Found this video link, at Google Video UK, courtesy of Desert Lady. There are lots and lots of vids about Dubai - this official promotional one, and others about events and ....traffic.. and other stuff.
Returning home today, I was quite overwhelmed by the sheer density of high-rise buildings on both sides of the Sheikh Zayed Highway. So many stacks of cells, like termite colonies. Vast, crowded, impersonal, inhuman. The stuff of sci-fi movies. You think you're an individual, but you're just clone model #5734985057635645651895-1561654, and you will occupy your place in time and space, surrounded by all the other clones, who also think that they count for something.
I read somewhere that ants, bees and termites have no higher sense beyond the urge to perform their particular function: the benefits of genetic programming. That obviously works for them. The trouble is that the housing model of the termite colony - especially in Dubai, where we have the biggest, tallest, goodgollymissmolliest of everything rising out of the ground 24/7 - brings on existential angst amongst creatures of higher consciousness. Or maybe that's just me. At 5.42 in the sleepless pale a.m.
Emergence 
DubayyI expect it will be beautiful when it's finished, but I shan't miss it.
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