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El son obligatorio, por tradicional, que ejecutan los iniciados se llama "Cuando las tortugas se acoplan, de claras connotaciones eróticas. Acrílico / Lona de 160 X 120 cm. 2003.
Las Vegas è una delle capitali nel campo dei matrimoni contratti con poche formalità burocratiche. In città si celebrano più di 144.000 matrimoni civili ogni anno. A differenza di altri stati degli USA, non sono richiesti esami del sangue, né per stabilire il tipo, né per conoscere eventuali malattie.
Vi è un proliferare di "wedding chapels", cappelle sia laiche che religiose, di varie tendenze: mormoni, cristiane o ebree più o meno riformate e liberali. Esistono interi pacchetti per il "Wedding a las Vegas" (EN), che includono il volo, l'albergo, la (poca) burocrazia per la cerimonia, l'affitto dei vestiti, l'organizzazione della festa e l'ospitalità in altri alberghi per gli invitati (di solito pochi). Ognuno dei grandi alberghi offre un "pacchetto matrimonio" intonato al tema del resort: ad esempio al Las Vegas Hilton, sede dell'attrazione Star Trek - The Experience è possibile sposarsi su di una riproduzione del ponte dell'Enterprise, con tanto di figuranti vestiti da Klingon.
La legislazione dello stato del Nevada è molto liberale riguardo sia al tempo richiesto tra l'inoltro della domanda per contrarre matrimonio (poche ore), sia sull'età (in alcune contee ci si può sposare a 16 e a 17 anni). La persona non deve risultare sposata nei registri locali e nazionali, nel caso sia cittadino straniero deve autocertificare sotto la propria responsabilità il proprio stato civile libero.
È bene sapere che il matrimonio contratto in Nevada da cittadini italiani ha valore legale a tutti gli effetti sia negli Stati Uniti che in Italia, dove però deve essere trascritto. Per effettuare la trascrizione esistono due strade: la prima è rivolgersi, a pagamento, al Vice Consolato Onorario Italiano di Las Vegas, la seconda è quello di registrarlo in proprio nel comune di residenza di uno dei due sposi, ma in questo caso è necessario richiedere in loco l'Apostilla.
Anche ottenere il divorzio e risposarsi è molto facile, rapido e poco costoso, non essendo previsto alcun periodo obbligatorio di separazione legale.
Questa foto è stata scattata con una Canon 7D + Canon 15-85 is
A view of the sea taken from our bus travelling north along the TF1 Autopista del sur (Southern motorway) as it passes the village of Las Eras on Tenerife's east coast.
SPNC #17
"A fleeting gesture caught on the fly, can distill the meaning of a relationship, hint at a moral lesson or subvert what’s really happening." - Justin Sainsbury
I've taken this shot a couple of times before, with various lighting. One of these times I want to get this shot at night, but it won't be easy!
Architect: Fernando Higueras, 1977
Landscape, pools & murals: César Manrique
One of the most notable contributions of César Manrique to the appearance of Lanzarote besides the built work is the absence of some of the most common (and bland) signs of mass tourism, including oversized seafront hotel complexes. Manriques idea was to “harness” the expanding tourist industry in the 70’s, and build accommodations and infrastructure only in a native way and to a limited extend – thus turning Lanzarote into an exclusive destination rather than compete with the other Canaries on a mass-market basis. His strategy was somewhat successful at the time (although constantly challenged, and after his death in 1996 mostly not upheld), and as result the scale of the tourist industry’s impact on Lanzarote feels less overwhelming than nearby examples such as Tenerife.
One of the exceptions built in Manriques lifetime was the large five-star Hotel Las Salinas (now Meliá Salinas) near Costa Teguise, by the Spanish architect Fernando Higueras, whom Manrique hat met in the early 60’s in Madrid. Designed as a structurally bold concrete frame with organic references, the hotel could nevertheless easily have become yet another cruise ship-sized block simply occupying the Teguise seafront, but the cleverness of Higueras’ sweeping lines and stacking slabs has been successfully coupled with an indoor and outdoor landscape designed by Manrique, who also delivered a series of mural reliefs that contribute greatly to the feel of the interior.
The jungle-like internal water gardens occupy the greatest part of the groundfloor of the pyramidically stacked levels, and even drop a floor, thus allowing daylight into the lower (staff) levels and concluding the water’s course with a small waterfall. Partly indoor and partly outdoor, this grand atrium is the main attraction of the design and is today referred to as a “botanical cathedral”. In the bar and reception areas, Manrique’s cubist bas-reliefs in plaster and volcanic stone are a perfect complement to Higueras’ almost sci-fi reminiscent structures – overshadowing the otherwise pretty poor and standard fit-out of the interiors.
Outside, Manrique’s contribution has been to design a playful mix of natural and artificial elements in the grand “poolscape” occupying most of the seafront, with lava rocks and small islands turning the pools into something to explore rather than swim laps, and taking the previous pool designs, such as the ones found in the Jameos del Agua or in his own house, to the next level.
Las D-5105 y 08, las mismas que recorren día tras días el patio de El Arenal moviendo carros de acá para allá, al puerto, a Huachipato, a Concepción, etc.
Las Tres Sorores, el macizo calcáreo más alto de Europa, formado por el Monte Perdido y sus dos picos menores (Cilindro y Añisclo) según se llega por la faja de Pelay y se desciende hacia el circo de Soaso.
The Three Sorores, the highest calcareous massif in Europe, formed by Monte Perdido (Lost Peak) and its two smaller peaks (Cilindro and Añisclo) as you get from the Pelay belt and descend to the Soaso cirque.
Luxor Las Vegas is a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip. The 30-story hotel, owned and operated by MGM Resorts International, has a 120,000-square-foot (11,000 m2) casino with over 2,000 slot machines and 87 table games.
Due to the 2008 to 2009 renovation, it has a new, highly modernized design and contains a total of 4,407 rooms, including 442 suites, lining the interior walls of a pyramid-shaped tower and within more recent twin 22-story ziggurat towers.
The hotel is named after the city of Luxor (ancient Thebes) in Egypt. Luxor is the fourth-largest hotel in Las Vegas and the eighth largest in the world.
Hello... Hello?
A payphone in Downtown Las Vegas.
Leica M (Typ 240) and Summicron 35mm, f/2, 1/1500th, ISO 1000
The oldest train depot in New Mexico is the Las Lunas depot on the AT&SF line. Prior to this, depots were often little more than a platform in front of a hotel or other existing building. Moved from its original site, the Las Lunas depot is now the VFW hall.
Las Vegasin (New Mexico) poliisilaitoksen Chevrolet Caprice jollain rekkastopilla 1990-luvun alussa. Tämä kaara on erikoistunut turvavyön käytön tarkkailuun. (kuva kokoelmistani)
Las Vegas PD (New Mexico) Chevrolet Caprice seatbelt enforcement unit sometime during early 1990s. (photo from my collection)