The Best Christmas Lights Ever...
[Listening to: Trans Siberian Orchestra - A Mad Russians Christmas - - (2:55)]
This has got to be the best Christmas light show ever. The first clip is to a musical score from Trans-Siberian Orchestra's "Wizards in Winter" from The Lost Christmas Eve album. The display is the work of Carson Williams of Mason, Ohio, who used 88 Light-O-Rama channels to control his 16,000 Christmas lights." The second clip is a musical score from Barbra Streisand's "Jingle Bells". This is from his house last year. These are REAL lights - not animated. The lights are ran from a computer program and it is impressive the time and effort he has put into them to make them work. He only runs it from 6p-10p and the sound is very low outside. He broadcasts over FM with a low power transmmitter so you listen in your car on the radio, which is what you are hearing on the clips. Wow!! If you have the time and money, here are some instructions to do your own.
BTW, if your skeptical like me, here is a phone interview of Carson. Here is the website he talks about in the interview, and here is where you can get the Light-O-Rama controllers. And of course, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra page.