Don had a kickoff event tonight and he gave a great welcome to our Carolina Christmas group ! Don is planning a mixture of a magic act a synchronized lights. He has added quite a lot this year !
One item that blew me away was a new style Mega-Tree (at least something I've not seen on any websites yet). It was about 16 feet high with 48 strings of lights from the top to the outer edge (red, white, and green). Then another 32 strings just for the bottom of the tree .. those were lined up with the green and white (16 channels each). He could do the "spins in white or green "with or without" the bottom portion. Then the bottom "trunk" area was a single green channel .. This setup gave a lot of variation and I was impressed with that alone .. But then he added something I have never seen. There was a right-hand spiral ribbon of red lights looping around from the outer-base of the tree and then spiraling to the top of the tree - broken into 8 channels. And then another left hand ribbon of green lights going the opposite direction (8 channels). It blew me away ! I thought perhaps he just wrapped some long strings from the top .. but then when he got the movement of the 8 channels .. it shocked me. Truly something new to me.
Sadly Don had some electrical problems and did not want to risk harming any of his assistants for the Magic portion of the show. So he was not able to do the magic show segment - - or his new "finale" that he's been planning a long time. Therefore he's going to try again to give the full show next Saturday night (the 28th) at 7pm.
Perhaps some of you could make it out ? I will be there to support Don, and I hope to see some of you.
Don's site (with directions is here:
http://www.lakemyrachristmas.com/1.html
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