Category Archives: Resources

Online and offline resources to help you in all aspects of propping a show.

Ephemerotica

By Eric Hart | Published: August 6, 2010
Ephemera can be some of the hardest props to research and produce accurately, but thanks to the falling prices of bandwidth, storage, and digitization technologies, we see more and more scanned images of ephemera online everyday. It can be daunting to go through all the galleries and collections, and search engines are still less than [...]
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Friday File Filosophy

By Eric Hart | Published: May 28, 2010
Files and rasps are used in many aspects of prop-making; carpentry, metal-work, plastics, foam, and sculpture are among the most common. The WeWilliams Library has a PDF of a book called File Filosophy available for free reading and downloading. In this 40 page pamphlet, they define some of the terminology of files (as well as [...]
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Elephant’s Trunk

By Eric Hart | Published: May 19, 2010
Faye Armon and I headed up to Elephant’s Trunk this past weekend. It’s one of the largest flea markets in New England, and only about 2 hours north of New York City. It runs only on Sundays from April until November, 7am-2pm. They claim it takes up 55 acres; maybe that’s true if you count [...]
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100K Garages

By Eric Hart | Published: May 12, 2010
CNC routing is amazing if you’ve ever seen it in action. You can watch perfect circles and intricate shapes appear in plywood or other sheet goods, right before your eyes. Exact duplicates of precisely measured pieces can be made over and over again. But CNC machines are expensive. They take up a lot of room [...]
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Nokia cellphones and Legos

By Eric Hart | Published: April 28, 2010
Today is a fairly random posting, but I’m knee deep in the two Shakespeare in the Park shows for this summer, as well as a little side project. Here is a pretty sweet timeline of Nokia phones over the past three decades: I had a Nokia cellphone for about three years. Still have it, in [...]
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    Eric Hart

    I am Eric Hart, the assistant props master at the Public Theater in New York City, and a longtime prop maker.

    This site is a way to share my work and the things I've learned over the years. It's also a way to connect with other prop makers, props masters, and artisans, as well as a collection of all things of interest to props people from around the internet.

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