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Adam Savage's duct tape rule is really about the labels

An archival workshop Q&A joins visits to LAIKA's model shop and the lab developing Christopher Nolan's IMAX footage.

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Adam Savage’s Strict Duct Tape Rule for People Working in His Shop

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0:00Savage reserves white paper tape for labels because duct tape leaves troublesome residue.
1:10He defends duct tape for temporary fixes and recalls engineering builds from MythBusters.
2:56The baby in Eraserhead remains a practical-effects mystery he isn't sure he wants solved.
7:05Small repairs and manageable tasks help him regain momentum when a large build feels daunting.
8:05He recalls whittling in Cape Cod as a way to satisfy the need to physically make something.

The tape can stay. Adam Savage's workshop rule isn't a ban on duct tape, but a ban on using it for labels: those belong on white paper tape, without the adhesive mess he associates with the tougher stuff.

That distinction supplied the most watched of Adam Savage's Tested's nine uploads this week, drawing roughly 405,000 views. The Q&A was originally recorded in September 2020, and Savage is quite happy to defend duct tape for temporary fixes, recalling the boats and car barriers of MythBusters. Viewers have been swapping their own residue-removal grievances, including one maker whose brightly colored temporary repairs never quite become permanent repairs.

The conversation takes a wonderfully specific detour into the baby from David Lynch's Eraserhead. Savage studies the puppeteering in his memory, yet isn't sure he wants the mystery completely explained. Then comes a more everyday maker problem: avoiding a daunting project. His reset is to collect small, achievable wins, sometimes by repairing something, sometimes by carving a little piece of wood simply to make something with his hands.

Elsewhere, the week's film-craft outings move from Wildwood's miniature vehicles at LAIKA to FotoKem in Burbank, where Savage explores the processing journey of the film shot for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. The earlier LAIKA puppet-department tour remains the channel's busiest video right now, with its audience approaching two million views.

Tested added about six million views over seven days and gained subscribers, while its current daily viewing pace sits a little above usual. Architectural Digest also added subscribers among its nearby DIY peers. Back in Savage's shop, the week's smaller-scale assignment was a cardboard cannon, complete with foam balls and a fortress target.

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What viewers say

Nothing more permanent than a temporary fix
@BennyColynSee it on YouTube
I have a rule that I only use duck tape in obnoxious colours like Barbie pink and baby blue so it sticks out as a thing that needs to be fixed up. So then I have violently bright duck tape holding together things I never get round to fixing properly
@snegglepuss6669See it on YouTube
We need that ”Eraserhead” video. Please and thank you.
@easterriot1916See it on YouTube

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9:06 “A big build isn’t one big success, it’s a thousand little successes”
Profound, love it
@jfsimmonsiiiSee it on YouTube
Love the shoutout to Corridor Crew. We always need more collabs with you and them.
@Rogue9-caSee it on YouTube
When I was a teenager, I fell asleep on the sofa in front of the telly. When I woke up, it was dark and Eraserhead was playing. I had never heard of it and didn't know if I was still dreaming or not. It was so confusing and distressing a thing to wake up to =D
@MetalDog-See it on YouTube
I absolutely despise duct tape adhesive residue. Electrical tape adhesive residue is a close second.
@TheDefiant604See it on YouTube
The Eraserhead Baby is truly one of the most disturbing props in film history. In a way one part of me wants to know how it was done, but another desires that it should be forever a mystery
@PENFOLD5See it on YouTube