Uploaded by houseofboyd on Nov 21, 2005
Wow, this thing has really gone crazy with the viewers. Let me first start by
saying that this is not my house. Regardless of what any of the comments
read, this house really does exist, I have seen it with my own eyes and
nothing you see in the video is trickery, it's all real.
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.
The rough quality of the video has led some viewers to believe it was put
together in stop-action form from still photographs, but that is an artifact of the
high compression used in the clip circulated via e-mail. Mr. Williams has
posted instructions for recreating his "Wizard in Winter" sequencing, and
another of his choreographed Christmas light music shows can be viewed
here.
Carson's Christmas display proved so popular that it was featured in a Miller
Lite beer commercial in December 2005.