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05/25/2015 Two dead spider crabs propped up with accessories at Steeplechase Pier. Kodak Ektar 100. Olympus 35 SP. G.Zuiko 42mm 1:1.7.
I was part of a collaborative build at BrickFair Virginia 2024 which had participants build sections of movie or television sets. I was assigned two sections which would not be specific sets, but would enhance the studio layout.
My second section was a prop workshop with scattered props based on various alien related IP.
Backstage at the Rio Grande Theatre, where the Shanghai Circus has set up props for showtime. Curios with a purpose, every one a carefully designed piece of the puzzle.
Monolight with umbrella camera right, vivitar 285 remote triggered on background from floor, mounted on gorillapod. Experimenting for a gig coming up. And there was a fall sale at AC Moore!
so I always thought that it was really silly that iwako brand food erasers were so expensive and that people would actually pay it, when you can get much cheaper food erasers here in the states from basically anywhere (I've found them at craft stores, walmart, and even dollar stores)
well it's definitely a case of you get what you pay for...
I found someone selling them for relatively cheap and decide to pick up a couple lots just to see 'cause I'm lacking in drink type props, and I totally get the reason for the hype now.
they're so much nicer than the american (meaning purchased in america, pretty sure they were all made in china or something) ones; the eraser is denser and less chalky/brittle than the cheapy ones, and the labels don't feel like they're going to peel off just from looking at them like the ones on the american erasers do.
over all, I'd say it was money well spent 'cause I'm sure I'll get plenty of use out of them.
Prop head for a Mexican Werewolf from a horror movie whose title I've forgotten. Fangoria Chicago 2007.
Prop roots of screw pine (Pandanus utilis) in Cooper's Island Nature Reserve, Parish of St. George's, Bermuda.
I photographed this particular tree near the entrance (in area 4) on the map of the nature reserve and neighbouring areas, on the east side of the peninsula. Screw pine is not native to Bermuda but is an introduction quite commonly seen in gardens and public spaces. This being a conservation area, I guess it's possible it will be removed at some stage as part of the programme to restore the Reserve as far as possible to Bermuda's native vegetation, but it makes an attractive and striking feature when the whole tree is seen against the background of Turtle Bay.
There is a pair of Jamaican anole lizards (Anolis grahami) lying on the prop roots, just visible.
This picture shows two of Bermuda's invasive species - the pair of Jamaican anole lizards and the white daisy flower (white beggars ticks, Bidens pilosa), lower R. The screw pine is a non-invasive introduction. Further details below.
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JAMAICAN ANOLE
also known as Graham's anole
Anolis grahami Gray, 1845
The green lizard (L.) is a male. These lizards can change colour (using melanocytes) so the brownish one (R.) is possibly a colour-variant male. It might also be a female one but these are described as usually greenish grey to light grey. This lizard is endemic to Jamaica but was introduced in Bermuda in 1905 by a former Director of Agriculture to control the fruit fly. It is now very common everywhere in Bermuda and is effectively an invasive species, as it is displacing the endemic Bermuda rock skink, Eumeces longirostris, the only lizard originally found on the island.
----- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anolis_grahami
----- www.conservation.bm/lizards/
----- Thomas, M.L.H. 2010. A naturalist's field guide to Bermuda. Bermuda Zoological Society Press. 392 pp. See p.115
SCREW PINE
Pandanus utilis Bory
Other common vernacular names (in English) include Madagascar screw pine, common screw pine, screw palm or pandan. It is not a true pine, or a true palm, but a palm-like evergreen monocot. It is not native to Bermuda but is an introduction quite commonly seen in gardens and public spaces. It has also been introduced into many other parts of the tropics and sub-tropics around the world. It is native to the SW Indian Ocean including the Seychelles (which is where I first came across it). Screw pine has characteristic cylindrical prop roots, as seen here, which make a geometric 'tepee' around the base of the tree giving extra support in poor soils and in hurricanes.
----- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandanus_utilis
----- Thomas, M.L.H. 2010. A naturalist's field guide to Bermuda. Bermuda Zoological Society Press. 392 pp. See p.207
WHITE BEGGAR TICKS
Bidens pilosa Linnaeus
This daisy relative is a forb which is native to tropical America, but an invasive introduction in Bermuda. The flowers have a variable petal arrangement or sometimes none at all. The seeds numerous and are barbed and cling to animals and clothing like a burr, which at least in part gives rise to the plant's vernacular name. This also helps to make this plant a rapid and effective disperser, so the species colonises quickly and opportunistically. The barbs on the seeds also sting.
----- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidens_pilosa
----- Thomas, M.L.H. 2010. A naturalist's field guide to Bermuda. Bermuda Zoological Society Press. 392 pp. See p.188
----- Pettit, D. (Ed.), 2012. Bermuda plant finder. Indigenous and invasive plants of Bermuda. Government of Bermuda. Ministry of the Environment and Planning. Department of Conservation Services. 207 pp. Downloadable pdf from www.conservation.bm/
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COOPER'S ISLAND
Huge man-made changes affected all this area during the 20th Century, through the construction of a US Air Base (KIndley), a US Naval Air Station, Bermuda's civil airport, and various installations including a NASA tracking station. Since the US forces left the base, a clean-up was carried out after some tricky negotiations. Apart from the civil airport and various residual buildings, the bases have now all gone. The lasting effect of all the military works was to make what were once separate islands (Cooper's Island, St. David's Island) into a single landmass. Following demolition of all the military installations, the whole area now includes the largest area of undeveloped land on Bermuda, the largest area of public parkland (Cooper's Island National Park) and the largest nature reserve (Cooper's Island Nature Reserve), the latter being committed to a major nature conservation and restoration programme.
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To my knowledge, this is the first twin-tip snowboard.
This snowboard is on loan to the Colorado Snowboard Archive
This weekend 125.000 people visited the anual Dickens Festijn in the historic centre of Deventer. This adorable family are supporting actors in the cosplay. To put an extra aging to the scene I finished it in sepia.
Charles Dickens, this one's for you!
A fellow named Dymerski on a prop board I'm a member of made this Anubis helmet replica from the movie Stargate. This isn't my work or my photo. A few more details here, www.scifihero.net/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t2675.html
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NBC fitted out an Airstream trailer to look like the trailer in their TV series Grimm. In the show, Grimms are hunters of monsters from the fairy tales, and the trailer contains their weapons, potions and research material used in tracking and hunting monsters. NBC went all out with the trailer, using many of the actual props from the TV show.
The P1 Hand Phaser prop is "fired" by rolling the thumbwheel on top, forward. First the hooded "sight" rises, and then with the wheel at its extreme forward position, the light bulb in the emitter tip is lit. (this means that the actors always "fired" their phasers on the maximum setting!)
The actors also had to simultaneously seem to be pushing the stud on the bottom of the weapon, since that was supposed to be the actual trigger! (the button on the bottom wasn't connected to anything and actually did nothing).
Later in the series the actors were given non-functional dummy props. Eventually they got into the habit of holding their phasers to make it appear as though they were pushing something on top to fire the phaser. This is why fan drawings, including the semi-official Franz Joseph Starfleet Technial Manual, show the "rising sight" on top labeled as the trigger!
NOTE: the ATL replicas were a private project and not made for sale. None are available.
It's been raining like heck the past few days.
Here's the trash bin at Premiere Props, Sun Valley, California.
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More stuff by jbum:
A propeller blade and small collection of parts from Trans Canada Airlines flight 810, which crashed into the steep cliffs of Mt Slesse on Dec 9, 1956. All 62 on board the Canadian North Star died. A proper memorial plaque sits further down the mountain.