Adam Whitney Savage(born July 15, 1967) is an American industrial design and special effects designer/fabricator, actor, educator, and co-host of the Discovery Channel television series .
Early life and educationBorn in New York City, Savage was raised in Sleepy Hollow in Sesame Street , and has a permanent exhibit in the psychotherapist . His sister Kate Savage is also an artist.
Adam Savage began acting as a child, and has had five years of acting school. His early credits include voicing animated characters that his father produced for Sesame Street, Charmin commercial, a helper in the special effects of Billy Joel music video "New York University 's for acting for six months before dropping out.
Describing the early abandonment of his acting career, Savage said ".by the time I was, I guess probably nineteen, I had passed on that in favor of doing stuff with my hands graphic design, assistant animation in New York, and then eventually working in theater in San Francisco, and film special effects. Then MythBusters came along and it was the perfect marriage of two things, performance and special effects." He has since received an honorary doctorate degree from the .
CareerSavage has worked as an animator , carpenter , set designer , model maker on the films Galaxy Quest , Bicentennial Man , Space Cowboys , among others.
Savage played the role of a helpful engineer in the film Ever Since the World Ended and the role of an army surplus store owner who sells a man a rocket engine for his pickup truck in Jamie Hyneman . He made a cameo appearance along with Jamie Hyneman on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on the May 1, 2008, episode "The Theory of Everything." In the "making of" material for , he appears in his role as a special effects artist and discusses some of the miniature effects used and the difficulties involved.
He previously taught advanced model making in the department of Industrial Design at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
Savage has become a regular presenter at magician James Randi 's annual skeptics ' conference, , since first appearing in January 2006. He also appeared in the UK, giving a talk at the first Amazing Meeting London from 3 4 October, 2009, hosted at the Mermaid Conference Centre, Blackfriars.
Savage was a featured performer at the three Diggnation's 220th show.
Savage has also been a regular guest speaker at the annual Maker Faire since 2008, speaking on different topics such as his obsession with the dodo bird and problem solving, and also taking questions from the audience members about the Mythbusters and other things.
MythBustersSavage has been involved in MythBusters since its creation. His role in the show (that he shares with all the other talent) is to either disprove ("bust") myths or confirm them through testing and experiments done at different scales. If the myth is about a one-time occurrence and not about whether or not something can happen at all, it is often deemed "plausible" instead.
Savage's demeanour on MythBusters is animated and energetic, providing a foil to Jamie Hyneman 's more reserved persona.
Savage and Hyneman were the only hosts of the show for the first season of MythBusters, but starting with the second season, members of Hyneman's staff were introduced and began to appear regularly in episodes; Kari Byron , Scottie Chapman appeared in the second season. In the third season, Chapman was replaced by natural selection over on MythBusters.
Savage also stated that such an episode is unlikely because MythBusters has a policy against trying to disprove phenomena.
He is soon to be known as Adam Savage , since the has decided to confer him (together with Jamie Hyneman) such titles for their role in popularizing science, with the occasion of its 50th anniversary, on November 21, 2011.
Personal lifeSavage and his current wife Julia were married in 2002. He has twin sons from a previous relationship (as referred to during his participation in a podcast from Chris Hardwick 's Nerdist site). He wears a hearing aid on his left ear due to a congenital condition. He is a practiced juggler, as seen on Mythbusters. He is also an .
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