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BAM! Creative Art

By Eric Hart | Published: April 16, 2010
Ah, paper props. They can be fun to do… if you have time. And if you know how to use the software. And you’re able to print them correctly. My friend and colleague Will Griffith recently began a company to do all that. BAM! Creative Art is a one-stop shop for designing and printing any [...]
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“The Book of Grace” Props

By Eric Hart | Published: April 5, 2010
The Book of Grace, by Suzan-Lori Parks, closed yesterday here at the Public Theater, so I thought I’d write about some of the props. I’ll start with the set props and some of the tricks that may or may not have been apparent. This show had a lot of tricks. The iron actually ironed, the [...]
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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 [...]
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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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    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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