Las Vegas, Nevada, at night time is a place with its own atmosphere, a pulsating energy rippling through the streets that's almost tangible, a palpable presence. Sometimes, this chaos and kinetic intensity can cause people to crack, the battered pieces and shrapnel found some days later in some distant gutter, like the confetti that lingers around the edges after a blow-out New Year's Eve celebration. Alcohol and other substances course through the hungry arteries of many faces wandering our boulevards, leading to all sorts of antics and encounters- some good, some bad, but all of them definitely a story worthy of a retelling with the friend's once any insult to pride and ego subside. After all, that old saying about "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" is a heaping load of bollocks in this, the modern era of social media and everpresent cellphones with full video and photographic capabilities. Angles collide, devils and angels bump elbows in this mortal playground. 
There's something for everyone, whatever your flavor. Personally, as someone who was born and raised in this city, I tend to avoid the Strip proper unless duty calls me to it, as it's the bastion of tourists and ravenous businessmen. There's certainly nothing wrong with being a tourist, and thanks to all of you who happily visit the city and pump much needed financial blood into the dusty old alleys of this desert oasis...and, well, as for the businessmen... They do pretty well. Las Vegas is a city with no shortage of money to be made if you're clever and fiendish enough, or at least motivated by the paper-chase. I've seen many wolves grow quite fat and contented in the halls of the casinos, lapping up the proceeds like blood from a lamb. For those who enjoy the hunt, this is an absolutely excellent arena to satiate the bloodlust and whet your chops. The problem with keeping the company of wolves is that inevitably, whether due to lack of food or shifts in time, the pack will need to find a hierarchy, and one never wants to find themselves at the wrong end of those vicious fangs.
All photos in this post were provided by Antho Jay~
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XOXO,
NAU
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