Name: 【TED】Adam Savage: My love letter to cosplay (My love letter to cosplay | Adam Savage)
Uploaded: 2016-08-28T07:08:29.000Z
Duration: 13 min 8 s
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There's this fact that I love that I read somewhere once,

that one of the things that's contributed to homo sapiens' success

gives us the ability to modulate our body temperature

and thus be able to survive in any climate we choose.

And now we've evolved to the point where we can't survive without clothing.

Everything that we choose to put on is a narrative,

I didn't have an easy time finding friends to play with,

and I ended up making a lot of my own play.

There was a Baskin-Robbins in my hometown,

and they served ice cream from behind the counter

in these giant, five-gallon, cardboard tubs.

And someone told me -- I was eight years old --

someone told me that when they were done with those tubs,

they washed them out and kept them in the back,

and if you asked they would give you one.

It took me a couple of weeks to work up the courage,

They gave me one -- I went home with this beautiful cardboard tub.

I was trying to figure out what I could do with this exotic material --

I started turning it over in my head, and I realized, "Wait a minute --

my head actually fits inside this thing."

I needed a place to wear the space helmet,

so I found a refrigerator box a couple blocks from home.

I started with a control panel out of cardboard.

and put a flashlight underneath it to light it.

I put a view screen up, which I offset off the back wall --

and this is where I thought I was being really clever --

without permission, I painted the back wall of the closet black

which I lit up with some Christmas lights I found in the attic,

I was way too young to see it, but I was caught up in "Jaws" fever,

like everyone else in America at the time.

There was a store in my town that had a "Jaws" costume in their window,

and my mom must have overheard me talking to someone

about how awesome I thought this costume was,

she blew my freaking mind by giving me this "Jaws" costume.

that kids these days have no idea how good they have it,

but let me just show you a random sampling

of entry-level kids' costumes you can buy online right now ...

... and this is the "Jaws" costume my mom bought for me.

and a vinyl bib with the poster of "Jaws" on it.

my dad took me to a film called "Excalibur."

I actually got him to take me to it twice,

which is no small thing, because it is a hard, R-rated film.

But it wasn't the blood and guts or the boobs

The armor in "Excalibur" was intoxicatingly beautiful to me.

These were literally knights in shining, mirror-polished armor.

And moreover, the knights in "Excalibur" wear their armor everywhere.

All the time -- they wear it at dinner, they wear it to bed.

replete with the neck shields and a white horse.

here's a picture of the armor that I made.

Now, this is only the first suit of armor I made

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