The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts (BOPA) united two of its marquee events: Baltimore Book Festival and Light City. Brilliant Baltimore illuminates the city with literature, ideas, world-class light art installations, and live performances. Check out the 2019 schedule by Books, Performance, Food & Drink, or Light Art to view all the action.
Both the Book Festival and Light City had been held at the Harbor. Light City, "a free festival of light, music and innovation," had brought many thousands of people to the waterfront since it was launched in 2016.
From the first ever public-private partnership (PPP) for municipal street lighting in the United States, to large scale utility infrastructure engineering, operation and maintenance, City Light & Power has a long history of providing customer-focused private utility services for municipal customers.
Larry Gragg, however, invites readers to view Las Vegas in an entirely new way. While countless other authors have focused on its history or gaming industry or entertainment ties, Gragg considers how popular culture has depicted the city and its powerful allure over its first century.
Idle Light City is a management game created by NoPowerup. Help a city shrouded in darkness to regain its light. Run the lightbulb factory and produce as many lightbulbs as you can to illuminate the town. Start with a single building and keep unlocking new buildings and lighting them up to earn money. Maximize your earnings with power-ups, purchase upgrades, produce lightbulbs faster and expand the city. Freely interact with the game whenever you have the time to speed up the productions of lightbulb. Or let the city operate on its own, as you watch it slowly regaining its light. Make sure to interact with the town's cute citizens and become their savior. Do you have the power to light up an entire town?
City Of Light, City Of Dark is a comic book novel written by Newbery Medal-winning author Avi, and was the first book ever to be illustrated by Brian Floca.[1] Additional Spanish translations were done by Jose Aranda and Anthony Trujillo. The book's title is probably inspired by the summer and winter solstices, the "lightest" and "darkest" days of the year. These two days also mark two pivotal events in the Kurbs' "ritual cycle of acknowledgment". Alternatively, since the story is set in New York, "City Of Light" could refer to one of the many cities of light.
Between the Lines by Pitaya: The Between the Lines installation plays with the scale by showing Huge stylistic fishing rods installed by the water. By night, the rods will nearly disappear in the sky, leaving just long lines of light moving with the wind, hanging softly from mid-air into the sea. Depending on the point of view, the public experience will be totally different: from afar, the lines become an abstraction, a signal.
When the public is close to the rods, the installation becomes an experience depending on the people interaction with the artwork. Beyond the wordplay, the installation invites the visitor to think about how common things could provide different meanings.
Infinity by Epigram LLC: The Infinity Installation of light and sound consists of three cocoon like structures that will invite the user to enter. As the user enters the each one of the three sculptures, the lights will follow them and the sound will change according to their movements. Infinity will encourage the participant to experiment with their movement to understand how they can modify the sound and lights with their varying movements and so that they can experience the virtually unlimited possibilities of the lighting and sound effects. The 3 elements to the sculpture will also provide three differing experiences for the user. And, since the three elements to the sculpture will be installed relatively close to one another, the viewer outside the structures will experience a symphony of light and sound.
Loop by Ekumen and Jonathan Villeneuvue: The retro-futuristic machine Loop is a cross between a music box, a zoetrope and a railway handcar, that creates animated fairy-tales. Through the combined efforts of members of the public working the hand lever, the image cylinder lights up and creates the illusion of motion in the drawings. The black and white images, tinted through a strobe effect, recall the earliest movies. The speed at which the images fly by, the frequency at which the light flickers and the rhythm of the audio composition are directly related to the pace set by the participants, who can be of any age.
(off)Lines by Pierre Ranzini: The (off)Lines installation is an architectural modular construction. It consists of 320 linear meters of square bars, each equipped with a 1 meter long LED light tube. The total structure is a series of geometric entanglements of several colors randomly forming a sequence of shapes that form and then disintegrate into space. In total, it is more than 7,000 LEDs that are controlled within the space of this geometric structure, but change, creating a versatile sculpture whose light movement enliven the space around it and encourage the viewer to linger to experience the numerous shapes created by the alternatingly illuminated LED tubes.
Radiant Flux by Kevin Blackistone: Radiant Flux is an interactive sculpture consisting of over 100 independently moving triangular mirrors exploring the many facets of light through solar reflectance by day and moonbeams at night. By day, participants will have glints of sunlight cast upon them while having their mirrored image form and deconstruct itself in oscillating patterns. At night, the reflections will continue but will create a light display of colored shards moving with the participants and colored by the pulses of music
The Street Division is responsible for all the streetlights in the City of San Diego. The City of San Diego has over 40,000 streetlights in operation. Nine thousand of these lights belong to local community "Lighting Districts" which pay a special assessment fee to support the additional or ornamental lighting in their neighborhoods. In addition, Street Division maintains over 4,000 lights in parks, community ball fields, and other City facilities. We also share responsibility with Caltrans for lights on the freeway off/on ramps that intersect city streets.
Currently, there are two types of streetlights in San Diego, Induction lights, which emit a white light and Low Pressure Sodium (LPS), which emits a monochromatic yellow light. Induction lighting is the City's standard type of street lighting. Because of the need to limit light pollution that affects Palomar Observatory, LPS is used in all areas within a 30-mile radius from the Observatory.
Take a ride with us on a breath-taking experience through Charm City Lights at Druid Hill Park. Journey through a world of wonder and enchantment while experiencing Baltimore's most captivating holiday lights display. This dazzling winter spectacle is sure to illuminate your heart and put you in the holiday spirit.
Barcelona is a city where light shines brightly through its rich Mediterranean history, and world famous scenery and art. It is a city with great ease of access, making it a location to discover the beauty of what is right before your eyes.
The City owns and operates a streetlight system that contains over 4,000 streetlights across 74 zones called streetlight planning areas. Each planning area contains one or more streetlight circuits. Nearly 45% of the streetlight system has been converted to LED in where the street light conduit, wiring and lights were replaced and upgraded. The LED streetlight system is energy efficient, provides increased lighting levels and visibility, while being more reliable and low maintenance. The remaining system is on high voltage series streetlight circuits with high-pressure sodium lighting which were designed and installed approximately nine decades ago. These streetlights have issues of reliability due to their age and condition making their maintenance an expensive and time-consuming process. The estimated cost to upgrade them to LED is estimated at over $28 Million due to the need to replace the conduit, wiring and streetlights for which funding is not available. While the City owns and maintains the majority of the lights, over 400 lights are owned and operated by Southern California Edison (SCE). View a map(PDF, 550KB) of series streetlights in the City of South Gate.
The outages experienced in the streetlight system are due to system failures or power outages. The City is responsible for addressing system failures on the streetlights it owns which typically requires troubleshooting, conduit repairs and rewiring. Non-complex failures are handled by City staff and repaired within two weeks. Complex failures require the support of a specialty contract and typically take up to four weeks to repair. There are however some reasons repairs may be delayed. The Electrical Division does its best to repair most streetlights, but sometimes repairs may take longer from a few days to a few weeks. The impact of these outages can range from a few lights to several lights when an entire circuit is out, and multiple streets are impacted. We may need to order special repair parts which can take weeks.
The series circuit streetlight system is less reliable than the streetlight system that has been converted to LED. Nine out of every ten outages occur on the series circuit streetlight system. Streetlights on series circuits use a constant current, variable voltage source to supply electricity to lights connected to the circuit in a loop. There are three components to a series lighting circuit: constant current regulator, isolation transformer, and series circuit wiring. The constant current regulator supplies electricity to the series circuit. The isolation transformer is the connection for the lights in a series circuit and regulates the electric current between lights. Series circuit wiring is a single wire loop that connects the power source to the lights one by one and wraps around to return to the power source.
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