Christmas Lighting to Music? Check it out.

[Dennis Peacock]

I thought this was AWSOME..!!!!!! Somebody spent a LOT of effort and time to coordinate all this.
<a href="http://members.cox.net/transam57/lights.wmv">Here's the link.</A>

[Larry Browning]

All I can say is WOW:eek:

[Fred Voorhees]

Yeah, I saw tha clip about two weeks ago and, man, someone either had way to much time on their hands, is one heck of an electrical genius or just plain is infected with the Christmas spirit.

[Jason Roehl]

I caught that video a couple weeks ago on another forum. There was some debate as to whether it was done as stop-motion, or if it was real-time synchronization. Then someone posted this link:

http://www.animatedlighting.com/products/christmaskit.asp

I guess if you have the bucks, go for it!

[Vaughn McMillan]

Brought up here recently -- http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=26500 -- and back then, Andy Hoyt's daughter Googled more info on the guy who did it, and had a link to a forum where he was discussing how he did it, and showing it off to his Christmas decorating fanatic buddies. (Not unlike a finished project gloat here on SMC, except those guys are nuts...we're a bunch of normal folks here. Well, except maybe Chris Padilla.) Unfortunately, the link scrolled off the server or something, since it no longer goes to the thread. In a nutshell, it's recorded in real time with a digital camcorder, and the music was re-recorded in synch with the original music, which is indeed synched up with the lights (er...vice-versa). He's got 88 lighting channels, something like 16,000 lights (IIRC)...the "mega-tree" on the right has 5,000 lights alone, and the pyramid shape is done with 33 little lighted Christmas trees in the front lawn, with 100 lights each. (I could be off a bit on the numbers, but if I'm not right, it's close.)

Edited to add this link I came across in another forum... http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/xmaslights.asp...which leads to this... http://www.wonderlandchristmas.com/wizardsofwinter.php. It's becoming a pretty famous display.

I'll bet his electric meter needs to be encased in a 1" steel shroud, to keep the spinning wheel inside from getting loose and killing somebody. :eek: :p

- Vaughn

[Tim Armstrong]

The same guy did it to a more tradition music selection as well... same house, not quite as cool but still amazing... http://www.msftlabrat.com/funstuff/jingle.wmv

[Chris Rolke]

here is some more infor about it
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051205/LIFE/512050331

turns out he is fairly local to me (5-10 miles )

here is an interview with him as well

http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=ab5246e5-7858-4130-a16f-715edb504cc2&f=email