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. Santa Monica hosted the Glow festival (July 17), a dusk-to-dawn celebration of temporary public art. (Stefano Paltera / AP)
Michelle Dickens, left, takes a different look at the Santa Monica Ferris Wheel trough “The Amazing Mental Scope” by infranatural, on the Santa Monica Pier during Glow. (Stefano Paltera / AP)
Children play inside “Dunnage Ball” by Peter Tolkin Projects on the beach during Glow. (Tara Godvin / Los Angeles Times)
Parents and kids anxiously await entrance into Peter Tolkin Projects’ “Dunnage Ball” during Glow on the beach in Santa Monica. (Tara Godvin / Los Angeles Times)
Frank Rozasy’s “Illumination Migration” recreated the Santa Monica beach grunion runs _ the periodic running ashore of little fish known as grunion _ using glow sticks. (Tara Godvin / Los Angeles Times)
Santa Monica resident Daily Miyamoto, 8, walks on a rope helped by her mother Jami Miyamoto near “Spirited Sails” by Lustre, an installation next to the old Muscle Beach in Santa Monica during Glow. (Stefano Paltera / AP)
The color of the lights in this work set under a canopy of balloons shifted according to the sound produced by the viewers. (Tara Godvin / Los Angeles Times)
Glow Festival (Tara Godvin / Los Angeles Times)
People watch “Primal Source” by Usman Haque, a light show on the Santa Monica beach during Glow. (Stefano Paltera / AP)
Many of the works at the Glow festival were interactive. “Moon Theater” by Nova Jiang and Michael Kontopoulos converted viewers’ hand shadow puppets into creatures projected on to a round screen using specially constructed software. (Tara Godvin / Los Angeles Times)
Karyl Newsman’s “Tread/Tide” lined steps crowded with the people entering and exiting the pier. (Tara Godvin / Los Angeles Times)
People dance on the Santa Monica Pier during Glow. (Stefano Paltera / AP)
People walk on the Santa Monica Pier during Glow. The Santa Monica Police Department estimated at total of 200,000 people attended the all-night event, with a peak of 75,000 at any one time. (Stefano Paltera / AP)
