Christmas mania!

coolpapachivcoolpapachiv
in Everything Else

Thought I'd post a link my annual christmas light display.  It's safe to say that by the time christmas is over, I can't stand the sight of christmas lights...  let me know what you think.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=smudgie20744&search_type=&aq=f

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  • !damage!!damage!
    whoa, that's your place?



    that's bad ass
  • coolpapachivcoolpapachiv
    Originally posted by: !damage!

    whoa, that's your place?

    that's bad ass



    Its actually my parents house, they have the perfect house for the lights and my pops loves to do the programming for the show.  It takes an unbelievable amount of time to put the lights up though....
  • paulyshobbypaulyshobby
    That is really awesome man, good job!
  • arch_8ngelarch_8ngel
    That's over the top! What's playing on the big screen? Is that part of the display?
  • coolpapachivcoolpapachiv
    Originally posted by: arch_8ngel

    That's over the top! What's playing on the big screen? Is that part of the display?


    Yeah its part of the display, for the charlie brown song, the big screen shows a few scenes from ' a charlie browns christmas'  for the other song, a few scenes from the dvd 'christmas eve sarajevo', it looks quite good in person, but a little hard to see in the video.
  • arch_8ngelarch_8ngel
    Wow...I don't think I've ever seen a Christmas display that is that well orchestrated.
  • superNESmansuperNESman
    Woah, I've never seen anything like that before, period. That's really awesome.
  • coolpapachivcoolpapachiv
    Thanks guys, I me and my pops really enjoy doing it... but hope that we don't blind the neighbors in the process...

  • TokinAlotTokinAlot
    Dude if I did that the cops would show up so fast.How long did that take to do,and are those lights set to just that song or do you have multiple programmings?
  • coolpapachivcoolpapachiv
    Originally posted by: TokinAlot

    Dude if I did that the cops would show up so fast.How long did that take to do,and are those lights set to just that song or do you have multiple programmings?



    The lights take a few weeks to put up, the hard part isn't the lights though, its stringing 96 channels together efficiently... takes a 'hell uv a lot' of extenstion cords and planning.  The programming is different for each song,  we showed 3 different songs. My dad does the programming he guesses that its about 10-12 hours of programming for each minute of song.
  • ReddayeReddaye
    Is your father's name Clarke Griswald? o_O



    Seriously though, nice job. I'm personally more of a fan of subtle lighting, but I can appreciate the artistry of Christmas lighting.
  • GameboyRickyGameboyRicky
    very impressive... I would love to see something like this in person! Was this a big draw in the area? I'd imagine a ton of people would want to come see this. Did you have the songs repeating non stop or did you play them only on request?
  • coolpapachivcoolpapachiv
    Originally posted by: GameboyRicky

    very impressive... I would love to see something like this in person! Was this a big draw in the area? I'd imagine a ton of people would want to come see this. Did you have the songs repeating non stop or did you play them only on request?

    we  live on a dead end street... can def cause some traffic!  Every night we get a good amount of cars coming by to watch.  The show just cycles through the three songs, we didnt do requests.  We used an FM transmitter to broadcast the music though,, we didn't blast music for our nieghbors 5 hrs a You had to tune you radio to 107.7 to hear the music.

  • DainDain
    Wow, that's off the hook man.
  • Mr. GimmickMr. Gimmick
    Thats amazing! Can't say I've seen anything like that before, must have taken a long time to set that up.
  • wrldstrmanwrldstrman
    very cool i bet there are cars stopped all the time watching
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