The AAC Party ‘10

As many of you saw, I had to resort to public begging to get into the Advance Armament Corporation party aka. BIG BANG 2010. Fortunately Cara Brittingham took pity on me and hooked me up with tickets not only for myself but also for my talented photographers Bryan and Isaac.

A Maxim girl (back). Photo © Bryan Jones

Lots more photos after the jump ...

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Maxim girl. Photo © Bryan Jones

I got to the party early, or so I thought, only to realize that when going to a corporate party in Vegas that is serving food, 30 minutes after the doors open is not early, it is actually a-long-line-waiting-to-get-food late. I missed the opening band but the food was worth it.

The Opening Band. Photo © Bryan Jones

The Opening Band. Photo © Isaac

Go Go Dancer. Photo © Isaac

The DJ. Photo © Isaac

The headline act was a KISS tribute band named Mini KISS. They were great.

Photo © Bryan Jones

Photo © Bryan Jones

Photo © Bryan Jones

Photo © Bryan Jones

Jeremy, the national spokesperson of The Wounded Warrior Project, was given a Ric Flair Championship belt. He is a really great guy.

Jeremy given Ric Flair Championship belt.

Rachel and Jeremy

If the fistfuls of cash being handed over to the bartenders were anything to go by, people where having a lot of fun. Lynnsey supplied me with extra complementary drinks coupons, so my wallet was no lighter when I left :) Thanks Lynnsey you're awesome!

Knight Armament had brought along two dummy (solid plastic and obviously non-functional) rifles with night vision scopes mounted on them. Glassing the Vegas strip at night, from the 51st floor of the Rio, was an incredible experience. One scope was a thermal scope and the other had an image intensifier mounted in front of it.

Maxim girl glasses the Vegas hotels. Photo © Bryan Jones

Image intensifier. Photo © Bryan Jones

Photo © Isaac

Photo © Bryan Jones

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Photo © Isaac

Photo © Bryan Jones

Photo © Bryan Jones

Photo © Bryan Jones

FLIR Thermal Imaging camera. Photo © Bryan Jones

As you no doubt have guessed, I had a great time at the party. It was awesome to have to opportunity to meet the AAC crew. I had the honor of meeting Kevin (the founder), Cara, Lynnsey, Rachel, Jason and Mike. They are a very cool group of people.

Disclaimer: I was given tickets on the proviso that I would mention the party on the blog. I would have of course done this anyway.

[ Many thanks to Bryan and Isaac for their photos and Cara and Mike for sorting out the tickets. ]

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Steve Feb 2nd 2010 misc Tags: , 8 Comments

8 Responses to “The AAC Party ‘10”

  1. Steveon 02 Feb 2010 at 12:34 am link comment

    Ramtinxxl, sheesh, when I make a typo I really make a typo!

  2. SpudGunon 02 Feb 2010 at 3:40 am link comment

    Go Go dancers, midgets, rock bands, wrestlers and pretending to shoot people on the Vegas Strip – now I can see why you begged for tickets. :)

    I was going to make a ’snide’ remark, but decided against it as I knew it would be motivated by sheer jealousy.

    You are a lucky so-and-so though.

  3. Trango78on 02 Feb 2010 at 4:24 am link comment

    WOW, and I thought seeing Ted Nugent at the Otis party was cool. Obviously at the wrong party!

    Anyone hear about the SureFire party? It was supposed to be very exclusive.

    Props to your photographers too, and not just for the shots of the Maxim girls.

  4. SpaceMonkeyon 02 Feb 2010 at 6:07 am link comment

    No wonder the ACR is going to $3K.

  5. Caraon 02 Feb 2010 at 6:15 am link comment

    Nice post! Thanks Steve…it was nice to meet you and your crew of photogs. See you guys next year, let me know how many tickets you’ll need :)

  6. CUrobon 02 Feb 2010 at 6:28 am link comment

    Dude, your photographer rocks!! great shots!

  7. Matt Groomon 02 Feb 2010 at 7:07 am link comment

    Oh, yeah? Well, the OTIS party featured Ted Nugent! The Maxim girls look just thrilled to be there. I would have wanted to go to that one, but I figured they’d stop the party every twenty minutes to announce the winner of a raffle.

  8. JasonAACon 02 Feb 2010 at 8:27 am link comment

    Glad you could be there and nice to meet you guys!
    That was a good time. I’m just recovering now.

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