Blacksparrow Auctions will be holding their “I Love Lucy Auction” online-only auction this month, which concludes on April 16th. The auction features original costumes, props, manuscripts, photos, posters, costumes sketches and autographs from Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. [Read more…]
Blacksparrow Auctions has teamed up with Creature Features to “celebrate over five decades of the Apes franchise” with a live event offering “original costumes, props, prosthetic molds, posters, production & commercial artwork, action figures and autographs from the original 1968 Planet of the Apes to 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes“. Proceeds of the auction will benefit Center for Great Apes. [Read more…]
Blacksparrow Auctions will be holding their “Hollywood’s Leading Men & Women Auction” on April 12th at the Hollywood Show at the Westin LAX. The auction event is described as including “original costumes, props, autographs and other memorabilia from some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, including Jennifer Lawrence, Angelina Jolie, Jim Carrey, Will Smith, Channing Tatum, Gary Oldman, Chris Hemsworth, Robert Downey, Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Russell Crowe, Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks, Sean Penn, Hugh Jackman, James Gandolfini, Emily Blunt and many more.” [Read more…]
Blacksparrow Auctions has today put out their auction catalog for the Hunger Games Costume Auction, to be held on Los Angeles on November 16th. Hardcopy catalogs are available to order on the official site, though you can also view the catalog online with bidding partner LiveAuctioneers. The sale boasts 200 costumes from the popular 2012 film. [Read more…]
Today – April 5th, 2012 – marks the five year anniversary of launching this website, the Original Prop Blog. In Spring 2007, I published the first article, “The Hobby Without A Name…”, though I didn’t have any idea I would still be writing articles five years later, and I wouldn’t have imagined writing approximately 1,559 of them (currently a 5 year average of 0.87 articles per day since launch, which is quite a lot considering I am the sole contributor). [Read more…]
I was contacted today by Joe Huth with a link and details about his and AJ Palmgren’s excellent new website dedicated to sharing and exchanging information about the vehicles and props used on the classic ’80s television series, Knight Rider., starring David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight and his high tech, artificially intelligent car, KITT (a highly modified Pontiac Trans Am). [Read more…]
Today marks the three year anniversary of the Original Prop Blog. Three years ago today I published its first article, “The Hobby Without A Name…“
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Today marks the two year anniversary of the Original Prop Blog. So it was two years ago today that I published its first article, “The Hobby Without A Name…” [Read more…]
