My Experience: I was walking under the canopy of the Fremont Street Experience here in Las Vegas, waiting for the next light show. It would be my third of the night, a different theme each time. Rockets, jet airplanes, dancing girls, and creatures of both land and sea – an amazing synchronization of both sound and color.
The canopy, four city blocks long, dotted with 12.5 million synchronized LED lamps,, each one assigned a special role. Once the bright lights of the street dimmed and the heads of the spectators angled up, I, too, grew tall with anticipation. And then the heavy beat from the strategically placed speakers sounded a thunderous applause. The beginning. Waves crashed and cymbals clashed. Lightning streaked across the sky.
Representative in its grandeur and simplistic in its notion, the alternating arrays of light depicting our genesis. What a mesmerizing effect it had on me, dazzling me with electric discharge a fine rendition of “Creation.” Yes, I had visited the Sistine Chapel and viewed upon the ceiling Michelangelo’s rendition but in this effect, I was eclipsing the future. Especially since I stood next to a fine mix of modernized humans and with their cell phones and plastic bosoms and Rolex watches I was taking part in a revised “Renaissance,” another guaranteed triumph of humanity
R.J. Fico
