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The Las Vegas Strip is visually overwhelming — lots of blinking lights, LED video screens, moving billboards, neon, rollercoasters, recreations of famous attractions from other cities, and so on. But visiting Las Vegas, I was reminded of the visuals from Koyaanisqatsi, one of my favorite films.
Here are some scenes from the film, depicting Las Vegas in the late 1970’s or early 1980’s (I can attest that it looks slightly less yellow now, but the idea is the same):
Fun Google find: the Koyaanisqatsi-Las Vegas connection also appears in several travel blogs.
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I just watched this movie for the first time a couple of weeks ago. I was so fascinated by the fact that these women stood in front of the camera for so long. How did the director convince them? What went through their minds? Another interesting part of the movie is comparing San Francisco then to San Francisco now. There’s a part where they drive on the double-decker freeway that ran down the Embarcadero. The earthquake definitely made some improvements to San Francisco.
posted by hifidigitalboy on 3-12-2007 at 1:21 pm