Time for Crazy Christmas Lights

It’s Christmas season, and you know what that means?
It’s time for crazy Christmas “lights” season.
Even if you’ve already seen this, it’s still a nice welcome into the time of year which is known to some as the festival of lights.

Enjoy!

Background on the amazing “lighted houses”
THis video comes from www.friscochristmas.com from a guy’s home in Frisco, TX (This was his 2005 video – more videos from ’06 and ’07 to be posted soon).
The first mass-distributed Christmas lighted house display of this kind 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 included over 25,000 lights that he spent nearly two months and $10,000 to hook 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.
The rough quality of the original video led some viewers to believe it was put together in stop-action form from still photographs, but that is an artifact of the high compression used in the clip circulated via e-mail. Mr. Williams has posted instructions for recreating his “Wizard in Winter” sequencing.
Carson’s Christmas display proved so popular that it was featured in a Miller Lite beer commercial in December 2005.
Now, the two most important questions…
What does he do when one goes out?
Would you want to be his neighbor?

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