{"id":1059,"date":"2013-08-30T14:01:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T21:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2013-11-09T04:00:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T11:00:32","slug":"behind-the-scenes-of-syfys-new-series-naked-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/behind-the-scenes-of-syfys-new-series-naked-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind-the-Scenes of Syfy&#8217;s New Series, &#8220;Naked Vegas&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Syfy, the cable channel that brought us &ldquo;Sharknado,&rdquo; will soon debut a series focusing on two of our favorite things, nakedness and Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>In October, 2013, the Syfy channel will air &ldquo;Naked Vegas,&rdquo; a show about the alluring world of body painting.<\/p>\n<p>While roaming the Fremont Street Experience, downtown, as we do pretty much nightly, we saw a number of &ldquo;Filming in Progress&rdquo; signs in the Golden Gate, and ventured in to capture an exclusive sneak peek at what&rsquo;s in store in &ldquo;Naked Vegas.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1060\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1060\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/naked_vegas1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-1060 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt='In television industry parlance, this equipment is known as \"production stuff.\"' src=\"\/vitalvegas\/dist\/images\/common\/transparent_3x2.gif\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/naked_vegas1.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1060\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In television industry parlance, this equipment is known as &ldquo;production stuff.&rdquo;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Filming was taking place in the Golden Gate&rsquo;s high limit room, with a large black drape blocking the view. For awhile, anyway.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1061\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1061\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/naked_vegas5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-1061 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Production stuff. Back when we were a production assistant in L.A., we spent entire days sitting and watching the stuff.\" src=\"\/vitalvegas\/dist\/images\/common\/transparent_3x2.gif\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/naked_vegas5.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1061\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">More production stuff. Back when we were a production assistant in Los Angeles, we spent entire days sitting and watching the stuff.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The production crew was tight-lipped about the proceedings, and hotel officials have been sworn to secrecy about the show.<\/p>\n<p>Because, you know, body painting is right up there with the NSA&rsquo;s domestic surveillance program in terms of state secrets. Well, then, we&rsquo;re the Edward Snowden of Las Vegas blogs, because we got an exclusive photo of one of the models featured in the show.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1062\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1062\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/naked_vegas2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-1062 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Sorry if you were expecting nakedness. Just watch the show.\" src=\"\/vitalvegas\/dist\/images\/common\/transparent_3x2.gif\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/naked_vegas2.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sorry if you were expecting nakedness. Just watch the show, already.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Naked Vegas&rdquo; premieres Oct. 29, 2013, and will be a six-part &ldquo;docuseries,&rdquo; whatever that might be. The &ldquo;docu&rdquo; element seems to imply this new show will be a documentary, but we&rsquo;re thinking not-so-much.<\/p>\n<p>The show&rsquo;s official release says, &ldquo;Syfy will transport viewers inside the provocative and imaginative world of body painting art, set amidst the fast-paced glitter of life on the Las Vegas Strip.&rdquo; And, apparently, downtown, too.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1063\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1063\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/naked_vegas3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-1063 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"On the set of &quot;Naked Vegas. Sorry we couldn't get a better photo. Being Tased by security tends to affect one's concentration.\" src=\"\/vitalvegas\/dist\/images\/common\/transparent_3x2.gif\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/naked_vegas3.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the set of &ldquo;Naked Vegas.&rdquo; Sorry we couldn&rsquo;t get a better photo. Being Tased by security tends to affect one&rsquo;s concentration.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What we do know is the show will feature five body painting artists, called the &ldquo;Skin Team,&rdquo; and from what we could see at Golden Gate, their work is amazing.<\/p>\n<p>One of the featured artists, Nicholas &ldquo;Nix&rdquo; Herrera, took part in another Syfy show, Face Off, which we absolutely loved, yes, even more than &ldquo;Sharknado.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1064\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1064\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nicholas_herrera.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-1064 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Nicholas &quot;Nix&quot; Herrera worked makeup miracles on &quot;Face Off,&quot; so we trust he'll do the same on &quot;Naked Vegas.&quot; Plus, more naked.\" src=\"\/vitalvegas\/dist\/images\/common\/transparent_3x2.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nicholas_herrera.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicholas Herrera worked makeup miracles on &ldquo;Face Off,&rdquo; so we trust he&rsquo;ll do the same on &ldquo;Naked Vegas.&rdquo; Plus, more naked.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Golden Gate segment will be in the third episode of &ldquo;Naked Vegas,&rdquo; with other episodes involving Eli Roth&rsquo;s Goretorium at Planet Hollywood, Rio headliners Penn &amp; Teller, a Playboy lingerie party and dance crew Jabbawockeez, currently appearing at Luxor.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, all this begs the question &ldquo;What does body painting have to do with science fiction?&rdquo; Well, other than that green Orion slave woman on the original &ldquo;Star Trek,&rdquo; of course. Our answer: We have no idea. Although, from what we could see of the taping at Golden Gate, while the body painting aspect of the show might be fact-based, the scenarios involving Las Vegas personalities are probably more fiction than fact. You&rsquo;re on your own with the &ldquo;science&rdquo; part.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and Syfy bills itself as providing &ldquo;imagination-based entertainment,&rdquo; so there&rsquo;s that.<\/p>\n<p>The prospect of naked people being body painted is an irresistible draw, so the show should do pretty well, even without sharks. We&rsquo;ll know for sure when &ldquo;Naked Vegas&rdquo; airs in October.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syfy, the cable channel that brought us &ldquo;Sharknado,&rdquo; will soon debut a series focusing on two of our favorite things, nakedness and Las Vegas. In October, 2013, the Syfy channel will air &ldquo;Naked Vegas,&rdquo; a show about the alluring world of body painting. While roaming the Fremont Street Experience, downtown, as we do pretty much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-downtownlasvegas","category-vegas"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Behind-the-Scenes of Syfy&#039;s New Series, &quot;Naked Vegas&quot;  | Vital Vegas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An exclusive behind-the-scenes look at Syfy&#039;s &quot;Naked Vegas&quot; taped at Golden Gate and other Las Vegas hotels.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" 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