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Thanks for stopping by, and welcome to Blink Midwinter! The 2008 videos are online here. If everything goes according to plan, and you know that life is what happens while you're busy making plans, the 2009 show will start on Thanksgiving night. In this little corner of the web we started sharing our Christmas lights displays beginning in 2008. In Christmas' past, our displays were very modest and static, with window wreaths, and either mini lights in shrubs or floodlights on the house. We kicked it up a notch in 2008, thanks to computer software and hardware that lets you to animate the lights to music broadcast via a low power FM transmitter to the comfort of visitor's cars, and awesome communities of Christmas lights enthusiasts both on-line and around metro Atlanta. It will be a few seasons before our display is large enough to be seen from space, but we're working on it. The 2009 show will use about 124 channels of Light-O-Rama computer control, and be changed up some from 2008. No estimate of the light count yet, but we'll need about twice the power as last year. |
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 For 2008, there were 8 lit wreaths, 8 sections of shrubs, four mini trees and four little shrubs, all in clear mini lights. A Japanese Magnolia and a river birch were wrapped in clear, red and green minis, and 12 lit candy canes line the walk. Altogether there were 9625 lights using at most about 3 hairdryer's worth of electricity for the moments when everything was turned on (roughly 30 amps). 48 channels of Light-O-Rama controlled it all, and a Ramsey FM25B transmitter was broadcasting at 92.5MHz.
The playlist was: - Siberian Sleigh Ride
- Music Box Dancer
- Pat-A-Pan
- Joy To The World
- Christmas Canon
- Linus and Lucy
There was also a fun little piece using Lucasfilm's THX intro from the Pixar movie Cars. |
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