Freedom and all that jazz

Oh, and the icing on the cake.

Turkey Cinemascope

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Turkey Cinemascope” series provides some very intense and beautiful photography of Turkey. Shots like the above do a great job of capturing the desolate plains strewn with crumbled cities.
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“Speer meets Disney on the shores of Araby”

Wonderful article over at the New Left Review about the human cost and sheer excessiveness of Dubai’s construction boom. If it’s too good to be true…

Abstract:

On the rim of the war zone, a new Mecca of conspicuous consumption and economic crime, under the iron rule of Sheikh al-Maktoum. Skyscrapers half a mile high, artificial archipelagoes, fantasy theme parks—and the indentured Asian labour force that sustains them.

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