The Johnson Light Show is a dubstep-themed Christmas light show, created by Matt Johnson of San Antonio, TX.
Here’s what they have to say about it:
Started in 2013, our show is not your traditional light show! There are no inflatables, characters, blow molds, or other “traditional” elements.
Even the music is not traditional Christmas music; it is a custom sound track composed of Dubstep, EDM, hip hop, movie clips and even our children! The result is an exciting show that feels like a dance party!
Even the lights are not traditional, we use Pixels which are similar to what you would see in a stadium Jumbotron. Each pixel can be controlled individually and set to any color and intensity. This means many more effects than what can be done with Christmas lights!
The show embodies the spirit of DIY and cutting edge technology with all custom built elements, kit based controllers, and both custom and open source software.
I was expecting ‘Meh’, but actually- Wow! Simple amazing effort and results!
Happy Holidays (or Christmas as we say in the UK)
well considering it is hard to dance to dubstep unless you are Elane from Frazer
Seinfeld.
He was on Fraiser also?
Now we know where Roland got their ideas for the System 1/Aira design from…
Silly Texans, everyone knows Jesus was way more into Grime.
The hyper-saccharine nature of brostep actually makes it a great fit for the cheese-fest that Christmas tends to become.
Tasteless, ugly, and goofy.
You’re welcome neighbors.
Absolute A+ with extra credit for effort. C for best use of apparent skills and money. F for music.
I hate to be “that guy,” but…. do we know for sure this wasn’t faked? I didn’t see any trees sway in the wind, the camera was rock-solid, no cars or people going by. The lights were a little too perfect for me to take it at face value.
Merry Christmas. It is genuine. Matt Johnson has delivered several similar projects as “Living Lights Shows”. He has also produced a detailed video explaining how he built this particular show. He used some free, open source, software (Vixen 3) on a Raspberry Pi B+ outputting the SACN Ethernet protocol to 6x SanDevices E682 (16 port -170 pixels per port) controller cards connected to many WS2811 RGB LED Pixels. He is also controlling a few conventional LED elements using Renard SS24 cards. The audio triggers sequences & events in Vixen 3 and is broadcast over FM to viewers car radios. Technically it’s quite a simple setup but I was impressed by his custom framing structures which hold and space the pixels. I’m not impressed with the programming or the software but I am used to using pro stage lighting consoles so I guess it’s as good as ‘free’ can be and Matt is not a lighting professional. I’ve seen worse but your average technical theatre studies student could do this without breaking a sweat.
And who said money cant buy you taste!