"Christmas Lights"

I know this has nothing to do with the new year, but it is really fantastic, so I am using it as my "silly ending thing."

Christmas Lights is a magnificent light and music show that was brought to my attention by my daughter. It's a video of someone's Christmas lights that appear to be choreographed to music.

This display was the work of Carson Williams, a Mason, Ohio, electrical engineer who spent about three hours sequencing the 88 Light-O-Rama channels that controlled the 16,000 Christmas lights in his annual holiday lighting spectacular (from Christmas 2004). His 2005 display includes over 25,000 lights that he spent nearly two months and $10,000 to hook up. So that the Williams' neighbors aren't disturbed by constant noise, viewers driving by the house are informed by signs to tune in to a signal broadcast over a low-power FM radio station to hear the musical accompaniment.

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christmaslights.wmv

For more information go to the Snopes (Urban Legend or Fact) site and check out "The Light Before Christmas."

Here are a few comments by visitors to the Putfile.com site:

The audio is from the "Transiberian Orchestra's Wizards in Winter."

Well this guy is the talk of southern ohio.
8047 winding creek court, mason ohio
actually in is near mason ohio, northern suburb of cincinnati ohio, it's real and there is another song.

Actually this is real, it was done by a man named carson williams who lives in mason, ohio and he timed all his lights to the music..he's done other songs too and he even has showing times..i've even drove by the house,,and its real

he lives really close to me! (cincinnati) it took him (carson williams) 2 months to set up the lights and 9 hours to program the show!

The music is actually on an FM receiver, so there are no speakers outside.

You just tune your FM dial to the station he has the music set to and you can hear it! I think it is absolutely amazing and would love to see it in real life.

This is apparently the work of carson Williams of mason Ohio. He is an electrical engineer who spent three hours sequencing the 88 Light-O-Rama that controlled the 16,000 christmas lights in his annual holiday lighting spectacular (from christmas 2004)

This display was the work of Carson Williams, a Mason, Ohio, electrical engineer. On 6 December 2005, news reports announced that Carson Williams' 2005 Christmas light display had been shut down because it was causing traffic congestion problems