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Kurt Muller
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Joined: 11/11/05 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 28 |
 Topic: Lookit me!Lookit me!Posted: 5/22/07 at 9:39pm |
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I make props at home for amateur theatres in Brisbane, Australia, and I was asked to make an old style 50s microphone for a play about the McCarthy era. I'm pretty pleased with it, so I thought I'd brag a bit, (well, why not?). It's just a plastic bath-salts container with a few plastic bits and pieces glued on, and the whole thing painted with "chrome" and "metallic" paint.
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TonyDi
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Joined: 9/13/06 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 325 |
Posted: 5/23/07 at 7:03am |
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WOW!! THAT is beautiful. Looks like the real thing. Cheers on a superb job. NEED MORE quality props by insightful, intelligent, creative props people like you. THIS IS GREAT. How I could have used your services so many times over the years. Great piece.
Tony B
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neilfortin
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Joined: 11/20/06 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 210 |
Posted: 5/23/07 at 8:30am |
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That looks awesome. We just finished a show about HUAC (House UnAmerican Acitivies Committe) and we used something similar...we definitely could have used you...any more pics of your stuff?!
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Kurt Muller
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Joined: 11/11/05 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 28 |
Posted: 5/23/07 at 8:36am |
Thanks, Tony. Very nice of you to say so.
 No doubt about it, I'm an applause junkie.  Believe me, I'd love to have been able to make props for you guys, but I'm in Australia, and the freight would be a killer!!
 Anyway, I don't make props any more, since my fingers rebelled. I only made this one because it was small and straightforward. Thanks again. With that sort of encouragement, I might even take it up again.
Cheers,
Kurt.
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Kurt Muller
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Joined: 11/11/05 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 28 |
Posted: 5/23/07 at 8:45am |
Thanks, Neil.
Maybe this guy is doing the same play. He never actually told me the name of it, just that he and a few other people were doing it as part of a competition in this part of the State, and that it was about the HUAC. He's playing a 50s guy who narrates the events of that time.
I do have some pics of other props I've made, but they're not on any server yet. Got a mounted deer's head (totally fake), that I did for "Brigadoon", an olde English gas street light I did for "Witness for the Prosecution", and an old windup gramaphone with horn that I made for "The Philadelphia Story".
All my other props I donated to our theatre when I decided to stop making props. At least, I thought I had stopped. People kept ringing me and asking me to help out. I only did this one because it was small, and didn't involve any major labour. My fingers are no good since an operation I had.
I'd love to keep doing it, but the hands protest.
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Joan54
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Joined: 10/03/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 207 |
Posted: 5/24/07 at 7:52am |
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I am so sorry that you cannot work as much as you want to because your hands "protest". Maybe you could still work with the theater by being the boss of the prop department.....get younger hands doing the work under your instruction...that way you could pass your talent on.....hope it gets better.
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"behind a thin wall of logic panic is waiting to stampede"
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Kurt Muller
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Joined: 11/11/05 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 28 |
Posted: 5/24/07 at 9:22am |
Thank you, Joan, for that. Interesting you should suggest that I be a kind of mentor, because that's exactly what has happened recently. For our production of Calamity Jane, I had to turn down the director's request for some props she wanted. So she asked one of the women in the crew to take on the job.
That lady approached me and asked me if I'd give her some help and advice on materials and so on. You can imagine how that felt! I was very flattered.
But I have to say I can still do small jobs that don't require a lot of sawing and grinding and sanding and using small tools for too long. When I made the microphone, all I had to do was use a power drill, a can of spray paint, and a cutting knife for the various plastic bits. It was pretty easy.
But every cloud... etc etc.. Since I cut back on prop-making, I've had more time to work on a project that I've postponed for years, which is making movies. For that, I only have to press a camera button!
 Kurt
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Kathy S
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Joined: 8/21/04 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 303 |
Posted: 5/24/07 at 8:43pm |
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Just adding my "Wow" to the throng...
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Kurt Muller
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Joined: 11/11/05 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 28 |
Posted: 5/24/07 at 9:34pm |
Thanks, Kathy. Your "Wow" is received with appreciation.
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chel
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Joined: 6/20/07 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 106 |
Posted: 6/20/07 at 6:07pm |
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That's fantastic! I have to come up with something similar for "Leader of the Pack". I need to make microphones for a recording studio. Any prop designing advice on this?
I truly admire your work. How about your next project is to write a book on it? Thanks for sharing your pics. :)
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