"Winter Wonderland" by Alexia Phillips This video was shot from across the street and shows about half of the LEDs affixed to our house and front yard. Most of our non-traditional holiday tunes have a strong beat which make it relatively easy to sequence with songs or instrumentals. Our 62,000 LED lights are programmed and synchronized to turn on and off, dim, or shimmer by using a HP PC and a set of 9 controllers from the Light-O-Rama company. For each minute of animation synchronized to Holiday music, we spend at least two hours to sequence the 144 channels/circuits that control our plethora of multicolored LEDs. The upbeat, techno/remix, more up-to-date holiday music we select to play is a valuable part of our nighttime spectacle on Adams Street -- much to the delight or dismay of our neighbors and thousands of visitors! Thanks for watching! We hope our elaborate fireworks-like/lighting/musical displays bring you some holiday cheer and fond memories. Visit us again by Googling: kimball ne meyers christmas

Medley of "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" and "Here Comes Santa Claus" by the Ventures. This fourth video of our 2011 Christmas Musical Light Show gives you a central view of our LED props on the roof, front/west side of the house, and the front yard. This scene was videographed from just outside the front arbor and shows the following décor: roof stars and snowflakes, eave icicles, window and door-frame garlands, porch-rail garlands, a Light Storm Disk, an Animotion Disk, a Santa window cling/transparency, a door wreath, a seven-snowflake cascade, a LED-rope spiral tree, a small blow-molded Santa, a weeping willow, an Aerial Star Burst, five picture-window snowflakes, a "real" Xmas tree, and on the right, two of five "macro" trees. On the left foreground you can observe most of our 11-foot, 16-spiral tree, and you might also detect our large, inflatable turkey behind the spiraling tree. Yes! We are still in the transition stage between our celebrations of Harvest/Thanksgiving and Christmas/New Year! Thanks for watching our videos! You can visit our YouTube Channel again by Googling: kimball ne meyers christmas

"Music Box Dancer," by DJ Schwede This third video of our 2011 Christmas Musical Light Show reveals the performance of the newest and best addition to the Meyer Xmas light display -- an eleven foot, multi-colored Spiral (Weber) Tree. This slim Spiral Tree (ST) required three days to construct and about 4 hours to animate or sync its dynamic "movement" to the rhythm of "Music Box Dancer." Our multi-coiled ST consists of 16 helices, with each helix being a 23-foot long, twisted, double strand of 70-count, multi-colored LED lights that makes two complete turns/wraps around the central ten-foot high axis or pole. Since each coiled run of lights contains (2 x 70) 140 LEDs, the tree, itself, has (16 x 140) 2,240 lights -- plus a topper star of 50 blue LEDs! This ST is sturdily mounted on a 4-foot diameter circle of ¾" BC plywood and the ST has a total weight of only 50 pounds. This portable ST is easily carried and will fit nicely (with its star detached) into our large storage unit. The vertical support or "trunk" of the ST is a 10' length of 1" diameter EMT (electrical metallic tubing) which has a 1 inch floor flange connected at each end. The bottom flange is screwed to the center of the circular plywood base, and the upper flange has a 6" diameter circle of ¾ inch plywood mounted on its top surface. Each circle of plywood has 16 heavy-duty screw eyes along their outer edges or circumferences. 18-gauge galvanized wire was used to connect each lower screw eye with its corresponding upper screw eye. These 16 wires serve not only as guy wires to stabilize the central pole, but they also form a conical framework on which to attach (by using 400+ cable ties) and support the 16 spiral "runs" of LEDs. One Light-O-Rama controller with its 16 channels regulates the "flashing" and "dancing" of the 16 LED spirals. On each side of the ST are two 4-to-6 foot commercial LED twinkle/gum-drop trees. Thanks for watching! Stay tuned! More Xmas videos to come! Please visit our YouTube Channel again by simply Googling: kimball ne meyers christmas

Medley of "Little Drummer Boy," Joy to the World," and "Do You Hear What I Hear?" This test video demonstrates the use of two newly-made groupings of LED artwork -- 5 five-foot tomato cage "macro trees" and a "banner" of 15 stars. The macro trees were made by combining 2 large, sturdy 54-inch tomato cages per tree for a conical framework and then spiraling each frame with 3 different circuits of more than 400 LEDs per circuit (channel.) Therefore, each "macro tree" contains at least 1200 LEDS! The colors chosen for the LED lights of each channel included the following: multi; red; blue; green; gold; amber; purple; warm white; and cool white. The bottom banner contains 15 simple, Bethlehem-type stars -- each made with a 60-count string of pure/cool white LEDs for a total of 900 lights. As you can imagine, both the cluster of "macro" trees and the star banner are each controlled by 15 circuits of two different Light-O-Rama Controllers. Thanks for observing our videos! You can easily visit our YouTube Channel by Googling: kimball ne meyers christmas

"Amazing Grace" by Yule This video is a close-up of our HP computer screen showing some of the lights-to-music synchronization that we are planning for a Christmas Musical Light Show that will begin on Thanksgiving (November 24, 2011.) This particular Light-O-Rama (LOR) animation-simulation screen virtually depicts the main LED décor and props that we have (mostly) designed and constructed for our Xmas Light Displays. The LED props that you see include the following: Eave/gutter icicle lights; 16-3 ft tomato cage "mini trees"; a LED Animotion Disk (LAD); a 15 ft mega tree; an 8-channel "leaping arch"; 2 aerial-star bursts; 8-2 channel stars in our garage window; a short fence attached to a 7-ft "leaping arbor"; 5- 3 channel 5-foot "macro trees"; a 16-snowflake cascade"; and a 27 channel "Bellagio Pole." Our Christmas Musical Light Show will be computer controlled by using Light-O-Rama software and hardware -- including 9 LOR controllers with their 144 channels or circuits. This computerized and animated light display will use about 62,000 red, amber, gold, green, blue, fuchsia, warm white, pure white and purple LEDs -- and over 4 miles of extension cords on our house, garage, and large corner lot. Because we use only 80% energy-efficient LED lights AND the "typical" LED is turned ON about one-third the total display time, our "electrical bill" for our five-week Christmas Musical Light Show will be less than 80 dollars!! If all our lights were incandescent "Edison" bulbs and were ON constantly (NO dimming, flashing, or "dancing"), the power cost to us would be over 800 dollars! Please revisit our YouTube Channel by simply Googling: kimball ne meyers christmas

"Thriller" by Michael Jackson This is another across-the-street video that shows about 80% of our Halloween Light Display. If you compare this video with last year's 2010 Halloween Musical Light Show 8 (which now has almost 5,000 views), you will notice that we have larger and more Rooftop Singers and more ghouls, goblins, and zombies in our graveyard borders -- including some "animatronic," scary ones that "turn on" when activated by sounds or motion. We hope it isn't too distracting to you that we don't regulate traffic or visitors (i.e. Sydney and Megan) during the videography. Thanks for watching our videos!! Happy Halloween! Please tell your friends and relatives to visit our YouTube Channel by simply Googling: kimball ne meyers halloween

"Ghostbusters" --by Ray Parker Jr. Last year's (2010) "Ghostbuster's" Video was our most popular video by far/ever with more than 25,300 "hits"!? (Right now - 10/29- the number of hits is an amazing 79,391!!) We wonder how likeable this season's comparable video will be with the addition of more and bigger "Rooftop Singers," two young spectators (Megan and Ethan,) and the use of a new, sharper Sony Handycam (HDR-CX110.) Visit our YouTube Channel again by simply Googling: kimball ne meyers halloween Thanks for observing our videos!!

"Tubular Bells" -- Theme from "The Exorcist" by Mike Oldfield This video of our front-yard Halloween display was videographed from across the street (Adams) and emphasizes our short, orange-purple LED fence and the seven-foot tall purple/orange/green LED Leaping-Light Arbor/Arch. Since the "Tubular Bells" music is strictly an instrumental sound track, we only programmed our "Rooftop Singers" for the non-monotonous, vocalized surprise ending!! Besides using your computer's history or bookmark aids, you can also easily visit us again by Googling: kimball ne meyers halloween Thanks for observing our videos!!

"Monster Mash" by Bobby "Boris" Picket & the Cryptkickers This seventh Halloween video was "shot" from our front sidewalk using our chase-lighted arbor as a spatial frame. Please remember that ALL the minilights and spotlights that are used in our 2011 Halloween musical Light Show are LEDs (light-emitting diodes). Besides being very durable and break resistant, they cost only a fraction (one-fifth) to run compared to old-fashioned incandescent lighting. The low power usage of our 15,000 Halloween LEDs means that our three-week evening light show will raise our electrical bill by less than 12 dollars! This is a pittance compared to what we will spend to please the "guests" that come to our front porch the evening of October 31! Last year, we "entertained 500+ trick-or-treaters -- ooh, ouch, the cost of popularity or notoriety!! To get on our YouTube Channel again you can Google: kimball ne meyers halloween

"Bad Moon Rising" by CCR (Creedence Clearwater Revival) Unlike our last video (#5 -- Addams Family Theme) which was "shot" before sunset, this video was done at dusk -- about 10 minutes after sunset. Videography under these twilight conditions enables the LED lights to "stand out" more with greater contrast from a less detailed environment or background. What's your preference -- presunset? Or postsunset? Thanx very much for watching. Still more Halloween videos to come! Visit our YouTube Channel (kimbnebritelites) again by Googling: kimball ne meyers halloween