Author Archives: Eric Hart

Wednesday Link-i-mage

By Eric Hart | Published: January 27, 2010
This week, we have a visual link-o-rama, focusing on sites with vintage advertisements, posters, and other ephemera. Sometimes, you need to find historically accurate ads for props, other times, you can use them as research sources for your period. Vintage Advertising group on Flickr A sprawling hodgepodge of advertising and packaging pictures. Vintage Ad Browser A very large and [...]
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Build it Green NYC

By Eric Hart | Published: January 25, 2010
Last week, Jay and I finally got to check out Build it Green NYC. It is a non-profit group that collects salvaged and surplus building materials, and sells them to the public for low prices. The location is a bit of a bear (the northwestern corner of Astoria); then again, if you want cheap prices in [...]
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E-Cigarettes

By Eric Hart | Published: January 22, 2010
So your play needs cigarettes. Aaaah. In most venues by now, real cigarette smoking is viewed as the next plague. The fear is that lighting a single cigarette for a few seconds in a large, well-ventilated theater, is worse than the constant outpouring of pollution from 250 million cars, 600 coal power plants, and every other [...]
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25 Memorable Film Props

By Eric Hart | Published: January 20, 2010
What are the most memorable props in movies? I looked at a number of factors in choosing these props. Did the film change the way the object is viewed? For example, one cannot drive a DeLorean without hearing at least one reference to Back to the Future. Did the use of the prop have a strong [...]
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This blog is one-year old today

By Eric Hart | Published: January 18, 2010
Tomorrow will be one year since the First Post of this blog. I now have a link to the archives of my blog, which will show the 162 posts I’ve made so far, as well as this one and all future posts. So if you miss a few days, or are new to the site, [...]
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