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This photo captures the beauty of patriotism.
And yet it fails to convey the true scope of this display. For the owner of this front yard, as well as his almost next door neighbor on Fremont Avenue in Alhambra (California), created an amazing audio landscape to make their Christmas light frenzy even more vigorous.
For a taste of holiday Casio vibe, please check out Video 1, for a more country attitude please see Video 2.

Video 1: Christmas Lights and Casio Sound on YouTube

Video 2: Christmas Lights and Country Sound on YouTube

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Habitat loss is a myth.
These photographs prove it - wasting enormous amounts of coal-generated electricity to light insanely bright Christmas displays does NOT harm polar bears. See how happy they look in their Alhambra refuge?

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The owner of this front yard in San Marino (CA) put up a sculpture of a fat man in a skintight red suit and sunglasses looking for a parking spot for his chopper. Christmas time is weird.

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In these hectic and consumerist times, this canine nativity scene is a timely reminder of what Christmas really should be about: little cartoon dogs with floppy ears.

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Hey there, giant white figure remotely resembling a snow man with gloves!
You must feel uncool for being a fake snow sculpture on a South Pasadena lawn. We don’t get snow in this part of California. Ever. In fact, we don’t really get any decent precipitation at all. But that’s a different story. Anyway. You are probably sick of the humiliation that comes with being out of place and you are plotting your escape as I am typing this.
Hope you make it. Before you go, please turn off any outsize plastic candy sticks you happen to bump into.
Thanks much and good luck, your Ecomorons

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In the rural town of Springdale, Utah, the month of December has brought change of a special kind: Oversized, menacing plastic monsters illuminate the quiet streets at night. Residents say the strange figures started to appear shortly after Thanksgiving. People in this close-knit community at the gateway to idyllic Zion National Park now fear that the abominable snowman and his henchmen might have chosen Springdale as their permanent headquarters. Whence the monsters hail from has not been determined yet.

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These are the most glaring Christmas lights I have ever seen.

They have a blinding effect from about 80 meters (about 87 yards) away. Fascinated, I braved the onslaught of photons and, squinting, checked out the display from up close. The secret of its insane brightness seems to lie in a layer of shiny metal to reflect the glow of oldfangled mini light bulbs (see pic below).
There is a little back story to this display. Before it appeared, a McCain/Palin sign adorned this front yard in South Pasadena, California. In late November, the sign was replaced with these lights.
Now, is that good or bad?

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Oh, the beauty of plastic! We thank the owners of this soulful and humble arrangement for making this photograph possible. We send our love out to them in Springdale, Utah.

(photo: Backhouse Images)

They are right here:

We are proud to announce the winners of our Insane Christmas Lights Photo Contest!
We decided to declare two champions. One is the maker of the above movie, Martin from Hamburg. The jury deemed his entry prize-worthy for two reasons. First, his nicely choreographed film shows insane Christmas lights that we never knew were legal. Second, by sending in a movie instead of a photograph he totally broke the rules of this contest and put himself at an unfair advantage. Congratulations!
The other first prize goes to Ivo from Hamburg, because his entry first brought to our (and his co-winner’s) attention the existence of the house shown in the movie. Again, congratulations!

Both winners will receive a beautifully made bees wax candle in the mail soon.

An Honorable Mention for the most bizarrely off-topic entry goes to Lothar from Germany for this picture:

Ecomorons warmly thanks everybody who participated in this contest, either by sending in a pic or by cheering us on with their emails!