Tiger, tiger, planning blight...

[Marty Bonnar]

Not sure if this pic has been seen in the US (or even England!) This is the covershot of the latest issue of 'Bunkered' - the ONLY Golf publication actually made in Scotland!



Tiger, tiger, tiger...the 'experienced professional poring over the oh-so complicated routing plan shot' is sooooo 80s, baby!

FBD.

[Voytek Wilczak]

So how does Al Ruwaya look like?

Any new pics?

[RJ_Daley]

http://realestate.theemiratesnetwork.com/developments/dubai/dubailand.php

Here you go lads, if you have 24 minutes to watch the future in the video on the bottom of the page, here is everything you need to know about Dubailand.  This Sheikiman,  Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, makes Walt Disney look like a low expectation, underachieving dolt...    

Tiger's golf project seems to be a small part of the overall master plan to transform the desert into a be all and end all destination escape to fantasyland.  

I wonder if the average "global family" will be able to fit this ecomomy vacation destination in on their pilgrimage to bankruptcyland due to outrageous energy prices that support all this?  

It is just a short flight over armageddon, and right next to our good friends in Tehran, bring the kids...  

But, I suppose this is just their way of saying 'thanks for the business and continue using our fine petroleum products'.

Direct all complaints to the Mayor of Dubai's office...

[Dan Kelly]

Mr. Blake's poem, which Martin references, has a potentially disturbing couplet in the very first stanza:

"What immortal hand or eye   
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"

Framing? Symmetry? Shudder.   

[Joe Hancock]

Oh oh, Dan.....

I think framing is important....just on a lot  bigger scale than "three mounds behind the green" framing. Think mountains, oceans, vistas....all framing wonderfully placed greens....

But, I'm no poet.....

Joe

[Voytek Wilczak]

http://realestate.theemiratesnetwork.com/developments/dubai/dubailand.php

Here you go lads, if you have 24 minutes to watch the future in the video on the bottom of the page, here is everything you need to know about Dubailand.  This Sheikiman,  Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, makes Walt Disney look like a low expectation, underachieving dolt...    

Tiger's golf project seems to be a small part of the overall master plan to transform the desert into a be all and end all destination escape to fantasyland.  

I wonder if the average "global family" will be able to fit this ecomomy vacation destination in on their pilgrimage to bankruptcyland due to outrageous energy prices that support all this?  

It is just a short flight over armageddon, and right next to our good friends in Tehran, bring the kids...  

But, I suppose this is just their way of saying 'thanks for the business and continue using our fine petroleum products'.

Direct all complaints to the Mayor of Dubai's office...

I am not sure I am understanding your complaints.

They have something we don't (oil).

They are a cartel and they dictate the prices (surprise?).

They spend their money the way they want (as long as they spend on Dubailand and not terrorism, I'm cool).

It's called business.

[RJ_Daley]

Voytek, you asked what it looks like above.  I posted a link to a 24 minute video, and my comments.  

"You say they have something we don't"... Well, not exactly, we do.

"They are a cartel and dictate the oil prices"... well OK, that seems true.

"They spend their money the way they want (as long as they spend on Dubailand and not terrorism, I'm cool)".  ...do they pay off for not being attacked by the extremist Islamic loonies?  Some journalism suggest that.

"It's called business".  Some might say it is unwise dependency.  

Hey, maybe al Maktoum is the nicest guy since Walt Disney.  But, if he is such a great guy, why don't he do something really cool with all the cash and bring the greatest gift of all to his people, a democratically constituted republic with fair competition in the market place?

[Mike Nuzzo]

To share the poem.
It's in a poetry book I frequently read to my daughter.
She likes the Tyger, I like the Stars line...
Which is almost as good as "even the wind stopped to watch...


Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare sieze the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art.
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

1794

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyger

[Mark_F]

You read William Blake to your daughter/

What do you rock her to sleep with - Megadeth?  

[ForkaB]

I've always thought that "rhyming" eye with symmetry (even in the 18th century the pronunciation was anything but "symmetric"...) was a classic use of irony.

[Dan Kelly]

I've always thought that "rhyming" eye with symmetry (even in the 18th century the pronunciation was anything but "symmetric"...) was a classic use of irony.

As usual, sir, a very interesting observation.

I'd be interested in seeing you put up a thread on Irony in Golf Course Architecture. Is there any? Is so: Where? If not: Why not?

[Philip Spogard]

Has anyone seen the layout of the Tiger course in Dubai? (If the masterplan has been made at all)

[ForkaB]

I've always thought that "rhyming" eye with symmetry (even in the 18th century the pronunciation was anything but "symmetric"...) was a classic use of irony.

As usual, sir, a very interesting observation.

I'd be interested in seeing you put up a thread on Irony in Golf Course Architecture. Is there any? Is so: Where? If not: Why not?

Dan

All golf course architecture is ironic, as the more one "architects" the more one is left with a tour de force rather than a golf course.

Now don't get me started on "minimalism!"

Rich