{"id":496,"date":"2014-08-01T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hhuston.com\/?p=496"},"modified":"2026-04-20T16:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:41:09","slug":"fargo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hhuston.com\/?p=496","title":{"rendered":"Fargo"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past winter, the television show Fargo was filmed in Calgary and I was approached to print some props. This was mostly a lot of unsexy boxes and folders but it was still pretty interesting to be part of the behind the scenes production. I did all my\u00a0printing on the weekends so I never ran across any actors but it was cool to check out some of the sets and other props. Thank-you to Joel Tobman for this opportunity (he also designed the stencils – I just printed them)! Below are some photos of the printing in progress as well as a screen shot of a box in use.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A forest of drying giant boxes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Some<\/a>
Some ammunition boxes laid out and ready for their onscreen debut.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Case<\/a>
Case files! I had to cut a special template out of foam core so that I could print these. The back has a clip that couldn’t be removed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"This<\/a>
This is what a lot of boxes looks like.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Silkscreening<\/a>
Silkscreening some large boxes (190 to be exact). We built registration guides out of screwed-in two by fours.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Printed<\/a>
Screen shot of a printed box in action in Fargo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past winter, the television show Fargo was filmed in Calgary and I was approached to print some props. This was mostly a lot of unsexy boxes and folders but it was still pretty interesting to be part of the behind the scenes production. I did all my\u00a0printing on the weekends so I never ran […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28],"tags":[84,18,85,13,86],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-work","tag-fargo","tag-heather-huston","tag-props","tag-silkscreen","tag-television-props"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s23nro-fargo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhuston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhuston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhuston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhuston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhuston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhuston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhuston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhuston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhuston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhuston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}