Too much time to.... Christmas lights

Richard Cranium · Post by **Richard Cranium** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:17 pm

Ok, someone spent too much time on this.

http://www.break.com/articles/houselights.html

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:33 pm

Thats just neat!

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:43 pm

very cool.

XSabre · Post by **XSabre** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 4:33 pm

That is awesome.

TigerRaptor · Post by **TigerRaptor** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 4:38 pm

That would keep me up all night. Cool though.

Topher · Post by **Topher** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:12 pm

Part of me wonders if that's real or just some clever video editing.

Robo · Post by **Robo** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:27 pm

Hahah, that's one of the funniest things I've seen in a while

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:41 pm

Amazingly creative. A+

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:48 pm

Agreed A+

Battlebot · Post by **Battlebot** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:16 pm

can you really program xmas lights like that?

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:30 pm

yes.

However, that is positively insane!

You Americans sure do believe if something's worth doing, it's worth over doing!

Vertigo 99 · Post by **Vertigo 99** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:59 pm

i was wondering if it was a video edit or not as well.

whether or not its edited, its still awesome.

Richard Cranium · Post by **Richard Cranium** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:19 pm

Vertigo 99 wrote:i was wondering if it was a video edit or not as well.

whether or not its edited, its still awesome.

Well it made local news. It's hard to know for sure.

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:26 pm

Mobius wrote:yes.

However, that is positively insane!

You Americans sure do believe if something's worth doing, it's worth over doing!

lol and this coming from someone who lives in a country where they invented fly by wire and bungee jumping..

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:50 pm

Yeah, like I told RC over Teamspeak, it made local news here tonight.

We also had a small discussion on whether or not its an edit job (which I personally think it very likely is) or just an example of MIDI sequencing (which a prime example of are major fireworks displays on the 4th). (I'm not going to explain this, if you want to know Google it.)

IF its an edit job, its a really good one. If not, good on them for rigging it!

fyrephlie · Post by **fyrephlie** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:58 pm

i can imagine an edit job taking near as much work to get right as just rigging the lights... impressive either way!

TigerRaptor · Post by **TigerRaptor** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 12:12 am

Thereâ??s no way that can be an editing job. Any one who says other wise, prove it.

fyrephlie · Post by **fyrephlie** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 12:39 am

TigerRaptorFX wrote:Thereâ??s no way that can be an editing job. Any one who says other wise, prove it.

never say never man... i've seen some pretty impressive video. i don't think its likely that it is an edit job, and i would venture to say that if it was, it would have been someone not about to showcase their video prowess on local news...

imo

STRESSTEST · Post by **STRESSTEST** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 12:59 am

20 bucks says he has a modded case too

Very cool.

Pun · Post by **Pun** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 1:24 am

Isn't that your house, Bill?

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 2:20 am

ahhhh the TransSiberian Orchestra.

Very cool .. wonder how long it took him to program all that.

Boo · Post by **Boo** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 1:53 pm

Hehe.. saw that yesterday. Those people must be pretty bored

(And I can picture some annoyed neighbors)

Money! · Post by **Money!** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 2:49 pm

Hilarious

Nitrofox125 · Post by **Nitrofox125** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 3:54 pm

That would be an easy enough edit, just two layers of video, one with the lights on and one with the lights off, that you segment into each window/light strand, then fade between the two layers on each segment. But....

i can imagine an edit job taking near as much work to get right as just rigging the lights... impressive either way!

Nevertheless, looks real to me, and what an awesome idea

A+

Good song too

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 4:38 pm

Ok, I need to do that.

snoopy · Post by **snoopy** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 4:39 pm

What a waste of time.

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 10:03 pm

snoopy wrote:What a waste of time.

You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch...

Stryker · Post by **Stryker** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 10:54 pm

The shadowing and detail on these lights is WAY too complex to be an edit--if it WAS an edit, the people putting it together would have had to spend more time editing it than they would have spent simply putting the lights up and sequencing them via computer.

But yeah... methinks that this guy is A. hated by all his neighbors, B. living so far out that no one cares, or C. only puts on this show once, maybe twice per night and has the lights on regular duty the rest of the time.

Richard Cranium · Post by **Richard Cranium** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 9:02 am

Stryker wrote:methinks that this guy is A. hated by all his neighbors, B. living so far out that no one cares, or C. only puts on this show once, maybe twice per night and has the lights on regular duty the rest of the time.

Maybe all of the above.

/me secretly starts stock pilling light for me show

Richard Cranium · Post by **Richard Cranium** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 2:23 pm

Ok, I found a little info on this light show but still don't know where it is. I haven't been able to confirm this information for its accuracy. It has 16,000 synchronized lights and is hanging off Carson Williamsâ?? house, who ever than is.

Richard Cranium · Post by **Richard Cranium** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 7:37 pm

this song isn't as good but here is another video of that same house.

http://www.break.com/articles/houselights2.html

Also found some other info about it.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/xmaslights.asp

and the hardware to run it...
http://www.lightorama.com/

his name is
Carson Williams of Mason, Ohio

KoolBear · Post by **KoolBear** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 8:37 pm

sheese! I bet you hit it just perfect.

I turned the board on browsed to the forums listing and PRESTO ol'G had already made a post!

Richard Cranium · Post by **Richard Cranium** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 8:48 pm

double post... first time it game me an error so I just reposted it and it game me an error the second time then I couldn't get anything to work...

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 3:39 am

http://www.fox19.com/Global/story.asp?S=4211867 wrote:Christmas Light Display Shut Down

So much chaos has been caused over a huge local Christmas display, that it's creator had to shut it down.

Carson Williams put up the elaborate light display at his Mason home and choreographed it all to music. But so many people have been flocking to see it that it's caused a traffic jam in his subdivision. Williams tells FOX19 that there was a car accident in the subdivision Tuesday and the police couldn't get to the scene because of the congestion.

So he's decided to shut it down indefinitely.

Ref: http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/xmaslights.asp

fyrephlie · Post by **fyrephlie** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 1:13 pm

that's too bad... he put a lot of work into that. seems a shame that the lookey loos couldnt just play nice!

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:19 pm

LOL - this even made it onto New Zealand National Prime Time TV News! HEH.

Ferno - we only invent stuff that's crazy-ass dangerous. Like Aeroplanes, Jetboats, and afforementioend Bungy and Fly-By-Wire.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:33 pm

Mobius, please stop claiming that a New Zealander invented the airplane.

http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/Gallery/Pearse/Pearse.html wrote: ...He [Pearse] also states that he did not achieve proper flight and did not beat the American brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright who flew on 17 December 1903...

Repo Man · Post by **Repo Man** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:26 am

Here's the TV news story on the shutdown of his Christmas display. It also contains a look behind the scenes.

Click!

Nirvana · Post by **Nirvana** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 3:34 pm

TigerRaptorFX wrote:Thereâ??s no way that can be an editing job. Any one who says other wise, prove it.

You do realize that gollum wasn't real, right?

Hattrick · Post by **Hattrick** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:04 pm

Nirvana wrote:
TigerRaptorFX wrote:Thereâ??s no way that can be an editing job. Any one who says other wise, prove it.
You do realize that gollum wasn't real, right?

say what??
next thing you'll be saying is Santa isn't real!