We all know what happens when families get together for the holidays. You are not allowed to disappear for five hours on a bike ride, and someone gets put in charge of keeping an eye on all of the cousins until it is time to eat. The cousins who are school age are pretty easy to handle. They usually design some sort of game that includes running around the house and yard happily screaming at the top of their lung until it is time to eat or someone gets hurt. The little kids need more attention. They can't really sit still for a whole movie; they don't understand football; the bigger kids don't want them around; and momma is busy catching up with her sisters. All the tiny kids want to do is rewind, at least forty-six times, a short video that fills them with wonder.We at Wheelgirl are here to help. This short video clip will make your holiday babysitting job a piece of pumpkin pie.
My favorite part is between 1:09 and 1:39, where a bit of Christmas mystery really makes itself seen and heard. Click on the YouTube to watch with amazement. The little ones will screech with happiness. And I am pretty sure your great aunts and great uncles will proudly adjust their Santa hats and shake their snow globes to the beat once this video begins to play. The seniors have been listening to Jingle Bells for seventy-to-eighty years, but never have they seen and heard the December song set to a 4th of July fireworks display. Auntie, wearing the reindeer antler headband and the Christmas wreath pin on her sweater might have to wipe a tear of joy away from her eye with one of her candy-cane-themed dish towel.
Best wishes for the holiday season from everyone at Wheelgirl. (More about the guy who made this dazzling display and the song he used after the jump.)
via gizmodo
From what I can gather from the YouTube comments, Ric, is the guy who turned his Valencia, California home into a synchronized holiday music and light festival. According to Ric's comment replies: He set the lights to Ochre Jingle Bells, from the album "A Very Unschooled Christmas," which he got on iTunes.(And yes, he can still open his garage door.) The song is set to an FM frequency, so it is not blaring over loud speakers. If you are riding around in Ric's neighborhood in Valencia, you can tune into the song on the radio and listen to the midi-filled music on the radio while you watch the amazing lights dance to the beats.
