{"id":3152,"date":"2008-10-23T16:42:04","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T20:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=3152"},"modified":"2008-10-23T16:42:04","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T20:42:04","slug":"lighting-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2008\/10\/23\/lighting-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighting Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For over a year now, all the lighting consultants from Boston to Providence \u00e2\u20ac\u201c over 35 of us — have been working on a lighting festival for Boston, christened illuminaleBOSTON08. <\/p>\n

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Patterned after Luminale<\/a>, a much bigger festival accompanying a massive, every-two-years trade show in Frankfurt, ours was originally slated to coincide with the May 2008 AIA convention, but city politics presented a denser thicket than imagined and we failed to get ready for that date. Serendipitously, a better date presented itself \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the City of Boston had scheduled an outdoor party to celebrate the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153completion\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and handover of the Rose Kennedy Greenway for October 4th and asked that we put up our festival around that. Darker sooner, a captive audience, City alignment \u00e2\u20ac\u201c more better. So we did.<\/p>\n

The tale of getting there — the obstacles overcome, the favor chips cashed, the debts incurred, the vast amounts of meetings and work — would take a novella. Suffice it to say that it was a more massive undertaking than we could have imagined, and we were called far beyond any commitments we thought we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d made. It almost crashed and burned many times, and frictions threatened to sabotage it. But when it was turned on in a ceremony with Mayor Menino \u00e2\u20ac\u0153throwing the switch\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at Rowe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Wharf on the 1st of October, and we got to drive and wander around and see the 10 sites we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d all done, it was pretty thrilling. The Custom House tower, not quite complete when the pictures were taken, and the Moakley bridge are permanent things, and there are already noises about implementing two of the other sites permanently as well.<\/p>\n

It only ran 5 days and is already over. I apologize for telling about this after the fact \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it was pretty all-consuming at the time, and what advance notice I did give at the time didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t inspire a wider broadcast. But at least I took pictures<\/a>. Of some sites, anyway — mostly my own, including some behind-the-scenes prep work (Site 6, the Congress Street bridge, executed in conjunction with Horton Lees Brogden Lighting). One can see a great deal many more by going to Flickr and searching for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153illuminale\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get 16 pages of images; every night I was out there I was tripping over tripods \u00e2\u20ac\u201c all the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nocturnal shutterbugs were busy. One in particular, though, and that could only be seen opening night (perhaps the best story of the festival \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but for another time) is this<\/a>, which my partner Lukas did in conjunction with Sladen Feinstein Lighting.<\/p>\n

And there it all is — a glimpse into a unique, exhausting but rewarding chapter in the lives of Boston\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lighting community. For those further interested, also check out the festival\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in particular, if you scroll right for each site under the Sites link, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll show you some before images of each site, a few the sketches and renderings done by each team, and photos and bios of the team personnel. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

Adam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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