Christmas Lights
Admittedly crazy, but still very cool. This guy has designed a Christmas light display to flash in sync with music (Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s “Wizard in Winter”). It’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. Video here.
From Snopes:
“This display was the work of Carson Williams, a Mason, Ohio, electrical engineer who spent about three hours sequencing the 88 Light-O-Rama channels that controlled the 16,000 Christmas lights in his annual holiday lighting spectacular (from Christmas 2004). His 2005 display includes over 25,000 lights that he spendy nearly two months hooking up. So that the Williams’ neighbors aren’t disturbed by constant noise, viewers driving by the house are informed by signs to tune in to a signal broadcast over a low-power FM radio station to hear the musical accompaniment.” More
Sadly, it looks like he had to shut the lights down yesterday (Dec 6). “News reports announced that Carson Williams’ 2005 Christmas light display had been shut down because it was causing traffic congestion problems in his subdivision.”
Via Jef
December 7th, 2005 at 10:04 pm
Damn! That is amazing. But I can see where the neighbors would be upset. speaking of… we need to organize a visit to 39th street or wherever that is that the whole street or two lights up. We could probably walk there from the gingerbread house!