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Title: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christmas.
Post by: Fenrir on November 21, 2005, 02:17:40 am
http://members.cox.net/transam57/lights.wmv
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christmas.
Post by: Scuddie on November 21, 2005, 02:49:23 am
Jesus ****...  Wha...?

Can you begin to even imagine the power output required for all those flashes?
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christma
Post by: Martinus on November 21, 2005, 02:52:32 am
Genius!
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christma
Post by: Night Hammer on November 21, 2005, 02:55:10 am
thats pretty pimped out
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christma
Post by: Martinus on November 21, 2005, 02:59:40 am
Have they got around to 'Pimp my house' on MTV yet?
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christma
Post by: Night Hammer on November 21, 2005, 03:02:38 am
haha nope, but that should be next

unless you qualify MTV cribs as that
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christma
Post by: pyro-manic on November 21, 2005, 03:57:33 am
Hmmm. Somebody's a stage lighting tech...
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christmas.
Post by: Flipside on November 21, 2005, 04:10:49 am
I hate overlit houses at Christmas to be honest, it's gaudy, pointless, attention whoring.
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christma
Post by: StratComm on November 21, 2005, 04:11:22 am
Or is trying to be one.

If only I had the 49 straight hours it would take to get that all put together.  And then watch it more than once without getting an epileptic seisure.
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christmas.
Post by: Descenterace on November 21, 2005, 07:11:08 am
I dislike houses with too many Christmas lights too, but that's because most of them are just 'how many shiny things can I stick on my house' competition entries.

That must've taken a lot of effort to set up, which moves it out of the 'pathetic' category and into the realms of art.

Very impressive (although I wouldn't like to be a neighbour).
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christmas.
Post by: Prophet on November 21, 2005, 11:49:23 am
In order for the by-passers to figure that out, the music would have to be playing around the clock. Very loud... :D
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christmas.
Post by: Jetmech Jr. on November 21, 2005, 02:18:48 pm
Some people have WAY too much time on their hands, even during the holidays :wtf:
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christma
Post by: Night Hammer on November 21, 2005, 02:45:28 pm
doesnt it kinda look like they took the claymation approach to that, like stop it then change the lights then start again
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christmas.
Post by: Prophet on November 21, 2005, 02:48:41 pm
It does a little. Hard to tell 'cos it's such a poor quality... Either way, it took a lot of effort...

BTW. I have heard that music before. Does anybody know whose track that is?
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christma
Post by: pyro-manic on November 21, 2005, 04:41:23 pm
That's been bugging me as well. It sounds like something that somebody like Steve Vai or Yngwie Malmsteen would come out with, but it's piano/keyboard instead of guitar. The other thing that springs to mind is Beethoven's synth-rock-out thing from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, when all the historical figures are going wild in the shopping centre. So I'm guessing some kind of 80s virtuoso type thing.
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christma
Post by: phreak on November 21, 2005, 05:00:16 pm
Well you can burn their house down and the investigators would simply assume its an electrical fire.

Pyro: sounds like helloween or rhapsody or some other power-metal type thing.
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christma
Post by: Taristin on November 21, 2005, 05:05:53 pm
That's.... sickening.
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christma
Post by: CP5670 on November 21, 2005, 05:21:11 pm
Quote
doesnt it kinda look like they took the claymation approach to that, like stop it then change the lights then start again

That's what I thought too; the animations aren't really smooth. Very cool stuff nonetheless.
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christmas.
Post by: Jal-18 on November 21, 2005, 06:09:52 pm
Almost surely stop motion -

In the beginning you can see 2 or 3 people jerking around the front door in a very unrealistic manner.
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christmas.
Post by: Flipside on November 21, 2005, 06:12:26 pm
Theres nothing worse than having people unrealistically jerk around your front door at Christmas....




Sorry.
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christmas.
Post by: ToecrusherHammerjaw on November 21, 2005, 07:01:00 pm
Man, that is one of the craziest things I've ever seen.
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christma
Post by: Night Hammer on November 21, 2005, 07:06:21 pm
Theres nothing worse than having people unrealistically jerk around your front door at Christmas....




Sorry.


:lol:
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christma
Post by: Taristin on November 21, 2005, 07:15:20 pm
Theres nothing worse than having people unrealistically jerk around your front door at Christmas....




Sorry.

/me makes a note to realistically jerk about Flipside's door during the upcoming holiday*
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christma
Post by: Hippo on November 21, 2005, 07:23:07 pm
Not too impressive tbh... I've seen more complicated lighting done with a theatre-quality board... Fun to watch though :p
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christmas.
Post by: Flipside on November 21, 2005, 07:32:33 pm
Theres nothing worse than having people unrealistically jerk around your front door at Christmas....




Sorry.

/me makes a note to realistically jerk about Flipside's door during the upcoming holiday*

/me makes a note to put extra salt down.
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christmas.
Post by: TrashMan on November 21, 2005, 07:38:00 pm
Useless power consumption...talk about NOT nature friendly.

Having a decorated tree with lights is OK, but what some people (and towns) are doing is way too much.
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christma
Post by: Hippo on November 21, 2005, 08:01:24 pm
do you have any idea how a transformer works? Or a three-phase cable? Woudl you realize taht that house runs off nothing more than what normally comes from a power plant, just modified to have a higher amperage? Didnt think so.
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christmas.
Post by: Flipside on November 21, 2005, 08:08:05 pm
Xmas lights are excessively power hungry, however, being across the road from one going 'blinky blinky blinky' at 3am certainly makes it a fire risk :/
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christmas.
Post by: ToecrusherHammerjaw on November 21, 2005, 09:03:58 pm
Theres nothing worse than having people unrealistically jerk around your front door at Christmas....




Sorry.

/me makes a note to realistically jerk about Flipside's door during the upcoming holiday*

/me makes a note to put extra salt down.


:lol: :lol:
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christma
Post by: FireCrack on November 21, 2005, 09:11:17 pm
Theres nothing worse than having people unrealistically jerk around your front door at Christmas....




Sorry.

/me makes a note to realistically jerk about Flipside's door during the upcoming holiday*

/me makes a note to put extra salt down.


:lol: :lol:

Quotes are awesome eh?
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christma
Post by: Solatar on November 21, 2005, 09:13:42 pm
Awesome....

It's Wizards in Winter by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra btw.
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christmas.
Post by: ToecrusherHammerjaw on November 21, 2005, 09:14:48 pm
Darn it, you JUST beat me to that!!
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christmas.
Post by: Solatar on November 21, 2005, 09:53:20 pm
:p :D
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christma
Post by: Corsair on November 21, 2005, 10:11:09 pm
:jaw: Now that **** is crazy....
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christma
Post by: Setekh on November 22, 2005, 02:23:58 am
Awesome....

It's Wizards in Winter by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra btw.

Very appropriate. Man, the more times I watch that, the more crazy it seems. People, with too much, time on their hands...
Title: Re: It's official: Whoever made this wins Christma
Post by: Prophet on November 22, 2005, 03:22:39 am
People, with too much, time on their hands...
They decorated an old house with lights...
What do we do here?
Decorate a years old game engine with lights and shineys and other eye candy... :D



*Get's ready to be beaten to death with keyboards*