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orange

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Re: Most beautiful timelapse ever.
« Reply #15 on: 14 Nov 2010, 20:59 »
Quote from: Indahar on 13 Nov 2010, 12:01
Quote from: orange on 13 Nov 2010, 10:39
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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Benjamin Shepherd

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Re: Most / "A" beautiful timelapse .
« Reply #16 on: 14 Nov 2010, 21:02 »
Please stay on-topic to the original post, no political debates.
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Casiella

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Re: Most / "A" beautiful timelapse .
« Reply #17 on: 14 Nov 2010, 21:05 »
Well, economic, but who's counting? :)
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Re: Most / "A" beautiful timelapse .
« Reply #18 on: 15 Nov 2010, 00:05 »
Quote from: Benjamin Shepherd on 14 Nov 2010, 21:02
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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Benjamin Shepherd

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Re: Most / "A" beautiful timelapse .
« Reply #19 on: 15 Nov 2010, 00:57 »
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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Elsebeth Rhiannon

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Re: Most / "A" beautiful timelapse .
« Reply #20 on: 15 Nov 2010, 04:30 »
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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Benjamin Shepherd

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Re: Most / "A" beautiful timelapse .
« Reply #21 on: 15 Nov 2010, 09:12 »
Fine have at it, I don't feel like arguing
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Elsebeth Rhiannon

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Re: Most / "A" beautiful timelapse .
« Reply #22 on: 15 Nov 2010, 11:15 »
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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.
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