But then MythBusters started, and Byron joined the crew.
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I’d seen every episode of Star Trek’s original series and most of Star Trek: The Next Generation. But I couldn’t find anybody even remotely like me, especially on TV. “I’ve grown to like explosions over the years.”īyron started appearing in MythBusters right around when I started high school, when I was casting around for a role model. They, along with co-hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, used science and engineering to test farfetched myths and urban legends - and sometimes bust them. She and two other hosts - Tory Belleci and Grant Imahara - made up the trio called the Build Team. Byron’s television career started with MythBusters, a science series on the Discovery Channel. This is exactly how I imagined hanging out with Kari Byron would go, back when I was a teenager. And I’ve grown to like explosions over the years.” “It’s a little bit of controlling the wildness of the explosion. “What I like about this is that it’s chaos - but it’s controlled chaos,” she says. There’s an edge to Byron underneath her enthusiasm that’s easy to miss when she’s on camera. It’s a dark, furious image with a lingering odor of brimstone. (“It smells like a fart, really,” Byron says.)Īs she scrapes the burnt clay off the page, the singed outline of a face screaming into the void emerges. She clicks a remote lighter, and the powder bursts into a plume of white smoke that stinks like rotten eggs. Watch Kari Byron make beautiful art, with explosives. And when she lights the gunpowder to create her explosive paintings, she doesn’t drop a lit match on it and duck she uses an electrical match with long wire leads that let her stand back from the blast. But they also were tucked away in a paint bucket, a laundry hamper, and some tupperware. Her art supplies were stored in a vintage ammo canister. She didn’t roar up on a motorcycle - she drove over in an SUV / minivan crossover with plenty of trunk space. Kneeling on the driveway in a leather jacket and jeans tucked into motorcycle boots, Byron looks every inch the badass. But the good stuff, she says, is tough to find in California. The fine grains don’t make enough of a mess. “I like a big grain, and this is a little finer,” she explains. That’s what we’re doing in a front yard in California on a cold December morning, with Byron’s least-favorite gunpowder. “What I like about this is that it’s chaos - but it’s controlled chaos.”īyron recently spent a couple of hours talking to me about her trajectory from artist to MythBuster to fixture of unscripted science television.
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