Summer of Awe

Rainbow lasers stretching down Market Street at night

I joined the team at Illuminate SF on the software side of two Summer of Awe installations: 7×7 at City Hall and the Market Street Pride lasers.

7×7 · City Hall

A grid of 49 lasers pointing into the sky above Civic Center.

City Hall with a grid of vertical laser beams

Drawing HI in the sky of San Francisco. June 24, 2026.

Market Street

Fourteen lasers in a 2×7 arrangement, projecting down Market Street.

Rainbow lasers over San Francisco, seen from above

Controlling the Market Street lasers from a phone.

Behind the scenes

The phone control interface under the beams

Arms raised underneath the purple laser beams

Summer of Awe

7×7 · City Hall

Market Street

Behind the scenes

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