#show props

[greenekangaroo]

I dont even watch the Sandman series but I need to know who designed Daniel's pendant like immediately I need a dupe of that in my life it is so fucking pretty

[whatonearthisgoingon]

Art projects for shows are fun but messy

[bonesologyforum]

Bones Auction

Bones props auction!! 

[mychemicaldoodle]

Lots of super 77, duct tape, sore hands cutting the plastic coreflute, white fluff and glitter later...

[wolfie359]

Bit of a frustrating day again today... We have this garden table that we need to collapse in a fight scene when an actor is thrown on it... but it also needs to be sat on and hopped onto. And it wasn’t the most sturdy table to begin with, so really I wouldn’t be happy signing off on a risk assessment to say I want to let all of that happen. 

So having talked it through with Rorie who runs the work/paintshop, we have three choices:

Keep all the blocking except for the planned table collapse and brace and reinforce the table properly. - the fight scene hasn’t been blocked yet so we could have him flip it instead. Only problem is I think the director has been getting slightly frustrated with us not having the budget to have that many consumables like lamps breaking every show, but we have actually bought the table, so we can destroy it a bit, so it seems a shame to not be able to have it collapse.

Have the table collapse and not have them sit or lean on it, as has been blocked already throughout the show. This obviously won’t work super well, but we would get to keep the nice noisy violent table collapse.

Buy a new table that can both collapse and be sat on. Which is what we’re trying at the moment, but it’s going to be expensive because the table needs to be 800x800mm, and there aren’t many.

It’s a little frustrating, especially as I had to drive the van in a 400 mile round trip to pick up the table, and we’ve been working on it for a while. We also open two weeks today, so it would have been good to have the table before now, but the set people held us up a little sourcing ridiculously expensive carpet that we were no way going to put in the budget. 

BUT HEY.

If anyone has any bright ideas let me know. In the meantime I will be begging people for free tables. 

[wolfie359]

I have become a drug dealer

At least I feel like I have Been making little baggies of tobacco and oregano to pose as weed for the show and oh boy do I feel shady.

[cinderssmokeandashes]

Look what they gave me today! A show prop letter :)

[hudders-and-hiddles]

Sherlock Holmes exhibition, round 2

From the top:

Jennifer Wilson’s suitcase

Fletcher’s sign

A semtex vest

A plateful of Sherlock Holmeses (why? idfk)

More Jeremy Brett goodness

Lord Blackwood’s coffin from Ritchie Holmes

More props from Ritchie Holmes

The typewriter from the end of A Game of Shadows

A letter from Doyle to Dr Joseph Bell about him being the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes

A first edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles