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This turned out to be a pretty sizeable project, and it takes two people to move it around because it's so unwieldy and heavy, but it's been a popular part of this display for quite a few years. I don't use it every year, but because it uses rope light, it's super-low maintenance and fills up a lot of visual space.
 
This turned out to be a pretty sizeable project, and it takes two people to move it around because it's so unwieldy and heavy, but it's been a popular part of this display for quite a few years. I don't use it every year, but because it uses rope light, it's super-low maintenance and fills up a lot of visual space.
  
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I came up with a concept while sitting in the choir loft in church one Sunday morning, and I drew a little sketch in the margin of my program
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[[File:1-choirconcept.jpg | 100px]]
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I found a graphic on the Internet that was close to the vision that I had for the choir, so I made a screen capture of that.
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[[File:2-choirgraphic.jpg | 100px]]
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I needed a way to enlarge the relatively small graphic, so I used a digital projector to project it up on a wall. I taped several sheets of newspaper together as my "canvas" so I could outline the elements I wanted to make in wire.
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[[File:3-enlarged.JPG | 100px]]

Revision as of 14:58, 16 May 2015

This turned out to be a pretty sizeable project, and it takes two people to move it around because it's so unwieldy and heavy, but it's been a popular part of this display for quite a few years. I don't use it every year, but because it uses rope light, it's super-low maintenance and fills up a lot of visual space.

I came up with a concept while sitting in the choir loft in church one Sunday morning, and I drew a little sketch in the margin of my program

1-choirconcept.jpg

I found a graphic on the Internet that was close to the vision that I had for the choir, so I made a screen capture of that.

2-choirgraphic.jpg

I needed a way to enlarge the relatively small graphic, so I used a digital projector to project it up on a wall. I taped several sheets of newspaper together as my "canvas" so I could outline the elements I wanted to make in wire.

3-enlarged.JPG