Munition

USS Iowa.

Hose

USS Iowa.

Rung

USS Iowa.

For Your Convenience

May I never fail to be horrified by a bench placed, for my convenience, in the shadow of a cruise missile launcher.

Happy New Year V

Continuing my erratic tradition of marking the new year by posting photos of strip clubs.

I'm stil disappointed that I missed last year: I had every intention, and even had a club picked out, and meant to take the photo for months. But then the time just slipped away, and January happened way before I expected it. Sometimes things are like that.

This is the Platinum Gentleman's Club in Las Vegas, Nevada. It's on Flamingo, but significantly off the strip; the Las Vegas Sun says it "arguably holds the titles for the tiniest and divey-est strip club in Las Vegas. The single-room club is more or less the size of a fast food drive-thru, and its faded facade, cheap banner and generally abandoned-looking appearance do bring the word 'front' to mind." But I saw it at night, and it is indeed open for business.

Coincidentally, Penny and I were staying at the Platinum Hotel, which is also a couple of blocks away from the strip on Flamingo, but absolutely nothing like this establishment. Instead it's a really nice non-gaming hotel that was originally built as apartments; the suite we had was bigger than our condo, for a third of what a small room in New York would cost. We would absolutely stay there again.

Ice Storm

Freezing rain: dangerous and damaging, but also reasonably photogenic.

I took the Ricoh GRD4 for a walk this afternoon. It's small, has good macro performance, and if I'm going to fall and land on top of a camera, it's the one I would pick. This isn't even the first time that I chose it for dangerous duty, and hopefully that's a role it will fill for years.

Sunken City updates

More from Sunken City:

The Edges of Sunken City (project): matthewpiers.com/P/Edges

Sunken City II (blog post): matthewpiers.com/B/131221

Sunken City Gallery (49 photos): matthewpiers.com/G/SunkenCity

Working on my project about Sunken City has been an interesting experience, and I'm still trying to sort out all of the other material that I gathered along the way. I have a few more sequences that I still want to put together, but much of that will need to wait until January.