. >> anthony bondi is an artist and a born and bred las vegas native.ee am i complicit in the worst of our city by making art that glorifies the city? i don't profit directly from what those people do but of course i do because i live in the city and as that money rolls all around us. but how do we live with it? it's not why and where the people come from who do the grotesque things people do here. it's how do we live here complicit in it. that's the big issue, is to be able to be self-reflective about the place. or you have to just go and stay high all the time, which is a shame, you know, which is another popular way of dealing with living here. >> is vegas a friendly town? >> yeah, always friendly because that's our job. >> but i mean to itself. to -- you're a local. >> no. >> no. >> not a bit. this town has never had any respect whatsoever for the people who just happen to live here. in the old days, we were co-conspirators in those days. we weren't citizens. the new authorities, the new power is exactly as anonymous as the old power. no phone numbe

. >> anthony bondi is an artist and a born and bred las vegas native.t degree am i complicit in the worst of our city by making art that glorifies the city? i don't profit directly from what those people do but of course i do because i live in the city and as that money rolls all around us. but how do we live with it? it's not why and where the people come from who do the grotesque things people do here. it's how do we live here complicit in it. that's the big issue, is to be able to be self-reflective about the place. or you have to just go and stay high all the time, which is a shame, you know, which is another popular way of dealing with living here. >> is vegas a friendly town? >> yeah, always friendly because that's our job. >> but i mean to itself. to -- you're a local. >> no. >> no. >> not a bit. this town has never had any respect whatsoever for the people who just happen to live here. in the old days, we were co-conspirators in those days. we weren't citizens. the new authorities, the new power is exactly as anonymous as the old power. no phone