The past couple of days I have been working on the triple arches that will be replacing the single arches in the show this year. The arches will have a common base but there will be 3 hoops on each one. The outer hoop is 43 lights, middle is 41, […]
Here is another peek at the upcoming show. We added The Greatest Show to the Depoe Bay Lights show in 2022. For 2023 we have updated it with a number of new effects and we added the moving heads. Love to hear your thoughts. Keep watching this space. I will […]
It has been awhile since I have posted to the blog. That doesn’t mean I haven’t been working on the show. Let me see if I can provide you with some information on some of the things we have been working on. The New Moving Heads – I have received […]
Peggy asked for a sequence… She doesn’t make a request like that very often so I’ve been working on it and the preview can be seen below. The hillside for the show has changed quite a bit for this year as you can see. We are in the process of […]
In addition to rewiring Whalen (our large gray whale from our first season) and putting him back up on the roof this year, we have commissioned for 2 additional whale themed props to be created for us. I have already received 8 whale tails that we designed with the help […]
This is probably one of my least favorite aspects of the Christmas lighting hobby. All of those little lights that are put into the props have to get there somehow. The process involves a pair of gloves, some strong hands and when you get sore and tired a tool of […]
Do you recognize this? Ummm… ya.. me neither! This is what happens when a 3D print goes bad. I was printing a triple arch support for my replacement arches and apparently I didn’t get good adhesion between the print bed and the arch support it was printing. Sometime in the […]
The Angel Wings have arrived. EFL-Designs shipped them I think the same day that I ordered them and they are here waiting to have lights added to them. Each of the wings will have 500 lights. The plan is to have the wings down at the street level. You will […]
For the past two years there have been 10 arches on the display that ran directly in front of the long building. For 2023 we are going to rebuild all of those arches and create some arches on steroids. There are going to be 3 layers to each of the […]
After nearly 2 years on the roof it was time for the moving head spotlights to be taken down for some much needed maintenance. Even though we have them fully covered for most of the year the salt in our air is relentless and our high humidity allows things to […]