dubaiisnuts Dubai in 1990 prior to the craziness The same street in 2003 Last year The madness. Dubai is said to currently have 15-25% of all the world's cranes. The Dubai Waterfront. All of this was built in the last 5 years, including that island that looks like a palm tree. The Palm Islands in Dubai. Upon completion, the resort will have 2,000 villas, 40 luxury hotels, shopping centers, movie theaters, and many other facilities. The World Islands. 300 artificially created islands in the shape of the world. The Burj al-Arab hotel in Dubai. Hydropolis, the world's first underwater hotel. The Burj Dubai. This is what downtown Dubai will look like around 2008-2009. The Al Burj. Recently it was announced that the final height of this tower will be 1200 meters. Theres still more of this craziness. Onto page 2
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Dubai Architecture- The Burj al Alam, or The World Tower. Upon completion it will rank as the world's highest hotel. It is expected to be finished by 2009. At 480 meters it will only be 28 meters shorter than the Taipei 101. The Trump International Hotel & Tower, which will be the centerpiece of one of the palm islands, The Palm Jumeirah. Dubailand. Dubailand will be built on 3 billion square feet (107 miles^2) at an estimated $20 billion price tag. Dubai Sports City. Currently, the Walt Disney World Resort is the #1 tourist destination in the world. The Dubai Marina is an entirely man made development that will contain over 200 highrise buildings when finished. The Dubai Mall will be the largest shopping mall in the world with over 9 million square feet of shopping and around 1000 stores. Ski Dubai, which is already open, is the largest indoor skiing facility in the world. The UAE Spaceport would be the first spaceport in the world if construction ever gets under way. Some other other crazy shit...
Pregnancy Photography - How to Take Great Shots With a Baby Bump It all started with Demi Moore gracing the cover of a magazine and proudly displaying her 8 month pregnant belly. Since then, bold, stylish, and fun maternity photos have become an essential part of a baby’s first photo album. We don’t all get the luxury of professional photographers and makeup artists, so here are 5 tips you need to keep in mind to ensure a pregnancy photo that is worthy to be put on the pages of Vogue. 1. One of the foremost considerations you will have to consider in maternity photography is timing. 2. It is also critical that you select the right location that best defines your overall mood and personality. If this is your first time to take a pregnancy shoot then opting for more controlled environment such as a studio is an ideal option. Your home is also an excellent option especially if you want to capture this special moment at a place where you will raise your little one. 3. 4. Make sure to bring several changes of clothing. 5. About the author
visualsundae The Tripatorium™ | Home Germany and the 10 Most Beautiful Castles You Can See There - Decoded Stuff Do you remember the Brothers Grimm stories? Are you fairly tempted to look for Snow White and Cinderella inside a beautiful castle? How about climbing the tower of Rapunzel? The German medieval castles were the places that inspired the beautiful locations from the most famous European tales. Amazing heights, complex towers and beautiful details are present all over the German territory and from the North to the South the tourist hungry for beauty can admire the best of spectacular historical architecture had to offer. Whether they are placed along beautiful rivers or simply placed on top of high mountains surrounded by ancient forests, the German castles are the most vivid expression of romantic times when chivalry and beautiful damsels inspired the bards and story tellers to create what the kids today are calling fairytales. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Color Theory 101 - DesignFestival First impressions are everything. How you look and how you present yourself can determine how you are perceived. The same goes for our design work. The impression that our work gives depends on a myriad of different factors. One of the most important factors of any design is color. Figuring out which colors work well with others isn’t just a matter of chance. Primary Colors Colors start out with the basis of all colors, called the Primary Colors. Secondary Colors If you evenly mix red and yellow, yellow and blue, and blue and red, you create the secondary colors, which are green, orange and violet. Tertiary Colors Tertiary colors are made when you take the secondary colors and mix them with the primary colors. So, now that you know how colors are made, you can understand how the color combinations on the color wheel model work. Complimentary Colors Complimentary colors are colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel. Analogous Colors Triads Split Complimentary Colors Square Colors
Sfaturi de la nutriţionist Nutriţionista Kerry Torrens te învaţă cum să găteşti mai bine şi mai sănătos. Învinge oboseala amiezii Alegerea unui meniu corect la prânz te va ajuta să ai un tonus mult mai bun după-amiaza, fără să te mai simți leneș și apatic. Iată cum poți fi cu bateriile încărcate toată ziua. • Renunță la o felie Dacă îți plac carbohidrații, dar nu și sentimentul de oboseală pe care îl provoacă, dă la o parte felia de chiflă de deasupra sandviciului. Înlocuiește-o cu mai multe proteine slabe: pește fiert, șuncă, pui, ouă, creveți sau brânză slabă. Beneficiile usturoiului Usturoiul este un superaliment care ajută la scăderea colesterolului și la încetinirea arterosclerozei. Fă o schimbare simplă Dacă ai o zi ocupată sau stresantă, ceaiul verde te va calma, mulțumită unei componente-cheie, L-teanina. O dietă echilibrată Asigură-te că în meniul tău incluzi mâncăruri proaspete, neprocesate, și cel puțin 5 porții de fructe și legume pe zi (se pun la numărătoare și cele din compot sau congelate).
Hanger Tea – Teabags Packaging by Soon Mo Kang Hang Me Some Tea If the Hanger Tea were to be submitted as an entry to tea-packaging-awards (if such a thing existed), I say it would win hands down! I can’t think of a better or more obvious way to pack teabags than this hanger & T-shirt design. It’s a funny take on how the simple motion of hanging a used teabag on the rim of your cup, be done. Woodhouse Natural Swimming Pools The Collection | Ron Arad. Rover Chair. 1981 Audio Program excerpt Ron Arad: No Discipline , August 2–October 19, 2009 Designer, Ron Arad: The Rover Chair is the first piece of furniture I've ever made. When I made this I had absolutely no idea that this piece was going to suck me into the world of design. I went to a scrap yard. Curator, Paola Antonelli: And the legend goes that the fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier saw the Rover Chair, and there were quite a few of them, and he bought them all. Ron Arad: The chair you're looking at—the Red Rover Chair—it normally lives in my living room.
Peter Blake | Alastair Gordon Andrew Geller, quixotic American architect and designer, passed away on Christmas Day, 2011. He was a good friend and inspiration to many. Beach Houses: Andrew Geller, the book I published about him in 2003 went out of print and became quite difficult to find. Pearlroth House, Westhampton Beach I couldn’t believe my eyes when I first saw his houses on the beaches of Long Island, especially the Pearlroth House rising over the dunes of Westhampton Beach: twin boxes tilted on point with a candy-striped chimney in between–he called it the “square brassiere” or “double box kite.” Study for Hunt House It was 1986, the peak of Post-Modernist delerium, and I was preparing a book and exhibition on the forgotten modernist architects of Long Island. Frank House, Fire Island When the Long Island Modern show opened in 1987, Robert Stern criticized me for including Geller’s work. Esquire Weekend House Sure, he was sometimes uneven, but so was Picasso. “Bigger,” says Geller, “is not always better.
Time-lapse photography Blossoming Pelargonium. 2 hours are collapsed to a few seconds A sunset time-lapse Moving clouds time-lapse Time lapse video of mung bean seeds germinating a timelapse with a GoPro camera mounted on a bicycle helmet during a bike ride in Chicago Time-lapse photography is a technique whereby the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much lower than that used to view the sequence. Processes that would normally appear subtle to the human eye, e.g. the motion of the sun and stars in the sky, become very pronounced. History[edit] Some classic subjects of timelapse photography include: cloudscapes and celestial motionplants growing and flowers openingfruit rottingevolution of a construction projectpeople in the city The technique has been used to photograph crowds, traffic, and even television. The first use of time-lapse photography in a feature film was in Georges Méliès' motion picture Carrefour De L'Opera (1897). From 1929 to 1931, R. Terminology[edit]