Christmas Report #18: KTKA 49 News Interview Thursday AM

KTKA 49 News will air an interview that will be recorded Thursday AM on their morning show about the light show. Just a short 3 minute thing. And here's some video they shot from last week's dry run.

Christmas Report #17: KLOV Interview on Friday

KLOV Radio called today and we did a short phone interview over the phone about the TBC light show. They said it would be a part of their upcoming podcast and air on radio this Friday.

Christmas Report #16: Video of Light Show

OK, folks. It's finally here. There's video of the light show available. Simply go to the Christmas webpage and use the video and links there. There's both news footage and a quick sample. Here's the link.

Christmas Report #15: Finished Result

Here's a photo of last night's dry run. Got some tweaking to do - but no crash and burns. We'll try to get a video up and running sometime soon. Or catch the video posted on the most recent posts linked here.

Christmas Report #14: Radio Interview

Tomorrow morning (Thursday around 9am), I'll be in the KMAJ 1440 AM Jim Cates Show studio for a short interview about the light show.  Tune in.

Christmas Report #13: Tri-Light-Strand-Twister

John makes another innovative device. A tri-light-strand-twister. It saved us hours of work on the 50 ft Christmas tree that has three different colors and has 8,500 lights itself.

Christmas Report #12: Timpani Up the Fire Escape

The timpani didn't fit into the room via the interior doors. So up the fire escape it went!

Christmas Report #11: The Roof

Want to see what the roof looks like with almost everything plugged in. Check out the picture (click on it to enlarge - phone camera quality).

Christmas Report #10: Foundation Gridwork Up

The foundation grid-work went up on Saturday thanks to 11 guys (Josh Harris, Chris Sabes, Jim Welborn, Jeff Woelhoff, Bill Riphan, Jerry Hedstrom, Bryan Hedstrom, TJ McDaniels, John Bowes, Matt Lockard, Casey Moore). Check out the video to see some of the work.

The guys who master-minded the hanging grid-work was Jerry and Bryan Hedstrom - master builders from Topkea. The have an incredible shop just north of Topeka. Also, thanks to my father-in-law, Richard Varner, for pointing me in the right direction with good suggestions of what material to use.

Don't forget Derek Taylor and Kevin Beck who were 'on call' just in case we needed the help on Saturday. Appreciate your guys' availability!

Christmas Report #9: CAD Light Deisgn

If you are curious as to what the lights 'might' look like - check out the CAD drawing. Click on it for a larger version. The CAD drawing is the result of hard work by Matt Ottman, our resident electrical engineer. He's also figured out the electrical loading plus distribution. We will need 12 circuits 20 amps each. Matt, thanks so much for using your skills and talents to benefit the body on this one. Thanks for being the brains behind the vision.