General @ Monday December 05, 2005 09:23 am by WunderKraut

Christmas Lights Rock!

Update: Well damn Cullen. Just wreck it all for me :-) Actually, knowing it is real makes it even cooler.

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The coolest Christmas light display EVER!!!!!

I am guessing it is a huge animated .gif or something like that. Someone prove me wrong, but I doubt it is a real synchronized light display.

Still pretty cool though.

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15 Responses to “Christmas Lights Rock!”

  1. on 05 Dec 2005 at 11:18 am   Cullen

    Been around the block a few times.

    It’s real. The guy who did it is a lighting engineer for rock concerts and all the lights are synched through a computer.

    The music is “Wizards in Winter” by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra off of their Lost Christmas Eve album.

  2. on 05 Dec 2005 at 11:19 am   Cullen

    But it is super cool. :)

  3. on 05 Dec 2005 at 12:20 pm   Hoodlumman

    A co-worker sent that to us last week. First time I had seen it. Awesome.

  4. on 05 Dec 2005 at 3:05 pm   Ace of Spades HQ

    The Hayden Planetarium Presents: Laser-Christmas!

    The most outlandish home Christmas lighting yet. Disclosure: Ummm, I’ve seen this thing a dozen times, but I’m finally posting it, because WonderKraut asked me too, and he’s probably German. I don’t support apeasement per se, but I also don’t…

  5. on 05 Dec 2005 at 6:37 pm   Ken Summers

    Oh this is too funny. I got it by email and passed it on but didn’t blog it. I had never heard of “Trans-Siberian Orchestra” before, but heard them on the radio today, different piece. I’ve got to track down that CD! It rocks!

  6. on 05 Dec 2005 at 7:00 pm   Ken Summers

    So just now, the guy who originally sent me the link to the video sends me this.

  7. on 05 Dec 2005 at 9:03 pm   Cullen

    Okay, so the rumor about him being a lighting technician, not true. Great to find out the full truth behind the story.

    P.S. Ken, for more info on TSO, visit their site, or shoot me an e-mail.

  8. on 05 Dec 2005 at 9:06 pm   Cullen

    AND, for anyone who’s a fan of heavy-metal and progressive rock, TSO is the holiday formation of the progressive-metal band Savatage.

  9. on 05 Dec 2005 at 10:29 pm   Beth

    The story of the video is at http://www.wonderlandchristmas.com. It’s real, all right. Snopes has the scoop, too.

    And if you’re one of those evil torrent people I know nothing about, you can *probably* find The Lost Christmas Eve (the CD that Wizard of Winter is on) in a torrent search. Just guessing, of course.

  10. on 05 Dec 2005 at 11:42 pm   Ken Summers

    The piece I heard on the radio today was called “Mad Russian’s Christmas”, it’s on a different album. Pretty cool to find out it’s a heavy metal band that does this (I’m not a metal fan, but I find things like that pretty cool – much like I found Iced Earth pretty cool).

    And sadly (or perhaps fortunately), I have absolutely no idea what a “torrent person” is.

  11. on 06 Dec 2005 at 6:36 am   Cullen

    Again, Ken, shoot me a note.

    Not that I have any idea what a +0rr3n+ person is either.

  12. on 06 Dec 2005 at 7:50 am   WunderKraut

    *cough*

    My, my, my….this is turning into quite the hotbed of … oh never mind…

    I to know nothing about this orrent-tay you speak of…

    _>

  13. on 06 Dec 2005 at 11:16 pm   The_Real_JeffS

    The CD is *EXCELLENT*, Ken. I downloaded tonight, and am enjoying it as I type!!!!

  14. on 11 Dec 2005 at 10:25 pm   joe

    CNN did a feature on the house this weekend.

  15. on 22 Dec 2005 at 1:05 pm   nicole

    THIS IS AN AWESOME VIDEO :)