A guest checks-out the art installation EX-SE-08 (by Shih Chieh Huang) underneath the Santa Monica Pier during the GLOW Art Festival at on Sunday, July 20, 2008. An installation of common objects, such as water bottles and plastic bags, are transformed through light, air (directed by small fans), and fanciful constructions into an underwater grotto, at once enchanting and unnerving.

Illumination Migration by Frank Rozasy glows on Santa Monica Beach during the GLOW Art Festival on Sunday, July 20, 2008. Comprised of 950 variously hued glow sticks, vertically set in rows of 20 each and creating a 60 x 120 foot form on the beach, the sticks will be continually moved, from back row to front row, mimicking both the movement of the tide and more specifically the grunion’s coming ashore and returning to sea

Guest examine a neon art piece at Santa Monica Beach  during the GLOW Art Festival  on Sunday, July 20, 2008. GLOW is presented by the City of Santa Monica in partnership with Bayside District Corporation, Pier Restoration Corporation and the Santa Monica Convention and Visitors Bureau. Inspired by the wildly successful Nuit Blanche in Paris, Glow is made possible through the support of generous sponsorship from organizations like the Norton Family Foundation. The event takes its spirit from the fabled grunions that live in local waters and come ashore several times a year to spawn in the sand creating a momentary sensation of iridescence.

Guest of GLOW art Festival  climb into  Peter Tolkin Projects' Dunnage Ball at Santa Monica Beach on Saturday, July 19, 2008. Composed of 30 dunnage bags (used to isolate and stabilize cargo during transportation), a 22’ diameter molecular-like structure was internally illuminated and  placed on the beach in the northern end of the Glow zone. The public can sit within it and gaze out to the ocean and beyond.

Caroline Maxwell from the Department of Nocturnal Affairs types up a report during the GLOW Art Festival at on Sunday, July 20, 2008.  Located on Palisades Park, The Department of Nocturnal Affairs, DNA, was  a fully staffed and furnished field office for the collection of information regarding the nocturnal wildlife in Los Angeles County in general and in the Glow zone specifically. The public was asked to report wildlife sightings to the DNA, reports were  recorded and made visible for the public by posting on a map and those reporting sightings received a glow-in-the-dark sticker.

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SHINE, an all-female drumming and dance group, start the Glow all night art festival with a performance on Palisades Park and down the Santa Monica Pier on Saturday, July 19, 2008.  GLOW is presented by the City of Santa Monica in partnership with Bayside District Corporation, Pier Restoration Corporation and the Santa Monica Convention and Visitors Bureau.  Inspired by the wildly successful Nuit Blanche in Paris, Glow is made possible through the support of generous sponsorship from organizations like the Norton Family Foundation.  The event takes its spirit from the fabled grunions that live in local waters and come ashore several times a year to spawn in the sand creating a momentary sensation of iridescence.