Gallery Los Angeles Glow Santa Monica

October 4, 2010 - 10:31 am

Last Saturday night something happened. Something rare and momentous, that happens only on very special occasions: the West side stayed up ’til 4am. The cause for such extravagance, Glow, the second in what’s meant to be a series of biennial, Euope-inspired “white night” events centered around light-up art installation. The Glow event in 2008 lasted until 7am, but the Djs, “rave” atmosphere, costs, and 200,000 attendees were too much for the city of Santa Monica to take, so the whole shabang’s been reduced to more manageable proportions.

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Gallery Urban Exploration Santa Monica Pier

June 26, 2009 - 12:08 pm


At the foot of Colorado Avenue in Santa Monica, California, the Santa Monica pier stretches into the ocean. Though open daily, on weekends it overflows with humans and their young – mesmerized by shiny arcades, slightly overpriced restaurants and hobos trying to escape kamikaze flocks of shit-shooting seagulls. Smells of cheeseburgers, sea and teenage love mingle with radiating smiles of green plastic lizards exhibiting themselves on the side, price tags on their tails. A roller-coaster full of children roars through the air. The first and only solar powered Ferris Wheel towers above it all. The sun dips its lower end into the ocean, street performers and fishermen smile into the pink rays enveloping the beach before the onset of night.

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