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Innovative Christmas Light Setups?

Posted by Cliff on from the envy-of-the-neighborhood dept.

glitch0 asks: "Recently, I found some pretty neat Christmas decorations, at a neighbors house. He has a light setup that syncs up with MIDI files of Christmas music. The cool part is the way you hear the music - it's broadcast using a radio transmitter so you can tune your car radio as you're driving by and hear and see the show. Do any other Slashdot readers have cool homebrew light setups or ideas for over-the-top holiday decorations?"

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  1. Simpler is better? by lpangelrob · · Score: 3, Insightful
    This is me and my wife's first Christmas in our new house, so naturally, we're excited. I'm also lazy, so the entire content of our Christmas decorating consists of six strings of all white, not flashing lights. Our neighbor has about 45 lighted penguins out on the lawn, which is both tacky and an awesome way to promote Linux if one chose to do so.

    The problem with more lights is that no one ever really takes the time to make lots of lights look good. No, icicle lights don't automatically make everything look better.

    --
    -Rob

    Biblical fiscal responsibility

    1. Re:Simpler is better? by Morgalyn · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I second that complaint. I'm so tired of people lighting up the entire neighborhood with countless strands of tacky multicolored lights just strewn about in no pattern or reasonable fashion. There is one house down the street that looks like they just threw the lights at their bushes and then plugged them in. Tacky!

      When I was growing up there was one street near where we lived where everyone was retired, and they competed every year for the most impressive christmas displays. They were always tasteful, if totally over the top. I think people are forgetting how to do that.

      --
      You say you got a real solution
      Well, you know
      We'd all love to see the plan
      (The Beatles)
  2. The pulse of ... slashdot? by stienman · · Score: 2, Insightful


    Google: christmas light display. The first two links are directly relevant, and nearly all of them relate to exactly this question.

    Yeah, sure, I imagine that there's a small percentage of slashdot users that really go all out on christmas displays, but what are you really after here? If you want to see cool ways to do displays, Slashdot isn't the best forum to ask, and if you are interested in the best display, why ask in a less effective forum?

    Reminds me of Charlie and the Chocolate factory, "And you - well, you're just lucky [to get your story posted], aren't you?"

    -Adam