Jordan Running posted his Top 10 Web Moments of 2005 over at Downloadsquad on December 31. I found the link when I noticed hits on Duncan’s TV Adland doubling. See below for the notes on Wizards in Winter synchronized Christmas Lights – there’s a link to my post on the Miller Lite Christmas Lights TV ad.
The Top Ten Web Moments were:
10. Numa Numa Dance – webcam performance
9. Samy is my hero – the MySpace glitch
8. Wizards in Winter
7. Michael Barnett’s Hurricane Katrina blog
6. Flying Spaghetti Monster
5. Live 8
4. Google buys 5 % stake in AOL
3. Lazy Sunday – Narnia Rap
2. Sony BMG’s XCP rootkit fiasco
1. Kanye West “George Bush doesn’t care about black people”
Jordan’s still taking comments on other people’s top web moments for 2005.
When Mason, Ohio’s Carson Williams set up a video camera to record his music-synchronized Christmas light display, I’m sure he knew it was cool, but did he realize it would enthrall web video junkies like it did? The video, which shows Williams’ 25,000-light display dancing in perfect sync with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s bombastic “Wizards in Winter,” seems so perfect that some people believed it was a series of stop-motion capture rather than real-time. In fact, the setup took the electrical engineer nearly two months and $10,000 to accomplish.
The Internet wasn’t the only place Williams’ work was noticed: Miller Brewing filmed his spectacle for a Miller Lite commercial (“Enjoy the Lites“), and the police eventually asked him to shut it down after local traffic escalated and at least one accident was caused.