#Artist House of Dreaming Amman

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Underground Amman Jordan

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Noise Artists' playlist: July 2019

And in no particular order:

Day and Dream just released a gem of a LP, both clever and simple.

This song, from the Parisian Band Marble Arch is a light and feet tapping Dream pop act. A great way to start your day with a smile.

New age healers just releasing a new album. New Age Healers is Owen Murphy, Scott Matthews (The Wannabes / The Piniellas) on drum / vocal bots, Adam Vernick (Lemuria / Devotion) on guitar based technology, and Allen Murray (Modern Athletics) on the bass propulsion system

From Indonesia a beautiful song from a really good band

From Mexico City, Rilev is one of the bands we will follow closely. Superb.

On Somewherecold Records, the new single of The Microdance is a little pleasure full of Noise Pop life

From Norway, this little space gem.

It is not very often that we have music from Uruguay. Shame when you listen to this post-punk piece.

Painted Mirror was formed in March 2016 in Baltimore, MD by vocalist/keyboardist Sam Morgan, bassist Brian Fee, drummer John Theuerkauf, and guitarist Jake Smith. The band combines elements of post punk, shoegaze, and darkwave electronic music to create an ethereal atmosphere housed in a traditional pop song format.

International experimental musical collective based in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. / Guangzhou, China / Amman, Jordan. Featuring members of Artificial Ghost, Lèng, If Signifying, CAssette and others.

[lucy-sky]

Tagged by the @moviestorian, thank you sweetheart :3

Nickname: Lucy / Lu

Gender: Female

Astrological sign: Virgo

Height: I think about 165 cm but I’m not sure

Sexuality: Straight, mostly :D

Hogwarts house: Ravenclaw and proud

Favorite animal: hard to pick one, I love animals in general. 

Average hours of sleep: 5 or 6 hours... better than 3 but still not enough

Number of blankets: usually 1... or 2 when the central heating doesn’t work in autumn :DD

Where I’m from: Arkhangelsk, Russia

Dream trip: London, Rome... Stockholm... Ireland and Scotland... Maybe Prague. Also USA. New York, LA. New Orleans

Top 3 artists: John Lennon. Sam Rockwell (why not?). Alejandro González Iñárritu.

When I created this account: In 2011 or 2012

Why I created this account: to look at the pictures and drool. and post gifs maybe.

30ish questions

How tall are you? my height didn’t change since the last time I guess :D

What’s your hair like? ginger, long, usualy straight. 

What colour are your eyes? brown

Do you wear glasses? very very seldom

Do you have braces? No

Fashion style? casual

Full name? Lyudmila

When were you born? 1988

Where are you from? north of Russia

What school do/did you attend? umm... Regular school? Though what was good about our school - we had Engish since 1st year. It’s not always like that at every Russian school, at some of them English starts later

What kind of student are you? Not always brilliant, but good. Sometimes I was too lazy to do homework so I imrovised and it worked :D 

Do you enjoy school? It was okay but university was better

Favourite subjects? English (and French in the uni), litterature, art

Favourite TV shows? Skins (UK), Misfits (seasons 1-3), House MD, Spaced, Black Books, Dollhouse, Vikings, Lost... The Punisher, I guess :)

Favourite book/what are you reading? Favorites - One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and Dundelion Wine. Currently reading - Anna by Niccolò Ammaniti

Favourite movies? Omg... Toooooooo many to count... I’ll name my fav directors instead: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Martin McDonagh, Kevin Smith, Edgar Wright, Quentin Tarantino (my taste is weird and I know that :D)

Favourite hobby/pastime? I draw, make gifs and write.

Have any regrets? I don’t have any big ones currently. I tend to think it’s pointless to regret smth that already happened and you can’t change anyways...

Dream job? Oh! I recently decided that my dream job is teaching Hollywood actors Russian! Because when in a Hollywood movie someone speaks Russian it mostly sounds quite miserable :’D I could also consult them about our culture :3

Would you like to get married someday? Idk

Would you like to have kids? I might change my mind someday, but currently the thought of it scares the hell out of me.

Do you have a significant other? in my imagination :DD

What countries have you visited? Russia, The USA, Spain, Turkey, Cyprus, Italy, Germany, Belgium, France, Netherlands... I think that’s all. 

Do you enjoy shopping? Depends on the mood and the kind of shopping.

What’s the worst nightmare you’ve ever had? I was drowning, couldn’t breathe and had a very strong sensation that I am about to die.

What about an enemy? I don’t feel like anyone is an enemy for me. There are people I like and there are people I don’t, but “enemy” is too much of a word, really.

Do you believe in miracles? I mostly believe in destiny. But still, miracles happen sometimes... It’s just a very rare thing :)

Tagging: @magneto81, @lunamoon-87, @rennerockwell, @sammysdixon, @imaginesandtea and anyone else who wants to do it :)

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This Marilyn Monroe portrait is tipped to be the most expensive 20th century artwork sold

The iconic Andy Warhol silk-screen portrait of Hollywood starlet Marilyn Monroe is headed to Christie’s in New York later this spring for $200 million, a record asking price for any artwork at auction.

Andy Warhol began creating silkscreens of Marilyn Monroe following the actor’s death from a drug overdose in August 1962.

Andy Warhol’s iconic sage-blue background portrait of Marilyn Monroe is tipped to sell for a record-breaking $200 million at auction in the spring, Christie’s announced Monday.

The auction house said it expects Warhol’s 1964 “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” to become the most expensive 20th century artwork when it goes under the hammer in New York in May.

The silk-screen work is part of a group of Andy Warhol portraits of Marilyn Monroe that became known as the “Shot” series after a visitor to his Manhattan studio, known as “The Factory,” apparently fired a gun at them.

In a statement, Christie’s described the 40 inch (100 centimeters) by 40 inch portrait as “one of the rarest and most transcendent images in existence.”

Alex Rotter, head of 20th and 21st century art at Christie’s, called the portrait “the most significant 20th century painting to come to auction in a generation.”

“Andy Warhol’s Marilyn is the absolute pinnacle of American Pop and the promise of the American Dream, encapsulating optimism, fragility, celebrity and iconography all at once,” he said in a statement.

Warhol began creating silkscreens of Monroe following the actor’s death from a drug overdose aged just 36 in August 1962.

The pop artist produced five portraits of Monroe, all equal in size with different colored backgrounds, in 1964.

According to pop-art folklore, four of them gained notoriety after a female performance artist by the name of Dorothy Godber asked Warhol if she could shoot a stack of the portraits.

Warhol said yes, thinking that she meant photograph the works. Instead, she took out a gun and fired a bullet through the forehead of Monroe’s image.

The story goes that the bullet pierced four of the five canvasses, with Warhol barring Godber from The Factory and later repairing the paintings — the “Shot” series.

The “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” portrait portrays her with a pink face, red lips, yellow hair and blue eye shadow set against a sage-blue backdrop.

It was based on a promotional photograph of her for the 1953 movie “Niagara” directed by Henry Hathaway.

Charity

At an unveiling at Christie’s headquarters in Manhattan, Rotter said the portrait stood alongside Sandro Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus”, Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” and Pablo Picasso’s “Les Mademoiselles d’Avignon as “categorically one of the greatest paintings of all time.”

Only 14 paintings have sold for more than $100 million at auction, according to an AFP tally, although others are expected to have changed hands for as much during private sales.

The most expensive 20th century artwork sold at auction is Picasso’s “Women of Algiers,” which fetched $179.4 million in 2015.

The auction record for a Warhol is the $104.5 million paid for “Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)” in 2013.

In 1998, Sotheby’s sold the orange shot Marilyn for $17 million.

Christie’s is selling the work, which will headline its spring sales week, on behalf of the Zurich-based Thomas and Doris Amman Foundation.

All proceeds of the sale will benefit the foundation, which works to improve the lives of children around the world.

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THE SUPERIORITY OF THE LEBANESE DIALECT

there is a girl i saw on the train three separate times when i moved to chicago. she looked skinny and mean and had long black hair with classic bangs and was wearing a kuffiyeh around her neck. she looked horrified, i thought. she had a tattoo of a rose on her chest. after seeing her three times i had to talk to her. i wasn’t scared to. i was attracted to her and i wanted to ask her if she was palestinian. she said yes in a lebanese dialect. she added me on facebook an hour later, i wonder how she found me. now i have dreams about her. i have dreams that we are fucking in beirut. i have most of my dreams in the lebanese dialect, and they are mostly about other people. last night i dreamt of salma and her diamond dealer boyfriend whose family traded weapons for diamonds with al-qaeda. i know this because the amount of money his family has acquired is nothing that i can ever imagine so i did some research and this is what i found. kathy acker said that she does not have a writer’s voice and does not know what that is. she gets no real pleasure from reading john updike and it reminds me of leo and how he got me to read a john updike poem before regretting his fascination three months later. salma and her diamond dealer boyfriend with the helicopter and the diamond mines in kenya and his diamond mine kenyan slaves broke up recently, and the next day i had a dream that i saw her in amman and she told me that the reason they broke up is because he wanted to have sex with her and he took off all his clothes waist-down and she was utterly disgusted. in the dream her mother was worried about her daughter and asked me for advice. in the dream her diamond dealer boyfriend was announced dead but he was alive and in my house. i was sitting in the french market yesterday when a dirty white man in his late twenties sat next to me and took his shoes off and said that his feet hurt so fucking bad. i didn’t look up at him because i was reading kathy acker’s “blood and guts in high school” and kathy acker was describing the scene of janey getting abducted by the black man and the white man in her dirty apartment in new york. they stood over her in her dirty room in the dirty apartment and kathy acker writes that the white man was stroking his fingers up and down her thighs. before the white man’s fingers reached janey’s pussy the white man sitting next to me in the french market started talking to me, he said, “miss, can you spare me two dollars so i can get on the green line? i hate to ask but i don’t have a job yet i really hate to ask but i only need two dollars so i can get on the green line.” i said i only had coins. he said the machine takes everything but pennies. i gave him some coins and he said he needed fifteen more cents to get a ticket so he’d better go look for them. there was a native american man also sitting near us, but he didn’t say anything at all. i went back to my book. they wanted to make janey a whore and they were never going to let her be anything else. today i went out for a walk but there was an “art festival” in the street which made me depressed and i lost my mind. there were pixilated images of president donald trump everywhere, he has become a joke now. i remember seeing obama’s face with the words “hope” or “yes we can” everywhere a few years ago. now the americans make the president’s face into pop art and print it on shirts that say “not my president” and they sell it in the “art festival” in the street and they wear tags that say “artist.” this is what the americans call a movement. 

TAMARA NASSAR 

[marviinmelton]

Future Engineering Projects in the Middle East 2018-2030

The Middle East is termed as a place of ‘big dreams’ for a good reason. Here we find some of the world’s most magnificent towers and malls. Infrastructural development is fast paced, demanding modern engineering solutions that blend local knowledge and global expertise. If the events of the last 12 months are anything to go by, optimism about successful implementation of massive engineering projects in the region is high. Even in the wake of the rumored ‘capacity crunch’, budget surpluses and a healthy economic growth seem enough to propel the various dreams in this region. Here is a rundown of future engineering projects in the Middle East that demonstrates the point that every corner of the region is looking at a bright future.

1. Makkah Gate Residential Project

Fig 1: An Artist’s Impression of the Makkah Gate project

The foundation stone for the Makkah Gate housing scheme may have been laid in 2012, but this project is still considered a future one considering that it is part of a long-term strategy to develop the region. When complete, the residential project will accommodate 800,000 residents. Estimated to cost $16bn, this massive project is only 5km and 18km from the Qur’an Gate and the Grand Mosque in Mecca in mecca respectively.

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  Some of the things within the zone include big mosque and garden, sports clubs, sewage plants, solar plants and a commercial zone. On June 12, 2018, Aknaf Al-Khaleej Company signed an agreement with the mayor of Makkah for the establishment of the integrated residential neighborhood.

2. Istanbul New Airport (Middle East/Europe)

Istanbul New Airport will be the largest in the world once complete. Although the $29 billion project started in 2015, works are expected to continue until 2030. Only 26% of the project was done by June 2016, meaning that there is still a lot to be covered. Phase 1 of the project opens 29 October 2018, which coincides with Turkey’s 95th Republic Day. It will then accommodate 90 million passengers annually, but 200 million when complete.

3. New Amman City

In Jordan, a project that is aimed at offering residences, improving the lives of citizens and improving services was announced in 2017. This project is in line with the Jordan Vision 2025. Covering an estimated 39 square kilometers area, the new Amman City is strategically placed near international roads, for instance the one linking Iraq and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

4. Five New Islands in Kuwait

Not to be left behind, Kuwait is planning to inject $160 billion worth of investments towards the establishment of five islands namely Boubyan, Warba, Failaka, Maskan and Aouha. Akin to the ones in Venice, Italy, these islands will act as leisure and tourism destinations. Completion of this project is expected to take 20 years, after which 200,000 jobs will be created.

Fig 2: Failaka Island in Kuwait

5. Neom Business City

Tired of oil exports dependence, the Saudi government is embarking on a $500 billion project on an industrial and business zone linked with Egypt and Jordan. The 10,230 square mile zone will focus on a number of industries including advanced manufacturing, entertainment, energy, water and biotechnology. In the coming years, global investors, the government and the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia will be expecting to pump money into the project.

6. Marjan Development Project

Saudi Aramco has had huge projects before, but few can measure to the magnitude of the Marjan Development project, which is touted to cost $12 billion dollar. Engineering contractors can benefit from this mega project that is already drawing attention from across the globe. Divided into offshore and onshore components, the project is mostly associated with oil exploration and mining.

What Next?

Is the Middle East home to the next economic miracle? That seems to be the provocative question for economic and business pundits. In the past, we have seen project sponsors and project development organizations overlook design and initial stage engineering. Whether it is lack of funds or simply the urge to complete projects fast, the results tend to be of lower quality than possible.

We can only hope that reputable engineering solutions providers will have the chance to contribute to these future engineering projects for maximum social economic benefits. ARANER is a highly visible in energy, chemical, marine, power, gas, food and beverage industries, so it would play a critical role in all these mega projects. Most importantly, the company has a rich history of success in Middle East projects.

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