Jordan Greene and Kenzie Faith from Atlanta West Pentecostal Church in Atlanta, GA brings us this great use of strings spreading out from the top of their stage.
It was a moderately low budget set design using cotton string from U-line, black paint, and lumber.
For the larger triangles, they suspended a caribeaner with black rope above the stage. Starting from one end of the base and working to the other end, they stapled the string to their base (approx 22ft x 1ft particle board painted black) and looped the string from the base to the caribeaner. Spacing each staple about 1-1 1/2 inch from each other. The short ones were made similarly. But instead of looping it to a rope hanging from the ceiling, they looped it around a 2×2 attached to the middle of the base (also 1 ft plywood that was various lengths).
how much string did you purchase for the entire project? total Length?
Chad, I think we bought 18 spools at 2000′ feet per. But when it was all said and done – we only used about 15,000′ total feet of the twine.
Thanks so much. sorry i didn’t ask before, but would you be able to post the link to the twine that you used from U-line?
http://m.uline.com/mt/www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-17468/Twine-Rope/24-Ply-Cotton-Twine
Sorry for the late reply!
This is awesome!! Be sure to follow Jordan Greene for more incredible projects to come. You need to feature in this the AYC logo that they created out of string as well.
AYC logo creation video here:
String Art time lapse – Atlanta youth convention 2014 from Jordan Greene on Vimeo.
What a cool idea!
Thanks!
What lighting did you use, and is that really black string or white?
Here is a link to the LED we used: http://www.guitarcenter.com/Venue-Thinpar64-10mm-LED-Lightweight-Par-Light-106866171-i1954710.gc?source=4WWRWXGP&gclid=CMCN9sfo1LwCFUxp7AodeTcAfw&kwid=productads-plaid%5E65679397242-sku%5E106866171@ADL4GC-adType%5EPLA-device%5Ec-adid%5E27118072482
The twine is white
We used right at 15 of the VENUE THINPAR64 as Jordan stated and also 5 Chauvet ColorDASH battens.
What ply string did you purchase and could you post the link
http://m.uline.com/mt/www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-17468/Twine-Rope/24-Ply-Cotton-Twine
This design is awesome. Where do you place the lighting? Below? Above?
I placed the lighting mostly on the ground in front. I tried to have three lights per section to be able to mix quite a few colors in there. We had some LED’s in the ceiling that we use for washes when we don’t have the black pipe and drape up, so we used one in the middle of the larger triangle and then the rest were washes for the band.
Hope that helps!
Hey! Awesome design! I was wondering how tall the biggest one came out to be from the floor to ceiling? Also did you happen to know how much twine you needed for just that one?
Yeah! It was about 18-19ft tall – And it was a little under 5,000 ft of string
do you have a picture of the bottom……what did you use for the bottom to hold strings….love this idea want to do it at my church
Hey Crystal, I believe they used sections of 4 x 8 sheets of plywood cut into roughly 1′ strips. Then screwed the 2 x 2 from the bottom. From there they stapled the string to the plywood.
thank you! so much