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Monday, Jan. 7, 2013 | 12:51 p.m.
The energy surrounding downtown’s resurgence isn’t all about turning the old into a new business.
Some tapping into the human current sense it’s a rare chance, a small opening in the window of the city to connect people to people.
It can take many forms. One of the newer ones is Our Las Vegas, a project funded by the Las Vegas Arts Commission ($20,000 in grants over 2½ years) to research and develop online public arts projects.
One of the group’s most accessed projects so far, founded by Jon Winet with third-generation Nevadan Ginger Bruner as lead photographer and associate producer, is one where those with smartphones can view a new Las Vegas-based photo each day.
“Surrealism is the order of the day in Las Vegas,” Winet says. “That’s one of the things we like about it.”
Ultimately, Winet says the “goal” of Our Las Vegas is the process – the connections made between people collaborating to create. “And developing connections between artists and city leaders to encourage smart thinking. I sit in The Beat (coffeehouse downtown) and every other conversation is people thinking about trying to make something happen here. This is a part of that process.”
To learn more about how to get a new image for your phone each day, go to ourlasvegas.wordpress.com.
Joe Schoenmann doesn’t just cover downtown, he lives and works there. Schoenmann is Greenspun Media Group’s embedded downtown journalist, working from an office in the Emergency Arts building.
Dear Team SG1. 3 hours and $50 to create an app? Sounds like something you would enjoy. By all means, go for it!
Looks like Jon Winet stole $20,000 from the taxpayers via the Las Vegas Arts Commission. No surprise there, LVAC has been wasting money for years, no decades, on stupid projects that are not really art or only appeal to a slim majority of their board and nobody else. The most egregious LVAC waste of money was more than $840,000 for 2 metal things that block the sidewalks along Charleston downtown that were supposed to light up and look like paintbrushes. These things did not light up correctly for almost 2 years after the "artist" got paid then died. Yet Nancy Deaner is still down at the city spending your tax dollars on more stupid art projects like a elitist iPhone app to send her a new picture every morning--please!!!