Palm Island Dubai - Spiral Jetty Utah

J

jk_gabba

gabba survivor
I'm really blown away looking a photos of the fake island currently in construction of dubai:

http://www.esa.int/export/esaEO/SEMKRXZO4HD_economy_1.html
<img src="http://faculty.uaeu.ac.ae/~myagoub/images/Dubai_palm_ISS006-E-35516.jpg">

Was this an inspiration: http://www.spiraljetty.org.

Dubai sounds like a pretty amazing place, anyone here been/from there? i keep seeing Dubai refered to as "Dubai Internet City" on the net because of the investment in IT at the moment, it almost sounds like a Ballard Fantasy made real...
 
Last edited:
Woebot

Woebot

Well-known member
jk_gabba said:
I'm really blown away looking a photos of the fake island currently in construction of dubai:.
Click to expand...

theres an ENORMOUS skyscraper being built in that part of the world too.
 
luka

luka

Well-known member
loas of english footballers have bought houses on palm island already, even though the houese don't exist yet.
 
H

h-crimm

Well-known member
the_world_dubai.jpg


no comment
 
R

rupture

teeth puller outer
Dubai is a very interesting place. i played there. the island/achipelago is ultra-luxury resort, it basically offers very rich people the chance to own their own little island. i´m pretty sure they´ve already given away bungalows free to people like the Beckhams.

´Dubai Internet City´ is outside of downtown Dubai. The internet is censored there generally, but NOT in Internet City, to attract foreign business. no income tax there for the first 30 years, etc. so much new construction that the govt. rations concrete.

spiral jetty is discoloring and slowly submerging.
 
P

polystyle

Well-known member
Way above the water ...

They really want Dubai to be that ultra lux - while wired - in place .
Saw TV show on that already famous tall sail shaped lux Tower that projects up over the water .
Plush silly - square and canned at same time ,
as someone said - ripe for Ballard Hi Rise scenario
 
sufi

sufi

lala
so what's up with dubay?

charlie brooker in the guardian today on the 'well i never been there but i told you so' smugness...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/30/charlie-brooker-dubai-dream-crashes

i assume that there is more than enough petrodollars sloshing around in state coffers to keep the emirate afloat, but it sure is due for a reality check. i'm not sure dubai is playing by the same rules in development or economic terms so i'll be interested to see how hard it crashes

i worked over there in the 90's and everyone was like wow everythings changed so much, it's all so new, all this development and luxury... seems like that trend has persisted,

anyone been over there recently (stelf?) i know a few folk who have property there & they seem to be sticking with it altho the economic indicators have not been good for a while now, 20 years ago there was fuck all there so even a worthless villa is a big step up...
 
M

mistersloane

heavy heavy monster sound
I had friends from Saudi over recently and they laughed sooo hard at this :



So even if Dubai is in a bit of a pickle, it doesn't seem that ideas of growth are being tempered in any way.

Johann Hari's pieces in the Independent are weird and snide about it all.
 
version

version

Well-known member
Feel like I see a new story every week about some Brit getting caught with drugs in Dubai and facing decades in prison. There are all these influencers heading over there getting used as drug mules, sometimes worse.
 
  • Wow
Reactions: sus
version

version

Well-known member
version said:
I watched this whole thing when it was uploaded about a month ago. They just drive around in an expensive car, go to the gym, then drive around in an expensive boat. They don't really seem to do anything, or even have any sort of internal world. There's no sense of any of them even particularly liking one another or genuinely communicating. An endless advert with no discernible product beyond the appearance of a lifestyle. Networking as entertainment.

Click to expand...
 
  • Love
Reactions: sus
version

version

Well-known member
luka said:
Its interesting how many gangsters base themselves there
Click to expand...

Maybe I'm imagining it, but I'm sure you've compared it to Spain along those lines. The Costa del Sol being dubbed the 'Costa del Crime' back in the 80s.
 
version

version

Well-known member
One of the things I read in the comments under one of those drug mule articles was that all these people know about Dubai is what they get from Instagram clips and stuff like that Mike Thurston vid with Tate. They're going over there thinking they can behave exactly like they do in the UK without realising how much harsher the penalties can be if you get caught.
 
shakahislop

shakahislop

Well-known member
i've been there for some reason but only have vague memories of a pink hotel and driving across the river looking at houses on the distant fronds
 
shakahislop

shakahislop

Well-known member
dubai is fucked but it's the new york of the 21st century. new money, the new global migrant city. the new order
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top