Sunday, December 29, 2013

Abandoned Stars Wars sets in the desert

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/photos/abandoned-stars-wars-sets-in-the-desert-slideshow/star-wars-photo--1373388508.html
Its unfortunate that there couldn't have been a better effort in preserving these sets from the big movie.
http://www.designboom.com/art/abandoned-star-wars-film-sets-in-the-tunisian-desert-by-ra-di-martino
A movie+set is usually a temporary structure, but sometimes cities,buildings & bridges also become part of a set. Street-scapes are changed to represent a certain time & various landscapes provide the desired background.
http://www.businessinsider.com/star-wars-abandoned-set-in-ruins-2013-5
Lots of people like to go & see where parts of popular movies have been filmed.
http://goafrica.about.com/od/peopleandculture/ss/Star-Wars-Tours-In-Tunisia.htm

http://www.theforce.net/swtc/orbs.html

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jedi_Temple_Main_Entrance


The big urban movie set.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=streetscapes+for+the+blade+runner+movie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner (1982)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicant#Organic_or_mechanical?
http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/movie/decade/1980-1989/blade-runner

http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/commentary/los-angeles-is-not-a-desert-stop-calling-it-one.html

One can certainly find some big Blade Runner size buildings here.
http://www.americanphotomag.com/photo-gallery/2013/07/qatar-doha-shimmering-city-end-desert,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doha

However, Dubai seems even more like the big building sets of the Blade_Runner universe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai#Cityscape,
http://www.dailyfresher.com/2013/03/dubai-from-above.html

Dubai in some ways is like a giant Las_Vegas, but by the ocean.
http://gizmodo.com/incredible-panoramas-explore-the-desert-edge-of-las-veg-1450107741