Sentences with phrase «lamp lit streets»

This oil painter does not stop at the eerie progress of a night bus though London's lamp lit streets, but sees the waiting people outside a late night off license on Brick Lane as secrets revealed by lights from shop windows; the city becomes a beacon of life no matter the time of day.

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It's exactly like the old joke about the guy who is searching for his lost keys under the nearest street lamp: not because that's where he thinks he lost them but because the light is so much better there.

Sort of like the fellow who dropped his wallet on a dark sidewalk and then walked back two blocks to look for it under the last street lamp he passed because that's where the light was!

In 1878, when the 36 - year - old inventor decided to focus on building a light bulb, 23 others had already invented early versions called arc lamps, some of which were being used commercially to light streets and large buildings.

One could walk along a street with no working street lamps and see masses of electrical appliances and greasy, exhausted faces in the flickering light of the bonfires.

Imagine a neighborhood convenience store owner turning off the lights and locking the doors after closing, leaving the store sitting quietly under a street lamp.

And we'd end up sitting on a curb in the parking lot by the light of a street lamp, listening to night cicadas or cars going by, and we would talk about how no one had ever, could ever, have been in love like we were in love, and we would kiss until we were dizzy before walking back to the dorms, just in time for curfew.

Here the figures of speech, the examples selected, and the persons addressed all belong to the villages of Galilee — the savorless salt thrown into the street, the one lamp that lights the whole household, the village blasphemer with his string of profanity and terms of abuse, the temple pilgrim offering his one gift, the village judge and the jailer, the local ruffian swift to strike, the king's man or garrison officer who compels the peasant to carry his baggage or to yield up his own cloak, the sinner's field wet with the same rain that falls on his righteous neighbor's, the local tax collector, the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, the child asking to be fed, the fruitful trees and the unfruitful, the wise and foolish house - builders.

When we talk about walking in the light vs darkness, this doesn't refer to street - lamps.

Decorated with lamp post lighting, park benches and draping floral greeneries, guests can enjoy this relaxed yet sophisticated atmosphere that transports guests from the busy streets of NYC to a beautiful Parisian garden located in downtown Manhattan.

New York City plans to replace its 250,000 street lights with light - emitting diode lamps by 2017 — a move the Bloomberg administration says could ultimately cut power and maintenance costs by $ 14 million a year.

Fitting street lamps with complex sensors — and hooking them up to a larger network that controls the city will have implications far outside of lighting, says Robert Karlicek, director of the Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Nlighting, says Robert Karlicek, director of the Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in NLighting Engineering Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York.

The number of specimens attracted depends on the position of the street lamp: on the border of dark zones, more moths are attracted to the light than in an area's centre where many lamps are used.

Researchers from the University of Exeter simulated the effects of street lighting on artificial grassland plots containing a community of invertebrates at night, exposing them to two different types of light treatment — a «white» light similar to newer commercial LED street lighting systems and an «amber» light simulating the type of sodium street lamp still found in much of the UK.

People under surveillance seldom park conveniently under street lamps, and any attempt to beam light on the number plate will give the game away.

For example, researchers investigating incidences of birds singing in the middle of the night believe that bird behavior is being adversely affected by artificial lighting from street lamps and city lights.

However these days, most of us can not sleep without curtains because light from street lamps and other homes shines in, thus suppressing melatonin production.

In the morning, there is the sun but during the night we have street lamps and other sources of light to show the way or we would surely stumble in the dark, oblivious to where we're going.

With the leaves changing color in the background and the metallic wine color of this dress, I can't wait for holiday lights to cover store windows and street lamps.

The Hypnose Stardust Golden Top Coat must be one of my favorites, giving a twinkle to the tips of your eyelashes like the lights draped across the avenues and wrapped around the street lamps.

Called «Urban Light», it's a collection of street lamps grouped together on Wilshire, and something about it is, yes, magical.

Some scenes opted for other hues — the yellow street lamps, the red lighting of the brothel — but usually the flick went with a cold, somewhat desaturated look.

His string - heavy score and fixation with reflections and the spare light cast by a lonely street lamp create a mood that is familiar, yes, but fitting and welcome.

Cinematographer Brett Pawlak captures the light of Southeastern Texas, where kids ride their bikes around quiet suburbs and dirt tracks by day, then gather around street lamps by night, as far from parental supervision as possible.

Gerwig's camera captures Sacramento's warmth — not the literal heat of 105 - degree summer days but the cozy vibe of a city shaded by trees by day and lit by night, at least in some sections, by old - fashioned street lamps and 1940s - era neon signs.

But like the wise fool who searches for his keys under the street lamp because that's where the light is, I used Twitter because that's where the data are.

old woman with white hair walking away under the trees in the patches of light thrown out by the corner street lamp.

Even their son's school, which had stood a stone's throw from his bedroom window, was bulldozed now and replaced with fifty affordable homes in bright primary colors and street lighting in the style of Georgian gas lamps.

I watched his back moving away, walking beneath the murky light of the street lamps, perhaps suppressing an urge to dash the machine against the ground.

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Soak up ancient Chinese heritage at the nightly candle ritual, harking back centuries to the Li tradition of using torches to guide fishermen back to Sanya's beaches, and a nod to when Paris began lighting street lamps for safety in the 1700s.

Over the summer months it is open until midnight, so you can opt for an evening view of Antwerp, all lit up with street lamps.

The lighting and atmosphere are well created especially in night sections with your torch being the only main source of light in the woodland areas and the street lamps shining over the city areas giving an essence of tension while completing a quest.

Everyone's favourite Stephen King simulator, Alan Wake, uses the game's theme of light and dark to good effect throughout, a trope that extends to its save feature, requiring you to pass under a street lamp to save your progress.

He oversaw the conversion of NYC street lights from incandescent lights to mercury light bulbs and he is the designer of the ubiquitous mercury lamp post.

In her studio, Williams transforms these images into painted nightscapes illuminated with the unusual glow of street lamps, house lights and strings of holiday bulbs, all casting their glow onto surrounding objects.

Chris Burden created «Urban Light,» a sculpture in front of the entryway to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art that consists of genuine street lamps from Los Angeles» past.

His most recent works include «Divine Light,» an installation of 202 vintage street lamps illuminating the entrance to LACMA since February 2008, and «One Ton, One Kilo,» an exhibit that required the use of $ 3.3 million worth of gold bars at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills last spring.

Using a mirrored ceiling and hundreds of monofrequency lamps (usually used for street lighting), Eliasson constructed the illusion of a vast sun that bathed the Turbine Hall in a sickly glow, and looked like nothing else in the history of art.

Generally used in street lighting, mono - frequency lamps emit light at such a narrow frequency that colours other than yellow and black are invisible, thus transforming the visual field around the sun into a vast duotone landscape.

Mr. Leckey lit the overpass with motorway sodium street lamps to create a sickly, yellow glow.

The team installed lighting meant to mimic the overhead illumination of a street lamp.

It was Schimmel who inspired his close artist friend, Chris Burden, by finding the vintage street lamps Burden would use for the outdoor installation that evolved into Urban Light at LACMA.

Many places have transitioned to LED lighting, the most energy efficient lighting currently available, to cut down on the energy use of street lamps, but a renewable energy source for the lighting would be ideal.

When the grid went offline after the quake, even in the capital the only public lights that stayed on were the new solar street lamps.

If you use the correct balance of red to green LEDs you could even use them for street lighting where they would have more of a sodium lamp characteristic and reduce the amount of light pollution that seems to interfere with star gazing.

Like a porch light when there is a street lamp outside.

Google Translation: «It is understandable, but it is like looking for his keys at the foot of a street lamp because that's where there's light.»

How about using the light from already existing street lamps to spark off the festive season?

Another bright idea: if the city could connect the Summer Night Lights program to its five - year effort to retrofit 140,000 of its residential street lamps with energy efficient LED lamps, it might save even more money while cutting crime.