The all night beach side art festival in Santa Monica has returned. I had an amazing experience a few years ago, where a wonderful variety of art installations used lights, colours and luminescence in some incredible ways. This year's festival had fewer art installations, and the ones that were presented suffered by comparison. Very few of them were totally transcendent, like several of the ones from 2010. Too many of them required standing in line (in 2010, there were definitely lines, but there were also many that involved simply approaching the installation and interacting with it). Some of the more fun pieces this year included a phosphorescent wall where people could pose and have their shadow 'captured', and a series of giant fishing nets hung over a pit dug into the sand with coloured lights shining on it. One artist presented a well with biolumniscent algae that glowed when you dropped coins into it. It was quite beautiful when anything disturbed the water, but most of the time, it was just water and the effect was so short lived. The potential did not seem to have been realized.
Despite the disappointment in the art, this was a really fun evening, with beautiful weather and well behaved hordes of people. Here are some photos.
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