Amy Worrallamyworrall@mastodon.social
Oct 31, 2026, 9:08 PMDid some lighting and smoke for Halloween. Everything turned red when a kid walked up the drive :)
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Oct 31, 2026, 9:08 PM@amyworrall This is good@!
Oct 31, 2026, 9:42 PM@amyworrall I love that there's at least ONE night a year we're allowed to terrorize other people's children without explaining it to a judge and be put on a List.
- Amy Worrallamyworrall@mastodon.socialOct 31, 2026, 9:44 PM
@josh turns out five year old girls LOVE the UV light. Especially if it makes their costume glow.
One little lass was mesmerised by the spider web to the point that she forgot she was meant to be going to the door to get chocolate :)
Rob Fahrnifahrni@curmudgeon.cafeOct 31, 2026, 9:47 PM@josh @amyworrall Josh
Michael Lysons 🎃mlysons@iosdev.spaceOct 31, 2026, 10:01 PM@amyworrall This is brilliant!
Jeff Watkinsjeffwatkins@mastodon.socialNov 1, 2026, 7:38 AM@amyworrall Kids are great.
Giles of the Junglegilester45@twit.socialNov 1, 2026, 2:18 PM@amyworrall Super cool!
Looks closely at photos..
Oh hang on. Alu pipe, Doughty couplers and is that a smoke machine in a flight case lid? I do hereby conclude you might be a techie. 😁
How did you do the colour changing on motion detection?
- Amy Worrallamyworrall@mastodon.socialNov 1, 2026, 2:21 PM
@gilester45 hehe! Yeah, I do lighting for am-dram and fan conventions.
I didn’t do motion detection, I just sat there watching a camera feed with the “go” button within reach :)
- Giles of the Junglegilester45@twit.socialNov 1, 2026, 2:25 PM
@amyworrall Ha, nice, sometimes the simplest solutions are all that's needed!
I save my own unnecessary "shouldn't this stuff be in a theatre not your garden" lighting rig for Christmas, so I love seeing people's Halloween rigs.
- Amy Worrallamyworrall@mastodon.socialNov 1, 2026, 2:28 PM
@gilester45 one year I’m actually going to plan ahead and do something less “thrown together in two hours”!
There’s a house across from me that goes all out with Christmas lights. He once popped over and asked where I got my coloured festoon — I think my answer (“surplus inventory sale at a hire company”) surprised him!
- Giles of the Junglegilester45@twit.socialNov 1, 2026, 2:52 PM
@amyworrall Heh, kudos on him for noticing you had something he couldn't find down the garden centre.
Loads of houses around here have pretty decent displays but they're all cheap junk off Amazon.
And, admittedly, I have some, but most of my lights are professional sets like the council uses. And then a bunch of LED lighting off Thomann.
I've so far managed to miss all the decent stuff the hire companies I know flog off, but I keep checking just in case.