On Props:

I've been doing props for Signal Ensemble off and on for nearly a year now... I still don't know why they wanted me to do them, but I agreed.
I also still don't know why they continue to let me do these props, but every once in a while, I get to make something that I really love. (Naturally this is nowhere on my actual website, as I can't seem to upload anything to my stupid host anymore--FYI powweb hosting blows.)
For the last show that they produced, I had to create a book jacket for the book that one of the characters writes during the course of the play (which was Closer, in case you were wondering). I had just gotten my new lovely, beautiful computer, and slapped something together during performances of Transference on my word processor.... I was pretty pleased with it (I love props that have a lot of text on them). The book jacket:



On the next show, the one I'm currently finishing up, The Weir, I didn't think that there would be any fun props, just beer taps that had to work, and therefore scared the shit out of me. But I neglected the wine bottle. and I have to say, I am in love with the wine bottle project. I have had such fun creating a sick and twisted, but pink and pretty label for a bottle of wine that no one in their right mind would drink. And I felt a touch of pride when I sealed the corks with wax and looked at the final result (which of course I have not photographically documented because I have lost my camera's battery charger).

Creating labels cracks me up:



Especially the backs:




And so, really the point of all this is that I'm moderately pleased with myself. And I actually like doing this... which is weird. I mean I'll still find things about which to grumble and grouse, but I am enjoying doing these little bits of props.

That is all.