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The Heart, She Holler – Branding Iron, Typewriter Puppet, etc.

Posted: October 30, 2013-Likes: 1-Comments: 0-Categories: Propmaking, The Heart She Holler-Tags: Props, heartshe, lighting

Glowing Branding Iron I also made this branding iron (and a larger pile of artificial coals.) The branding iron was made by using a very powerful flashlight as the handle to light a heat-formed flourescent plastic iron. Artificial Glowing Embers Figuring out how to make artificially glowing coals and a branding iron was tricky, but [...]

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The Heart, She Holler – David Cross ate my hand

Posted: October 29, 2013-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Propmaking, The Heart She Holler-Tags: guts, silicone, gelatine

Edible cold-cut hand I made lots of body parts of all sorts for the second season of The Heart, She Holler, but the biggest challenge was making an edible hand that David Cross’s character needed to run through a deli-slicer – and then eat the slices. I started by fashioning a plastic cap that would [...]

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The Heart, She Holler – Tumor Time!

Posted: October 29, 2013-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Propmaking, The Heart She Holler-Tags: Props, heartshe, blood

Cigarette-smoking Tumor One of the most fun props I've ever made was a basketball-sized tumor that  needed to smoke a cigarette while on camera - making the end of the cigarette ember glow red and then puff out a plume of smoke. I did this by first getting an old basketball and using some fittings [...]

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