While Las Vegas Sleeps…

Last night proved to be a bit of a trying experience for me. As is often the case, bloggers don’t get the same treatment that mainstream media gets, and our efforts to secure the implosion of The New Frontier here in Las Vegas last night was met with some typical but ultimately funny run-ins with Las Vegas Metro.

This guy told me he could not say “officially” that it was okay to walk down the closed-off Desert Inn arterial to film the implosion from what was a good vantage point (well out of the way and behind lots of television crews below us on the ground, as well as construction/demolition workers and onlookers behind a fence.) He said that it was sort of a at-your-own-risk/knowing what is safe for you sort of thing. So we went.

At some point after we’d carried our equipment a quarter mile down Desert Inn, Officer Dweezle decided that he changed his mind after someone else said something to him. By that point we had no choice… either leave or walk very, very slowly back towards our vehicles, since we were being threatened to be cited or arrested and our cars towed. What ever shall we do officer?!?@#? Drag our feet like we’ve never drug them before, that’s what. The video is shaky and not up to the “While Las Vegas Sleeps..” quality assurance department’s standards.. but it will have to do.

Having a cop on video telling me via his bullhorn that I’m seriously testing his patience is, well, priceless. Enjoy! (I feel a ringtone coming on, baby!)

Thanks to DJ Miss Dust and Kevin Forte for some slick house beats for our video…

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Our Stardust Hotel Implosion Video

Without anything further to add… here’s our New Frontier Implosion Video! It’s complete with normal speed, reverse video, and slow-motion implosion! Complete with DJ Miss Dust providing some groove…

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The Stardust Hotel was imploded while I was out of the country in Europe, but Splice was able to get my camera and get out there in the middle of the night to shoot it from a good vantage point. When I first got home last week I was sick, thus the delay in getting the thing edited and ready to put on the site here, but I think you might find that it was worth the wait… This might very well be the best video of the implosion yet! Here’s why:

This video has the entire demolition including:

- the complete fireworks display
- the countdown on the building
- the implosion itself

** plus **

- the implosion in REVERSE
- the implosion in SLOW MOTION!

So check it out and let me know what you think. Feel free to share a link to my blog with a friend so they can check it out too Also, you’ll want to check back regularly for weekly pictures and the occasional video of all the Rehab shenanigans which will commence on April 29th >:P

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