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A DISPATCH FROM IN EXTREMIS OUTER SPACE JULY 2019 The allure of conquering the desert THE PROBLEM WITH NEW YORK’S SUPER TALLS OS_072019_P01_Cover.indd 1 6/24/19 11:43 AM OS_DPS_Template.indd 2 6/25/19 1:28 PM OS_DPS_Template.indd 3 6/25/19 1:28 PM OS_DPS_Template.indd 4 6/25/19 1:31 PM OS_DPS_Template.indd 5 6/25/19 1:31 PM - LHP.pdf 1 6/23/19 2:15 PM - RHP.pdf 2 6/23/19 2:15 PM C C M M Y Y CM CM MY MY CY CY CMY CMY K K OS_DPS_Template.indd 6 6/25/19 1:33 PM - LHP.pdf 1 6/23/19 2:15 PM - RHP.pdf 2 6/23/19 2:15 PM C C M M Y Y CM CM MY MY CY CY CMY CMY K K OS_DPS_Template.indd 7 6/25/19 1:33 PM yerebatan.BAE.emirates.left.19.5x26cm.pdf 2 13/06/19 18:08 yerebatan.BAE.emirates.right.19.5x26cm.pdf 3 13/06/19 18:09 C C M M Y Y CM CM MY MY CY CY CMY CMY K K OS_DPS_Template.indd 8 6/25/19 1:35 PM yerebatan.BAE.emirates.left.19.5x26cm.pdf 2 13/06/19 18:08 yerebatan.BAE.emirates.right.19.5x26cm.pdf 3 13/06/19 18:09 C C M M Y Y CM CM MY MY CY CY CMY CMY K K OS_DPS_Template.indd 9 6/25/19 1:35 PM EDITOR-IN-CHIEF MANAGING PARTNER EDITORIAL & GROUP EDITOR DIRECTOR OBAID HUMAID AL TAYER IAN FAIRSERVICE GINA JOHNSON [email protected] EDITOR SENIOR ART ART DIRECTOR DIRECTOR GEORGINA LAVERS OLGA PETROFF CLARKWIN CRUZ [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] SENIOR DIGITAL EDITORIAL WEB DEVELOPER ANIMATOR ASSISTANT FIROZ KALADI SURAJIT DUTTA LONDRESA FLORES [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] CONTRIBUTORS Emma Coiler; Ben East; Sarah Freeman; Radha Ghosh; Jess Holland; Dom Joly; Louise Leung; Conor Purcell; Marzena Skubatz; Adrienne Smith. Front cover: Zak Honza GENERAL MANAGER PRODUCTION CHIEF COMMERCIAL GROUP SALES PRODUCTION MANAGER OFFICER MANAGER SUNIL KUMAR R MURALI KRISHNAN ANTHONY MILNE MICHAEL UNDERDOWN [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] ASSISTANT PRODUCTION PRODUCTION SENIOR SALES MANAGER SUPERVISOR MANAGER BINU PURANDARAN VENITA PINTO MURALI NARAYANAN [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] EDITORIAL CONSULTANTS FOR EMIRATES EDITOR DEPUTY EDITOR MANNA TALIB CATHERINE FREEMAN Emirates takes care to ensure that all facts published herein are correct. In the event of any inaccuracy please contact the editor. Any opinion expressed is the honest belief of the author based on all available facts. Comments and facts should not be relied upon by the reader in taking commercial, legal, financial or other decisions. Articles are by their nature general and specialist advice should always be consulted before any actions are taken. 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What are today’s desert explorers trying to achieve? 62 17 73 GLOBAL EMIRATES Expo 2020 Experience 18 Latest news 74 Four transformative Stay: From Sydney to Singapore 20 Inside Emirates 76 programmes coming Dom Joly: Trouble in the Congo 26 Destination: Muscat, Oman 78 out of the mega-event A dispatch from outer space 28 UAE Smart Gate 80 68 Neighbourhood: Istanbul 34 Route maps 82 New York’s super talls 42 The fleet 88 LitFest In Kenya, widlife watching via train 48 Celebrity directions: Ari Aster’s guide to How the Earth made us The weather report 54 Hungary 90 70 OS_072019_P10-15_FrontSection.indd 13 6/24/19 4:17 PM ME_Open-Skies-Emirates-Inflight-2019-FP-Ad-JV.pdf 2 16/06/2019 11:32:18 AM C M Y CM MY CY CMY K jumeirah.com/jumeirahvittaveli | +960 664 2020 15 EDITOR’S NOTE THE OUTER LIMIT Humans are drawn to emptiness. Consider the moment when George Clooney detaches himself from Sandra Bullock in Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity, sending him ricocheting into space. There is something peaceful in this noble act of sacrifice, yet si- multaneously terrifying – the image of one human drifting into an infinite chasm of darkness. For millennia the universe has fascinated humankind, in part be- cause we cannot bend it to our will. Manned missions can take us to some of it; but our usual human logic such as the natural order of time, or gravity, are reshuffled in an alien cosmic paradigm. Even recent discoveries are almost unimaginable; in our first dis- patch from outer space, Jess Holland recounts the recent feat of the first-ever image taken of a black hole. The collapse of a massive star plays with the very fabric of time and space, “remind[ing] us that the universe we live in is a much stranger and more enigmatic place than day-to-day life might suggest,” she writes (p28). Back on planet Earth, maybe the closest thing that exists to space is the desert. For our front cover story, we examine the motivations of those who venture into the harshness of spaces like the Empty Quarter or the Sahara (p62). Is it just physical exertion they seek? Or something deeper? FOLLOW US facebook.com/ openskiesmag Georgina Lavers, Editor twitter.com/ openskiesmag instagram.com/ openskiesmag OS_072019_P10-15_FrontSection.indd 15 6/24/19 4:17 PM Global EXPERIENCE ° STAY ° DISPATCH ° NEIGHBOURHOOD ° SUPER TALLS ° KENYA ° PHOTOGRAPHY Australian angles Examine Sydney’s architecture from the ground up in this hip, urban hotel. p.20 OS_072019_P17_GlobalOpener.indd 17 6/24/19 1:29 PM 18 / GLOBAL / EXPERIENCE MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL, 4-21 JULY The musician visualising homelessness Karl Hyde of Underworld discusses his project inspired by homelessness – a crucial part of a festival programme that also features Idris Elba, Janelle Monae, and David Lynch How did your relationship with Man- has always been the way I’ve collected We’re going to have a temporary city chester International Festival begin? words for lyrics. So that naturally led centre workshop where more stories will Initially, through a play about father- to thinking about how we could give a be created on cardboard. These will get hood I co-wrote with Scott Graham voice to people with experience of living photographed every day and printed [Frantic Assembly] and Simon Stephens on the streets – I covered the walls again, into billboards for Festival Square. What [The Curious Incident of the Dog in the painted their stories and Rick put to- was amazing last time was that people Night-Time). It was a beautiful collision gether this really powerful soundtrack. would come and see me madly painting of ideas, a bit like the ethos of the whole He said it was the toughest thing he’d and listen to the music – and if it moved festival itself, really. You get to rub shoul- ever done because he really was under- them then there was something tangible ders with the best artists in the world, as scoring people’s lives. for them to grab hold of. well as the local community. It actually had a tangible effect on the What does Manchester mean to you now? So how did Manchester Street Poem homeless people who took part, didn’t it? Manchester is an amazing city, full of come about? We were really clear that it couldn’t be energy and great positivity – and Under- Well, we’d been talking about doing an event which dropped into the festi- world has always had a really long and something for the 2017 festival as Un- val and then left. We proposed a legacy happy relationship with the place, going derworld, but we didn’t feel like we had project and it’s been humbling and kind back decades. The support that exists for anything that warranted a place in such of life-affirming to see this idea turn the creative arts is incredible. You have an important festival. But me and Rick into monthly workshops, drawing in an idea and people say, come on, let’s [Smith, Underworld collaborator] did the community and giving people the do this. It’s a great attitude to have and have an idea that sprang out of an instal- opportunity to tell their stories, express Manchester Street Poem is a fantastic ex- lation we’d done in Tokyo, where we’d themselves We’re not selling sob stories, ample of that ethos of giving arts back to taken over a department store, covered and that was key. the people and throwing opening doors a room in cardboard, and painted on it How will Manchester Street Poem look to everyone.
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