Carson Williams Holiday Light Hobbyist Authentic Urban Legend

In 2005, Carson Williams of Mason, OH rose from obscurity to urban legend as a holiday light show designer after he decorated his house with 16,000 Christmas lights and programmed them to strobe and fade to holiday music by Trans-Siberian Orchestra. The video of his home and light show moved instantly around the internet, eventually landing features on NBC's The Today Show, the CBS Evening News, Inside Edition and inclusion in a Miller Lite beer commercial.

Inspired by his ingenuity, Williams was contacted by shopping center developer Forest City Commercial, wanting to emulate his idea for the holiday décor program on a new shopping center in Denver, CO. Partnering with John Carter of Parker 3-D.com Interactive, Williams helped create Symphony In Lights, an electrifying holiday light display featuring hundreds of thousands of LED lights programmed to the music of Trans-Siberian Orchestra, now at three commercial retail properties across the United States. Williams and his family still live in Mason, OH, where he upgrades and builds upon his original home holiday light display every year.

John Carter Professional Design Director and Artist Parker 3-D Interactive

Renowned New York artist John Carter is design director for Parker 3D.com Interactive and has designed sculptural interactive displays around the world as well as in major animated holiday windows in New York City for department stores such as Macy's, Lord & Taylor, Saks 5th Avenue and others. His sculpture "Walk, Don't Walk, Sit" chair was featured on HGTV's popular I Want That program. When Forest City Commercial contacted Carson Williams hoping to apply his unique holiday light show on the scale required for a commercial property, they asked Carter to assist.

Carter's sculpture work has appeared in the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Art News, Art in America, Cosmopolitan (Germany), Elle (France) Four Rooms (Moscow), Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, Swing, Fast Company, Azure, Metropolis, NBC, CNN, NPR, FOX, UPN, Asahi Network (Japan), The Learning Channel and Associated Press. Carter was chosen by New York Times Magazine as "one of 30 artists most likely to change culture." He also has created themed signage for Ben & Jerry's, Waldenbooks and Staples.

Parker 3D.com Interactive is a technology-driven holiday design company that creates event-based programs. They are well known in the holiday display industry as the creator of world class décor and interactive displays. Prominent clients include Sony, Madison Square Garden, World Financial Center, The Tropicana Casino in Atlantic City and most of Trump's properties.