Their senses
don't lie either!:
And of course the event, which drew 230,000, pumped some money into the local economy. That drew notice from board members of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, which, before the festival, sort of wanted nothing to do with it.
At a board meeting Tuesday, “several board members spoke about developing a closer relationship with producers of the three-day electronic music rave,” my colleague Rick Velotta reports.
As Clark County Commissioner Tom Collins put it: “The participants were the most polite young kids that I’ve ever been around.”
(The kids were all rolling on ecstasy, which I understand causes acute politeness.)
Even Metro Police officers know the score. As one told the Las Vegas Review-Journal: “I don’t see the nuance in staring at lights for hours. But it doesn’t take much to see this has generated some money for the valley.”
The event
sounded like fun!:
Caroline Miller of the Flaming Lotus Girls, a volunteer art collective in San Francisco, has been working at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway for a week on the group’s metal sculpture, “Mutopia,” a series of what she called “spirals of mutating plant-animals.”
Also, they shoot fire.
“I’m all about propane,” she says with a laugh. She’s a scientist at a university in San Francisco when not working with the art collective.
They go through 1,000 gallons of propane each night, plus an additional amount of methanol for extra fire. Different salts give the flames their distinctive colors.
To get in the collective and play a role, “Just show up — that’s all it takes,” she says, a good life rule.
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