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Santa Monica positively aGlow
Stefano Paltera / AP
Santa Monica College students Amanda Welch, right, and her friend Lacey Mayer, take a close look at "EX-SE-08" by Shih Chieh Huang, an installation of common objects such as water bottles and plastic bags, under the Santa Monica Pier during Glow.
Over 200,000 attend all-night festival Saturday at the pier.
Wasn't that you dancing on the Santa Monica Pier last Saturday night?
The Santa Monica city website says that last Saturday's Glow festival was inspired by the Nuit Blanche ("White Night") festival in Paris, but the combination of beach, pier, and experimental music made it pure L.A. Over 200,000 people attended over the dusk-to-dawn, 12-hour extravaganza, with over 75,000 milling through the warm night at peak times to gaze at illuminated sculpture and installations, a "grunion run" remade in glow sticks in the sand, and pulsing light shows.
The soundtrack was provided by a big roster of artists pulled together by L.A.-based art collective SASSAS (Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound), including a published lineup of musicians Albert Ortega, Steve Roden, Unrecognizable Now and White Rainbow; video by Jessica Bronson, Cal Crawford, Carole Kim and Matt Sheridan; and beats by dublab DJs Ale, Katie Byron, Sam Cooper, Frosty, Hoseh, Carlos Nino and Jimmy Tamborello as well as Part Time Punks DJ Michael Stock. The shows went on from dusk to dawn, but the crowd stayed with it throughout.
One look at these photos and one starts wondering if perhaps this should be an annual event.
The Santa Monica city website says that last Saturday's Glow festival was inspired by the Nuit Blanche ("White Night") festival in Paris, but the combination of beach, pier, and experimental music made it pure L.A. Over 200,000 people attended over the dusk-to-dawn, 12-hour extravaganza, with over 75,000 milling through the warm night at peak times to gaze at illuminated sculpture and installations, a "grunion run" remade in glow sticks in the sand, and pulsing light shows.
The soundtrack was provided by a big roster of artists pulled together by L.A.-based art collective SASSAS (Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound), including a published lineup of musicians Albert Ortega, Steve Roden, Unrecognizable Now and White Rainbow; video by Jessica Bronson, Cal Crawford, Carole Kim and Matt Sheridan; and beats by dublab DJs Ale, Katie Byron, Sam Cooper, Frosty, Hoseh, Carlos Nino and Jimmy Tamborello as well as Part Time Punks DJ Michael Stock. The shows went on from dusk to dawn, but the crowd stayed with it throughout.
One look at these photos and one starts wondering if perhaps this should be an annual event.
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