More from my floating Photo Album

  Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Thursday, June 21, 2007

Thought you all might appreciate an update on all the little random photos I take around town.  I started a new page even, because the other one was getting so full.

Stairway from Heaven

I found this in Muscat.  I don't think it was the result of Cyclone Gonu, but I really don't know why it doesn't go all the way down to the ground.








From Jumeira Beach Park--the famous horses found round the city.

One horse, two horse

Darker blue horse

Stormy Skies

Ok, so I was walking back one night, and there was a fierce gale which blew a lot of sand into my face.  The sky was cloudy and cold, and strangely colored.  What this was, was fallout from Cyclone Gonu.  I snapped a shot of the Marina at this time, when the sky was looking quite forboding and apocalyptic.  Unfortunately, although this was the worst that Dubai ever saw of it, things were, and still are, quite apocalyptic in sections of Muscat.

Dubai Land

First of all, I snapped this one of "Dubai Land" when we were headed out to Al-Ain that once...waaay back.  This is a theme park which will eventually house reconstructions of the seven wonders of the world, plus several modern wonders, including a life-size replica of the Eiffel Tower with a hotel inside of it.  At least, if the rumors are true.

Cool

I also snapped this on the way to al-Ain.  These constructed scenes are just sitting there in the desert, in preparation for something else.








A while back, they had a festival in BurJuman which involved a lot of chocolate and coffee, for free.  So every day I would go down and try all the free samples of coffee, and eat all the snack-sized chocolate bars they gave me.  And it's true--McDonald's coffee really does taste better than Starbucks.  In fact, most coffee tastes better than Starbucks, which is really just like bitter water.  Anyway, they had this artist there who makes things out of chocolate, and so I took a picture of her making things out of chocolate.  One of her works included a Burj al-Arab-shaped hunk of chocolate.

Sculpting Chocolate

 

This is made entirely of chocolate

I was walking to class one day, minding my own business, and I came across this in the elevator.  I spoke to the two girls in charge of it, and it was, unsurprisingly, an art assignment.

Look at all the colors!

They call this a salad??

There is some artwork sitting around in the art building here.  I like it:

Part 2

This is pretty much true

Part 1