I just had to show my allegiance … 
Video’s on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy2dES7sQk4
Very nice sir. how’s it look without the camera? I sometimes can make out images on the one I made.
According to my daughter, “Freaking awesome!” I need to take them to the studio and spin in front of the wall mirror. That ought to be fun.
they look good, but i bet they look a million times better in real life!
My daughter seems to think so.
the one on the left would look better in green and blue… maybe with a bird too 
For some reason my LEDs, all 192 of them on the stick, won’t produce the color green or any shade thereof … I had to stick with orange and blue.
As I was going over the code tonight, doing some rewrites and other stuff, I was suddenly presented with somewhat of an amusing reality: the day I took the above pictures, my daughter commented on how bright the sticks are, and I brushed her off by saying, when you have 48 pixels in a row, tightly packed together, sure they’ll be bright.
The code I came across tonight:
LEDS.setBrightness(64);
I’m not even running these things at full brightness!!
Oy vey!