Is the Canopy Half Empty or Half Full?

As it is wont to do, Las Vegas is renovating part of its showy landscape. Projected to be complete by New Year’s Eve 2019, the re-do of the Viva Vision light canopy on Fremont Street will be the world’s largest single video screen. Go big or go home, said Las Vegas. Arrayed with nearly 50,000,000 LED lights, the screen’s planned light shows will mesmerize onlookers. The experience of Fremont Street is peculiarly loaded with all manner of incoming stimulus. Some of it sketchy as can be. Distractions galore bombard the droves of pedestrians. It’s quite a bodacious scene. On Fremont there’s something for everyone, especially if that someone has questionable standards. So when the show begins, and you stop to look up in amazement and dazzlement, I say: watch the show and watch your wallet.