December 27, 2006
Tropicana To Meet the Axe
Last month the Stardust shuttered, this week the new owners of the Tropicana have announced plans on what they would do with the vast site at the Strip and Trop. The gaming and hotel expansion seem to be a slam dunk. But I wonder why the high end condos? Seems that market is a bit soft with all the projects shelved or cancelled.
Posted by Dave at 06:03 PM
December 20, 2006
Harrah's To Go Private
I thought this one was dead, but Harrah's announced today that last week the board agreed to a buyout offer (actually, the fourth largest buyout in history) to take the company private. I wonder what this means for the redevelopment of that hunk of the strip they own? A couple of months ago they stated it would start in a couple of months. Nothing has happened since and with this deal, nothing is likely to happen until the deal clears. Could this be the start of casino resorts going private? Many of them went public to get the cash for the wicked expansions, but now that those are complete, they have the cash flow to finance them without shareholder money.
Posted by Dave at 01:26 AM
December 12, 2006
Introducing A Barking Dog Outtakes -- Moscow 2006
For the last few years I've been carrying a miniDV cam when we are out. I stopped editing the videos about a year ago when I ran out of capacity on my then current computer. Since then, I've got a much more suitable system with which to edit video (and audio) so during our last dark, I started the process of dumping the 9 hours of tape I shot over the last 10 months or so. I'd tried a few times to do some reality TV type stuff but for a variety of reasons, I got very little I thought could be used. Due to a pretty hectic schedule and my mislabeling and cataloguing the tapes, I inadvertantly taped over some major parts of what I'd shot to that point. Bummer. Total bummer. Over the year we were in a lot of different places around the globe and I'm glad I at least got some pics and tape of that. Most of it will be rough, jerky home movie type videos using unedited, unsweetened raw footage.
The first installment is our trip to Moscow last March. I blogged about it as the Russian Billionaire wedding. I was going to do a whole "day in the life" shoot, but any sort of camera or recording device were verbotten anytime we were part of the function, including the gig and gatherings in the hotel in which we were staying. I ended up with a bit of us at the airport just after arrival and my trip too Red Square one afternoon.
Posted by Dave at 09:08 PM
Introducing A Barking Dog Outtakes -- Moscow 2006
For the last few years I've been carrying a miniDV cam when we are out. I stopped editing the videos about a year ago when I ran out of capacity on my then current computer. Since then, I've got a much more suitable system with which to edit video (and audio) so during our last dark, I started the process of dumping the 9 hours of tape I shot over the last 10 months or so. I'd tried a few times to do some reality TV type stuff but for a variety of reasons, I got very little I thought could be used. Due to a pretty hectic schedule and my mislabeling and cataloguing the tapes, I inadvertantly taped over some major parts of what I'd shot to that point. Bummer. Total bummer. Over the year we were in a lot of different places around the globe and I'm glad I at least got some pics and tape of that. Most of it will be rough, jerky home movie type videos using unedited, unsweetened raw footage.
The first installment is our trip to Moscow last March. I blogged about it as the Russian Billionaire wedding. I was going to do a whole "day in the life" shoot, but any sort of camera or recording device were verbotten anytime we were part of the function, including the gig and gatherings in the hotel in which we were staying. I ended up with a bit of us at the airport just after arrival and my trip too Red Square one afternoon.
Posted by Dave at 09:08 PM