Amazing Christmas Lights Display
You may have heard about this “xmaslights.wmv” video, but if you haven’t seen it, HERE IT IS. (Right-click, save as… to download.) I love it!
Background (from Snopes.com):
A video clip…shows home Christmas lights synchronized to flash in time to a musical score, in this case Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s “Wizard in Winter” (from The Lost Christmas Eve album).
This display was the work of Carson Williams of Mason, Ohio, who spent about three hours sequencing the 88 Light-O-Rama channels that control the 16,000 Christmas lights in his 2004 holiday lighting spectacular. The musical accompaniment is broadcast over a low-power radio station so that it is only audible to visitors tuned in to the correct frquency and doesn’t disturb the neighbors.
“If you build it, they will come.” Instructions for building the light display are at Carson Williams’ website, and he’s got a whole bunch of other videos there too. Excellent!
More Christmas lights (via links at Williams’ site) at PlanetChristmas and at ChristmasLightFinder.com, where you can find displays near you by putting in your zip code.
(Thanks for sending me the link, Mac!)
[tags: Christmas, holidays, video, Christmas lights.]
UPDATE: Thanks, Mary Katharine! * xoxoxo!
MCPO Airdale says:
That WMV made me feel so inadequate!
William Teach says:
That friggin thing is still giving me a headache from last week! :cool:
Can you imagine living across the street?
CatHouse Chat says:
A festival of lights!
Go on. Go over to Beth’s place. She’s got a great .wmv for you to download and enjoy - absolutely incredible! I’m gonna go and check out the other links, too… Why are you still here? Shoo!
Maureen says:
Damn. We watched this last week and figured someone did a lot of cutting and pasting in Windows Movie Maker. Obviously someone put in a little bit more effort.
Jo says:
Man, my 2 little pre-lit porch trees look really really small compared to that. Thanks for the link :)
MG says:
That’s just showing off.
Little Miss Princess says:
Christmas lights
This is the coolest thing I have ever seen and I think I have watched it over a million times!!!
It is Christmas lights that move with music and it is at my mama’s blog where you can see it.
I tapped my feet so much that my legs hurt and are ben…
The Commissar says:
You got your daughter sending you trackbacks!
Jut wait till NZ Bear hears about this, Beth. You have been pwned!!
LMAO!!!!
The Politburo Diktat says:
Home Christmas Sound and Light Shows
From Beth, see these videos (wmv files) of home Christmas light displays, set to music.
The most impressive one, this xmaslights.wmv video ought to be called “Christmas on Acid, ” or “Timothy Leary meets Santa Claus.”
More …
Sissy Willis says:
Mac can’t play anything of the kind. Annoying.
MacStansbury says:
can too!
well, I can program the sequencer from a MIDI file, anyways. or something like that.
mostly, I’m the kid who stands up after most of the song is over and hits the triangle one time, then sits down again.
I’m that kid.
Beth says:
She’s pretty Kool, isn’t she, Commissar! hehehehe At least she doesn’t know about the ecosystem yet, though. ;-)
Sorry Sissy and MacS, I didn’t know you Mac-geeks couldn’t see WMV files.
The Truckin' Blog says:
Rants of the Week
First off a short note to the ACLU:
Merry Christmas
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The Politburo Diktat » Blog Archive » Home Christmas Sound and Light Shows says:
[...] From Beth, see these videos (wmv files) of home Christmas light displays, set to music. [...]
MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy » Blog Archive » So, you liked the Amazing Christmas Lights Display? says:
[...] Remember that thing with the Christmas lights that came on and stuff? Sure you do. You watched it 23 times, didn’t ya? [...]
MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy » Blog Archive » Bad Trippin’ says:
[...] Speaking of torturous pop culture–but not on TV–you know the song Wizard in Winter by Trans-Siberian Orchestra–the song in the Christmas lights video by Carson Williams? Good stuff, right? Unfortunately, the rest of the The Lost Christmas Eve CD doesn’t quite measure up for the most part. Some of the songs on it are AWFUL. Cheesy, self-conscious, cartoonish singing–you can just SEE the guy with his long permed hair and spandex, mugging and posing, trying to sound like a (really bad) 80’s pop-metal singer. GAWD, it’s awful. Why did they fuck up the rest of the CD with that kind of crap? It’s no wonder my mother was so eager to hand it off to me after she bought it. Here’s one cut: Christmas Dreams [...]