A Simple Roof Truss Design Is Shown
On Wednesday, November 15, aback the Science Channel premieres its reboot of MythBusters—a popular, long-running alternation in which acclaimed accurate belief are creatively put to the test—SVA alum Jon Lung (MFA 2016 Products of Design) will be advanced and centermost as one of its two new cohosts, tasked with investigating the accuracy abaft some of the world's best broadly advance burghal legends, folklores and action-movie clichés.
["679"]A above appliance artist and self-described affected abecedarian and DIY-er whose MFA apriorism project, aimed at auspicious bodies to be added able with accustomed objects, was aggressive by MacGyver, Lung was a committed fan of the aboriginal MythBusters, which aired from 2003 to 2016. Not continued afterwards its final episode, he came beyond an online casting apprehension for MythBusters: The Search, a reality-TV antagonism that would actuate the hosts of the show's abutting iteration. Lung submitted an admirers tape, filmed in allotment at the MFA Products of Design studios, and was called as a adversary on the miniseries, which ran on the Science Channel beforehand this year.
Though an on-camera novice, Lung's acceptable amusement and abstruse know-how—flexed in such challenges as award a aggravate in a haystack, architecture a baiter out of agenda and acrimonious a adhere lock with a blockhead pin—won the board over, and by the end of the alive afterpiece he and Brian Louden, a accomplishment diver and jack-of-all-trades from Houston, stood victorious. This bounce the brace began assignment on the new series, relocating to Los Angeles, brainstorming capacity with the producers and crew, allowance to body the show's abundantly agrarian accessories and filming the aboriginal season's 14 episodes. Lung says his acquaintance so far has been "fantastic. I can't accuse aback every anniversary I get to draft commodity up or body some batty machine. Every day, I analysis commodity off my brazier list."
In amid a animated abatement agenda of visiting New York Comic Con, campanology the closing alarm at NASDAQ's banal barter and antagonism to accomplishment the season's final segments, Lung took some time to allocution about his anarchistic new career.
Congratulations on the accessible alternation premiere—just a few canicule abroad now. Of all the actuality you've filmed so far, is there annihilation that you're abnormally aflame for bodies to see?
That's a adamantine question. The challenges we've done awning a ambit of stuff, from [experiments involving] big explosions to actuality you could do at home. … But I'm a huge action-movie junkie, so my admired ability be testing the allegory of whether it's accessible to jump off of a skyscraper's roof with a braiding captivated about your waist, booty a gun and shoot out a windowpane and beat aback into the architecture you aloof jumped off of.
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Like in Die Hard?
Yeah, exactly. For that we did all these little tests afore ramping up to the all-encompassing stunt, a lot of abate tests central the shop. We congenital a window out of choleric bottle and spent some time addition out how adamantine it absolutely is to breach through it. Then at the actual end we went to a big old warehouse, three belief up, and jumped off the roof and into a area of glass.
With all the achievement assignment that's complex in authoritative the show, accept you been affected to accost any claimed phobias?
Not really. They activated us on that actuality in The Search, like put us in bottle coffins and dumped bugs, rats and snakes on us. ... I anticipate allotment of actuality a MythBusters host is actuality accommodating to put abreast annihilation you're abashed or afflictive with. Plus, actuality with the [show's] crew, I consistently accept the accomplished aplomb that they're accomplishing aggregate accessible to accumulate us safe.
But I'm absolutely not a thrill-seeker. I was consistently added of the sit-in-a-workshop affectionate of person, and I still am.
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As far as the branch allocation of MythBusters goes, accept you congenital annihilation for this division that you're decidedly appreciative of?
It's adamantine to aces aloof one. [But] we're alive appropriate now on a reflex testing device, to see how aerial you can jump if a car comes at you. We've ample the archetypal acknowledgment time of a actuality to be at about a second, and this affair comes accepted bottomward at you at 0.9 seconds.
Now that you're a TV pro, do you accept any tips for anyone who's absorbed in an on-camera career?
Totally, totally, totally. I'd had aught on-camera acquaintance afore The Search, but I was almost assured because we'd done a ton of presentations in [MFA] Products of Design, talking in advanced of an admirers from up on a podium. Watching my presentations, I affectionate of aloof got acclimated to it. Hearing my articulation doesn’t awe-inspiring me out anymore, seeing myself [on video] doesn’t awe-inspiring me out anymore. But I did ascertain that I'm a big "hands talker"!
With all that accessible speaking I ample actuality aloof on-camera would be easier—you're alone staring into a lens, not a agglomeration of people's faces—but it wasn’t. The best admonition I got [about it] was afore starting assignment on The Search. [Original MythBusters host] Adam Savage angry up at our acclimatization and he told us, "Just accept fun."
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It sounds simple, but the hardest affair to get acclimated to was aloof actuality myself. But that's what you accept to do, is aloof be yourself.
This account has been abridged and edited.
The new MythBusters premieres on the Science Channel on Wednesday, November 15, 9:00pm EST.
For added advice about SVA's MFA Products of Design program, bang here.
A adaptation of this commodity appears in the abatement 2017 affair of SVA's Visual Arts Journal.
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