Lasers

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When I moved into my house four years ago there were four newly planted red wood trees that I would put Christmas lights on. Now the trees are too big to put lights on. So I’ve been checking out the laser light things some of my neighbors have to project into the trees. Did some research and ended up with this one.

Starry Laser Lights Landscape Projector Lights Outdoor Waterproof Laser Lamp for Outdoor Garden/Yard/Wall Family Gathering Party KTV NIght Club Decoration

Got it delivered last week and had to set it up in my living room for science and holy fuck these things are amazing. Although the cat was not impressed with a thousand laser pointers at once.

A friend has one of those things and I have seen him project it against a wooded hillside.   Good stuff.

I have a couple that I spray on my house for Halloween. It's the easiest decoration ever, and it looks pretty sick.

 

I do not decorate but the projectors have me rethinking.

 

my neighbor does have a big black cat that blows up in his front yard for Halloween, huge black cat head with orange eyes and the head and eyes move. I want to put it in the living room and see what the six cats in the house will do.

I've used products from these guys with great success:

https://blisslights.com

At some festivals I would set up 2 stalks with 3 laser projectors each about 10 feet up in the air. Each stalk had 2 blue and one green projector head on it and I would attach them to 2 legs of an ez up with rebar sunk into the ground. Powered the whole thing with a deep cycle marine battery and a small inverter. I calculated it out and I could run for something like 60 hours before needing to recharge. It was totally mobile, I could set it up in the middle of a field and gather a crowd. So much fun at night with lots of incense burning to show the beams in the air.

Pictures do not capture the magic but here goes. This was how my setup looked:

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When you walked around in it it looked like the ground was a 3D cupcake top with sprinkles!!!!!!!

 

 

1st show I remember that used lasers was ZZ Top, the Eliminator tour. Started off with an absolute ripping Under Pressure with blood red lasers  emanating from the eyes of the Sphinx behind the band. Too bad I have no photos, it was fuckin great stuff. I probably saw lasers at earlier shows, but this is the 1st one that left an impression - embedded into my minds eye.