Lights, Action, Camera

Bay Lights test last week (Mercury news photo)

Artist Leo Villareal will officially fire up his Bay Lights project ("the world's largest light sculpture") on Tuesday night. The privately funded $8 million work of art will likely be added to the list of must-see San Francisco attractions. The still photo above doesn't capture the effect of the moving patterns of light, shown in the following video (in Flash, unfortunately for iPad and iPhone users) recorded last week.



The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is more important to the region's economy than its much more famous sibling to the West. The Bay Lights project (www.thebaylights.org) will give the Bay Bridge the attention that it deserves. © 2013 Stephen Yuen