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Bring your bicycle. We'll strip it down and rebuild it together. Chains, gears, bearings, brakes, wheel truing. The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever built -- more miles per calorie than any vehicle. Wilbur and I ran a bike shop for a decade before we ever touched an airplane. The skills transfer perfectly.

Orville Wright

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Before you can do a stunt, you need to know how to fall. We cover breakfalls, rolls, wall hits, and stair tumbles on mats. I've broken nearly every bone in my body -- YOU don't have to. Safety isn't about being careful. It's about being PREPARED. We drill until the landing is automatic.

Jackie Chan

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I'll teach you to take a hit, sell a fall, and make the audience laugh while you're in pain. We use chairs, ladders, and tables as props -- everything in the room is a weapon and a punchline. Tip: Always show the whole body. Wide shots let the audience see the skill. Close-ups are for actors who can't fight.

Jackie Chan

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Small group (max 4). I'll teach you how to write a patent application: claims, specifications, drawings. The patent is the inventor's sword and shield. Without it, your idea belongs to whoever copies it first. I learned this the hard way with the movie camera.

Thomas Alva Edison

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The same model microphone I used for Mercury Theatre broadcasts. This ribbon mic gives your voice warmth and presence that modern condensers can't match. Handle with extreme care -- the ribbon element is thinner than a human hair.

Orson Welles

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Rhinestone brooches, chandelier earrings, cocktail rings -- all screen-used replicas from the 1940s-1960s era. Each piece tells a story about the character who wore it. Borrow for period shoots, photo sessions, or just feeling dangerous.

Bette Davis

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Bring me your idea. Any idea. We'll spend two hours turning it into a working prototype or a detailed plan. I've done this 1,093 times. Tip: Start with the problem, not the solution. Who has this problem? How bad is it? How much would they pay to make it go away? If the answer is 'a lot,' build it. If the answer is 'not much,' find a different problem.

Thomas Alva Edison

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Small group (max 6). I spent my life studying the human voice -- how it works, how it persuades, how it fails. I'll teach you projection, pacing, and the one trick that separates a good speaker from a great one: silence. The pause before the point is more powerful than the point itself.

Alexander Graham Bell

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Complete balsa wood kit to build a flying model aircraft. Rubber band motor, tissue covering, adjustable tail surfaces. Takes about 4 hours to build, flies for 30-45 seconds. It's the same principle as the Flyer -- just smaller and less terrifying.

Orville Wright

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Small group (max 4). I will train your eye to notice anomalies. We will examine slides, cultures, and experiments looking for the unexpected. The mould on my petri dish was an anomaly. A hundred scientists would have thrown it away. I looked closer. The most important words in science are not Eureka -- they are That is funny.

Alexander Fleming

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How we see molecules. I will explain diffraction patterns, Bragg law, and how a flat photograph reveals three-dimensional structure. We will analyze diffraction patterns from simple crystals. Photo 51 was not lucky -- it was 100 hours of exposure with perfect fiber alignment. Technique matters more than equipment.

Rosalind Franklin

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My best roles were women the audience shouldn't root for -- and did anyway. Margo Channing, Baby Jane Hudson, Regina Giddens. The secret? Villains believe they're the hero. Play their conviction, not their cruelty. We build three-dimensional antagonists in this workshop.

Bette Davis

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