Las Vegas Strip, High Speed + Cartoon Filter: “Sketches of Vegas” Panasonic DMC-ZS15

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Scenes of automobile and pedestrian traffic on Las Vegas Boulevard South (The Strip) shot with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS15 compact superzoom pocket camera at 1920×1080, 30 fps progressive, 20mbps, then accelerated to four times normal speed with the NewBlue Cartoonr video plugin by NewBlueFX applied while editing in Sony Vegas.

The music is “Ninth Ward Festival-Variation B” included royalty-free with Sony Vegas.

Most of the shots were taken between Sands-Spring Mountain and Tropicana. The Fashion Show Mall, Palazzo, Venetian, Mirage, Caesar’s Palace, Bally’s MGM Grand, and New York, New York are seen in the film.

The final shot of feet walking was taken at 1280×720, 60 progressive, and rendered in 2.5 times slow motion. A $13 Ravelli APLT2 49″ tripod was used as a steadicam for this shot, holding in front of my feet as I walked, obtaining an upside-down image which was inverted while editing.

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The Las Vegas Strip is an approximately 4.2-mile (6.8 km) stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard South in Clark County, Nevada. The Strip is not located within the City of Las Vegas but it passes through the unincorporated towns of Paradise and Winchester, which are south of the Las Vegas city limits. Most of the Strip has been designated an All-American Road.

Many of the largest hotel, casino and resort properties in the world are located on the Las Vegas Strip. Fifteen of the world’s 25 largest hotels by room count are on the Strip, with a total of over 62,000 rooms.

One of the most visible aspects of Las Vegas’ cityscape is its use of dramatic architecture. The modernization of hotels, casinos, restaurants, and residential high-rises on the Strip has established the city as one of the most popular destinations for tourists…

The first casino to be built on Highway 91 was the Pair-o-Dice Club in 1931, but the first on what is currently the Strip was the El Rancho Vegas, opening on April 3, 1941, with 63 rooms. That casino stood for almost 20 years before being destroyed by a fire in 1960. Its success spawned a second hotel on what would become the Strip, the Hotel Last Frontier, in 1942. Organized crime figures such as New York’s Bugsy Siegel took interest in the growing gaming center leading to other resorts such as the Flamingo, which opened in 1946, and the Desert Inn, which opened in 1950. The funding for many projects was provided through the American National Insurance Company, which was based in the then notorious gambling empire of Galveston, Texas…

In 1968, Kirk Kerkorian purchased the Flamingo and hired Sahara Hotels Vice President Alex Shoofey as President. Alex Shoofey brought along 33 of Sahara’s top executives. The Flamingo was used to train future employees of the International Hotel, which was under construction. Opening in 1969, the International Hotel, with 1,512 rooms, began the era of mega-resorts. The International is known as the LVH today.

The first MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, also a Kerkorian property, opened in 1973 with 2,084 rooms…

The opening of The Mirage in 1989 set a new level to the Las Vegas experience, as smaller hotels and casinos made way for the larger mega-resorts. These huge facilities offer entertainment and dining options, as well as gambling and lodging. This change affected the smaller, well-known and now historic hotels and casinos, like The Dunes, The Sands, the Stardust, and the Sahara…