GLOW! 2013 in Oracle, Arizona

Here are a few of the pictures that I took last Friday night at the annual GLOW festival, a night arts festival, held in Oracle Arizona.  Circus Amperean put on a great show using their Tesla coil to generate electric trails in the dark night.

Here's what you get when holding a metal umbrella frame while standing on the Tesla coil, has potential, don't you think?

It was a very pleasant night to wander the trail around the ranch looking at night art created by a lot of of different artists.  I like the one below, a set of old televisions sitting outside in the desert, each displaying different videos of animals in nature.  Since more and more people seem to (sadly) get their fix of reality by watching TV instead of going outside to experience it firsthand, this piece makes a nice statement.

Karen Medley always goes all out with a completely new and large art piece.  Her art for this year was about plastic food and GMOs.  If you click on the picture to see a larger image, you will see bananas and fruit, lines of the building made out of plastic bottle caps, everything painted fluorescent colors and lit by black light.  A striking piece as usual!

On one exterior wall of a ranch building was "Bag It", a really beautiful piece made out of plastic bags from various businesses and back lit.  Click on the picture and you may recognize a few logos.

Just passing through...  simple and really, really nice piece

plenty of time to hang out and meet a few strangers

gotta have fire dancing!

A number of different musicians performed over the weekend, including this one that I really enjoyed, Black Skillet Review(?) with Mitzi Cowell & Sabra Faulk.

GLOW 2012 at Triangle L Ranch (2 of 2)

 Interactive art was the name of the game in this art piece at last Friday night's GLOW festival in Oracle.  Touching various places on the panel adjusted the colors displayed.  This piece was an eye catcher even from a distance.

 Jellyfish hanging out in the Sonoran desert.  This exhibit also has a hidden voice talking to visitors that was very well done, funny.

Melted bottles were used to form this flat stained glass panel.  Illuminated from the back with christmas lights.

OK when walking the path at GLOW, but not sure I would want to see this if I was out on a real trail!

 This was an overhead projector, catching the shapes and flow of a continuous stream of water running down the plate below the light on the projected.  Very effective in motion.  I'd like to see it with possible a blue gel filter between the light and water panel.

Another one of the night's artist's working with things that glow...   She was making some really nice candle holders out of metal food cans by cutting/melting away parts of the can to make interesting shapes and designs.  They would place a colored glass tea light holder inside of each finished holder which would cast a subtle colored light through the designs.  Nice!

This is one that I purchased, you can see how its got a pretty elaborate design that casts interesting shadows.

GLOW 2012 at Triangle L Ranch (1 of 2)

The annual GLOW night art festival was held this weekend out at the Triangle L Ranch in Oracle Arizona.  I made it out there Friday night and enjoyed wandering around the many eclectic night art pieces under the full moon and listening to some great music.  It was also a great opportunity to work on trying to improve my lowlight, no flash, photography skills.

A beautiful patch of glow, out of this world, flowers and plants

This was pretty cool, a giant rotating chandelier made of plastic baskets, colanders, funnels, bowls, etc.

This group of arts students were fundraising by selling "toast your own" marshmallows.  Great idea!

Several blacksmiths were working their craft, adding a spark to the evening.

One of the bands performing during the night was Mitzi Cowell.  I sat through and enjoyed her entire set -- I've enjoyed her music for many years.

This was pretty neat -- two people could hold a pair of hand grips on each side of the drum which would determine their heartbeats and automatically beat the the respective drumstick to the beat of their own heart.

I'll post a 2nd set of pictures later in the week.  But for the impatient or anyone who wants to see my full set of GLOW 2012 pictures in a full screen slideshow format, you can go see them on flickr (click the lower right expansion box to expand slideshow to full screen):

GLOW 2010 in Oracle, AZ

Here are a few pictures I took Friday night at the annual GLOW event held up in Oracle, AZ. [If my readers can't tell from my lack of recent posts, more work than life lately, Friday started with an on-call phone call at 3:30 AM...]

In spite of the long day, I was able to get out to enjoy the sights and sounds of GLOW under a beautiful full moon. My favorite GLOW art this year was the large installation along the trail of glowing flowers that looked like they were made of legs wearing heels -- very cool!

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A very large metalic spider scaning the ground

Several different bands and performers making tunes around the ranch

I remember this guy with different light than last year.

A flaming forge over in the area where the blacksmiths were hammering out glowing metal

Great turnout, this year's friday night turnout was 800 people. Maybe next year I'll submit some glowing art display of my own. I was hoping to this year, but didn't have the time to build the piece I'm thinking about making.