Dec 23 2008The Ultimate In Christmas Lighting Effects
I vow to be the guy who puts up the ridiculous Christmas lights every year. But no inflatable decorations. Those things are freaking classless. Unless you have them in your yard, in which case, good looking. But we're talking lights here. We're talking serious exterior illumination. We're talking....Light-O-Rama!
Light-O-Rama is an affordable, computerized lighting system designed to control elaborate or simple lighting displays. The Light-O-Rama system can be applied to almost any lighting situation, from stand-alone controllers to synchronizing hundreds of controllers, motion detectors, animation servos and other devices using a personal computer or master controller. Light-O-Rama controllers are micro-processor based (miniature computers inside) and are equipped to produce a number of great lighting effects such as smooth ramping, cyclic/cross fading, dimming, twinkling and many others.
You heard it here folks, miniature computers inside. You just shell out $2,700 for a 128 channel system, plug in a shit-ton of lights, connect to your PC, and presto, you triple the electric bill and burn your house to the ground. But I think we can all agree: it's a small price to pay for a Youtube video I'll watch every Christmas.
Hit the jump for a picture of a fire waiting to happen and a bunch more classic Christmas lighting videos, most of which are OLD AS HELL.
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Light-O-Rama - Illuminazioni natalizie computerizzate [hobbymedia]
Thanks to Francesco, who lights his house the way nature intended -- with fireworks.
Reader Comments
1. known - December 23, 2008 11:29 AM
schwiiiing!!!
(PS - all fisrtys will always be GHEY)
2. oyemeng - December 23, 2008 11:29 AM
FIRST!!!!1111
3. oyemeng - December 23, 2008 11:30 AM
@2-epic fail
4. Tim - December 23, 2008 11:30 AM
Amazing Grace, a solemn song with a serious message... now turned into a dance song...
wow
5. known - December 23, 2008 11:36 AM
....and I even danced around a little
6. the clap - December 23, 2008 11:41 AM
i love that the neighbors don't have any lights up either... they must be jewish
7. Pew³ - December 23, 2008 11:43 AM
HEY....I have an inflatable giant snow globe. Maybe I'll save up and get this for next year. I'll make sure my homeowners insurance covers it first. Maybe ramp up the fire protection.
8. LSDiesel - December 23, 2008 11:43 AM
BLOCKED!!!
This video is totally blocked at my work and reminds me of that one scene from Never Back Down where Max and Baja made a porno and posted it on geekologie but NO ONE COULD F***ING WATCH IT because of those infernal internet filters.
9. Ronnie Rhymer - December 23, 2008 11:43 AM
Lights lights everywhere
Even in my underwear
I'm so bright, yes I am
Let's go play in some spam
Christmas means shopping lots
It also means dropping cops
I want someone to Tickle My Elmo
So stick your pickle into my shell bro
10. wow - December 23, 2008 11:47 AM
i want to see one of these to Through the Fire and Flames
11. Sir Goat - December 23, 2008 11:47 AM
Always the heavy-metal Christmas songs...
12. blizake - December 23, 2008 11:53 AM
I'm all for Christmas, but I'd kill these people if they were my neighbors. That, or get a bigger FM transmitter and play death metal through it instead of their techno Amazing Grace.
13. Somebody - December 23, 2008 11:53 AM
PFFT...overachievers!
14. Gizmoduck - December 23, 2008 11:53 AM
santa claws alice cooper....balls
what did they win?
9000 fire trucks?
15. Sharla - December 23, 2008 11:58 AM
WTF is up with a dance version of Amazing Grace??
The lights look cool, but I would hate to be living next door to that.
http://internetmiscellanea.blogspot.com/
16. Daisy - December 23, 2008 12:05 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This looks exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max stole some mushrooms from his dog, and although he was Jewish hallucinated that there were christmas lights all over his house. Later Baja found him with his pants around his ankles and several dead squirrels strewn around him.
They then went to Del Tacos and took a nap.
17. DigitalT - December 23, 2008 12:06 PM
Sweet!
But I must ask Daisy what scene these are from?
18. Timbo - December 23, 2008 12:08 PM
@8 It's "The Man"!!
i can't watch these videos either..., but I'll act like I can and say "Coooooool"
19. Um... - December 23, 2008 12:37 PM
WTF? Amazing Grace turned into a shitty raver song? They must have wanted to hurry and get this video shot before a bunch of idiots parked on their front lawn, downed some shit, and started waving glow sticks all over the place.
Assclowns!
20. Thumperchica - December 23, 2008 12:46 PM
@8 - LMFAO!
21. Spencer - December 23, 2008 12:50 PM
Now if it had just cross faded into the Hamster Dance song we would have had something here...
22. Andyman - December 23, 2008 1:37 PM
Pfftt! Kiss did that 30 years ago.
23. AJ - December 23, 2008 1:47 PM
Meanwhile the neighbor next door is having a moment akin to something out of Spongebob Squarepants' Squidward as they try to sleep. That, or, a homicidal frenzy beginning to build.
Either way, just bloody wow, someone needs to take it down a notch.
24. Jab - December 23, 2008 2:55 PM
I hate christmas but I love this.
25. rolomata - December 23, 2008 3:02 PM
woo! colores de mexico!
26. formerly SPELLINGNAZI - December 23, 2008 4:14 PM
Cool lights, shitty song. F*** TECHNO!
27. Brian - December 23, 2008 4:34 PM
Nothing says "Happy Birthday, Jesus" like a $1500 a month electric bill...
28. gypsy - December 23, 2008 4:34 PM
what's up with the guy in the second of the second group of videos? he just stops his car right in front of whoever's filming the house.
29. J - December 23, 2008 5:22 PM
What about the dude in the upper story window in that same video? He was using a flashlight because mom and dad wouldn't let him turn on the room lights while they were taping...
30. will.i.am. - December 24, 2008 2:10 AM
the first video is my house! in lincoln, rhode island!
31. Madzay - December 25, 2008 5:58 AM
hehehehe
it looked like the in the first video that the house was "raising the roof"
lolololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololol
lolololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololol
GOD I'M FUNNY@!!!!!
32. fleity - December 30, 2008 1:59 PM
i agree with all that was said before about techno and so on, but i myself was asked what the actual title of the song is so....
does anyone know?
33. Deborah - December 30, 2008 11:07 PM
Looks seizuriphic, I feel sorry for the poor incicent kid that walks by the unexspectdly.
34. Deborah - December 30, 2008 11:09 PM
Gah I spelt half of those words wrong, guess drinking before typing wasn't the best idea.
35. plasmaman - January 20, 2009 10:05 PM
THIS IS NOT A FAKE!!!!
Oh how I wish it was, the traffic to this Pleasant Grove home in the silvercreek subdivision lined up for over a mile to see this rediculous house with only one road to and from it, and yes I don't put up lights ----f*** rocky mountain power.
after several complaints and police shutting it down several times due to severe traffic problems; this year (2008) all she put out was the grinch and his dog, MADE ME SO HAPPY!!! oh and she won a year supply of KFC chicken here in Utah for having so many f-ing lights.