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General Discussion => The Speakeasy: OOG/Off-topic Discussion => Topic started by: Benjamin Shepherd on 11 Nov 2010, 09:28
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http://vimeo.com/8951807
Discuss.
And watch fullscreen.
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Not my cup of tea.
Drinking a bottle of wine in the middle of the summer when the sun comes down, surrounded by lakes and forests kind of makes something like this obsolete.
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I like timelapses and this one's pretty nice, but I'd not really go for "most beautiful ever".
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I can't please anyone.
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(http://www.artandartdeadlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Rejected-Art-Award.jpg)
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Hey, I liked it.
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That is pretty seriously gorgeous.
Best ever ...? I'm not sure I've seen enough of the competition to say. But it is indeed very, very pretty.
(Watching the cranes on the towers switch this way and that was ... odd, somehow.)
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I rather liked it, but I hated how they kept changing views, I would have preferred it had one view and just sat there.
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Dubai is known for having the most construction cranes in the world at any given time. They're trying to build up this huge A-class city in a matter of years, but the architecture is astounding. Especially the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa:
(http://yeinjee.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/architecture-003-burj-khalifa.jpg)
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Dubai is known for having the most construction cranes in the world at any given time. They're trying to build up this huge A-class city in a matter of years, but the architecture is astounding.
They need to spend their oil money somehow and realize they need to invest for a future where oil may not be the black gold it is today.
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They need to spend their oil money somehow and realize they need to invest for a future where oil may not be the black gold it is today.
Dubai's economy isn't based on oil, actually. In fact, it's even more unstable a financial base than oil, as the banking crash exposed.
The video's pretty damn beautiful, but I must say that some scenes from Koyaanisqatsi outclass it.
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Well yes, Koyaanisqatsi is professionally made with Phillip Glass as the conductor. This has a pretty good cinematographer with Clint Mansell, who's epic.
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I almost made it to Dubai like six times but always ended up in Bahrain instead :|
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I almost went to Dubai to practice Arabic (which is kinda dubious, noting the demographics) but someone beat me to the scholarship. Also, I second Clint Mansell's "epicness".
http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/435
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I dug it.
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They need to spend their oil money somehow and realize they need to invest for a future where oil may not be the black gold it is today.
Dubai's economy isn't based on oil, actually. In fact, it's even more unstable a financial base than oil, as the banking crash exposed.
Dubai is in the United Arab Emirates. Among the UAEs exports is petroleum and natural gas. Dubai's economy may no longer be based on these natural resources, but it provided critical funds for the city to diversify.
So, I should amend my previous statement:
Dubai is spending oil money because they recongize the need to invest in a future where they can not depend on natural resources.
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Please stay on-topic to the original post, no political debates.
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Well, economic, but who's counting? :)
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Please stay on-topic to the original post, no political debates.
So a discussion of what is motivating construction the skyline you posted is off-topic?
Would posting other skylines be on-topic?
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It was my assumption that the discussion would be focused on the artistic and technical merits of this work, and other similar to it.
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But aren't the political and other motivations behind what we see on the video part of what constitutes its artistic implications?
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Fine have at it, I don't feel like arguing
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I did not mean to argue. I'm sorry if it came out that way. It's your thread, certainly you have the right to request people keep certain topics out of it. I just do not myself think that the political context of a piece of art is irrelevant to its artistic meaning. The piece, if it was of *insert the most boring city you can think of* here, would not, IMO, be the same. Or if it was from a geographically very different place. We bring what we know of the place to the emotions we get from the art depicting it.