Adam Savage Tours the Graphics Department at Smithsonian Exhibits!
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2019
- Museum exhibits aren't just about objects; they're about text and pictures too. Adam Savage chats with Evan Keeling, graphics specialist at Smithsonian Exhibits, to learn about how he and his team create 2D elements for exhibitions, which includes some pretty amazing technology!
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I am so happy that you're doing this series! I love museums, especially the Smithsonian. I love how you're showing all the opportunities there are for makers and creators in the museum and archives fields. These new technologies are bringing museum collections to people who would never have had the chance to see them, and allowing people to interact with the collections like never before. Thanks for the deep dive, Adam!
This is a great interview. At first I was surprised at how much more knowledgeable Evan is than Adam on a lot of topics, but then I realized that this is only apparent because Mr Savage is asking such pertinent questions! If this is the direction this channel is going to take, then I'm down. Adam building fascinating stuff in a fascinating manner and then his expertise being funneled into documentary-esque educational interviews is a wonderful combination.
Plus there's Norm and the podcasts and the VR coverage and the plethora of avenues that you guys explore.
Truly one of the best channels on UA-cam and a case study of new-media success. I look forward to years and years of content.
Im not really a fan of norm for some reason lol i kinda feel hes a try hard haha anyways hes still cool
This Smithsonian production series is so honking great I can't stand it.
Would love to see an updated in-depth tour of Adams cave! Especially all the selves with all props and other cool objects are on!
I work in a small laboratory and this whole series on the Smithsonian museums has really resonated with me. It's a bunch of scrappy people coming up with brilliant solutions and utilizing tech in very smart ways.
On a government budget too. 👍
As a museum worker, I truly appreciate this series! So in depth, so cool to see!
I love how excited Adam looks every time he talks to friends or other people about their projects.
Great to see the behind the scenes of the Smithsonian museums ,makes me appreciate them even more .
As always your enthusiasm is a joy Adam ,thank you so much .
Adam! Love your work! Thanks for the years of dedicated entertainment that you have given us all
I have a decommissioned Smithsonian 42-inch wide printer. Purchased it at a surplus store and it still runs great.
Great stuff! So informative. The passion for the work, quality and sustainability is obvious. Thanks Adam.
Great behind the scenes tour of the Smithsonian production departments. Its interesting to see what it all takes to make it all come together in the end. And I love Adam's genuine enthusiasm for everything! The things he gets excited about make everyone watching excited and interested as well. Like the T-Square - lol - who else doing a tour like this would even think to comment on that :-)
Im seriously loving the smithsonian series you guys put up. I work at a museum myself and this is giving me so much new cool idea´s. Thanks for that!
Absolutely love these Smithsonian deep dive videos! Thanks for bringing these behind the scenes insights of “America’s museum” to the public!
Adam does a great job doing these field interviews. He should more of these. They should do a 'how it' s made' type show with Adam as the host.
I second the 'How it's Made' with Adam Savage idea.
Though I'd say only with stuff he finds fascinating, cause his genuine, child-like enthusiasm makes me happy.
I would so love to visit this shop myself! I worked in a print shop although high-school and absolutely loved it and always love being back in that environment! AMAZING video!!!
This has to be my fave Tested video. So good to see Adam taking an interest in my my trade. Having produced Graphics my whole career working across the board from graphic design through to printing, vinyl application and Sign making/Installation. It felt good to have some acknowledgement about the work we do after being enthralled by some of the work Adam produces.
So AWESOME!!!!! Through my career of being a graphic designer and being involved with screen printing, pre-press for offset, and eventually digital output this walkthrough tics off so many check boxes for me. Super interesting & well done. Now if I can just convince my wife to let me buy one of those substrate printers I’ll be set. LOL!!!
That will never happen regarding the direct substrate lmao wife will rip your head off. Might have to get a divorce instead lmao
I can’t wait for NYCC! I’ll be on the look out for you Adam!
All these videos about the Smithsonian are great.
Graphics & Display - Unsung heroes. If you don't believe me then you've never tried to find the Emergency Room, or the toilet or exit in a public building! Facinating insights in all these Smithsonian Videos
These have been wonderful and fascinating!
Working in a small museum in Waltham, MA, it's amazing how much of what the Smithsonian faces in terms of challenges and ways to solve problems are shared, even at our compact, much more scaled-down level of operation. Being that much of my job is producing graphics (though with our staff size, I find myself very much a factotum), this hits home in so many ways. My former job in the commercial field of printing had so much of the equipment and facilities they discuss here (the machine shown at 16:00 was my production baby for almost a decade), and I would kill to have access to even half of that utility at the museum!
these videos are awesome. theyre like mini documentaries and i love it x3
Scotty from Strange Parts has an ep called "This printer prints on ANYTHING!" and talks to the manufacturer of a similar UV printer. Very cool!
I would love to work in this department! So much to learn and discover through working with all these processes and materials.
I just discovered this video. I run a small technology museum and found this absolutely fascinating!
What a workshop! Love seeing another side to the signage industry, looks like a great place to work.
"People are destructive" Probably the most real observation Adam has said, ever.
"Never trust anybody"
The best piece of advice
I sat glued to this video, with my level of envy growing by the minute. We make a lot of similar products, just on a smaller scale and would love a shop like this!
i am very much enjoying this series.
I really enjoy watching Adam talk to other technically-minded craftspeople about their work. Always get that great sense of them being on the same wavelength. 😃
Tested is an amazing channel, and resource. Not only for knowledge, but inspiration as well. Can somebody please give the camera operator a steady-cam setup?
I do the same thing and my degree was a 80's computer science degree. I rarely use COBOL today. :) I have a 54" printer 2 feet to my right and a 54" cutter one foot to my left as I type this.
Me too dude, sitting in front of 2 Large format Vuteks, 3 HP Latex roll to rolls, a Graphtec plotter, a hot Laminator and a Kongsberg CNC
I have a modern degree and I'm using that same machinery :) If it ain't broke don't fix it!!! Have a good day my friend :D
Post lots more one day builds lol super inspiring honestly I watched all already so new ones everyother day would be great because I love how after a one day build video I'm in a must make something mood it's great !
Fun fact: I used to be a field tech for HP and at one point was the only person in a decent region of the country allowed to service those DesignJet printers. Due to the necessary tools and parts, I had to drive everywhere instead of fly. There was a year where I drove ON AVERAGE almost 8,000 miles a month.
This was the best damn tour of my dream shop 😌 Thank you Adam and The Smithsonian!
That was great! I wish he could have shown some samples, like the 3D printing and modelmaking video showed.
this was my old job ... kind of miss it but i like all digital now
I use to work in a print shop as a designer/production. It was a nightmare since the second we learned to do something faster, that was the norm. I had the biggest smile and said thank you when he talked about testing printing different things at different settings. You have to play with your toys to really understand them!
My parents are still silk screening at their office on a daily basis. :) Beautiful process.
I love hearing the enthusiastic quality performance side of graphics and signage as opposed to the usual mundane commericial speed side of things. Also just a big fan of the future of direct to substrate printing far beyond just signage
lol, the "suggestion boxes" at 16:00
We have a slightly older Océ Arizona 350GT flat bed UV cured printer at work to the one here and it can print on objects up to 48mm high and we've had fun experimenting printing on things like ceiling tiles, double side printing on clear perspex, even wooden doors but favourite thing was dismantling a colleagues electric guitar and printing a motif on it :)
You can print on glass and mirrors, the issue is the reflection of the UV curing lamps damages the print head meaning it needs to be replaced sooner.
I used to use those printers at nautical chart print shop:)
I work on wide format inkjets, and when we get them in I have to “test” them to make sure they’re working. My tech room is becoming wall papered with movie posters on nice glossy photo paper. I mean I couldn’t possibly put an untested printer out on site, right?
Super interesting interview, although I think the camera operator needs to cut back on the coffee ;p
Can we have like a hundred more of these Smithsonian vids, please?
23:00 3M proprietary design, love it.
I don't even know if it is true or not. But that guy needs a raise....that is a lot of work.
For the ask Adam series
After touring the Smithsonian what machine was interesting enough that you are getting one?
Wow this video was recorded back in mid July! (July 16th)
This was a real deep inside baseball dive that normally I might have been a bit lost from, but I am actually familiar with graphics and printing so I was not just entertained by the anecdotes, I had full context.
I'm a digital press operator working on a flatbed inkjet press. One container of ink of the CMYK is $800 and during a shift you could easily put 6+ in. We cure each pass with UV and those badboys can withstand a Canadian winter hanging on a pole. It makes sense for a museum to not have to worry about sunlight since it's the enemy for priceless museum pieces. There aren't many windows in a museum!
INtense. I've been in a few big print shops but this is just high on the Wow factor.
Would love to have adam visit our print facility in Cincinnati. at GCI Digital Imaging we are in a 35k+ sqft shop with printer up to 10' wide. We have routers, lasers, flatbed printers, roll to roll. We experiment a lot too on different materials with custom one off builds.
The Smithsonian: Awesomeness, distilled. 😎
I'm kind of biased since I work with that product, but I love those Océ Arizona flatbed UV-printers!
We have one too
No matter how qualified they knowledgeable I could be in my job, I would be intimidated as hell if Adam Savage interviewed me
So at first, I thought to myself, "hey, I can hit Ctrl+P like the best of them. How is this a 26 minute film?"
It is a 26 minute film, and it had my attention the whole time. Good work everybody!
if you had said that in MY presence...there would be words...
i work at a UPS store...so hardly this...but printing and print production is more than just hitting Ctrl P....
Lol at the suggestions box @ 15:50
22:41 when the lady from the modelshop video appears in the doorway and you realise that this is in the same building as their workshop... I wonder how they cope with the inevitable dust problems.
Then again, the place I work has one of those Arizona flatbed printers one room away from a CNC router, so I should probably ask there
I would love to have that uv printer
That would be the place to get prop decals, logos etc . Buy Evan dinner...
Want.
WANT!
My dream job!
18:00 for glass we laminated it with a hard cast 3M lam and than printed on the lam
I would love to see Adam build a computer
That brings me back… In the early 90's I was an intern in the graphic department of the Navy Museum in Wash. DC. Not this technologically convenient, though. It was fun, don't get me wrong, but very manual-labor intensive.
Back then there were no vinyl cutters, so our walls got silkscreened signage. If you haven't held a screen vertically against a wall to print on it, you haven't lived. The thrill! Will the ink drop and make a mess on the floor? Will the print come out nicely or are we going to have to clean it up with solvents, repaint the wall, wait for the paint to dry and try again with the curator, the chief designer and a whole bunch of people breathing down our necks because we've just cost them the perfect opening for the exhibit? Oh the excitement!!
When you can print on shapes with these machines, it’ll be a new step for printing....
I buy those types of ink cartridges and per ml you be surprised how super expensive ink for your home printer compares. And yes i know its a sell the razor handle cheap and gouge them on the blades thing. :)
Isn´t printer ink more expensive than human blood (per liter)?
@@sintoxic maybe in those little cartridges
okay....WHERE DO I APPLY FOR THIS JOB????
we have a Latex ink printer at the shop i work at....it smells....it's VERY UV resistant....
I guess I should really put the Smithonian on my "Places to visit if I ever go to America"-List
18:05 I feel personally attacked.
I dunno about anyone else but I thought "oh yeah I had noticed that sometimes the ink doesn't come off when picking at it. Oh crap they are talking about me I'm that person"
Wow, what a brain-full of information there is in this video. I will watch it a few more times at least.
Awesome demonstrations... :|
To peel the vinyls we put a strip of duct tape over each line of text and then peel the whole thing
The HP WF machines are bad ass but the MGI machines put them to shame
13:57 FrogJuice uv spray lam
Hey cameraman, did you have an itch you couldn't scratch?
The "suggestions" sign above the trash bins in the background at ua-cam.com/video/oVafAOa_UIE/v-deo.html is pretty funny.
Great pitch. Can't be more positive than this! We are working with those UV printers to create a.o. recreations of masterpieces. Check out our Project EIGER site on Elevated Printing at www.projecteiger.com.
Do you think if you taped that guys hands to his sides he wouldn't be able to talk...?
Lol!!! I came here specifically to see if anyone else was going to comment on how much that guy talks with his hands. 🤣
Would it have kept the camera more steady if they had?
@@LostWhits bahaha 🤣
He's like a printer
Geesh..Evan needs a raise...or he needs to learn to be an actual public servant and rely on the ol' " not in my job description" LOL ...
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I still would like to know where Smithsonian put all those giant skeletons they are supposed to have received, only to sweep under the carpet. Allegedly.
I was waiting for someone to say something. But they might have hidden history. I don't belive in Aliens. But we have been here for way longer than they say we have.
But l am Happy about Me and My Wife
Who saw the thumbnail and taught Adam was pointing a prop gun over the counter?
Almost 1st
THIRD
Now I know what causes all those hurricanes - This 26 minute video must contain as much hand waving as the rest of history combined.
Those HPs are old. There is way better technology out now.
BOOSTDTV They’re still decent printers, “old” or not they get the job done. Plus they’re workhorses, we never have too many issues with the ones we service.
Robbie Gorol true but latex printers HP are putting out now seem light years ahead. Tech in large format printing has changed quickly the last 10-15 years.
@@BOOSTDTV Latex for sure, I hear it's pretty great tech.
We haven't jumped into latex service yet, and I'm not sure why to be honest. It's been around a while at this point, but my guess is that my salespeople blow, and they can't actually sell one for us to have to service them.
Refill those cartridges, stop buying those greedy bastards new boats.
They are surprisingly cheap per ml. Some printers can use a bulk system with large refillable tanks.
I have a solvent Mimaki that uses 440 ml cartridges that are about $90 so 20 cents a ml. Do the math on cartridges you buy and prepare to be shocked. :-)
That HP cartridge might be only $95.
An HP 63 cartridge holds maybe 10 ml for $18 so $1.80 per ml or 9 times more.
first
…to die!
Please
Once you realize he can’t speak without moving his hands, it’s very distracting.
This is really nothing more than talking heads with the odd glimpse of a piece of equipment. This is a video which is a visual medium on the use of other visual mediums and yet we see nothing of the process just static equipment. What a shame when we could have seen both the process and people talking about the process.
Why does this dude sound and look like he's gonna cry the whole time? Lol