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Simply Elegant:
Simply Elegant Home Fashions in Marin is your source for beautiful ready-made valances, silk panels, antiques, original artwork, and upholstered pieces. We also have a local workroom to do custom orders with a quick turn around time. Looking for a specialty wall covering and fabric in a period look? Designer Basha Quilici is happy: to assist you with historical authentication. Call us at 415-460-1666 or visit us at 332 Sir Francis Drake Blvd. in San Anselmo.

Blue Sky People:
There's a new arrival in the family!
Blue Sky Studios Introduces Blue Sky People! A new casting service that's leading the way for online searches for "Real People". This fast growing trend in advertising is changing the way clients find new faces for their projects. Blue Sky Rental Studios has been the leading San Francisco destination for photography projects from around the world. From Apple and Gap to Versace and Levis, Blue Sky has served the photographic market for over ten years. Blue Sky People carries this stellar reputation into new realms. Please visit them at Blue Sky People or call Holly at (415) 517-5700. Open casting dates for talent are available on the site

Lux Digital Services:
New to San Francisco!! Lux Digital Imaging Services offers comprehensive still digital production from capture to press. Recently founded by John Champlin and Mark Rutherford, Lux is currently the only service of its kind in Northern California. "Our photographic background adds depth to our digital production skills" says John. Mark is a recent APA board member and well known as a digital workflow consultant. Please contact Lux or call for a studio tour (415) 255-7310.

Stage II:
Stage II, now in its fifth year, offers a variety of services for all aspects of event production. Stage II rentals carries props, sets, staging, scenery backdrops, drapery, support, and Diamond Lite Curtains. Contact Chris to hear more about what Stage II can do for you.

Blick Art Supplies:
Blick Art Supplies committed to supporting artists and the art community in a fashion that is unprecedented given their incredible blend of service, selection and value. Read more about Blick Art Supplies.

Glory Days:
Perfect for film, video, print and a full moon …. Captain Pam says, "We love taking both film and still photographers out to shoot things such as the Golden Gate Bridge or Alcatraz. We have also had film crews interviewing …and fashion models. Glory Days has also been the prop for a magazine ad were they shot the boat from a roof of the building on shore. My 12 KW generator will supply the power to run a small hospital…." (800) 849-9256 Click here for a contact info for Glory Days

EVENTS AND HAPPENINGS

Excellent Kid Photographers Needed:
Mugshots School Photography is looking for Bay Area photographers with vision.

School photography? Wait just a minute, Isn't this Propville, a resource for PROFESSIONAL photographers? Hell-o!

Well, here's an update: School photography represents the largest income revenue of the entire professional photography market. This market share represents huge revenue and our friends at Mugshots are on a mission to change all of that.

If you are a great kid's shooter, well-networked with parents in your community and would like to generate a predictable 40-100K for a few weeks of shooting a year (looking better huh?) Mugshots would love to work with you.

You can learn more by going to schoolphotographers.net and checking out the consumer site at mugsyclicks.com Propville is delighted to be producing their upcoming training workshop- so you know it will be fun as well as educational. (Only 3 slots left at the March 18-21 event.)

Call our good friend Linda 415-459-3639 and she can share more about this opportunity to change an industry that is ripe for creative take over!

Dog & Pony Bus Tour: 5.12.07
We're going on Tour…Get on the bus, Gus!!!! Saturday May 12, 2007

Please join us on the maiden voyage of the Propville Dog & Pony Show® Bus Tour.

Visit 10 local production businesses, (like the ACT Costume Shop and Figureplant) get a backstage tour, a delicious lunch and the opportunity to master the in's & outs's of acquiring gear, services and supplies to create visual presentations in the Bay Area.

Get to know the owners and managers at, a local fabricator, a digital tech studio, an equipment rental house, a costume bank and a casting agency; these are the people on your team!

10 stops in all, lunch and guest speaking while in transit.

Different. Fun. Educational. Advantageous.

Emerging image-makers and veterans alike will benefit……and did we mention that you'll be riding with 29 peers and mentors from your community. Sweet!

Seating is very limited, advance tickets only for this event.

Register Now for this great opportunity.

Tickets are $55 in advance and included full catered lunch. Propville accepts visa/MC.

(Vendors, would you like to be considered for one of our stops? Please contact us info@propville.com open to registered Propville Vendors only)

Casting Information: a business point of view.

Be sure to investigate "Tricks of the Trade" column this month. It details the alternative and traditional methods of casting for print, film & video and theatre.

FROM MERCHANTS MOUTHS... stories of success.

Heard at the Dog & Pony Show®
(If you'd had an occurrence of a production, catalog or agency using your store or service in the making of media, lets us know, we'd love to tell your story.)

Here's a true story of instant, paid, job connection from the Dog & Pony Show®. Propville makes connections. People get work. The Propville Directory and the City of San Rafael recently hosted a community forum (Film in Marin; Episode1) at Falkirk on February 20th, 2007 At this event, one of Marin's own veteran PA's, Valary Bremier, made a business connection that night and garnered her a weeks worth of work from New Hat Productions; they were in town shooting an Asics Shoe print ad. Networking? Well, yes! You can read about the inspirational event at Falkirk, in the current edition of FilmTape World.

Don’t miss another project. Sign up now for the Propville Crew Listings

Special Thank You's to the enthusiastic supporters of the Northern California Production Community for all their creative efforts at "Film In Marin: Episode 1" Event at Falkirk; including,

Alta Cuisine: offering the sophistication of Caribbean influences, continental flourishes from the Cordon Bleu in Paris, and a myriad international flavors. Well-known for customizing events to suit her clients' eclectic tastes, ALTA CUISINE caters private parties, business events and charity fund-raisers. Call Alta Cuisine at (415) 479-ALTA
An Affaire to Remember. www.remembercatering.com
Bella Cucina. www.bellacucinacatering.com
C & M Party Rentals. www.cmparty.com
City of San Rafael, Film office. (415) 485-3465
Delicious Catering. www.deliciouscatering.com
Falkirk Cultural Center. www.falkirkculturalcenter.org
Pitch Agent. www.pitchagent.com
Top Productions. www.tentsforrent.com
Ross Valley Winery. www.rossvalleywinery.com
Suite Treatments. www.suitetreatments.com
A full service event design and production company; specializing in event and set décor, lighting design, photography, furniture rental and plant rental. Call Jacque for solutions.

And all the incredible volunteers who staffed the event: Sue MacMillan, Danielle Bortoli, Laura Annick, Beth & John Taylor and Debbie Sommer

JOBS & SPECIAL OFFERS

Warehouse manager:
Warehouse manager sought for busy prop rental warehouse in Brisbane. Part to full time. Must be a multi-tasking self-starter with excellent communication/math skills and attention to detail. Previous warehouse/inventory experience a plus.
Call Jim at 415-621-4390 or Andrew at 415-225-5859

Assistant Producer:
LucasArts
Working with the production department to provide organizational and operational support to the production teams on interactive entertainment products - from initial design through code release.

Blow up this Building:
Fresno's film liaison, Ray Arthur is offering a building that's scheduled to be demolished in approx. 30 days (aprox 4.23.07) but it could be delayed for a short time if there was interest in using it. It's an old, two-story, neighborhood grocery store with some interesting features. It has a little land around it so it has many possibilities: drive a car into it, fight on balcony, blow up, tear down, etc. Photos available, please contact Ray Arthur 559.621.8358

Real Parking Meters:
Authentic San Rafael parking meters, circa 1970's. In working order, and decommissioned so that any flat metal object will open the locks. Does not come with pole or hardware. Great for stage and event props, garden or driveway décor! Some people have made piggy banks, timers and lamps out of them. $50 each (plus shipping). Contact Cory Bytof (415) 485.3407 or click here for more info.

Quote of the Month:
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Maya Angelou

Welcome to Propville. Today is your day to be the hero.