Bellagio Fountains - 'Luck be a lady tonight?': A Different Perspective.

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• Description : Frank Sinatra seems to have spent l...(more)ots of time in Las Vegas. I spent 24 hours. Walking from 7am on 30th May to 7am 31st May - Memorial Day. On that day any luck I had ran out! My Greyhound Bus was hijacked by a Mexican who attached the driver with a knife. The 58 passengers ended up stuck in the middle of nowhere for two hours. The police were ready to shot up the bus to take control as they thought this a big event. It was covered on TV and seems to have been shown coast to coast in America and reported in all the national newspapers. Even, here in Dundee, an American whom i just happened to speak to commented - "were you on that bus!!". The police thought the risk of an attack my hijacked bus To Las Vegas on Memorial Day was high. This was Memorial Day!!! The first video response (below)provides an adaptation of this video and relates my research with Las Vegas in which my relative influenced the man that made Las Vegas possible. See the second video response (below)to understand why I was in America and tracing the footsteps of my relative. See video "Graham Duncan's Greyhound bus hijacking" (third video response below)for more infromation. 25/1/09 ****** NEWS UPDATE ******** It appears that the spirit of Sinatra has told me through Warner Music Group (WMG) that Mr Sinatra no longer wishes to be part of this video! The Mafia still rules it seems. This was a video of the Bellagio Fountains with the real sound of 'Luck be a lady tonight' - it was how it was actually presented. No copy was made of CD, DVD or was not downloaded from Itunes. It seems that we are now not allowed to film our holidays - without the Warners of this world stifling creativity of creative people! So what the motivations of Warner? On the day that this film was blocked on You Tube - 67 exactly the same films of Bellagio Founatains in Las Vegas - remaimed - all with 'Luck be a lady tonight' as the music as filmed by the filmmakers when the changing presentation was performed. So why me? - well I have one theory. My version was the top rated film of this type in the World. Do Warner's see me as a threat? Such a big company has come down to this! I am a filmmaker with not formal qualifications and not a professional filmmaker. Youtube nor Warner have provided any explanation for this action - nor are they likely to. Perhaps we as film makers should forget Sinatra ever existed - as this new version perhaps says more about Sinatra, Warner and Las Vegas - as well as the Sleeze of our society and how we are manipulated by big organisations. Please leave comments if this has happened to you or if you feel - film makers should be allowed creative freedom. It seems Big Brother has even more power and even Orwellian thinkers might have thought? This film now provides the sensation of emptiness and the sound of empty water in a silent city of glint and glitter - where all marketing and money is gone. A desert of creativity and blocked freedom. The ghosts of crime are there in this film - the day after filming this I was hijacked on Memorial Day as I travelled through Utah - the bus was going to be shot by the army and police. It was filmed live on TV and no one asked if I agreed to be film - if i had indeed died - I would have had no way of saying no - just like Sinatra! *********New Approach In line with Youtube policy I have used 'other' music. I have stripped all the glamour and trappings of Las Vegas and leave it that way like a silent desert. A desert with no people, no music - only the sound of water falling and the sound of our own thoughts observing the nothingness. An escape from big organisations controlling us. Simple as that. Minimal and Minimalist. We expect Sinatra and glamour but we get the bare silent sound and stripped perspective. Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features. As a specific movement in the arts it is identified with developments in post-World War II Western Art, most strongly with American visual arts in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is rooted in the reductive aspects of Modernism, and is often interpreted as a reaction against Abstract Expressionism and a bridge to Postmodern art practices. The term has expanded to encompass a movement in music which features repetition and iteration. The term "minimalist" is often applied colloquially to designate anything which is spare or stripped to its essentials. (less)