Tag Archive - trusses

Good Grief, Charlie Hall

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Henderson Hills Baptist Church in Edmond, Oklahoma hosted Charlie Hall for their student event called “Big Weekend” and put this stage backdrop and light show together. The stage design used 36″ panels of coroplast connected to the trusses with 2″ strips of velcro. Continue Reading…

Wafer Walls

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Another design from Duke Dejong when he worked at First Assembly of God in Cedar Rapids, IA. The main element of the design is the wafer wall panels rented from Atomic Design. Using the wafer wall panels, they created a 12′x 10′ projection surface in the center with 8′ x 8′ surfaces on either side. Continue Reading…

Ship Ahoy!

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This stage design was used in May of 2009 at First Assembly of God in Cedar Rapids, IA and created by Duke Dejong.  It utilized curved 4′ x 4′ coroplast squares in columns with circular hanging lamp shades from IKEA under the projection screen.  The entire design was supported by a 1 foot box trussing connected at the top with black painted 1 1/2″ pipe.   Continue Reading…

Lightning Bolt

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Check out this great use of trussing and lighting from Andrew Hunt. It’s a pretty straight forward use of par cans, ellipsoidals, and DMX moving heads. Continue Reading…

Sexy Talk

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Stephen Lechner created this visually stunning design using trusses and paper lanterns. He got his inspiration from Coldplay and a church. Instead of ChromaSpheres he came up with this more cost-effective approach. Ahhh, inspiration plus frugality…gotta love it! Continue Reading…

Truss Your Heart

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I love trusses…they’re just so expensive. When we bought our circular truss that we hang in the middle of our building…holding our projector and stage lights…we found the cheapest place to get it. We spent $1600 for a 13 foot diameter triangular circle truss. Pretty amazing, huh? Where did we get this amazing deal? I’m so glad you asked. Continue Reading…

The Holy Trinity of Spandex

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Josh Parrish rocked this sweet little stage design that you could recreate for about $650, plus a few LED par cans and two flat screen TVs. The truss elements are actually antennas that you can pick up at your local pro electronics store. They run for about $90 each. Then get some spandex from either a local fabric supplier or an online company like Rose Brand. Continue Reading…

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