On the city streets of Las Vegas, Nevada, you'll encounter all sorts of life as it, uh, finds a way- whether it's the homeless caravans gathered in scruffy shambled assemblages clustered around and in nooks and crannies, not unlike sea urchins or coral on a reef, or the pigeons proudly strutting across the cobblestones with little to no concern for the humans towering alongside, or even the occasional skater kid clacking their wheels over the pavement. Tourists, wildlife and extreme sports side by side, in an extremely photogenic locale none-the-less! Oh my. Just another day in Vegas, though.
Most major cities will eventually play host to some form of film, and Las Vegas has certainly had it's share of cinematic homages, from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with its peak drug mania, or Con-Air when Nicolas Cage and company crash-land the plane on our eponymous strip, though to any local who was living in the city at the time the scenes here make little to no sense geographically speaking...but I digress. That's the nature of film- taking the reality of a place and glamming it up, shooting it at it's most flattering (or nonsensible) angles to maximize the impact of the scene, and splicing in scenes shot at any possible location, so long as they keep the narrative cohesion going.
Cohesion is not an easy thing to find in a city like Las Vegas, where rich and poor rub elbows with disdain and greasy glares. You can walk down our prestigious Las Vegas Boulevard, home to all our newest glittering casinos, and hear any language imaginable being batted back and forth in casual conversation, from Urdu to creole. Sweaty chefs leaving work in their stained coats wiping their brow next to a coifed and powdered beauty queen, precision nails and hair kept a safe distance away. A veritable cross-section of the human experience gathered for your consideration, ambling along taking photos. Needless to say, Las Vegas is certainly a primo-destination if people watching is something you like to do for fun, as Antho and I obviously do.
Photos in this post were provided by Antho Jay~
Until next time!
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XOXO,
NAU
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