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Extreme Christmas Lights In Orlando
tripmine writes "The Orlando Sentinel has a story about a geek who can't get enough Christmas light. 'This Christmas, tech-savvy people such as Hansen are increasingly building the biggest, most elaborate holiday lights in neighborhoods across Central Florida and throughout the country. They typically work in fields such as computer programming, Web development, engineering or audio and visual services and are armed with a technical knowledge that the average person lacks. They trade tips and stories on message boards and set up Web sites with step-by-step descriptions of how they installed their lights as well as pictures and videos of the finished product.'" Many cities have neighborhoods where the spectacle takes up blocks at a time, not just individual houses, too, as anyone who's strolled down Austin's 37th Street can attest. Links invited (in comments) to the best / worst light-spectacles you know of.
Or the police would've locked down the city already.
FTFA:
Hansen's 25,000-light display is synchronized to five songs, which he broadcasts over an FM-radio frequency so passers-by can pick it up in their cars.
Radio broadcasts a/k/a "public performance" of likely-unlicensed music? So who's gonna get him first? The RIAA? The ASCAP? The FCC?
Takin' all bets!
Insightful and funny are really the same thing, except one has a punch line.
Of course, it's all fun and games until the bus of epileptic kids drives by.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
Once I was with my family driving around looking at lights when we saw one house that had a huge nativity scene set up in their front yard. It had Mary, Joesph, the wise men, the whole nine yards. But it also had a huge fucking grim reaper behind the manager leaning over it all. I guess they were too lazy to take down the Halloween decorations all the way before setting up for Christmas, or they were just ape shit insane. Probably a little of each
No, you misheard: you triggered the seizures!
So very very tempted right now.
Curiosity was framed, Ignorance killed the cat.
... on Eucalyptus Avenue in San Carlos the whole neighborhood gets involved with spectacular lighting displays. While not technically elaborate or geeky as the linked video, it is still quite a sight. Kids, young and old, certainly enjoy it walking up and down the street enjoying the hospitality of the home owners.
Of course, it's a sight that would make Al Gore cry, but he's an old Hum Bugger anyway.
If enough houses got together, they could make a great set of fake runway lights for aircraft.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
The Chaos Computer Club's Blinkenlights project lets you hook up games like Pong to hotel lighting systems. With the better resolution and greater refresh rate offered by christmas lights, it should be possible to get Doom or Quake to play quite nicely over the side of a mountain or something.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Canada.
Yeah. Would you choose a neurosurgeon who pokes around people's brains in his spare time? I wouldn't.
There is.
rj
Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon Jamie Lynn Spears and child...
Naaaah. Doesn't have the same ring to it!!!
Shiny. Let's be bad guys...
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=rmgf60CI_ks
Lots of lights, and older video, but still the coolest lights I've ever seen.
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