07.15.08
Plugging Right Along…
Progress goes slowly when in the synchronizing phase. I’m about 40% done with Mr. Heatmiser. The lip-synching is giving me a headache. My fear is that while it looks good on the LOR Visualizer (hardly much more than a lite-brite) it may not look so good in real life. I’ll need to hook it up once I have the faces done and see how they really look. Someone on the LOR Forums gave me a very funny idea for a short synchronization. I downloaded the .mp3 of the THX theater credits (the one where the sound malfunctions in the middle of the tone) and synchronized my lights for it. It looks great! Of course that short diversion put me behind schedule for Mr. Heatmiser but what the heck!
California Christmas Lights Community (CCLC) has had it’s first meeting for the future Workshop & Expo. I was able to be a part of it which is pretty exciting for me. So far, there’s mostly planning and the homework was a simple as updating our signatures on our forums to reflect the upcomming workshop. I was proud to have attracted a LOR forum regular to our site within a few days.
I lit up my disney characters for the first time since Christmas: Mickey is looking pretty bad. Although I have no plans for them this year, I do need to update the topiaries so Mickey will be the first that I tackle.
My first plans for this year’s decorations called for Flame lights to light up the eves of my house, but I had difficulty planning exactly how to pull that one off. My great idea was to buy some stiff wire mesh and shape the lights into flames using the mesh as a frame. However as I view all of the things that I will need to get done in one short month, I came to the conclusion that I will not be able to accomplish this goal. I then decided to simply use Red Icicles to simulate the flames. Not perfect but workable. but now I have a new idea! I think that I will zip tie the icicles to
