Category Archives: Showcases

Showing off the prop portfolios of people, prop shop spaces, and props for shows.

Mechanical Elephants

By Eric Hart | Published: February 19, 2010

I have elephants on the mind today; I’m not sure why. This elephant is from a French show in 2006 called “Visit From The Sultan Of The Indies On His Time-Travelling Elephant”. It was designed by François Delarozière, made mostly of wood and needed 22 handlers to operate its hydraulics and motors. But wait, there’s more.

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Giant Prop Octopus

By Eric Hart | Published: February 3, 2010

Youtuber bluworm has a great process video showing how he made a latex octopus for a stop-motion film. I found this via the Craft Magazine blog, which reposted it from Sean Michael Ragan at the Make Magazine blog. He found it via Propnomicon, which finally led me to the website and blog of Tom Banwell, [...]

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Throwing a pot

By Eric Hart | Published: December 28, 2009

We rarely work in ceramics in the prop shop, but I thought I’d share this video of my father, Michael Hart, at work throwing a pot. Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

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Merry Christmas!

By Eric Hart | Published: December 23, 2009

Merry Christmas! I’ll be back with more prop magic after the holiday. Until then, enjoy some props from this year’s Macy’s holiday windows.

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Convolution

By Eric Hart | Published: November 20, 2009

This is fascinating. On the one hand, this shows what you can make out of just wood, without nails, glue, wire, or anything else. On the other hand, it features such a great collection of mechanisms all powered from a single crank. It’s amazing the amount of movement you can get from a single rotational [...]

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