Darren Vader for President 2008
After my previous nomination as Secretary of Christmas I’ve taken it upon myself to start a grassroots campaign. Anyone with 400 shiny new strings of white mini lights and 3 different Santa suits should be a shoe-in for President!
Vote Vader – Vaderville for Life!
Read MoreSecretary of Christmas
The snippet below in which I was named “Secretary of Christmas” was plucked from a much long and much funnier thread that I don’t think really had a focused topic. but I digress – and leave you with the punchline (names have been changed to protect the innocent):
Read MoreI knew Jay could guess it. Congratulations, Jay! You will be my running mate.
Shayne/Jay/Scarlet ’08!
I think my cabinet members will be:
Steve, Secretary of Fishing.
Darren, Secretary of Christmas
Scott, Secretary of InternationalDon’t forget I get to choose two new Supreme Court justices this round…
Vital Statistics: A Christmas Light Display on Steroids
- 3 houses
- 80,000 lights
- 80 channels of animation
- FM radio transmission at 107.3fm
- virtual snow
- virtual Santa
- live Santa
- synchronized video
- LED DMX scanners
- 40 strobes
- mega tree with 10,000 lights
- unique tree lighting affects
- 760 chocolate chip cookies
- 93 glasses of milk
- and oh so much more!
2008 Play List Announcement
The play list for this years synchronized light show has been finalized:
- What’s This?
- Oh Come All Ye Faithful
- Siberian Sleigh Ride
- All I Want For Christmas is You
- Christmas Waltz
- Silent Night
- A Mad Russian’s Christmas
- Jingle Bells
- The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Now here’s the fun part; we like to use unique versions of classic holiday songs so we’ll leave it to you to come by and see which of the songs in the play list are performed by which artist:
- Michael W. Smith
- Transiberian Orchestra
- Away TEAM
- Fall Out Boy
- Mariah Carey
- Twisted Sister
- Sinead O’Connor
- In Memory
2008 Christmas Light Show Planning is Well Under Way
So many people I talked to this time of year tend to just stare at me in disbelief when I start rambling about my grand plans for this years synchronized Christmas light show. It usually takes me a few minutes to realize that the person I’m talking to has no interest whatsoever in what I’m saying. They also tend to be the same folks who are the most absolutely blown away with the light show once it’s up and running. And THIS is exactly why I love what I do!
This years show continues to grow. At this point it looks like we may be about three times the size of last year, which was three times the size of the year before. We’ll have three houses in a row synchronized to nine modern variations of popular Christmas tunes.
The challenge of coordinating this type of synchronization is part of what makes it so much fun – and so gratifying in the end. We’ll be running 80 channels of animation this year and have added some new lighting effects and synchronized video.
Most importantly we have settled on a charity to sponsor this year. We will be accepting donations of clothing and non-perishable food items for a local food bank that will truly benefit from our ‘pay-it-forward’ approach. We’ll make an official announcement soon.
So, we’re running around like crazy – have been all summer – preping the songs, the sequences, the videos, the light layouts and more. Still lots and lots to do before November 28th!
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