Share Your Holiday Light Display!

...Art exists only where there is an audience...To speak of art without speaking of response, communication, experience, feeling or perception is almost meaningless. fred e h schroeder (1978) Outlaw Aesthetics


Ever think of Christmas light displays as art? All art is not fine art, but hey, how far do you go? What's out in your yard this year?

Is it anything like Tacky Christmas lights? People flock to Richmond, VA just to take the Tacky Lights Christmas Tour! See for yourself on this video.

Frank Hudak, who invested between $8,000-10,000 in lights, doesn't think of his display as tacky. " What I do is an expression of art." Art that includes 55,000 lights and 4 miles of electrical wiring, plus 75 lighted lawn ornaments.

"It's art for the masses," John Ravenal, curator at Virginia Museum of Fine arts, suggests. "It's not really museum art. But we're out on the street. It's seasonal art."

Think about it...

There are two distinct schools of Christmas lights in Richmond, Va. You're a twinkler or a flasher. Al Thompson is a twinkler. Ralph Schuler is a flasher.

"I have 80 strobes on three channels and I can cut them off individually," Schuler explains. "The mirror ball, which I have for a really neat effect, keeps spinning all the time."

Schuler has synched his lights -- about 90,000 of them -- to a low-power radio station he runs out of his basement. Passing cars can tune in to enjoy a light show that includes a massive natural tree, a small forest of artificial trees, inflatable light-up snowmen and a herd of plastic reindeer -- all flashing five different colors.

So, what do you do for Chrismas lights? Dr. Ellen Weber at Brain Based Business loves her Arctic Polar Bear on Skiis.

What do you display at your home? Just so we all can see, send a link to your holiday light display and I will complile your entries here! And then we can all be the judge!