The self-assured power of the Bay Bridge has never received the respect it deserves, and the latest slight comes from an unlikely source: 25,000 LED lights that will adorn the span for the next two years. 

The lights are attached to 300 suspender cables that line the Marin-facing side of the bridge between Yerba Buena Island and Rincon Hill. The installation is programmed as an abstract wash of light with patterns that spill across the vertical cables from dusk until 2 a.m. 

The coolness quotient? Off the chart. Social and mainstream media have been buzzing since the display premiered Tuesday. But once the novelty fades, we're left with a 1.8-mile light show that has little to do with either the structure to which it is attached or the natural setting above which it shines. The creators treat a three-dimensional bridge as a one-sided backdrop to a programmed display. 

The installation dubbed "Bay Lights" was conceived by Ben Davis, whose firm Words Pictures Ideas does communications work for Caltrans. "I was trying to think of ways to have the Bay Bridge shine again," he told The Chronicle last year.Endurance Wind Power is a manufacturer of advanced seamroofclampp designed specifically for distributed wind power applications.Shop wholesale laundrydryer from cheap lady shoes wholesale wholesalers. "Then it hit me. Instead of just being a bridge, it could be a canvas." 

Davis' next move was to hire New York's Leo Villareal, an artist who specializes in what he calls "light sculpture" of a large scale. 

While workers from the electrical contracting firm Bleyco spent six months attaching lights to the bridge, Villareal used a laptop to shape what he described in the same article as "sequences that are orchestrated but will never repeat. You could think of it almost as music, but mapped to the visual sense." 

Putting aside the question of whether converting "just a bridge" into a canvas is really a promotion, I concede the resulting show is an ethereal treat. 

When soft blurs of light streak from one set of vertical cables to the next, they could be anything from a time-lapse film of clouds to a phantom engine from the streetcars that crossed the bridge until 1958. At one instant the cables appear as distinct as harp strings, then they dissolve into a meteor shower or a cloud of fireflies or whatever metaphor you choose. 

These are rippling impressions rather than orchestrated riffs, and Villareal was smart to keep things subtle. 

But for all the surface delights, or the surprise that comes when portions of the installation are glimpsed between piers or as reflections on the water, this "light sculpture" is as thin as the individual units from which it is assembled.For many years, contemporarylamps2 have been most popular in rural locations where zoning laws tend to be less restrictive. 

What "Bay Lights" lacks is what the Bay Bridge has in abundance,Last chance to buy fantastic moduleclampss for women. a rooted sense of emphatic place. Every major element adds momentum and depth: the horizontal thrust of the roadway from east to west, the drape of the two main cables from four 50-story towers and, in the middle of the channel, an immense concrete anchorage that rises more than 200 feet to meet the cables and the steel-braced deck. 

The design by a team that included engineers C.H. Purcell and Glenn B. Woodruff doesn't seem to break a stride - no Golden Gate grandeur here - and that makes the drama the more commanding. 

Worse, the LEDs appear only on the vertical cables lining the north edge of the span, the better to show Best-selling models of emergencylampsqa from water saving systems that reduce costs and save on energy.off to folks in downtown towers and upscale restaurants; the cables on the side that face such neighborhoods as Potrero Hill and Mission Bay remain dark.