a dream about Adam's workshop. In which Adam got mad because I kept touching stuff XD
Tom's work is amazing, you're a lucky guy Adam!!!
I went their this week. It was awesome!!!
Harsimran Singh *there ;-)
Michael Berthelsen lol, thanks for catching me on my mistake 👌👌👌
Harsimran Singh We all get excited about Adam, haha! ;-)
pretty incredible to see how clearly tom sachs' style influenced casey neistat's own style from when casey was tom's assistant and became his friend.
I love Tom Sachs! Discovered him ten years ago with the cardboard version of Corbusiers Habitat. Magnificent!
wow, I wish I knew about this earlier,
i would have made the effort to check it out in person.
thanks for sharing.
Adam Savage + Tom Sochs = Must Watch
Great Video🙏🏽
Casey Neistat's style is so similar to Tom's. Well... seems to be obvious, considering Casey has worked for Tom.
Nexuscube I noticed this too! really love that style myself 😊
I just went today in Seoul. It was witty and smart.
Been SO excited for this!!!
Wow it looks incredible ! Too bad I can't go there :(
If art causes you to react, be it positively or negatively, it has achieved it's purpose. You took something from it, even if that something is 'I hated it because...' I on the other hand, took something from this video of the installation, the energy and reverence with which Adam presented it made me see it though his eyes and that is a sign of a great presenter, cheers Adam!
Dude, that is awesome!
Don't know if you ever read these comments Adam, but I just had the opportunity to meet Mr. Sachs last weekend at the Nasher Sculpture Center here in Dallas Texas, where he has his current (Awesome) exhibit, "Tea Ceremony."
In any event, I am a voice artist for Makita USA and when I discovered that he utilizes Makita power tools and batteries in many of his works, I let him know of my involvement and he pulled out his phone-camera & asked me If I would be willing to record a couple lines for him (to the effect of how Makita power tools are the official power tools of Tom Sachs :-)
The guy is not only a genius as an artist, but also pretty darn cool dude. If you see him, definitely tell him that I said hello.
this is absolutely amazing work
Wow, this is amazing. So cool!
This reminds me strongly of the work of Panamarenko but even more elaborate and intriguing.
I flew in from Europe only to see the demonstration and it was worth it.
5:46 "DO NOT FUCK THESE UP"
Sasha Grey, Tori Lane, Brittany Spears, and Naomi Russell chisels. Bootsy Collins handsaw. And Obama hammer.
I just love that shot hahahaha.
...and the centerfold in the Rescue module...
See, when he was just describing the exhibit it sounded silly, but seeing it all put together you can see the sort of scale and thought that went into it, it's really cool.
this is absolutely brilliant... id love to see the show!
I can understand why this is not for everyone, however I feel it is some of the most brilliant art of out time, I especially love the mop bucket and tray of burger and fries. It reminds me of a ruff doodle sketch coming to life like something from a Japanese anime. If I had enough money to buy one of these pieces I totally would. Meanwhile I will attempt to make my own Tom Sachs inspired pieces.
Thanks for this. Big fan of Tom Sachs work.
thanks for making this video! I love Tom's work and to see this exhibit from Texas, even in a brief 10 minute video is awesome. I sure hope this mission comes to Texas or closer at some point!
I have no idea what the fuck I'm watching... a little explanation would have been nice! What is all this stuff, is it used for special effects in movies? how's it related to nasa? just a bunch of stuff a guy made for fun?
its at an art museum
You remember when you made a rocket out of a large carton? Yeah, that's basically the same only by people in their midlife crisis.
Tom Sach's a Plastic Artists who made this exposition because he "Wanted to go to Mars". In several showcases he said to have contacted NASA & former astronaut Buzz Aldrin to work out the engineering of several components of the mission, despite being considered home-made, most pieces are very functional and "on-par" with the NASA counterparts in regards of rough function.
In retrospect, what we saw is described as a home-made mission to Mars; having Tom Sach's deliberate lack of polish as a distinct feature of his artistic work; promptly described by his necessity to add human traits of imperfection to objects.
I love every bit of this.
Tom Sachs' sense of order and punishment are how every studio should be run.
Is there a place where we can see this in action?
This is incredible! I'd LOVE to see that but I'm skint and live across the world
Ground control to major Tom... Sachs'!
WTF did I just watch?
Uncharacteristic for Adam and Co. to forgot the #1 rule when giving information to a large audience: Always assume a segment of your audience has never heard of the subject matter.
Give a brief introduction or overview. Give some context.
Well for someone who is all about himself he sure is doing a bad job of it. I and probably most people have never heard of the guy. I am still in the dark as to what this whole exhibit is about. The build quality on everything in the exhibit is atrocious by the way.
Splash down station has a pin up ?
More accurately a centerfold.. w00!
I went to the exibition in brooklyn earlier this year. I happened to be on vacation in New York at the time.
thank you so much for this video!!! wish I could see this show
I am back and forth on this, mainly because Tom Sachs has soured on me with his poor media persona. Would I see it, dunno, depends on the price? Would I devote 4 hours to it? I am unsure. I don't like any event that long. I see Toms love to craft but, there is also to me anyway, an inherent self promotion in his work. Again it could be the grating he causes me.... Dunno. Its sad, if it had been Adam, who comes across as a remarkable builder it would have a treat. Tom comes across as someone with agenda who likes to talk about Tom. He also seems far less then humble. So I am a lot less likely to care. And the "Don't fuck these up"... really? I could go on but like Adam once said, "be part of the solution and not part of the problem."
Just some observations...
There was one event in September, there is gonna be another one in January. If you go to the YBCA to check it out, normally there's only the exhibit. You should give it a chance, there's a lot of fun stuff to see.
When is the one in January?
When is art not self-promoting? Aside from commissioned work with which the artist may not identify, the point of art is to expose something about the artist. Their taste, their thoughts, more generally their perspective.
Art is always about a singular point of view from the creator. It's precisely what makes it art.
So it's an elaborate Mock space playset.
I would LOVE to visit that
A little context on what this art is or the history of this guy... sort of feel like I've missed an introductory segment to this show.
Whoa. I didn't knew so many wouldn't know about Tom Sachs exhibit. Maybe too much time has spent since his last mention by the Tested team...
Just had the chance to visit the Tom Sachs Space Program: Rare Earths exhibit at Deichtorhallen in Hamburg! Really really cool and I was reminded of many many things I learned and saw from Adam on TESTED. Really recommended if anyone has the chance.
Saturn V first stage has five F-1 Engines, not four.
Yeah, beat me to it. And the flame from lox and rp-1 wasn't even remotely blue. Very yellow and dirty. SII and SIVB stages burned blue with lox and LH2 but it was well off the pad before they lit
still better than anyone else has done
What's funny to me is that I only know of Tom Sachs through Casey Neistat, Van Neistat, and Adam Savage. And Casey and Van are clearly influenced by Tom because they both worked for him and so they clearly draw inspiration from them. But I have never really done a deep dive on Tom Sachs. So when I see this work I see Casey and Van Neistat and not really Tom. This video and exhibit have me really intrigued tho. I think it's about time I go down the Tom Sachs rabbit hole and learn more about him. Casey, Van, and Adam are all creators I admire and it's cool to see who's work they admire.
Just watch all the "I knew the moon landings were fake" postings now :-D
At 1:27 you can see the Nautical Challenge that he did with the Neistat Brothers!
Adam if you've never been to the Kansas Cosmosphere as Space Center in Hutchinson, Kansas I would love to give you a tour of it. It's the pride of my hometown.
wow that's pretty awesome, it's a shame I won't get a chance to play in it
Show more fine art-sy stuff like this please :)
10:03 - I want that Microtech knife!
I'm really confused. What was this used for?
Yeap art exhibit, showing tricks how to create cool special effects cheaply, but i can already hear conspiracytards yelling: "SEE SEE!! It was all faked".. -.-
Was the real LEM that big? Holy cow
That Microtech OTF just sitting there being wasted 😫😫😫
Ok...so I'm confused is this a guy that worked for NASA or was this a TV show? OOOOH, its neither. That maybe should have been made clearer. That this is strictly an art display made to make it feel like you are going on an exhibition to Jupiter's planet Europa. Didn't get that at all from the video.
That's really cool stuff!
when is this exhibition coming to Europe!? * super dramatic voice.. :P
5:45 DO NOT FUCK THESE UP! haha
Looks like when Homer Simpson put a lot of junk together and some art fancy people called art.
Modern art- see also: crap, shite, junk, wank. Some of things are cool, like the lunar lander, but some of it really is just a pile of crap pretending to be art- sort of thing kids build for fun, but this guy adds a layer of polish on top and can sell tickets to see it.
I guess art is indeed, very subjective- that coming from a photographer, model maker and water colour artist. :-/
Except this takes time, This is hours upon hours upon hours of repetitive work. That's what makes it so amazing, The craftsmen ship.
RantZ_IE Just because it take a really long time to make something ugly does not make it beautiful. I could smear paper mache on a poorly formed balloon for hours but that doesn't make it art. I know art is subjective and this is better than some modern art I've seen but it's some incredible ground breaking art.
lol!
So I could shit in my hand and smear it on a wall and call it art?
i just don't get it.
Look at it through the eyes of a six-year-old and it makes more sense.
I'm with you. I guess i don't understand "Art"...
It's certainly hard to explain much less define, but look at it like a kid like MrJest said, and it starts to make sense.
Adam previously said it's the grown-up version of building a cardboard box in your closet as a kid and calling it a spaceship.
Besides that the actual show that they do with all this is an experience.
It's function is purely to give you a certain feeling like being in the command center of NASA would.
That feeling is hard to translate through video. To reply to fuckingitupagain, "Art" is there to convey a feeling or an emotion or a story, or all of the above.
And the strange thing is that's not a definable thing, we are all different, everybody will experience their own version of it.
It's a way of non verbal communication, to transmit our playfulness and imagination as humans.
Art, and what is needed to create it, is what separates us from being either monkeys or robots..
In my experience anyways ;)
Who is Tom Sachs??
datamanmachine Casey Niestat's mentor
Tom Sachs kicks on sight🔥🔥
I love this!
There is awesome art... and then there's this.
And then there are people like you.
Oh Adam.. The Saturn V first and second stages had 5 F1 engines not 4. The third had 1.
salland12
Yup, I forgot to edit my post. My point was the SV does not have 4 engines. :-)
Thus would have made more sense if there was more background information and context. But about 3/4 of the way through I realized what it all was about and then watched the video over again to fully understand. Just a thought, maybe provide more context and background information next time.
I really think Adam would also love the work of "Panamarenko".
how much does one of those jackets cost?
2:50 are the finger tips wax paper cups? cool
I wish I could go. 😔
@ 8:36 all the conspiracy theorists were like: "aaaaahh Yeah! cuz it never happened!"
jay johnson Moran...
*chuckle
I guess I'm not artistic cause this shit looks like stuff 6 year old me would have made.
So do it.
Man it would be nice if that exhibit could make it to the Detroit Science Center but we never seem to get cool stuff like this.
-THAT-... -IS... SHIZ-NUTS!! tom sachs, hats off to you fine sir!!! :0
iSPY Norm and Will doing an interview @ 4:12 ;)
An artist at work. And my bird shit on me again.
I have only one word for this:
....WOW...
;-D
why Tom is not the most famous artist in the world???
does van neistat still do stuff with tom?
at 10:03 there's a Microtech ultratech, nice!
5:45 "DO NOT FUCK THESE UP!"
Can you buy Adam Jacket somewhere?
Is it just me or on the space glove, in the note pad, there is page 7 and it shows skin. Is that referring to the naughty pics they put in the Apollo flight notes as a joke?
Douche chills.
was there a nude in rescue
what happen whit the spacial carrer? where are the flying ships? where are the city on the space?
P.S: Adam i'm big fan of yours
This is pure crap, it's amazing how untalented people can sell their crap to the world..hat down
Reminds me of KND
Does any one know if the event was live streamed/recorded?
wow