I don’t take many pictures of graffitti, but this one really caught my eye.
My main stop today was the Cosmopolitan, one of the newer hotels in Las Vegas. My brother had recommended that I go to the u*tique (warning: really crappy web site with annoying music). It appears to be pretty much a really high-end vending machine, selling things for people with more money than sense. Example: a set of salt and pepper shakers for US$48.00; yes, they were quite artistic, but that’s a bit much.
The hallways have a lot of artwork:
These shoes are by an artist named Roark Gurley (warning: site also has music). The shoe in the second picture is titled “Steampump.”
These next two were interesting as well; one had a telescope-like viewpiece and the other had binocular-style viewpieces. They were at opposite ends of a hallway When you looked through one, you saw a low-res picture, and when you looked through the other one, you saw a scratchy black-and-white image. The image, however, wasn’t what was in the hallway at the moment; it appears to have been whatever was in the hallway at some past time. Freaky, but fun.
This was absolutely the best part of the hotel; a group called Art-o-mat takes old cigarette machines, refurbishes them, and stocks them with art, which you can get for US$5.00 apiece. Some of the items are photos, others use fabric; I got a small ceramic piece.
Just a couple of pictures from Tehachapi Pass on the drive back.
