Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Let's Glow San Francisco

Tuesday, December 16, 2025    No comments

At around 18:00, we started our walk to see Let's Glow San Francisco. 
This all-ages, family-friendly event runs for 10 nights from December 5–14, 2025. Experience breathtaking animated projections illuminating eight iconic buildings across the city's core, transforming them into colossal, colorful canvases featuring work by 19 artists from around the globe.

Our first stop was at the Hobart Building, which had some of our favorite displays. The Hobart building has beautiful displays (especially by Julia Shamsheieva. I liked the intricate mechanical clock with all the gears.

Hobart Building
582 Market Street 
Featured Artists:

Our next stop was the Ferry Building, a few minutes away. 

Ferry Building
1 Ferry Building 
Featured Artists





Our next stop was 101 California Street.

101 California Street
Featured Artists
    • Leslie Epsztein
    • Filip Roca




We briefly stopped by Mechanics Monument Plaza, but nothing was exciting to see here.

Mechanics Monument Plaza
488 Market Street
Featured Artists
We walked to the nearby Pacific Exchange, which had a very nice display.

Pacific Exchange
301 Pine Street
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The Transamerica Pyramid Center was our last stop (and one of the best, if not the best) displays.

Transamerica Pyramid Center
545 Sansome Street
Featured Artists:

Paper Tails of San Francisco is a poetic, time-bending journey inspired by the legendary canine duo Bummer and Lazarus, two beloved dogs who roamed San Francisco in the 1860s. Told through layered textures and shifting light, the piece follows Bummer as he steps into an unfolding paper world in search of his long-lost friend. Along the way, the story mirrors the evolution of the city itself and the transformation of one of its most iconic sites: the Transamerica Pyramid.


Here is a short video clip of Paper Tails for San Francisco from SMASH Studio (one of our favorites)!




For dinner, we decided to try the Little Shucker restaurant that Inna had booked for 20:30. After looking at the menu, we ordered the following items:

  • Appetizer: Little Shucker (6 oysters on a half-shell, 4 shrimps, tuna tartare), Bread & Butter
  • Boris: Cup of Tomato Soup, Tuna Melt
  • Inna: Cup of Soup, Rainbow Trout, Stadt Krems Gruner Veltliner wine
  • Dessert: Chocolate Budino

Although we liked the restaurant, it was quite cold inside (the heater was blowing cold air), and we had to keep our jackets on.

We liked the Little Shucker Appetizer and the Rainbow Trout. The 6 oysters on a half-shell were tiny (and very expensive).  All the other portions were also smaller in size. Even the portion of tomato soup was minuscule. I felt like I was dining on portions meant for hobbits.

We rode a Waymo back to the Sutter-Stockton garage, and Inna enjoyed her first time in a self-driving taxi.

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