Here are some quick links for the day.
- Lonesome West Prop Tricks – Here are some quick tips for Martin McDonagh’s Loneseome West; most specifically, the stove that gets hit by a shotgun.
- Costume Properties Construction Handbook – Costume properties has a lot of overlap with props; depending on the show, an object may have equal merit as a costume or a prop depending on the logistics of your production. Regardless, the materials and techniques are very similar for each field.
- Top Ten Colbert Report Prop Malfunctions – If you watch the Cobert Report, you’ll love these prop malfunctions from the show’s history.
- Stagehand Primer – Local 470 out of Wisconsin has their primer online. It includes a section on properties. If you want to join the stagehand union anywhere in the country, this section will give you a good introduction as to what is expected of a props person in the union.
- Friday Link-eteria
- Just a reminder that the first ever New York City props summit is today at the Public Theatre......
- I did not Desert you
- Budget estimates, carbon fiber, no guns in MoMA, Japanese monster mummies, and color photos of 1940s NYC are......
- Monday Link Busters
- Here are some sites and other things I’ve run across lately. Curbly looks like it has a lot......
- Monday Link-O-Rama
- I didn’t do a Friday link-o-rama, so here’s one for Monday. Hopefully I will be back to writing......
