2011 Shining Bright Videos

Shining Bright 2011

Category 4: 65-128 channels

12		James Bisti, Gibsonia, PA, United States, Category 4, We are a family of four living in the Pittsburgh area and this is our second year with Light-O-Rama animation. We've doubled our channel count from 48 last year to 96 this year and we're very excited about our new additions (specifically our arches and the video projection screen). My son Chase is 2.5 years old and absolutely loves "The Polar Express". This year I decided to take his favorite scene from the movie, the "Hot Chocolate" scene, and add it to our show. Instead of just using the audio, I'm also using a video from the scene itself. The video is rear projected onto a screen in the double window located at the upper center of our house. The audio, video, and lights are all synchronized and audio is broadcast to passing cars using a low frequency radio transmitter. Show details: 15,000 lights, 6 flood lights, 28 strobe lights, 30 blow molds, 16 mini-trees, 4 arches, and 1 video projector all synchronized to the "Hot Chocolate" scene from "The Polar Express" using 96 channels of Light-O-Rama animation.
15		John Pedersen, Burbank, CA, United States, Category 4, Hi Dan & all at Light O Rama: For those of you who have helped me at the help desk, this is "Old fart in California" writing. Wow, what a year. I started programming in January and simply went on faith that I would have the money to fund the show. God provided and I did my part. I was also blessed with a wife who supported my hobby (whew). She says "at least I know where you are and you're not in a bar somewhere". lol. I was so worried that the 16 channel controllers would not make it in time I bought 6, 8 channel jobbies. Worked out fine anyway as I could group them closer to the lights and had to buy less extension cords. I documented the whole project on my website but my basic idea was to take a geometric shape and light up each part of it as an individual channel. This gave me tremendous flexibility in what kind of shapes I could make and allow me to lead the viewers eye. I also used the whole house FM transmitter and just love it. Had to add more antenna to get the signal out there but it works great. I run a music store and make my living as an instrument repairman. One of my repair customers is Roy Wiegand. A trombone player from the big band era and this entry is off his album "Stan the Big Sur". I just love this rocking piece and thought it would be cool for a light show. Roy gave me the original chart from the recording session and at different parts in the tune I assigned specific channels to specific instruments. BTW if there are any legal issues, I do have Roy's permission to use this piece and although it is a "gentleman's agreement" he said he would give it to me in writing if I needed it. I programmed a total of 10 songs (at 80 channels, about 10 hours of programming for each minute of music) and will have all of them posted on my light show website by mid December. In closing, I definitely have (as one of your sales people called it) Light-o-Rama itis and am one of your biggest fans. Love your company, people and products and I spread the word to all I know. Blessing to all your famlies, Merry Christmas!
18		Derrick Huizenga, Dorchester, Ontario, Canada, Category 4, We are running 68 channels with about 8000 led lights.This is our 2nd year at this.
25		Harry Craig, Coleman, Michigan, United States, Category 4, 90 Channels used, 7500 Lights including 1 Mega Tree 8 white and 8 multicolored channels, 10 2 color(20 channels) tomato cage Mini trees(White andMulticolor), Three 9 Channel White Arches, 19 channels for the house area, 4 channels for Pine Tree, 2 Two candle Channels. This is my second year!
41		Nathan hill, Lewisburg, tn, United States, Category 4, First time doing light show. Display has about 50 k led lights and 128 channels.
42		Nathan hill, Lewisburg, Tn, United States, Category 4, First time doing a show. I did all work myself. Display has about 50k led lights and 128 channels
50		Titus Carnathan, Tower City, PA, United States, Category 4, This is my 4th year using Light O Rama products I have 5 16channel controllers the song in this video is Do they know its Christmas by Band Aid
52		Peter Reynolds, Roseville, Minnesota, United States, Category 4, 128 Channels with 30,000 Lights, just under a miles worth of extension cords. This is my 4th year doing any time of display. First year was 32 channels and now I'm up to 128 channels. 25ft Spiral Tree with 16 channels of red clear and green. Everything in my display can rotate from clear to red to green, not including the Arches. I have two fireworks elements in my display.
61		Paul King, Rochester, NY, United States, Category 4, This song ends up being the one most people comment on liking. I produced this one manually back in September. It's great seeing these come to life and the joy the display brings to people who drive by.
62		Joseph Heroux, Acworth, GA, United States, Category 4, The Christmas Linus and Lucy features 3 controllers on my house and 1 controller on each of my two neighbors, one next to us and one across the street. We are using the sequence I bought from you, wireless linkers and the FM transmitter run the show. The show is run from a 12 year old PC Pentium 2.4 machine showing off just how good your software is. This is the third year running and I have gone from one controller to 5.
78		Brian Pastor, Las Vegas, NV, United States, Category 4, Well, I'm using a combination of (4) 16 channel controllers, a DIO32 board, and dmx floodlights. I have about 9 songs total that I sequenced.
80		Daniel Berg, West Valley City, UT, United States, Category 4, My very first display (80 channels).... I had so much fun putting this together during the whole year. I have about 12000 lights. I hope to build my show bigger and better next year. Thanks for watching. Dan Berg
93		Glenn Zior, Mount Airy, MD, United States, Category 4, This is my 3rd year doing my display. Of course each year it gets bigger and better. This year the addition of the animated snowman was a great challenge. i go the idea from the summer Christmas Expo. I enjoy using your products and made the video on youtube on how to assemble the boxes. It has about 15,000 hits. Merry Christmas
102		Walter Baker, Stratford, CT, United States, Category 4, Using 8 LOR Controllers and one MP3 controller. Utilizing approx 100 channels. Unique effect is the garland that warps 2 sides of the house and segmented wreath. This is my 5th year working with LOR. I use mostly LEDs with the exception of the snowflakes and two trees. My mega tree is almost 20 feet high.
103		David Kipp, Mesa, AZ, United States, Category 4, 25,000 lights synchronized to music and video, projected into a Christmas wreath, 96 Light o Rama channels, show is designed as a continuous video linked with Santa introductions to the next song/video. Video features Christmas photos and video of family and friends. There are links to the video content on the web site and on Vimeo. Static photo on home page of website.
105		Andy Ackmann, Greenfield, WI, United States, Category 4, This is the first year back doing the show after living out of state for two years. So it was so nice to be able to get back out there and bring back the show. I got the idea to use this song when, a year or two ago, I saw a contest entry from someone who used this song. I just loved it instantly and had to incorporate it into our show. We have 128 channels. We don't use many LED lights, only the spotlights and the blue star on the garage. I really enjoy making custom things for the show, like our light arches, the green mini trees, the mega tree, and the candles. Especially with the candles, we were trying to come up with something that hasn't been widely used already...which can be a little difficult these days...
110		Logan Buell, Black Mountain, NC, United States, Category 4, I used all LEDs except for the strobe lights and video projector. The star and arches are made from CCRs. Snow tubes are hung 35 feet up in the tree. This is my first year using Light-O-Rama software and hardware. Traffic in our neighborhood has been really crazy this December.
115		John Hollabaugh, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Category 4, This is our second year using Light-O-Rama. We are using 80 channels, 48 on the megatree, the others spread throughout the display. I'm using a Whole House FM Transmitter 2.0 to transmit audio, but also have a speaker broadcasting the sound. I'm using mostly LEDs but have a few incandescent light strings. I'm running the whole disaplay off of one 20 Amp circuit. This has been a fun project for my family and I.
135		Robert Frank, Springfield, VA, United States, Category 4, This is our third year using LOR, and this year we added two CCRs - a lot of fun to work with, and still some untapped potential for next year! The display has 50,000 lights, 96 traditional LOR channels and 2 CCRs. Last year we had gotten military orders to move up to DC from SC, and were unable to run our display -- glad to be back in 2011. We have 15 sequences this year for a total show length of approximately 35 minutes.
136		James Hans, Vineland, NJ, United States, Category 4, The environmentalist in me won't let me cut down the big tree out front that blocks part of the display video, sorry! This year I have about 35,000 LED lights. The mega tree is 20' tall with 7,200 LED lights and 40 LED strobe lights. I also added 8 mini trees this year. 128 LOR powered channels control the show.
138		Ryan Fulcer, Kaukauna, WI, United States, Category 4, Fun Facts and Technical Stuff. 1-25′ TALKING Mega Tree with synchronization. 4- 10′ Custom Trees with synchronization. 7 Leaping Arches. Custom Wrapped Pillars. 38,000 lights. 22 Christmas Trees. 4 Stars (including the Mega Tree’s) Trimmed Windows and doors. 96 Channels of lights controlled by LIGHT-O-RAMA 30 amp controllers. 6,800 feet of extension cords 200 amp designated power at each house. Synchronized lights to music broadcast on 104.5 FM so you can listen and watch from your vehicle!! Just turn your radio to 104.5 FM..
163		Darryl Zeleniak, Augusta, ME, United States, Category 4, Classic 1830s New England Federal style building highlighted by stunning Christmas lights and music using Light-O-Rama technology. Building is decorated on three sides but video display is limited to two sides for continuity. There are 5 videos linked to my web site (www.doctorzee.com) which will bring you to the YouTube postings. (Carol of the Bells, Jingle Bells, Deck the Halls, Christmas Music 2011 (Wizards of Winter), Christmas Music 2 -2011 (Wish Liszt). The video I have submitted is Wish Liszt by TSO.
167		David Slowik, Huntsville, AL, United States, Category 4, TSO - Christmas Eve Sarajevo. Our 2011 Christmas display has 96 Light-O-Rama channels, but we are only using about 80 channels. Elements include 8 mini trees with 4 colors of LED's, windows frames with 2 colors of LED's and a 12 foot mega tree with mini lights and xenon strobes.
175		Mike Ziemkowski, Sherman Oaks, CA, United States, Category 4, The emcee of my display, DJ Jingles, hosts a 10 minute show, while Frosty sings along and the dancing elves perform. The show features animatronics characters, and an original edited video track synchronized to music and approx. 50,000 LED lights. All of the animatronics characters, the Santa, sleigh and reindeer and the tree and wreath were hand built by me over the Summer months. Most of the critical animatronics movements are controlled by a Servo Dog along with a Wizard controller triggered by a light channel. The dancing elves are controlled by four light channels triggering 12v car door actuators. I also used a iDMX controller to control the intelligent spot light, which generates the sweeping spot on the house and gobo patterns, and it also controls a snow machine. I used seven - sixteen channel controllers to control the lights and some animatronics actions and triggers. I've been doing a display for about thirty two years and a computer controlled display for eight, but this is my first year using Light-O-Rama. Programming went very smoothly and the show ran flawlessly for the entire displays run. Disclaimer: 5 of my 7 controllers are modified controllers made to work with LOR software.
182		Luis Torres, Caguas, Puerto Rico, United States, Category 4, Thanks to God and Light O Rama I have done my fifth Christmas light show. This year I made my tree with spiral effects. Cut in half my two arches, place them together as a bell. I really liked.
183		Randy Guptill, Cabot, Arkansas, United States, Category 4, 2011 Cabot Christmas Lights and Video Movie; The Guptill Christmas Light Display for the Season. 35 Diamond Dr. Cabot AR. Over 30,000 lights, 112 Channels by Light o Rama, 1 1/2 miles of extension cords. I have all ways wanted to be able to show some type of video with my Christmas lights, and did not know how until I found your software. It was mostly pretty easy, and the results were so cool. I must have had hundreds and hundreds of people come to see my show. It felt good to help spread the Christmas cheer this year. People really seamed to need the Christmas light fix to get into the Christmas sprit. I would look outside several times through the evening to make sure every thing was working properly with the show, and would see kids outside of there cars dancing in the street to the lights. It made me feel that all the work was worth it to bring joy to so many. P.S. the software and controlers worked perfectly every day.
187		Ed Bowser, Natchez, Mississippi, United States, Category 4, Our display is comprised of trees, both wire frame and miniature green all with white lights, 3 sets of stacked red and white "candy cane" arches (not seen in any video yet), 3D spinning star (again not seen in any video yet), icicle lights, a wreath, 20 strobes and adding a splash of color, red and green spot lights. We use a ShowTime Pro LOR1602MP3 with Pro Director as our main controller connected to 5 other ShowTime PC CTB16PC. Over 1000 feet of extension cords connect the controllers to the lights. Each sequence has been built with LOR Showtime software Suite (now on S3) using timing marks set at .05 seconds, allowing us to create the spectacular show many, many folks enjoy. We have been featured in our local paper as well as caught the attention of a local DJ who raved about our show.
188		Jeremy Mikolajczyk, Toledo, Ohio, United States, Category 4, My display is about the lights and the music. This year we have over 23,000 light on 128 channels. Every element uses white, red and green incandescent lights. This year I added a Light O Rama DC Controller to power RGB flood lights for color washes in the house.
192		Erik Stromberg, Grantsville, Utah, United States, Category 4, This was our 5th year using LOR but first in our new home and new display set up. We have 8 controllers but not all channels are being used this year we used 122 channels. This is one of our more popular songs that we hear from people they love. It is the theme song from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
197		James Hawke, Pensacola, Florida, United States, Category 4, Stille Nacht performed by Mannheim Steamroller using 112 Light-O-Rama Channels and 80,000 lights
199		Stacy Green, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, Category 4, I've actually worked on a couple of light-o-rama projects for our city. The local College also had me decorate their building a couple years ago. This year I decided to do our house. You can't see the characters at night very well unfortunately. I included a static photo of the place too though.
200		Andrew Beveridge, Tamborine, QLD, Australia, Category 4, This is my second year using LOR and I have gone from 16 channels to 96 channels. I also have started using mainly DC controllers because most of my display is either LED strings or RGB strips. My main tree is made with 7 sections of RGB strips and uses 21 channels and has had a large amount of good comments. The spinners on the roof are also made with the RGB strips and use 30 channels, I have wired both of them on the same channels but in opposite directions.
201		Allen Walterman, Wilton Manors, Florida, United States, Category 4, Our 2011 display features a 5 foot tall wreath and 28 snowflakes on the roof. The roof line is wrapped in garland with red, green and white lights. The 40 foot palm trees also wrapped in red, green and white. There are 4 bi-colored arches all animated using Light o Rama software and hardware.
208		christopher feltman, indianapolis, in, United States, Category 4, 96 controller, mostly hand made items, mostly LED this year. I have disconnected the lights inside the air-blows so they can be included in the sequences. and yes, it was nice to have the falling star at 1:17 in the upper left.
220		Thomas Burton, St Augustine, FL, United States, Category 4, Burton Christmas 2012. Wizards in Winter By: TSO. 96 Light O Rama Channels. ~10,000 Lights
225		Shauna Rowe, Port St Lucie, FL, United States, Category 4, This was our 3rd year using Light O Rama products and we were super excited about this year's display. After months of building and planning we finally finished our 60 foot Christmas tree (the tallest we could go without a permit) which twists and turns. My favorite part of the show is our lighted waterfall, river and lake with handmade jumping fish. Overall we hung over 50,000 lights hooked to 5 boxes and 1 Color Cosmic Ribbon for a total of 92 Channels. We have big plans to add to next year's show! We live on a very busy road and I am certainly not the best at taking videos but thanks for watching and may all your holidays be filled with light! The Rowe Family, Port St Lucie, FL Song titled: Christmas Sarajevo by Trans-Siberian Orchestra
232		James Lewis, Carrollton, Georgia, United States, Category 4, This was our 2nd year with a computer light display. We had about 18,000 lights and 3 inflatables controlled by 96 LOR channels, broadcasting 8 songs over an FM transmitter. (unfortunately the video is poor quality compared to the actual show) The video can be viewed at .. www.santawestgeorgia.com, http://youtu.be/ru3PW_DG8_E, or at the vimeo link provided below.
233		John Storms, Round Rock, TX, United States, Category 4, Last year I found Phillips snowflakes on sale at Target and was inspired the the snowflake projection mapping at Saks 5th Avenue. While listening through several versions of "Carol of the Bells" I came across this version done by Callann Lane. She was previously known as Cali on Disney Radio. Using 6 Light-O-Rama CTB16-PC controllers (96 channels). Controlled by an Acer netbook running S3. Show consists of 25,000 LED Christmas lights. "Carol of the Bells" by Callann Lane (Cali). Album: Christmas This Year. Levity Records/CBuJ 2007 @CallannLane http://www.callannlane.com/ http://www.facebook.com/callannbolinger
248		Ryan Powers, Brooklyn, NY, United States, Category 4, Welcome to our 2011 Holiday Light Spectacular! Chris Schneider and I built this year's display featuring Frosty the Snowman and his Frostettes, in something we called "Frosty Tour 2011". Frosty entertained nightly from his 10 foot tall stage complete with over 15,000 lights, a motorized curtain, video, fog and RGB color changing flood and spot lights. All of this is done from our humble 16' wide row house in the South Slope of Brooklyn, NY. In between shows, viewers could make frosty "dance", moving his arms, legs and mouth using our interactive button box. We used a total of 64 standard LOR channels, 9 DMX channels for RGB Spotlights and Floodlights, 1 DMX channel for fog, and a Servodog was used to control the motor for the curtain.
255		Calvin Umphlett, Grandy, North Carolina, United States, Category 4, Moves Like Jagger (Maron 5 feat Christina Agularra) sequence using 112 channels of LOR control. 100% of donations go to support: Foodbank of the Albemarle, Animal Lovers Assistance League, Lower Currituck Volunteer Fire Department, Currituck Law Enforcement Association and the Currrituck Christian Womens Club.
256		Michael Balazs, Santee, CA, United States, Category 4, 21000 Lights lit up across 112 Channels of Light O Rama Technology. two 7ft spiral trees, 4 Mini RGW Trees, 8 Chasing Mini Trees, 13 LED Flood Lights and 10 Strobe lights. All in memory of my father who passed away from cancer. I am in the US Navy so I do this in the little free time I have.
261		Don Magelssen, Anacortes , Washington, United States, Category 4, All the songs (short clips) were requested (from our Christmas display Facebook page) by people who viewed our 21 song Christmas show. ----enjoy !!
270		travis roberts , georgetown , ky , United States, Category 4, 2nd year doing a light o rama display, 80 channels, 35K lights, 20ft mega tree, 12ft mega tree, 2-14 ft leaping arches 4000 lights each, 30 mini trees, 8 ft red/green fan, 9-3ft stars on roof, 7ft three channel star on top of roof yellow, multi, blue. Roof line mulit, blue, red, clear. three colors of ice lights multi, clear, blue. All stars and mega trees made custom and welded. FM Tune to sign text cut out black lexan on a laser.
274		Austin Perri, rancho Mirage , ca, United States, Category 4, This is our third year hosting A Very Perri Christmas Light Show this year we hosted a Toys For Tots and Shine The light On Hunger can food drive benefitting our local food bank (F.I.N.D) we collected 22 Toys, around 400 Cans and $55 witch made 385 meals for the hungry. This year the show contained five songs Music Box Dancer By Dj Schwede, Amazing Grace by Yule, Nutrocker by The Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Sleigh Ride by André Kostelanetz, And Techno Jingle Bells by Master Tone. The show contains over 35,000 lights running on 80 Light-O-Rama channels and over a mile and a half of extension cords. Almost all props within the the show are hand made and completely custom. Hope you Enjoy the show.
277		Mel Welch, Raleigh, NC, United States, Category 4, Polar Express Hot Chocolate. With video from the movie. During the song you will see video from a previous Christmas.. When seeing it live people want to know where the camera at. You think the video on the screen is live... I am using 3 CCRs and 5 controllers.
278		MARY DUNAKEY, St Thomas, USVI, United States, Category 4, First time LOR user/show with 96 channels. I am on a small island (Water Island) just south of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Only have driveway/garage space to set up. "Front" yard runs to the beach but no one could see or hear the show! Since we all drive golf carts (without radios) I used a speaker system which worked well and my neighbors thankfully loved my music selections and only ran 1 show per night total time of 23 minutes. It was a huge hit - had folks anchored in boats off island come and everyone on island attended multiple times. Looking forward to 4th of July show!
280		Kenny Kujawa, Houston, Texas, United States, Category 4, 12,500 lights on 102 channels using LOR 16 channel controllers. This is the 4th year of the display & 92% of the lights are LED. Features 2 mega trees, 15 snowman chorus, 3 leaping arches, & candy cane fence. The show runs 5 hrs. per night through all of December in all weather. This video, Siberian Sleigh Ride, is 1 of 6 songs by TSO that are used in the show.
295		Wesley A. Jones, Noble, Oklahoma, United States, Category 4, This is a great Christmas song by Jose Feliciano. The display was constructed using PVC pipe and peg board. The bells are 4'x4', and the entire central display is approximately 26' wide by 12' high. Three Light-o-Rama control boxes were used plus four Cosmic Color Ribbons for the arches. In total, the display uses less than 3,000 lights (if I calculated correctly!). On the outside edges you can see Santa in an airplane and in a helicopter. Ten small light trees are visible by the arches.
297		Daniel Baughman, Prosper, Tx, United States, Category 4, The theme of our display is: "It's All About Jesus!". I have done displays all my life, and now do them with my 5 children. We have an 84 piece village on our driveway. We have been using LOR for the past two years, and are now at 20 songs synchronized on 80 channels. We have 80,000 lights, along with 80 Christmas trees in our display. We have 2, 20' mega trees, and a 12' tree. THE BEST AND NEWEST ADDITION: A WHOLE HOUSE MEGA ARCH, 120'. We collect for the charity COPS: Concerns of Police Survivors. Which help the families left behind by Law Enforcement officers who died in the line of duty. This brings joy to our family and community, and we like to look at it as an outreach to others to help fill them with the true Christmas Spirit!
299		Dan Coe, Omaha, NE, United States, Category 4, Hello everyone, I've been doing a Christmas light show for 3 years, and each year it gets bigger and better thanks to Light-O-Rama and its partners. I use 128 channels plus 5 servo dog channels controlling over 12,000 lights, a combination of both led and incandescent. There are 55 strobe lights, 7 RGB Flood lights and 10 RGB Spot lights. I also have made some custom decorations that have not been seen before. In addition to 3 Arches, 8 Mini Trees, a 12 channel Candy Cane Pinwheel, and an 8ft. north pole, there are the original Dan-Bursts that use retrofit dripping lights to create a star burst effect. I also have the first ever Dan-O-Might Motion Lights that use RGB spot lights on servo motors and a Servo Dog to make them "Dance" to the music. You can see them above the garage door. Here is a link to the rest of my videos: http://vimeo.com/user2737384/videos Thank you for consideration in choosing my display as the winner in your contest. I enjoy doing it year after year and have already started on next years Bigger display. Thanks again! Dan Coe
306		Mark Showalter, Richland, WA, United States, Category 4, InsideOut A cappella provides the music for this fun 2011 Christmas light favorite. This is "In The Sun They Melted" otherwise known as the Snowman Medley. Thanks to Evan.A for the kickstart on the sequencing. I had a more positive comments about this medley than all the other songs sequenced for the 2011 season. This year's display uses 114 Light-O-Rama channels. Enjoy!
308		Chip Hranicky, Acworth , GA, United States, Category 4, Our display consists of various mini lights, rope lights, 28 character figurines (including 2 vultures in the tree), a train with railroad sign, Peanuts gang, snowflakes, 2 arches, 6 trees, 16 spotlights and 30 strobe lights. The lights are separated into 95 different channels. All the lights outling the frame of the house and windows are permanently attached to the house. All LOR boxes are installed inside garage so all excess cords are "hidden" in the garage so display has a "crisp" look.
316		CHance Reecher, Waynesboro, PA, United States, Category 4, This was my third year doing a computerized show. I started my Sophomore year in High School and am now a Senior. I fund my display almost entirely on my own, with money earned both from a part-time job as an audio operator at the local news station, and from repairing computers for friends and family. I ran a total of 128 channels this year, with 7 CTB16PCs (5 of which I soldered myself) and 2 D-Light DCx08s. I had somewhere around 37,000 lights, up from around 25,000 last year. I added a few new items to my display, including a pair of light sticks, a pair of arches, and a 16-channel 15' tall Spiral Tree, which took an entire Saturday to build and attach lights to. As is the case with a lot of "lighting enthusiasts," I spent all my free time in November working on either sequencing or setting up. This was the first year I came to terms with the fact that I couldn't do it all myself and accepted help from some friends, and it still took all month. It was worth it though, as always. The joy that my lights bring to my community make it worth every minute and every dollar I spent on them. My video is in HD, so if you can, watch in 1080p for the full effect!
321		Shawn Brewer, Fullerton, CA, United States, Category 4, 2011 is the 2nd year I have been using Light-O-Rama. I design, program, and install all of the lights. My house is on the corner of a residential street so I decorate both sides of the house with lights and decorations. I use (1) ShowTime Pro LOR1602W, (3) ShowTime CTB16PC, (1) Cosmic Color Ribbon, and (1) iDMX1000 to control (2) Chauvet LEDSPLASH 86B PARs. I programmed 4 shows this year using 58 channels of dimmers, 6 DMX channels for the PARs, and channels on the CCR. Totalling 76 channels. I have an estimated 8900 lights in my display that are pulling roughly 48 amps total. I try to add more and more lights each year and I use very little LED because the incandescent lights fade and take LOR effects much better. I hope to surpass having 10,000 lights for Christmas 2012. All cables are run from under my house through the raised foundation with many of the controllers also living under there during the season, all connected to my PC in my office at the middle of the house. I also have two AudioSource 6.5" speakers I install under my roof for the local audio and a sign telling visitors to tune their car radios to an FM station I am transmitting on with the C.Crane FM transmitter. When I first heard the song "Fireflies", I had visualized what it all would look like on my house synced to lights, but I was hesitant at first since it wasn't a Christmas song. But since certain instruments and melodies in the song sounded Christmasy to me and I could not get the song out of my head, I decided to program lights to it and it took 2 weeks worth of evenings for me to program it in my patio room. I heavily used parts of the Cosmic Color Ribbon and gold mini-lights to represent fireflies, trying to give them a movement and personality when they are mentioned during the song. It was a lot of fun!
323		Pierre Lanoue, Curran, Ontario, Canada, Category 4, Here is Glee's version of The Most Wonderful Day of the Year. Using Light-O-Rama controllers, 115 channels with approx. 9,000 lights, all LED. Song taken from the CD Glee: The music, The Christmas Album. Programmed using S3 software version 3.1.4. Mega tree has 3 colors; red, blue and green 16 mini trees with red, blue and green lights 3 Christmas gifts with the same 3 colors 2 North poles with 3 color and 1 waving Santa between the poles.
326		Daniel Varela, Nichols, South Carolina, United States, Category 4, My Display is in Nichols SC. This is my first year using Light-O-Rama. I have 128 channels and 35,000 lights. We broadcast on 88.3. Our display consists of 8 songs, 4 arches, 18' mega tree, 5' nativity star, 9 dancing trees, and 12 snow flakes. Although we live in a rural area, we had a great turn-out, many repeat visitors, and were recommended by a local visitors center as a site to visit. We have been asked to keep this as an annual event.
328		Michael Pratte, Bonne Terre, Missouri, United States, Category 4, My display is comprised of 80 channels of LOR control. Last year, I had 16 channels and used it only for my mega-tree, and the rest of the display was static. This was my first year taking the big plunge into animation and having my entire display be animated. The video which I am entering is for Deck the Halls performed by the Cast of Glee.
337		Brent Stoddard, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, United States, Category 4, This year our display grew to over 110,000 lights (90% of which are LED) and nearly 400 channels. The highlight of our show for this year is the addition of lights covering the garage. This panel duplicates the patterns on the grass to enhance the show's overall look and creativity. This panel is 64 channels, using red (horizontal stripes), blue (vertical stripes) and green (both diagonals) totaling over 8000 lights. The garage cover was a HUGE hit with our viewers this year - some of whom had never noticed the patterns the grass was creating. Our mega tree is 25 feet tall with a 3D 2-foot star imbedded in a 3D 4-foot star. These 2 stars represent 27 channels with white and red constant, white multi-function (for a shimmer effect) and 16 strobes. There are 32 spokes total on the tree - 16 red/green and 16 white/green. The lights on our star alone represent more lights than most people have on their house (3256 lights total). There are also 2 6-foot trees in red, white and blue, 7 3-foot mini-trees in red, white and blue, and 12 mini-spiral trees in white surrounding the grass layout. The house is triple-covered with white, blue and green. The roof is double-covered with red and white, and the hedge (on the right of the screen) is also double-covered with blue and white. Another highlight of our show are our "dripping" icicles. These are 3-channel cascading icicle lights we have had for 12 years and will be changing out to LED next year (thanks to Sam's Club for carrying the new style this year). To add a bit of pizazz, we cover the house with over 200 strobe lights. This is always a crowd-pleaser and an electrifying way to end an exciting show. Sit back, relax, and enjoy our tribute to Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Wizards in Winter. We're sure you will find it as exciting as our 1000's of fans. (Even though you've seen / heard it a million times, we feel this is the best showing of our lights and the countless hours of programming we've put into this song.)
343		BOBBY TULLY, oceanside, ca, United States, Category 4, 80 channels.15,000 LED lights. custom made snowman, metal hands, starburst, uprights. song from the metal girl group KITTIE.
345		Mark Birsching, San Jose, CA, United States, Category 4, My display used 96 channels and 16,400 lights in front of a condo. It has several trees with white lights, one tree with 12 channels of red and 12 channels of green, 3 blue LED arches, 24 mini-trees, and several trees and bushes with red, green and blue lights. The music is transmitted over an FM transmitter. I've been using LOR for three years and each year gets bigger and better! Even though I'm located in the back of the complex, people still find the display and enjoy it.
347		Matt Phipps, Livermore, CA, United States, Category 4, This is the 3rd year we have done this, we have added a waterfall, 4 water cannons, raising trees, and more!
351		Patrick LeStrange, Landing, New Jersey, United States, Category 4, 2nd year, now 48 Channels + 2 Cosmic Ribbons About 15000 lights Special Features Santa in the window and Red/Green Laser lights in the trees on the right side (hard to see in video and not on all the time, look around the 16 mins mark) 1. Dueling Jingle Bells 2. 2:50 Disney Style "Remember" 3. 9:50 Christmas Vacation 4. 13:00 Christmas Cannon 5. 18:00 Christmas Melody 6. 23:15 White Christmas "Drifters" 7. 25:50 Coke a Cola Commercial "Holidays are Coming". 8. 26:50 The Man with All the Toys "Beach Boys" (best view of Santa in the window)