I think there’s a very high chance Al took this photo, because I had the little cam­era tak­ing foot­age for my awe­some sea creature doc­u­ment­ary I will never edit into an actual film. This was taken at the point where “stay in the Atlantis Palm Hotel” was added to the list of things to do before I die, because even stand­ing in the lobby/shopping centre/aquarium was, frankly, amaz­ing. I’m fairly sure that most of the people who designed Dubai were on very strong hal­lu­cino­genic drugs at the time, but you really need to hand it to them for actu­ally mak­ing it all hap­pen. And for hav­ing no end of awe­some ice cream for sale.