I think we can all agree that “Mythbusters” is a pretty awesome show. After all, who doesn’t love seeing people put weird science myths to the test, oftentimes resulting in a few explosions and some serious harm inflicted upon Buster?
Show co-host Adam Savage is also a blast (pun…intended?), his passion for science and all things nerdy, geeky, and fandom-related highly infectious and very relatable. After all, how many of us get really excited when we get to talk about horror and everything about it that makes us go nuts?
Turns out that Adam is also quite the horror fan, as he self-professes. And, according to him, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, “…is one of my all-time favorite horror movies.” In fact, Savage loves the film so much that he got inspired by the Kubrick archives exhibitions, which were traveling the country at the time, to create his own miniature version of the iconic hedge maze.
“It’s such an iconic character in the film,” Savage explains, although he full admits that the is was a way that the film departed from author Stephen King’s novel. But his passion for the maze doesn’t just extend to creating it. In addition, it also goes so far as to go into detail about the various mazes that we, the viewer, see throughout the film, of which there are five (click the link below to read more about this).
Coming back to the maze that Adam created, he also created a whole post about his process and shared tons of images that detail the entire process. It’s something I think is worth the time to go over because this is the perfect example of passion meeting determination. Plus, I love the absolute hell out of The Shining and with it about to be winter, I feel like this is the perfect time to share this!
Below are a few images from the build. The full set of images as well as detailed explanation of calculated ratios can be found over at Tested.
