2011 Shining Bright Videos

Shining Bright 2011

Category 5: more than 128 channels

4		Melvin Stoddard, Wichita, Kansas, United States, Category 5, 160 channels with two CCR's. 16 four foot candy cane, 16 channel mega tree, 22 mini trees,34 channels in yard grid. Santa and reindeer. Three Arches an assorted lights on house and trees.
10		Brenden Suter, Clearfield, ut, United States, Category 5, Running 144 channels with 1 CCR. Show has 3 individual GO GO dancers and a elf playing the guitar. 15 foot mega tree with red blue and white spiral. Thanks for watching the video. proud owner of LOR
47		Brian Mitchell, Claremont, NH, United States, Category 5, This is my seventh year animated. My display is at about 45,000 lights and 192 channels of LOR. The song is Hot Chocolate from The Polar Express. The song features Bernard, the singing tree, Clarence, the sax playing tree and of course, the dancing Santa with his crazy feet.
57		Derek Whitis, Tallahassee, Florida, United States, Category 5, 176,000 LED's lights. All red white and blue hand braided together. 528 channels using the new gen 3 boxes
59		EARLE TALLEY, OCALA, FLORIDA, United States, Category 5, This is my 3rd year doing lights using LOR equipment and software. My display hav 14,000 lights, 144 channels and 3 spiral trees,4-7 channel arches, 16 mini trees and a talking Christmas tree.
63		Jerry Budelman, Olympia, Washington, United States, Category 5, This is an LOR display that has been done sporadically since 2006. Our family yacht is decorated and moored directly across from an Olympia city park with a promenade at the waterfront. Clearly space on the boat is very limited, but power is also a major concern since it all has to run at less than 2500 watts. The boat also participates in the Parade of Lighted Ships and everything has to run from a sine wave inverter and be capable of surviving a 3 hour cruise. The "mega" tree is only 9 feet tall, but is an 8 segment RGB implementation using individual LEDs hand mounted in 800 tiny reflectors. The light bars are new this year and are made from 10 foot sections of ABS pipe cut in half, silvered, and drilled with 4800 holes. White LEDs are pressed into place. The light bats can be used to scroll text which is done in other show selections. The 48 channel beast weighs over 100 pounds and takes three men and small boy to lift onto the boat. The arches and "puddles" are CCR assemblies. The arch is one strip while the three puddles is another than has been cut into 9 pieces and spliced. This selection is part of a 45 minute show which plays twice each night for most of December. The show features 8 tunes plus narration between selections that promotes the Yacht Club to which we belong and explains a bit about the lighting technology. The whole show is also on YouTube in 3 sections (search for Dancing Lights Marine Christmas Show). The audio track plays both from a 500 watt loudspeaker system (battery powered) as well as an FM transmitter. Since the boat is about 170 feet from the boardwalk, the lights have to be delayed relative to the audio to sync up at the listener. The FM transmitter audio then must be delayed a like amount to resync that medium. Even with high definition video, the colors and sparkle, specially the CCR and the mega tree, are impossible to capture accurately, as LOR well knows. Also the audio track tends to be delayed so the audio/light synchronization is a bit off relative to real life. Hope you enjoy the selection!!
67		Stephen Blue, Deltaville, VIRGINIA, United States, Category 5, This is the 2011 edition of my light display. Started at my home when I was 12 years old in 1996, it moved into "Public View" at my family's office in 2002 and has now expanded to more than 77,000 lights. 36,000 lights make up the animated light show, including a 23' mega tree, pairs of 5' and 10' color changing trees, a pair of arches, and 8 mini trees. The show is controlled by 190 LOR channels (8x CTB-16D & 4x CTB16PC). Song's sequenced include Frank Sinatra's "Let It Snow", Barenaked Ladies' "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen", Straight No Chaser's "We Three Kings", Sheryl Crow's "Merry Christmas Baby", and Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You". An additional 16 channels (DIO32 attached to 2x DIO8RLY) turns the static display on and off at night. Over 40,000 more lights make up the static scenes, including the Dog Village & toy characters, the boat, pond, & iceberg scene, building, and nativity.
71		Todd Tuttle, Hudsonville, MI, United States, Category 5, Our light show consists of over 32,000 lights using 9 16channel LOR control boards. We are using music from Michael W. Smith's Christmas Angels.
72		John Meckley, Kennesaw, GA, United States, Category 5, This is our 5th year running and our "best" show yet. We've now raised more than $2000 over the past 3 years for local children's charities as part of the display. We are particularly proud of 2 of our songs: Jingle Bells (performed by Straight No Chaser) and O Holy Night (performed by The Judds). ALL of our videos are posted on YouTube and the links are available on our website via the Pics-N-Vids tab! THANK YOU all for your products, support, and KINDNESS over the past years - with the LOR family, we would NOT have the show we have!
79		Dave Roche, Eagle Point, OR, United States, Category 5, We have 224 Channels of Light O Rama, A little over 50,000 Lights, We set up the Castle Theme again this year, everybody seems to enjoy it. Merry Christmas to you all from the Roche's.
82		K.C. Komer, Pinson, Alabama, United States, Category 5, 2nd year. 304 Channels of Light-O-Rama 75,000 Lights
		william bottomley, ennice, North Carolina, United States, Category 5, The 2011 season was a big one. We discovered High Country Lights was the largest animated light show choreograph to music in North Carolina. This video is Alvin & The Chipmunks singing their famous song "Don't Be late" under the direction of Dave. The light show consists of 150K lights using over 700 channels of Light-O-Rama controlled animation. The show features five LED mega-trees, leaping arches, Santa's castle, and much more. The Chipmunk characters are the only ones featured in a light show. They were obtain from a good friend in Florida that decided not to host a light show any longer.
90		raul valenzuela, olive branch, mississippi, United States, Category 5, Bella's Lights is for a little girl named Bella.She is 21 months old, weighs 12 pounds and is 23 inches tall. She is precious & if you have had the pleasure of meeting her, you would see the JOY she has for life! Here is her story! *Bella has Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) for short type 3 aka brittle bone disease. She gets infusions every 8 weeks at Lebonheur for a Bisphosphanate called Pamidronate aka (Pam) for short. This helps strengthen her bones. She has had 10 fractures since birth, 5 in her left arm, 2 in her right, 1 in her left leg, and 2 in the right leg. She is going to Omaha next month to visit their (OI) clinic. We were able to cover the trip with "Bows for Bella" contributions!! She will have to go back again for rodding surgery and several more times for post ops and checkups.
91		Keith Shaw, Cranbury, NJ, United States, Category 5, Our Christmas display for charity this year is made up of 19,000 feet of extension cords attached to 52,000 lights and 336 channels controlling the lights to the music! We have and 15 songs ranging from the traditional to the "whimsical" Christmas songs for the kids. Our display is truly unique with our own designs including a 10,000 "Shooting Fountain of Light!" and a 20 foot by 20 foot wall of snowflakes with 6,400 lights. Our Mega tree has 9,600 lights making it twice as many lights as last year! More information, directions, maps and video can be found at cranburychristmaslights.com
92		mark siviglia, gulf breeze, fl, United States, Category 5, Contest entry is song from 3:50 - 6:00 if you do a limited selection for the contest. 100,000 lights, fog machine, lasers (kind of hard to see in video, but have a cool beam effect (like a night club) when the wind is not too strong), curtain lights, strobe lights, led lights, mini lights and c9 lights create a 15 minute show. Link is for first 10 minutes, and specifically, we'd like minute
99		Frank Rossi, League City, Texas, United States, Category 5, 35000 lights mostly LED's. Using 9 LOR controllers, 1 LOR DC controller, 1 LOR DMX controller and a cosmic ribbon. I have two bubble machines and a dancing Santa.
104		Jeff Folejewski, Johnson City, NY, United States, Category 5, This is our 4th year doing an animated display. There are right around 50,000 lights this year and 272 channels available to use in animation, but we are only using in the 250 range this year due do a slight downsize. The song is my wife's absolute favorite so I worked on the sequence a couple weeks ago for 3 straight days. I thought I'd be able to use someone elses sequence but it was a total re-write (thus the 3 days). Overall we're happy with it and it is by far the favorite of viewers this year. Merry Christmas LOR folks! -Jeff Folejewski
117		Zach Stoltenberg, Lawrence, KS, United States, Category 5, Our new addition for 2011. This is the fastest song we've ever done and programming our new 10' tall full color wreath tree was a challenge but the finished result was amazing.
118		Edward Zimnowski, Huntersville , North Carolina, United States, Category 5, This is the Zimnowski Christmas Light Show . We use 144 channels of LOR. Included in our show is Red, Green, Blue and white LED lights. We use 2 12ft Belagio poles, a 12ft Mega spiral Tree, 3 10ft leaping Arch's,5 Six Ft dancing trees, a 5FT Holdman North Star that shoots a 30ft beam of light, Strobe lights, Snow flakes and Snow tubes. This year we used 20 songs and Our show last 1 hour and is Broadcast on 87.9 fm
127		Robert Burton, Fayetteville, Ga, United States, Category 5, I am in my 3rd year of doing a animated light display. I have around 30,000 lights and 176 channels. This has been a very exciting year this year since my traffic at the display has picked up tremendously over last year. Both from word of mouth and by local newspaper coverage. This was also my first year at doing a Halloween display. I believed this also helped in some of the traffic at Christmas time. My wife and daughters always razz me about my "Christmas Light Obsession". However, it has quietened down since so many of their friends have come by to see the display and comment on it. When my daughter's friends start taking pictures of our house, and then sending them to my daughter...she thought that was cool. Maybe Daddy will finally not be so "uncool" in August when working on next year's show. Thanks Light O Rama for putting out such a great product and for all you do with the animated Christmas Light community.
151		Stanward Oshiro, Keaau, HI, United States, Category 5, 256 of Light O Rama which includes 37,163 lights, 2 simulated fireworks and 1 tri-color Mega Tree.
152		Jeffrey Phillips, Madison, Ohio, United States, Category 5, I wanted to do a sequence that was off the beat & path of what everyone else is doing. To my knowledge, no one else has ever sequenced this instrumental. It's not a Christmas song per-say, but as a intro, it lends itself very well, as an opening sequence. This sequence was created entirely by myself, using 15 LOR controllers (233 channels) and the LOR software.
155		Deb Toews, Clovis, CA, United States, Category 5, I thought this was a really fun song to sequence. We raise canned food and donate to a local food pantry to help others during Christmas time. We have 272 channels of LOR and run approx 30,000 LED lights. I use the 2 software to program. Found it had all the features I like after using Animated Lighting and Aurora software. We live in cental California and have been having light shows for the last 3 years. We are fortunate to have good neighbors that love what we do adn no complaints. We have plans to add even more lights and controllers this coming year. Our goal is not to be stagnant in our show but to grow and improve every year!
156		Steve Warner, Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, Category 5, Santa considers an upgrade to his ride....... in "Greased Lightnin' ", from the musical "Grease". The challenge to this piece was to make it more family friendly. To accommodate this, we introduced "Elfy"....with a more seasonal dialogue. Because of our limited space, we try to tell stories rather than fill every square inch with lights. Most of the channel allocations go to the animation of our characters. All the props and characters are made by our family.....mostly for financial consideration...not because of our creativity. This selection is one of three numbers performed by the display. We usually hold two songs over from the previous year, and introduce a new one. This new selection for 2011 is "Greased Lightnin' ". This year, we asked for donations from those driving by the display for the "Springs Rescue Mission". Despite the show not running for five nights due to weather. Our viewers were very generous with over $1600.00 in donations.
170		H. Garrett, Chino Hills, CA, United States, Category 5, This year I am using 112 LOR channels plus 8 CCRs. I have one mega tree and seven mini trees. The song is When Love Came Down by Point of Grace. 95% of my lighting is LEDs.
172		Sally Simpson, Perkasie, PA, United States, Category 5, This year we added 4 singing christmas trees to our display. Using the mouth positions made popular by the singing pumpkins, I was able to form the words that were being sung. Their feature song is "Joy To The World" by GoFish and has become a crowd favorite. Additionally, the trees don't just all do the same thing; they sing the parts. As an added bonus, the eyes can either be open or closed. It's fun to hear the surprise in viewer's voices when they realize the trees are blinking.
174		Philip Mlynarski, DeRidder, la, United States, Category 5, DeRidder Christmas Light show. This is our second year and we incorporated the superstar lights and the 16 CCRs. Due to technical difficulties only 9 branches of my CCR tree were working during the month. Otherwise the shows were great, we raised approx $2,000 for various charities. We had over 200 cars a night during the second and third week of the month. I am a Soldier at Ft Polk, and a small business owner (quite busy) but I feel that the Light Show is a great way to get the spirit of Christmas out to everyone. My family enjoys the company and we encourage kids to sit on the lawn as close as they can to the lights. I cut down several trees this year to allow cars to park directly in front of my house. Without the hindrance of neighbors I can play my show continuously from 5:30 till 10:30 every night. We set up outdoor speakers as well as the radio station to complete the program. I have many guests who do not have radios and the speakers help them enjoy the show.
176		Wayne Krider, Churubusco, Indiana, United States, Category 5, I had Judy Pancoast do a remake of the song House On Christmas Street and tailored it to my display. I have had many many comments about this song and the display when they here our last name and the street name and other things in the song. In my display I have used strobe lights to kind of highlight the different things in the song as she is singing it. In the video I done a lot of editing to include all aspects of the display.
180		Victor Johnson, Paxton, IL, United States, Category 5, First year for animation! Dove right in with 192 Light-O-Rama channels. Spent a full year planning, sequencing, and installing, but had a lot of fun and learned a lot in the process. Previously had a static display of 25,000 white lights, which has now become almost 85,000 lights (45,000 white, 20,000 red, and 20,000 green), all of which are incandescent. I hope to add many more songs, lights, and channels for next year. My contest entry, He's a Pirate, was everyone's favorite sequence this year. Hope you enjoy!
190		Jerry Baker, Granada Hills, Ca, United States, Category 5, 17 controllers, using 260 of the channels. House has four colors white, red, blue and green. Megatree, to 7 ft spiral trees, dancing Mickey Mouse, singing elfette, 4 arches, 5 belagio poles, 7 mini trees, Tinkerbell and the Disney World castle made out of lights.
195		Christopher Lambert, Brooklyn, CT, United States, Category 5, This is my 6th year with Light o Rama, I have spoken very highly of the product and even held an information session for 3 others interested in going animated. This year I made what I call a spin tree since I had not seen one yet. I hope you like it. Light o Rama is the hardware/software that lets me make what I dream up and I love that!!!
202		Chad Gardner, Orangevale , CA, United States, Category 5, In our 19 year of decorating on Dovewood Ct we decided to let people in to the lights. I designed, built and edited everything in this video while my parents decorated the garage. in my estimate, at least 200,000 people walked through it this year. Dovewood ct has a 30 year tradition with 17 houses. We collected 10 tons of canned food for the Homeless this year. Happy Holidays.
204		Bob Zajac, Waconia, Minnesota, United States, Category 5, Our second year as a 100% Christian Christmas Display, utilizing Light-O-Rama hardware and software and Christian Christmas music to maintain the true meaning of Christmas for our community. More than 90% of our approximately 150,000 lights are LED, using more than 1000 channels of control.
215		Ron Lister, Kissimmee, FL, United States, Category 5, Christmas Wonders is located in Kissimmee, Florida, and consists of over 50,000 lights that dance to the music using 352 channels of Light-O-Rama. The large elements in the display are all hand made. This is the 21st season for our display!
231		TJ Nedervelt, Eclectic, AL, United States, Category 5, 2011 is year number 6 for me, I have more emphasis on the animation rather than the volume of lights in my show, hence the reason I have so many controllers and channels for so few lights in comparison to other decorators. For example, my small candy canes in the front have only 30 LEDs in each, but there are 60 of them, so yes, 4 LOR controllers just for them. Thank you for considering my entries, and for creating a great product to make it happen. 21,909 LEDs, 27 Light-O-Rama Controllers, 392 Channels, http://www.tjhope.net, http://christmaslightshow.tjhope.com
236		Billy Joyce, Winston Salem, NC, United States, Category 5, The Christmas Family Lights consist of 45,000 incandecent and led lights along with RGB. We have a 24 ft tall Z Tree which is the center of our display using 128 of the our 192 AC channels with another 16 DC channels controlling our RGB items.
246		Marta Torres-Quinones, Garden City, NY, United States, Category 5, Straight No Chaser - Christmas Can Can. I used a 12 CCR tree, 10 light poles with 5 segments of white and one segment of green and red, and 3 CCRs for arches. This was a last minute request video. I ended up sequencing it in two days.
247		Andrew Zito, Sanford, FL, United States, Category 5, (4) Typical Controllers or 64 channels. (6) CCRs or 72 channels. (3) DC boards or 48 channels. (2) relay boards or 16 channels. I'm a one man show... this was my 3rd Christmas and i'm hooked. First show with the CCRs and Superstar - hated it at first but i got the hang of it eventually and now i LOVE it. Also my first mega tree.... it was just 15' with 16,000 lights. Next year will be bigger. I'm pretty hooked on the LED strip... can't beat the versatility of the RGB strip from a color perspective. I generally try to keep my shows with very clean lines... don't like a lot of round edges, inflatables, etc. You can't see it in this video, but I actually convinced my neighbors on either side of me to let me do their houses too. In the other contest i submitted a video where i show all 3. It was wild. This is my 3rd year doing Mariah's All I Want For Christmas. It was the first show i did 3 years ago with 16 meager channels :) It's a neighborhood favorite.... kind of my signature song. Can't imagine submitting anything else. I don't use copied or shared sequences... I sequence all my shows myself (though i do share my sequences if others want them). I enjoy the sequencing more than anything else. I've actually completely resequenced Mariah 3 years in a row ...lol I average between 100 - 300 on weekend nights. My last show this year we had well over 500 people show up. I really enjoy doing it. This year I raised over $1000 to give a Christmas to some kids at a local shelter for abused women and I collected 50+ blankets for a local homeless shelter. Ok - I'm long winded too. HOpe this is what you wanted. Thanks for being a great vendor to work with.
250		Reggie Wertz, Dillsburg, PA, United States, Category 5, Here's our first new song done with the Cosmic Color Wash™. The audio is from my two year old granddaughter's favorite show Crashbox. She was more than a little confused when it played on our lights. The CCW is actually Cosmic Color Ribbons mounted under the eaves on the front of our house. The Logical Resolution was set 10 (5 pixels controlled by 1 channel) to limit the bandwidth drain on the network. It was a real crowd pleaser.
252		Scott Lewis, Sunnyvale, CA, United States, Category 5, My treatment of the de rigueur Wizards in Winter by TSO, in 27,000 LEDs (all LED) on 192 channels, plus two CCRs and two flood lights. Located in Sunnyvale, CA and happily using LOR since 2008.
257		Gary Roderique, O'Fallon, Missouri, United States, Category 5, 80000 lights slowly transferring to LED (at least the blues so far). 30 different songs in the show rotation. Like others we collect for a local charity (food shelter) and have collected over $10,000. We're not the biggest, don't have a gazillion lights, but we offer very tight synchronized masterpieces.
260		Gary Martin, Lawrence, KS, United States, Category 5, We're in our fourth year of doing animated displays with Light O Rama. We've got a bit of everything now including multiple DMX universes and digital pixels!
262		Robert Burton, Fayetteville, GA, United States, Category 5, This is my 3rd year of doing a animated show. I have about 30,000 lights and 176 channels. I had great responses this year after some local newspaper coverage and word of mouth. Very excited about the upcoming 2011 Christmas season.
264		George Simmons, Clearwater, MN, United States, Category 5, Two adjacent yards, 50,000+ lights and over 600 channels of computer-controlled mayhem in the historic downtown area of Clearwater, MN. Our fourth year using LOR products.
265		George Lyons, Hilliard, Florida, United States, Category 5, 304 Light-O-Rama Channels with 60,000 Lights. Featuring a 22 Ft. Super-Mega Tree with 40 Channels and 19,000 lights; 2 10 ft, Mega trees with 4,500 channels each. New this year: 40 channels of Ground Lights with 19,500+ Lights.
266		Greg Blauert, Shoreline, WA, United States, Category 5, This is the 1st year of the Blauert Holiday Sequenced Light Show for 2011 including 18,000 LED Lights, 3,800 Incandescent Lights for over 22,000 Lights in 4 colors: White, Red, Green and Blue. The display’s highlight is a 12 foot LED Mega Tree with 3D LED Rope Light Star (22, 18, 13 inch Stars); 10 24” LED Mini Tree’s; 4 LED Leaping Arches; 5 LED Rope Light Star Burst (30, 26, 22, 18, 13 inch Stars); 24” LED Rope Light Cross; Singing Santa (for some sequences) & 12 LED Flood Lights (3 each: Clear, Red, Green, Blue);. We feature Light-O-Rama hardware including 1 LOR1602W Controller with a ShowTime MP3 Director; 14 CTB16PC Controllers & 3 ELL’s. All Sequences created using Light-O-Rama Software Version 3.1.2 Advanced Edition with SuperStar Demo to control 240 Channels.
267		Michael Moss, League City, Texas, United States, Category 5, This is my second year using Light-o-Rama. I went from 64 channels to 160 channels with a little over 50,000 lights. I started November 5th putting up light since I do this by myself, but I was ready to go the day after Thanksgiving. Since I always let my hobbies get out of control I sequence a little at a time all year long. As ideas come to me, I add them to the display. I added several new items to this year’s display including: mini trees, light-bar above the garage, grid on the lawn, mega tree w/ strobes, and most of the bushes and trees are wrapped in two separate colors. I also added several thousand lights to the display as a whole thanks to a good after Christmas shopping spree last year. Light-o-Rama has made Christmas not only a December holiday, but a all-year-round holiday for me. Go to www.Mosslights.com for all my videos and behind the scenes action.
269		Teri Nevarez, Mesa, Arizona, United States, Category 5, The introduction is the lights powering up to actually run the show! That part is new this year - we are slowly converting to LED's also! My husband and I do all the work and it takes about 2 weeks of working about 4 hours per day to get it up.
271		Daniel Carr, Munster, Indiana, United States, Category 5, Our Christmas show won best decorated house in 2010 and features 12 Cosmic Color Ribbons underneath a handmade star of 152 C7 clear bulbs with two starburst poles, two mega-trees, and eight mini-trees. All of which were handmade, totaling 192 channels in use.
279		Paul Godfrey, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Category 5, Around 200 Channels, 4 CCRs and over 25,000 lights.
284		Fabian Gordon, Plano, TX, United States, Category 5, Gordon Lights presents over 125,000 Christmas lights synchronized to "Welcome Christmas" by the cast of the hit show Glee. Gordon Lights uses hardware and software from multiple partners, including Light-O-Rama, Stellascapes, and Madrix, as well as custom hardware and lights designed by Fabian Gordon. The display is made up of over 4,000 Light-O-Rama channels and about 32,000 channels of RGB lighting.
285		Larry Drum, Cumming, GA, United States, Category 5, 6 houses 416 LOR channels, all for charity. We raised over $20k this year. 20 different songs. 3 spirals, 4 megas 8 arches a chorus line of twig trees. 250,000 lights.
293		Bob Weiss, Elk Grove, California, United States, Category 5, I'm entering a display using "Wizards in Winter" by Transiberian Orchestra. I know this is a very common song, but this is about the people watching it, and they absolutely love this song. Unlike many of the "Wizards in Winter" displays I have seen, I tried to minimize how many things were happening at one time. It is very easy to include too many flashing lights that jump back and forth with this song. As such, I tried to focus the viewers eyes on only one or two portions of the display at a time. I am especially proud of my timing
294		Ben Aromin, Fairfield, California, United States, Category 5, Magical Holiday Moments started out as just a simple static Christmas lights display until the 'Animation Bug' bit us iin 2007 Our Display is a Christmas lights tribute to Disneyland in Fairfield, Calif. making it a premier destination in Northern California to view a Christmas lights display. Our light show is computer controlled animation synchronized to music broadcasted on 88.3fm stereo radio station, so you can listen to the music and enjoy the show in the comfort of your car. This year our show will feature freshly introduced elements to the display making for a more exciting experience with visually stunning lighting effects to dazzle your senses. The music we use for the show are from familiar attractions and events from Disneyland during the holiday season. Software program and high voltage hardware controllers that we use are designed and made by Light-o-Rama. Each year our display / show grows larger in animation control channels starting from 16 then doubling to 32 for following year, then to 64, then to 128 and currently at 144 for 2011. Our show is designed and built by myself and my wife as well as setup and teardown crew, just a two person team.
296		Carlo Schmitt, Reno, Nevada, United States, Category 5, The 2011 biggest little light show in Reno Nevada. 6th year doing Christmas lights synchronized to music. 416 channels of fun. Visit us at lightsoftanea.com 100 percent use of Light-O-Rama products only in our display. Custom made Christmas decorations include, fireworks, Can- Can Elves, Dancing and singing Santa, Piano Keys, Floating roof nets, Leaping Arches and Star Rays (33 feet high) and all the house light's. What has started out as fun and dream come true has now turned out to be a needed event for our community. It's a feel good for everyone who attends, the joy they receive in these ruff times and the joy of giving to our charities. It's amazing how prepared our guest are with non-perishable food items or reusable clothing or monetary donations for Multiple Sclerosis, it's truly a feel good on all accounts. Lights of Tanea has become a holiday tradition for thousands. I have grown the show evey year and 2012 will be no exception. I have done all the sequencing, and put up and take down everything by myself. This year I had to take three weeks off work to for the needed time to do this. I get wonderful support from the community, Reno forklift gives a sky jack from start to finish for the last four years. Local electrician has donated his time towards a sub panel and outlets, and the list goes on. I hope that I can live up to my expectations of doing a better show in every aspect. I look forward in new challenges of trying new decorations, I'm hoping to expand with cosmic ribbon and other idea's using RGB lighting devices.
300		Will Richards, La Crescenta, California, United States, Category 5, This is my 5th year using Light-O-Rama. The videos were taken from a boom truck parked in the street. The most important part of this year’s display was raising $600 for Wounded Warriors. Our display consists of 316 Light-O-Rama channels choreographing 40,000 lights and 11 fountains. We have two mega trees; an 18 ft. tree with 66 channels of clear, red and green lights and a 12 ft. tree with 26 channels of multi and clear lights, wrapped with an additional 13 channels of blue lights in a spiral pattern. Highlighting the house are 6 RGB wall washers. We designed and custom made 8 RGB Extreme Mini Trees from PETG and 4 RGB Arches out of Plexiglas. Also custom made out of Plexiglas is a 4’ x 8’ American flag with 12 channels causing the flag to wave. A viewer favorite is our “mini Bellagio” fountains, ten self made water fountains plus one Super Shooter that blasts a column of water 80 feet into the air. A touch screen monitor at the sidewalk allows guests to choose a song to be played. Rounding out the display is a three car self made train running on 60’ train track which includes two bridges crossing a 40 ft. long stream.
301		Jeff Ostroff, Margate, FL, United States, Category 5, Please view video in full screen mode, and select 720p to view in high definition! I have about 60,000 Christmas lights, 100% LED technology, not one incandescent light bulb on our display! 2009 I won PlanetChristmas.com worldwide decorating contest. We also won City of Margate’s contest grand prize in 2011. Here’s what I have here: • Lights are synchronized to music with 144 channels of Light-O-Rama computerized lighting. • Songs are transmitted up to 200 feet to your car radio on unused 100.9 FM, so you drive by and hear it on your car radio, while our lights dance to the songs. • 13 foot LED mega tree in front yard with over 13,000 LEDs and strobes, dances to music! • Laser shines hundreds of dots on house simulating snow. • 18 foot tall LED snowflake cascade soaring between my 2 palm trees • My custom built 6 ft Ferris Wheel of lights, synchronized to music. • My forest of simulated Ballagio Fountain poles of light • Several custom built arches, mini trees • Numerous one of a kind display features, inflatables, Disney, Charlie Brown wood and 7 dwarfs yard figures. I build all my own custom light fixtures.
304		Ken Maxwell, Murfreesboro, TN, United States, Category 5, The Nutcracker is our latest addition to our Christmas light show. We presently have 13 songs. This is the sixth year we’ve put on our Christmas light display. “Christmas in the Boro”(as folks know us), has become a tradition for thousands of families here in Murfreesboro and middle Tennessee. We averaged around 250 cars a nigh this year. Close to 9,000 families (cars) came by. We’re proud the show is so popular and we’re able to give something back to the community. The down side is, due to the volume of traffic we get we must stand in the road and direct traffic every night during the entire show, the entire season. :~) [So careful what you wish for regarding people coming to see your lights.] :-))) It’s a big commitment but seeing all the families getting together to come see the Christmas lights, all the children’s smiles, hearing all the Ooohs and Aaahs makes it all worth it. We presently have 156 multiplexed LOR channels controlling 350+ individual lighting circuits. Approximately 80,000 red, white, and blue lights. The 21’ mega tree is made from 20,000 lights, 240 individual light strands. There are 48 Munchkin (mini) trees, 32 candy canes, 9 Leaping light arches, 14 giant snow flakes and a blow up Santa on the roof, 32 strands of ground lights, numerous deer and yard ornaments and such throughout the display along with 175 stage strobe lights. Powered by a 125 amp dedicated panel, and all connected with over 600 extension cords!! The music is broadcast over our FM radio transmitter.
310		Johnny Anglin, Hephzibah, Georgia, United States, Category 5, The song is Do You Hear What I Hear by Spiraling. Our Christmas display consist of 272 channels of Light-O-Rama controllers, LOR software, 43,953 LED Lights, 12 foot megatree, 15 foot megatree, 19 foot Weber tree, a Marty fan, 12 mini trees, 3 arches and a Holdman star. All the trees are wrapped in red, green, blue & white LEDs. The eves have three different light strings; multi C6 LEDs, cool white twinkle icicle LED's and Gemmy Shooting Star icicle LED's.
319		Shannon Studebaker, Grand Prairie, Texas, United States, Category 5, This is my favorite song of this years show as I like the effect and choreography that I created. This is the center view (CCR Double Spiral) of our Christmas Show 2011!!! The is just one song that I wanted to highlight. The song is "Starbright Christmas" by Disney. There are other views available of the full show with all 4 songs. All of the shows are configured with Light-O-Rama controllers and consist of 144 channels in total with 4 RGB flood lights and 4 Cosmic Color Ribbons in the double spiral tree.
325		Mike Magrill, Santa Ynez, CA, United States, Category 5, The music is Jingle Bells by Denver and the Mile High Orchestra. There are 22,000 LEDs controlled by 256 LOR channels. There is a 23' mega tree with 8500 lights, an 11' handmade Ferris Wheel with 8 30" Teddy Bears, three 12' light poles, a handmade Raggedy Ann and Andy carousel, a dancing Santa from the Winfield Collection, and a handmade rocking Santa sitting by the fireplace. Thanks to Light-O-Rama , Seasonal Entertainment LLC , and ChristmasLightShow.Com
332		Dennis Laff, Burbank, Illinois, United States, Category 5, 5,000+ led lights, 20 wire light frames, Xenon strobe lights, and a 20-foot custom, hand-fabricated, SuperStar Lights tree (12 cosmic color ribbons and a 6-concentric star) synchronized to holiday music using 272 channels of Light-O-Rama. A virtual santa waves to everyone who stops by to enjoy the nightly 7-song music and light show.
334		Brandon Kibler, Normal, Illinois, United States, Category 5, For 2011 our Christmas display featured 256 channels of Light-O-Rama and one Cosmic Color Ribbon.
335		David Stewart, Vienna, VA, United States, Category 5, Rocky Run Christmas is an animated light show at a private residence in McLean, VA. Each year a different theme is chosen in which an assortment of Christmas characters entertain visitors. The theme for 2011 is a Star Wars Christmas adventure. Our display features over 500 channels of traditional LOR control primarily using LOR 1602W controllers and about 5000 channels of RGB pixels controlled using DMX. Other features of the show include 10' animated characters on the roof of the house, a flying Santa sleigh (or two), and our first excursion into motion using linear actuators.
339		Val Bennett, Tremonton, Utah, United States, Category 5, This is our second year of doing the musical lights. We have 174 LOR Channels, including 6 CCR's. Two of the CCR's are cut up to make the "stars" on top of the poles on the right hand side, also four arches from two CCR's. The other CCR's are mounted on a retaining wall about in the middle of the display. The small trees and the 6' tall 4-channel star on the roof are home-made. We found out that floodlights only look good shining on something white, so instead of shining them on trees, we used them inside the garage - such that the light can be seen out the garage door glass.
344		David Stewart, Vienna, VA, United States, Category 5, I apologize if this is a duplicate but I did not get a confirmation notice that the submission was received, like I did for the Share the Show contest This the fourth year that we have animated the lights at Rocky Run Christmas, a private residence in Northern Virginia. The show is driven with Light-O-Rama hardware and software. Each year we choose a theme to help frame the show as well as to create a more interactive experience for visitors. Our theme for this year is a Star Wars Christmas adventure during which the visitors help locate Santa during the show. The show has been a tremendous opportunity to see the smiles that the lights put on peoples faces. We have also been able to raise money for several local charities through the generous donations of show visitors. Facts about the show: ~500+ channels of traditional LOR control ~5000+ channels of RGB pixels controlled by DMX using 12 Enttec Pro adapters - all lights are LED with exception of the rope lights around the windows on the house - we estimate that it's 150,000 plus lights.. but we actually have no idea of the exact count. we know it's at least that. - there are 12 DMX universes controlling the RGB pixels that are used in the fireworks, spiral trees, and light sabers - the RGB lights are ws2801 based pixels from Stellascapes - the 12 DMX universes are run using Enttec Pro's - there are 3 traditional LOR networks driving the LED lights - two zipline santa sleighs that fly during the show (had one for the last 3 years.. added the second one this year) - the lights on the flying sleighs are powered by a battery pack with solar panel. If you look close in the Medley when Santa's sleigh takes off.. you'll see the battery pack/solar panel following behind him. - the characters on the roof are about 10' tall and are made with rope light over a mesh frame.
346		Dave Weber, Minooka, Illinois, United States, Category 5, Created with 12 CCRs and 9 Controllers Wizards in Winter Over a mile long of extension cords Display has 23 Christmas songs Show runs from Beginning of December til Jan. 31st.