Recycled Percussion hosted the Grand Opening of its power percussion show last night at Studio 54 inside the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino. The founders of JUNK ROCK—a mixture of gritty assault on buckets, power tools, and other noise-related objects—push the sound limits with a revolutionary concept and an interactive twist never before experienced in Las Vegas.
Holly Madison poses with a Garbage Can Drum from Recycled Percussion at Studio 54 inside the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino.
They are not kidding when they call this Labor Day weekend! They really need to rename it to Relax Weekend or something. It’s been pretty much one shoot after another these last few days.
Some of the people I have shot this weekend in Lo Bosworth, The Wolf Pack from Twilight, Carmen Electra, Will.I.Am, Teresa Giudice, Busta Rhymes and a few others. Oh and the Jefferson Starship concert.
I know, you want pictures, ok. since this whole weekend kinda ran together into one, I’m going to do the same for this blog post.
Carmen Electra turned up the heat yesterday at the Moorea Beach Club at Mandalay Bay.
“The Twilight Saga” stars Tinsel Korey, Alex Meraz and Julia Jones indulged in some sweets at the Sugar Factory in Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood on Saturday.
Friday night, Lauren “Lo” Bosworth celebrated the launch of her new website www.TheLoDown.com at Lavo
Black Eyed Peas front man will.i.am was spinning at Wet Republic giving poolside partiers a DJ set they will never forget.
With will.i.am was Omarion so you know Wet Republic got crazy…
… and a couple from Saturday night’s Jefferson Starship concert…
Yeah, I know I left a few out, however that’s ok since I did not even list everyone that got in front of my lens this weekend. When things calm down a little I will post more pics from this Labor Day weekend.
The Men of Chippendales is by joined by Estella Warren, she has been featured in Vogue, Sports Illustrated, Maxim and you may remember her from the movie Planet of the Apes or the 70′s show.
Estella is the first of many more guest hosts as the Chippendales launch their Ultimate Girls Night Out! party/show at the Rio Hotel and Casino.
Then it was off to the Palms to catch Stacy Keibler on her way to host the Las Vegas Fantasy Football Super Draft VIP Party.
After that it was time to shoot Fantasia Barrino as she celebrated her “Back to Me” album release at Rain Nightclub with a performance and a “short” red carpet appearance.
Strange thing about Fantasia is many times she has stated that she is never asked to walk the Red Carpet, however when she does get asked, she rushes though it spending only about 20 seconds in front of the cameras. Strange….
Joining Fantasia as she celebrated her new album release was actress and fashion designer LisaRaye.
Talk about a crazy night. Last night was one of the craziest Red Carpets I have covered in a long time!
The press area was packed with photographers and video crews, so packed that at many times during the night we were literally stepping on each other. It was estimated that there were around 300 people from the international press there all in an area about the size of a large family room.
I think I was the only “normal” one there… 
However as luck would have it, standing next to me the whole night was Crystal Stewart, Miss USA 2008. She was interviewing the celebrity guests for TMG as they arrived at the 2010 Miss Universe Pageant.
Photo by Scott Harrison
Some of the celebrities that turned out for the red carpet were: Natalie Morales, Bret Michaels, John Legend, Mr. Trump, Farouk Shami, Miss Universe 2009 Stefania Fernandez, Miss Teen USA Kamie Crawford, Evan Lysacek, Jane Seymour, Chazz Palminteri, Sheila E, Tamron Hall, Niki Taylor, Chynna Phillips, William Baldwin, Criss Angel, Ryan Lochte, Cullen Jones, Madison Hill and more.
Congratulations! Miss Mexico becomes Miss Universe tonight in Las Vegas Nevada!
Jimena Navarrete, Miss Universe 2010 Country: Mexico, Age: 22
Wow, what a busy night… First covering Miss Universe events then Stephanie’s Magazine release and then the Movie premiere of the Takers. I love my job!
The red carpet outside of Lagasse’s Stadium for this premiere was huge! The press was out in full force to cover it, photographers and video crews all shoulder to shoulder out in the Vegas heat. Yay!
But dwarfing the press was the fans! 100′s of them filled the sidewalk as they waited patiently for the arrivals of the Takers cast and other celebrities to walk the carpet. Due to the amount of fans and the friendliness of all the stars signing autographs, this carpet was one of the longer ones, lasting from 10:30 to midnight.
So whats the movie about?
A group of professional bank robbers (Michael Ealy, Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen, Paul Walker, Idris Elba) who specialize in spectacular robberies, are pulled into one last job by a recently paroled cohort (T.I) only to be pitted against a hard-boiled detective (Matt Dillon) who interrupts their heist.
The Takers is due to be released in theaters on August 27th.
Nole Marin, director of Runway from America’s Next Top Model, and Stephanie Pratt, cover model for Runway’s summer issue, joined together as the magazine presented “What’s Hot, What’s New, What’s Next in Fashion” at Lavo at the Palazzo on Tuesday.
Bonus fact: The Hills star Stephanie Pratt is Spencer Pratt’s younger sister and the sister-in-law of Heidi Montag.
After all the public appearances and interviews, Miss Universe Pageant contestants have been making they decided to take a break and go down to City Center for an awesome dinner last night at Todd English P.U.B. If you haven’t eaten at the P.U.B. yet, you do not know what you are missing!
Here is a small sample of what has become a common sight this week in Vegas.
Las Vegas is getting it’s own franchise in the Lingerie Football League this fall.
Sunday dozens of women turned out to tryout for their place on the new team. Even Former Playmate and Baywatch star Angelica Bridges turned out to try to win a spot on the team.
These girls have heart, lots and lots of heart as Gene Hackman would say. They were made to do pretty much everything a real NFL tryout would, they did not make it easy for them. Ever see a 110 pound girl attempt to rush by a 270 pound man that is there to stop her?
The team is still looking for a name and the LFL is taking suggestions for it. If you think you have a great name for the Las Vegas team you can email it to the LFL. If your team name submission is picked you win season tickets for life! How cool is that?
You can email your team name suggestion to LasVegas@LFLUS.com
Bonus Fact: The 2011 Lingerie Bowl will be played in Las Vegas on Super Bowl Sunday
Model, actress and author Jenny McCarthy hosted the Palms Casino Resort’s 4th Annual Midsummer Night’s Dream tonight – It was a Masquerade Lingerie Bacchanalia, luring in Las Vegas’ most sinister Gods and Goddesses to party poolside to the wee hours of the night.
and talk about a Goddesses… Wow!
I know you are wondering… What the heck is a “Bacchanalia” Well… don’t worry about looking it up, I did it for you since I too had no idea that a “Bacchanalia” was.
“The bacchanalia were wild and mystic festivals of the Greek and Roman god Bacchus (or Dionysus). It has since come to describe any form of drunken revelry.”
Guess that means it was one heck of a party.
So last night at John Fitch’s bachelor party, I look down to the end of the carpet and see someone that makes me stop and think to myself, I know her, I think? Yeah I do, well maybe not, oh hell I don’t know… Unknown to me, she is looking at me thinking the same thing.
After a few minutes of this I walk over and as I get closer I realize that I do in fact know her and at the same time, she realizes the same thing. We both laugh… while I try to cover up the look of Duh! on my face…
So who was this girl with a full film crew? It was Model and TV Personality Stephanie that I shot just last month. This is what happens when you get old, you start to forget things, even beautiful models. <headdesk>
So of course I make her pose on the red carpet for me as I do my test shot, she is way better looking than the other photographers there that normally stand in for test shots.
She will probably kill me for this but here’s another of her, interviewing UFC fighter John Fitch.
Click play to watch her video from last night…
Check out RawVegas.tv for other cool stuff!
To see more pictures of my model photo shoot with Stephanie Click here…
Semi-Precious Weapons was at Studio 54 last night to celebrate another outrageous concert with Lady Gaga at MGM Grand’s Garden Arena.
Several years back, Semi-Precious Weapons asked Lady Gaga to perform as their opening act in NYC and now she is returning the favor for her worldwide tour!
Bai Ling was also on hand and in the mood to party.
The after-concert party must have been a wild night with these guys leading the way to craziness. I’m still not sure why a guy would wear high heel boots and pose like a girl on the red carpet however maybe after hanging with Lady Gaga this is mild….
John Fitch arrives to partake in the ultimate rite of passage – the bachelor party – at Tabú Ultra Lounge, last night. Ranked as the number-two welterweight in the world, Jon Fitch was celebrating his last days as a free man in style with an extravagant party thrown by Josh Koscheck at Vegas’ hottest ultra lounge. A few Miss Universe Contestants also surprised everyone when they showed up… – you know what they say: “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.”
2010 Annual Donny Osmond Get Together, August 6th and 7th! Fans had nothing but fun under the Las Vegas sun with exclusive opportunities with Donny including their chance to have a group photo with him outside the Flamingo Hotel and Casino taken by Las Vegas Photographer Dave Proctor.
Some of the other activities that fans was able to join Donny on were, a Donny guided tour of Hoover Dam, an exclusive dinner party hosted by Donny, catered by The Flamingo’s Paradise Garden Buffet, an aerobic workout with Donny and his personal trainer Adam Gentz (Hamster) and a private poolside party at the Flamingo Lagoon Pool with Hors d’oeuvres like risotto crab cake, applewood smoked chicken breast, chicken and steak sliders.
Donny and 600 of his loyal fans
Would you like to know what goes into something like this? Just click play on the YouTube video and see for yourself.
Click here to see Donny and Marie live in concert!
Someone just forward me this, I wish these mags would tell me when they run my shots when they run them and not months afterwards.
My shot on the left of Eva Longoria Parker taken at Tony’s 28th birthday party at Eve Night Club at City Center.
It was her husbands birthday however as normal, Eva was the one that got all the attention.
