Blue Phase Lighting Begins Dec 3

Not A Cornfield's "Blue Phase" will begin Saturday, December 3, 2006. At 4pm, a ceremony with kyudo archer Hirokazu Kosaka will take place, following soon after by the ethereal, electric blue lighting of the Not A Cornfield grounds along with various surrounding landmarks and buildings.

As always, the public is invited, free-of-charge, to attend and participate.

Inside Not A Cornfield's cornfield, a matrix of blue lights will be scattered throughout the site in a pattern reflecting the constellations that will be overhead at midnight on the winter solstice. The lights will fade in and out in response to events from the surrounding area - the sudden passage of a train, for example, or environmental factors such as humidity and wind.

The Blue Phase will be the final of the project's four color-named phases -- as this once Los Angeles brownfield metamophosed into a verdant green, then harvest gold, and as of December 3, electric blue space.

With the corn crop drying and being harvested by crew members and volunteers from the Los Angeles area and beyond, the Not A Cornfield project prepares for its transition from a field of agriculture to one of technology. In addition to the existing camera and microphones now feeding live image and sound to the internet, thousands of feet of cable is being installed to power lights that will define the blue phase of the project. Irrigation line is being replaced with electrical conduit.