Halloween Movies

2008 Halloween Movies

Colorado had the warmest Halloween night on record, so once again, there were hundreds of trick-or-treaters along with tons of zany fun on the Halloween Webcams.

• UK Dave created this fabulous Halloween 2008 is coming movie to get you in the mood
• September 25th, 2008 - First Halloween Decorations go up ... plus helping a friend assemble a trailer!
• September 27th, 2008 - Alek decorating the roof of the house
• September 30th, 2008 - Toss the Hulk up on the balcony, setup Homer, Frankenstein, & Grim Reaper, and other misc.
• October 6th, 2008 - Decorating the Haunted Office
• October 14th, 2008 - Long time-lapse with full moon shadows - picture
• October 15th, 2008 - Long time-lapse showing daytime shadows and that evening as seen on webcam 1 - 2 - 3
• October 15th, 2008 - One Huge Halloween Fan watches from his car for 20 minutes!
• October 31st, 2008 - Several hundred trick-or-treaters via webcam 1 - 2 - 3
• November 13th, 2008 - Kyle says "BEWARE" while playing Bach's Toccata on a post-Halloween purchase

2007 Halloween Night Movies

Once again, Halloween night was pretty crazy as over 200 trick-or-treaters came by ... we went through 10 packs of 20 Play Dough containers. There was heavy traffic on the halloween webcam as web surfers worldwide watched, turn stuff on/off, and left 1,697 "Instant Messages" on webcam3.

• Webcam1 - 70 second (10 MBytes) video of the house and trick-or-treaters
• Webcam2 - 42 second (6 MBytes) video of the driveway/front-yard
• Webcam3 - 120 second (17 MBytes) video of the Haunted Office & Instant Messages

2007 Pre-Halloween Movies

• September 27th, 2007 - First halloween decorations go up! ;-)
• September 29th, 2007 - Hulk goes up on the balcony plus garage lights with mini-Hulks
• October 3rd, 2007 - Inflatables go up on webcam 1 and 2
• October 9th, 2007 - Just another evening at Komar.Org as seen on webcam 1 - 2 - 3
• October 11th, 2007 - Monster Colorado Rockies Baseballs help 'em win game #1 in the NLCS as seen on webcam2.
• October 23rd, 2007 - Two Hulks on webcam1 and updated Haunted Office on webcam3
• October 24th, 2007 - Deflating Colorado Rockies Baseballs after they lose first World Series game ... 13-1! :-(

2006 Halloween Night Movies

Halloween night was nuts again - I'd estimate over 200 trick-or-treaters - maybe someone will count 'em in the webcam videos below! In additions, there was heavy traffic on the halloween webcam as web surfers worldwide watched, turn stuff on/off, and did "Instant Messages" on webcam3.

• Webcam1 and Webcam2 - Full Length 100 second Time-Lapse movies
  • Shorter 30 second clips, sampled once/minute - webcam1 and webcam2
• "Instant Message on Webcam3" - some pretty funny messages here!
• Alek serving Port wine to the "big kids" - went through two bottles! ;-)

2006 Pre-Halloween Movies

• October 6th, 2006 - Tossing the HULK up on the 2nd floor balcony
• October 8th, 2006 - Setting up Alien, Frankenstein, and Spider - damn, those puffy pants give me a huge butt! ;-)
• October 11th, 2006 - Footage for webcams 1 - 2 - 3 plus Alek up on the roof while Kyle tries to keep Frank & Homer up
• October 17th, 2006 - First Colorado Snow on webcams 1 and 2 plus low-lux mode makes a super-nova pumpkin
• October 18th, 2006 - Snowy Sunrise video from webcams 1 and 2 and subsequent snow melting and next day
• October 23rd, 2006 - I turn on the "IM on webcam" feature
• October 24th, 2006 - A balloon lands nearby
• October 26th, 2006 - Pumpkin BURSTS out of the snow as the Snowman melts while he lights up a CornCob pipe ... twice!

2005 Halloween Night Movies

Halloween night was nuts - in addition to a LOT of trick-or-treaters, the lights were flashing like crazy as web surfers around the world enjoyed the halloween webcam. And then Frankenstein "died" at about 1815. I initially thought his fan motor had died from excessive usage, but turned out the internal fuse popped ... so I quickly rolled up some aluminum foil as a temporary fix and at 2024, IT'S ALIVE! Note also that the webcam reset twice, but then I move it back. In hindsight, I should have had a little bit of a wider angle shot so you could see all the kids going up to the door - I did this at the end.

• Halloween/2005 - Snapshots taken one/minute
• Halloween/2005 - Snapshots about five times/minute
• Halloween/2005 - The whole enchilada - Window Video format

2005 Pre-Halloween Movies

• October 13th, 2005 - 1700-2200 and 0600-2230 - note fuse popped on upper deck icicles (right of HULK) at 2025
• October 14th, 2005 - 1700-1930 - note webcam reset at 1757 (fixed 1825) and fuse replaced at 1902
• October 15th, 2005 - Initial stress testing of X10 light controls. - Note upper deck/roof lights don't change - X10 signals sometimes don't get to certain circuits, so I'll have to play around with where I plug in the wireless receiver. The bedroom lights don't change due to SAF - Spousal Acceptance Factor - would be a bit annoying to my wife. BTW, latency is (as expected) about a second or two. Some neighbors showed up with their kids to check out HULK's Halloween display, so I gave 'em a custom tour and let 'em manually toggle the lights - ended up having 'em pose by Frankenstein and wave to the webcam. They also enjoyed playing with the 10,000,000 candlepower Thor spotlight and turned it on the webcam - darn bright light that blew out the CCD pretty good. Note that about a dozen frames per minute (rather than one per minute as earlier) were used to generate this mpeg.
• October 19th, 2005 - A grey rainy morning - Note alek cleans up the view near the beginning.
• October 20th, 2005 - Tony the Tiger says the halloween webcam is GGRREEAATTT - the video includes some goofy posing with some semi-ugly halloween costumes.
• October 21st, 2005 - Webcam turned on early for European surfers - sun comes up from the left/East, but a dreary day.
• October 22nd, 2005 - Watch Frankenstein wobble as the wind picks up
• October 29nd, 2005 - Kids have a fun time hamming it up for the webcam - FUNNY!