Fair Play
Sir Luke and I had the great joy and pleasure of accompanying Nate and Jeanne on a family trip to Overton, NV for the yearly Clark County Fair.
Top Five Fair Festivities:
5. Hypnotized boy being aged by the hypnotist: at age 80 he wheels himself around the stage in an imaginary wheel chair, at 90 he clutches his chest and falls over dead.
4. Woman running into Luke and shouting, “Excuse you!” And then being reprimanded by her husband.
3. Finding bigger sunglasses than Jeanne.
2. Man with beer in hand reaching into an empty lemonade stand and eating abandoned fries sitting on a chair.
1. Boy playing with wood airplane aims at the back of woman’s head throws the plane, which hits her in the head causing her to drop one of the funnel cakes she is holding onto the grass.
Sir Luke spent the better part of the day bitterly rehashing his horror of the day when the woman in charge of the strength meter wasn’t paying attention to him hitting the bell and denying him an inflatable snake.
We also got to eat fried chicken in the park with Nate’s family, watch pig races, eat two funnel cakes.
More pictures to follow.
Tax Refunded
Mandalay Bay has a great deal going for all you Las Vegans who haven’t yet turned in your taxes like Sir Luke and myself. If you mail in your taxes at the mobile postal office on the 15th you get two free tickets to see SHARK REEF!
I am so stoked I can’t even take it. Sir Luke promised me he would mail ours in so we can enjoy the sharks just like the rest of the elite visitors that spend $16.95 a pop, regularly.
Hopefully, we can get a picture like this too.
Pulitzer
I am inspired by this amazing series of images by Preston Gannaway. She was awarded the Pulitzer for the photo below from a series following Carolynne, a woman afflicted with cancer in her last months of life. The emotions and tenderness in every photograph are gripping. Preston was able to capture all the emotion without imposing.
All of the images are so compelling. I wonder how the family will feel about the documentation of their last few months with their mother and the progression of their family after her death. I don’t know that I would be able to look at them. They are all so hauntingly beautiful. This is a goal of mine as well. To photograph with a group of people for a period of time and become part of the background. To be able to tell their story like Preston has.
Free in Vegas
Unfortunately, the Guggenheim Heritage Museum at the Venetian is soon to be leaving. But, you can see it free until May 11th!
I think I’m going to visit with Sir Luke before then and get some good art into my system before it runs back to New York.
Who wants in?
