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media:description>No photographic excellence here.
Clouds, forests, mountains and sky--do clouds dance? Gracefully?
Now, tell me what you seeā¦
I see inspiration. I was inspired to write. Fictional autobiographies by Christopher Janus. Arcane adventures in nature. Read the first, Tangier Gardens. On sale now for a short time.
Take a walk in Tangier Gardens.
EXCELLENT VALUE! On sale now-75% off.
Only 99cents at Smashwords this link: https://bit.ly/3SIAfma/media:description>
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media:description>Pirates are Pirates--only romantic in booksā¦
On an early summer day in Gibraltar I was lounging on a hotel terrace, shaded by wisteria, looking towards, Africa, Morocco, Tangier.
At a table near me, I met a grizzly old Amerrican landscape architectnamed Herb Striet. He talked about the geography at the Strait of Gibraltar.
Striet had been getting by in Tangier nearly a decade and was in a dark funk when the young American student, Christopher Janus contacted him. Striet called him by his last name, Janus.
Striet said he did not make much of it at all when Janus contacted him. Striet agreed to help. He felt an obligation to help students of landscape architecture get to know the āreal worldā, the world outside the university ivory towers. With no big effort, Striet set up Janus in Tangier, arranged a place for him to stay, introduced him to the main arteries of the city and a couple key players.
āBut, I might have left Janus in the sh*ts,ā Striet said.
āWhat?ā
āI sent him a note when he first contacted me. I asked him are you sure you want to do this study here? I wrote to him, let me give you a history lesson. This is what the first time visitor sees when the boat from Spain docks at Tangier. Tangier is filled with scum, human scum. Always been that way. Pirates are pirates---only romantic in books.
āTangier got a good turn when it became an independent zone in the early 1900s. But its big boost really came in World War II and following through the 1950s. During those years, every Mo who had one dirham of smarts went to Tangier to take money from the tourists, the crazy infidels. The infidels arrive by the boatload every day and are so stupid they want to give their money away. Are you gonna be like that, I wrote. No matter how much the infidels pretend to whine and protest, in the end the money changes hands and the Mo is victorious. Thatās the public realm of Tangier. Still wanna come I asked him?ā
And all this is haunted by C418ās cut āOxygĆØneā on his Alpha album.
Curious Tales The Prequel is free to read on Kindle Vella at this link (https://bit.ly/3Hv6p2p)
And the story behind Curious Tales is Tangier Gardens and it is available on Amazon at this link (https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv)
Curious Tales Ebook will launch 15April at a huge discount: Sign up here for details (https://bit.ly/3q5lcaq)/media:description>
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media:description>Morocco--the real Morocco
100% Moroccans 100% of the time
On an early summer day in Gibraltar I was relaxing on a hotel terrace, shaded by wisteria, looking towards, Africa, Morocco, Tangier. At a table near me, I met a grizzly old American landscape architect named Herb Striet. He talked about the geography at the Strait of Gibraltar.
Why was Striet in Gibraltar?
Striet was in Gibraltar because his old-time Lebanese friend ran the bank where Striet kept his off-shore accounts. āItās convenient,ā Striet said, āI can easily go back to my Tangier if I want.ā Then the conversation got weird. I couldnāt understand. He twisted. I got twisted; but I listened.
āHeh, heh,ā he said, āā¦ifā¦ if I want.ā I didnāt really get the picture. He continued. I summarize.
All the while he had been working and living in the Arabian Peninsula, Striet said he had missed the freedom of Morocco, North Africa, the Maghreb. He had missed the accessibility of the Moroccan people. He had missed the intimate human nature of their medina public realm. He had missed life in Morocco, very real, just 100% Moroccans 100% of the time--Morocco, where daily life was not flash like the oil-countries of the Arabian Peninsula. He told me his daily public realm life in the oil-rich Middle East was awkwardly filled with contracted, sad-faced expatriate service people.
At the end, I finally understood, almost, that Striet had a love/hate thing with Morocco. So niceā¦ butā¦
And all this is mellowed-out by C418ās cut āDoorā on his Alpha album.
Curious Tales: The Prequel is free to read on Kindle Vella at this link: https://bit.ly/3Hv6p2p
And the story behind Curious Tales is Tangier Gardens and it is available on Amazon at this link: https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv
Curious Tales Ebook will launch 15April at a huge discount: Sign up here for details: https://bit.ly/3q5lcaq/media:description>
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media:description>On an early summer day in Gibraltar I was sitting on a hotel terrace, shaded by wisteria, looking towards, Africa, Morocco, Tangier. At a table near me, I met a grizzly old Amerrican landscape architect named Herb Striet. He talked about the geography at the Strait of Gibraltar:
āThe Interzone, just as Burroughsā wrote. But itās real. Look at any satellite image. The Interzone is a land nobody owns--separated by the Sahara from Africa and separated by the Mediterranean from Europe. You donāt think so? One continent with towns like Gran Bassam and Little Popo--another continent with towns like London and Paris. You tell me what happens where those two continents meet... the Interzone.ā
Someone in the back asks, āWasnāt that some kind of 1950s fiction?ā
āDidnāt you understand? Itās a real place, not a literary fantasy, but a geographic reality! Listen, in the Interzone rootlets from Africa and Europe attack and they attach. They try to suck energy from you. African rootlets suck European energy. European rootlets suck African energy. Anyone who lives there long enough becomes a crippled schizoid.ā
Again someone from the back doubts Strietās description of the Interzone along the Med coast of Morocco.
Striet says, āYou donāt believe me? Read Paul Bowlesā stories. What happens to his characters? What happens to his characters is what happened to him. There is only one recourse for that madness. One shelter. The keef becomes oneās life. The majoon becomes oneās food. So, I aināt goinā back.ā
In the background is the haunting thread of C418's "Key" from his Alpha album.
Curious Tales The Prequel is free to read on Kindle Vella at this link (https://bit.ly/3Hv6p2p)
And the story behind Curious Tales is Tangier Gardens and it is available on Amazon at this link (https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv)
Curious Tales Ebook will launch 15April at a huge discount: Sign up here for details (https://bit.ly/3q5lcaq)/media:description>
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media:description>Curious Tales?
Living in Tangier, 1999, Christopher Janus, CJ, during his six-month term abroad design study, explored northern Morocco. But his geographic explorations were not the entire story. Unlike CJ had ever imagined, that geography throbbed with a much larger pulse beat--that of the northwest Africa landscape. Curious Tales are the 40 short stories he delivered as required by the university to complete his term abroad design study.
The Prequel?
This is a story about how it all began--in Gibraltar--a chance meeting between the author and a seasoned landscape architect, Herb Striet, as they sat on a terrace overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar and Africa. All accompanied by the work of C418, his "Death" cut on his Alpha album./media:description>
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published>2022-03-05T18:58:33+00:00/published>
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media:title>Casablanca?/media:title>
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media:description>Not too long ago I wrote, āBecoming a landscape architect is like walking an unknown path in a strange forest. You know someone has walked it before, so you have some confidence. Then the path disappears. You have to make your own path and you donāt really know where you are going. You must decideāforge ahead or go back.ā
In one way or another, it is something we all faceā¦
ā¦a real life mystery that can be solved only with the passage of time and the taking of hard decisions.
Just like the characters in Casablanca, we all have to take hard decisions in our lifetime.
What was the landscape of that great movie, Casablanca? Filmed in the US but forever establishing the cultural character of French-occupied Moroccan medinas.
What was the urban landscape in which Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre plied their trades?
The 1940s?
Sixty years later, not the Casablanca of French Morocco; but Tangier the international heart of Morocco. In Tangier Gardens (to see the book, click this linkā”ļøhttps://amzn.to/3HLrtyv), CJ is immersed in an enthralling saga. He is lost in a place non-different from the haunts of Claude Rains and Humphrey Bogart. To keep his appointment with destiny, he has to take some hard decisions.
That's just one of his many landscape challenges in north west Africa. CJ finds a culture whose roots run deep into West Africa, North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. He wants to become a landscape architect, and he has to make his own path. And the medinas? CJ, trapped in the Tangier medina, finds it full of adventure and despair. The excitement and danger confuse what CJ had thought was a certain destiny.
Who would have thought that the only existential clarity that CJ found would come from British and Russian horticulturists and their plants and gardens of Tangier?
Casablanca? No, Tangier Gardens.
If youāre looking for adventure, hard decisions, CJ, Morocco, Tangier--visit my Tangier Gardens book page on Amazon (to see the book, click this linkā”ļøhttps://amzn.to/3HLrtyv)./media:description>
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media:title>ARENāT WE ALL LOOKING FOR INSPIRATION?/media:title>
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media:description>New job?
New project?
New design?
The inspiration that enables us to reach our goals and higher?/media:description>
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media:description>This is what the Tangier kasba used to be, mystery from the beginning.
In 'Tangier Gardens', more info here: (https://mailchi.mp/5d03fa193609/portals-and-tangier-gardens),
CJ describes what he finds in the Tangier kasba during his term abroad design study. Is this landscape architecture?/media:description>
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media:description>Urban Greenā¦600 years ago?
If you Google Tangier Gardens you will find books filled with fine photos of gentrified medina homes in Marrakech, Fes, Tangier, Rabatā¦
CJās head was spinning. His term abroad study landed him in Tangier. The cross-cultural stuff came at him fast and furious. He was on a landscape journey--without end.
CJ was born in the USA but Tangier was not the USA. Back home the suburbs were all green, every house had front and backyard gardens and downtowns, every street was lined with trees and city parks were aplenty. Frederick Law Olmstedās legacy was as far as the eye could see. But that was home.
Tangier, the medina, the kasba a town for centuries and CJ could not find one tree or even one plant.
Here is what he found--nothing--classic hardscape-only urban realm--not even a weed pushing through paving cracks. Green AWOL. But population density as high as NY City. CJ wondered is it a muslim thing--from the Koran, the Hadith--or just local Cherifs? It was another of the cultural mysteries he encountered. They kept coming like address cards in a full rollodex.
But he did learn some history of public water delivery. And CJ did learn that the urban green was hidden in the private courtyards of every riad in the medina. He found a āsmart urban greenā, a small urban green, a manageable urban green, protected, quiet, hidden from public noise, hidden from public view.
Find more about CJ in Tangier gardens at https://flahertylandscape.com.
But if you are really into Tangier Gardens the book will be launched in early 2022, sign up for details and discounts https://mailchi.mp/5d03fa193609/portals-and-tangier-gardens./media:description>
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media:description>Discovery of landscape portals?
Christopher Janus, his friends call him CJ, had to do a term abroad design study to graduate in landscape architecture from university.
He chose Morocco. Why? He had been there before. He was only 7 at the time and with his Mom. He had good memories of sun, sand and exciting markets.
That is this video--a trailer of his memories. But Tangier Gardens tells the story of CJ's second trip to Morocco, for his term abroad design study. It became a landscape journey of discovery--discovery of portals--portals he had never imagined./media:description>
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media:description>This is an updated version of the original Flaherty Empty Quarter, with additional description and background music from C418 Minecraft.
This project cannot be separated from the weird environment known as the Empty Quarter. Every day I spent on this project opened my eyes to a world filled with strange portals available for discoveryā¦portals for the senses that took me beyond the senses. Words are not sufficient.
This Qasr Al Sarab Resort in the Abu Dhabi Emirate, sits in the midst of the large red sand dunes of the Rub al Khali, the Empty Quarter.
I had management responsibilities for guiding this project out of final design, through construction and transitioning into ongoing maintenance, assuring all design intent and expectations were met, including time and budget.
All credit is due to the many artists, craftsmen and laborers that made this beautiful project a stunning success.
The background Minecraft music is by c418 and can be found at: https://c418.bandcamp.com/album/minecraft-volume-alpha/media:description>
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I had to find answers.
In the early 19th century, Burckhardt lived Arabia the hard way. He recorded all in his books, including incredible insights on Bedu and the Wahabis--all his books accessible via links from Johann Ludwig Burckhardt's Wikipedia entry.
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1:: Not Science, Not Gaia
01.01.1970 · 01:00:00 ··· 29.07.2023 · 15:04:21 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· No photographic excellence here.
Clouds, forests, mountains and sky--do clouds dance? Gracefully?
Now, tell me what you see…
I see inspiration. I was inspired to write. Fictional autobiographies by Christopher Janus. Arcane adventures in nature. Read the first, Tangier Gardens. On sale now for a short time.
Take a walk in Tangier Gardens.
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Only 99cents at Smashwords this link: https://bit.ly/3SIAfma
2:: Curious Tales Prequel 04 HD 720p
01.01.1970 · 01:00:00 ··· 22.03.2023 · 16:44:38 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· Pirates are Pirates--only romantic in books…
On an early summer day in Gibraltar I was lounging on a hotel terrace, shaded by wisteria, looking towards, Africa, Morocco, Tangier.
At a table near me, I met a grizzly old Amerrican landscape architectnamed Herb Striet. He talked about the geography at the Strait of Gibraltar.
Striet had been getting by in Tangier nearly a decade and was in a dark funk when the young American student, Christopher Janus contacted him. Striet called him by his last name, Janus.
Striet said he did not make much of it at all when Janus contacted him. Striet agreed to help. He felt an obligation to help students of landscape architecture get to know the “real world”, the world outside the university ivory towers. With no big effort, Striet set up Janus in Tangier, arranged a place for him to stay, introduced him to the main arteries of the city and a couple key players.
“But, I might have left Janus in the sh*ts,” Striet said.
“What?”
“I sent him a note when he first contacted me. I asked him are you sure you want to do this study here? I wrote to him, let me give you a history lesson. This is what the first time visitor sees when the boat from Spain docks at Tangier. Tangier is filled with scum, human scum. Always been that way. Pirates are pirates---only romantic in books.
“Tangier got a good turn when it became an independent zone in the early 1900s. But its big boost really came in World War II and following through the 1950s. During those years, every Mo who had one dirham of smarts went to Tangier to take money from the tourists, the crazy infidels. The infidels arrive by the boatload every day and are so stupid they want to give their money away. Are you gonna be like that, I wrote. No matter how much the infidels pretend to whine and protest, in the end the money changes hands and the Mo is victorious. That’s the public realm of Tangier. Still wanna come I asked him?”
And all this is haunted by C418’s cut “Oxygène” on his Alpha album.
Curious Tales The Prequel is free to read on Kindle Vella at this link (https://bit.ly/3Hv6p2p)
And the story behind Curious Tales is Tangier Gardens and it is available on Amazon at this link (https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv)
Curious Tales Ebook will launch 15April at a huge discount: Sign up here for details (https://bit.ly/3q5lcaq)
3:: Curious Tales Prequel 03 HD 720p
01.01.1970 · 01:00:00 ··· 20.03.2023 · 12:24:40 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· Morocco--the real Morocco
100% Moroccans 100% of the time
On an early summer day in Gibraltar I was relaxing on a hotel terrace, shaded by wisteria, looking towards, Africa, Morocco, Tangier. At a table near me, I met a grizzly old American landscape architect named Herb Striet. He talked about the geography at the Strait of Gibraltar.
Why was Striet in Gibraltar?
Striet was in Gibraltar because his old-time Lebanese friend ran the bank where Striet kept his off-shore accounts. “It’s convenient,” Striet said, “I can easily go back to my Tangier if I want.” Then the conversation got weird. I couldn’t understand. He twisted. I got twisted; but I listened.
“Heh, heh,” he said, “…if… if I want.” I didn’t really get the picture. He continued. I summarize.
All the while he had been working and living in the Arabian Peninsula, Striet said he had missed the freedom of Morocco, North Africa, the Maghreb. He had missed the accessibility of the Moroccan people. He had missed the intimate human nature of their medina public realm. He had missed life in Morocco, very real, just 100% Moroccans 100% of the time--Morocco, where daily life was not flash like the oil-countries of the Arabian Peninsula. He told me his daily public realm life in the oil-rich Middle East was awkwardly filled with contracted, sad-faced expatriate service people.
At the end, I finally understood, almost, that Striet had a love/hate thing with Morocco. So nice… but…
And all this is mellowed-out by C418’s cut “Door” on his Alpha album.
Curious Tales: The Prequel is free to read on Kindle Vella at this link: https://bit.ly/3Hv6p2p
And the story behind Curious Tales is Tangier Gardens and it is available on Amazon at this link: https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv
Curious Tales Ebook will launch 15April at a huge discount: Sign up here for details: https://bit.ly/3q5lcaq
4:: Curious Tales Prequel 02
01.01.1970 · 01:00:00 ··· 13.03.2023 · 17:03:47 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· On an early summer day in Gibraltar I was sitting on a hotel terrace, shaded by wisteria, looking towards, Africa, Morocco, Tangier. At a table near me, I met a grizzly old Amerrican landscape architect named Herb Striet. He talked about the geography at the Strait of Gibraltar:
“The Interzone, just as Burroughs’ wrote. But it’s real. Look at any satellite image. The Interzone is a land nobody owns--separated by the Sahara from Africa and separated by the Mediterranean from Europe. You don’t think so? One continent with towns like Gran Bassam and Little Popo--another continent with towns like London and Paris. You tell me what happens where those two continents meet... the Interzone.”
Someone in the back asks, “Wasn’t that some kind of 1950s fiction?”
“Didn’t you understand? It’s a real place, not a literary fantasy, but a geographic reality! Listen, in the Interzone rootlets from Africa and Europe attack and they attach. They try to suck energy from you. African rootlets suck European energy. European rootlets suck African energy. Anyone who lives there long enough becomes a crippled schizoid.”
Again someone from the back doubts Striet’s description of the Interzone along the Med coast of Morocco.
Striet says, “You don’t believe me? Read Paul Bowles’ stories. What happens to his characters? What happens to his characters is what happened to him. There is only one recourse for that madness. One shelter. The keef becomes one’s life. The majoon becomes one’s food. So, I ain’t goin’ back.”
In the background is the haunting thread of C418's "Key" from his Alpha album.
Curious Tales The Prequel is free to read on Kindle Vella at this link (https://bit.ly/3Hv6p2p)
And the story behind Curious Tales is Tangier Gardens and it is available on Amazon at this link (https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv)
Curious Tales Ebook will launch 15April at a huge discount: Sign up here for details (https://bit.ly/3q5lcaq)
5:: Curious Tales The Prequel 01 720Striet and C418
01.01.1970 · 01:00:00 ··· 13.03.2023 · 16:25:51 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· Curious Tales?
Living in Tangier, 1999, Christopher Janus, CJ, during his six-month term abroad design study, explored northern Morocco. But his geographic explorations were not the entire story. Unlike CJ had ever imagined, that geography throbbed with a much larger pulse beat--that of the northwest Africa landscape. Curious Tales are the 40 short stories he delivered as required by the university to complete his term abroad design study.
The Prequel?
This is a story about how it all began--in Gibraltar--a chance meeting between the author and a seasoned landscape architect, Herb Striet, as they sat on a terrace overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar and Africa. All accompanied by the work of C418, his "Death" cut on his Alpha album.
6:: Casablanca?
01.01.1970 · 01:00:00 ··· 05.03.2022 · 18:58:33 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· Not too long ago I wrote, ‘Becoming a landscape architect is like walking an unknown path in a strange forest. You know someone has walked it before, so you have some confidence. Then the path disappears. You have to make your own path and you don’t really know where you are going. You must decide—forge ahead or go back.’
In one way or another, it is something we all face…
…a real life mystery that can be solved only with the passage of time and the taking of hard decisions.
Just like the characters in Casablanca, we all have to take hard decisions in our lifetime.
What was the landscape of that great movie, Casablanca? Filmed in the US but forever establishing the cultural character of French-occupied Moroccan medinas.
What was the urban landscape in which Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre plied their trades?
The 1940s?
Sixty years later, not the Casablanca of French Morocco; but Tangier the international heart of Morocco. In Tangier Gardens (to see the book, click this link➡️https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv), CJ is immersed in an enthralling saga. He is lost in a place non-different from the haunts of Claude Rains and Humphrey Bogart. To keep his appointment with destiny, he has to take some hard decisions.
That's just one of his many landscape challenges in north west Africa. CJ finds a culture whose roots run deep into West Africa, North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. He wants to become a landscape architect, and he has to make his own path. And the medinas? CJ, trapped in the Tangier medina, finds it full of adventure and despair. The excitement and danger confuse what CJ had thought was a certain destiny.
Who would have thought that the only existential clarity that CJ found would come from British and Russian horticulturists and their plants and gardens of Tangier?
Casablanca? No, Tangier Gardens.
If you’re looking for adventure, hard decisions, CJ, Morocco, Tangier--visit my Tangier Gardens book page on Amazon (to see the book, click this link➡️https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv).
7:: AREN’T WE ALL LOOKING FOR INSPIRATION?
01.01.1970 · 01:00:00 ··· 27.02.2022 · 07:55:00 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· New job?
New project?
New design?
The inspiration that enables us to reach our goals and higher?
8:: AREN’T WE ALL LOOKING FOR INSPIRATION?
01.01.1970 · 01:00:00 ··· 25.02.2022 · 17:54:42 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ···
9:: Tanja, white city
01.01.1970 · 01:00:00 ··· 08.01.2022 · 15:51:49 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· This is what the Tangier kasba used to be, mystery from the beginning.
In 'Tangier Gardens', more info here: (https://mailchi.mp/5d03fa193609/portals-and-tangier-gardens),
CJ describes what he finds in the Tangier kasba during his term abroad design study. Is this landscape architecture?
10:: Urban Green
01.01.1970 · 01:00:00 ··· 07.12.2021 · 15:54:03 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· Urban Green…600 years ago?
If you Google Tangier Gardens you will find books filled with fine photos of gentrified medina homes in Marrakech, Fes, Tangier, Rabat…
CJ’s head was spinning. His term abroad study landed him in Tangier. The cross-cultural stuff came at him fast and furious. He was on a landscape journey--without end.
CJ was born in the USA but Tangier was not the USA. Back home the suburbs were all green, every house had front and backyard gardens and downtowns, every street was lined with trees and city parks were aplenty. Frederick Law Olmsted’s legacy was as far as the eye could see. But that was home.
Tangier, the medina, the kasba a town for centuries and CJ could not find one tree or even one plant.
Here is what he found--nothing--classic hardscape-only urban realm--not even a weed pushing through paving cracks. Green AWOL. But population density as high as NY City. CJ wondered is it a muslim thing--from the Koran, the Hadith--or just local Cherifs? It was another of the cultural mysteries he encountered. They kept coming like address cards in a full rollodex.
But he did learn some history of public water delivery. And CJ did learn that the urban green was hidden in the private courtyards of every riad in the medina. He found a ’smart urban green’, a small urban green, a manageable urban green, protected, quiet, hidden from public noise, hidden from public view.
Find more about CJ in Tangier gardens at https://flahertylandscape.com.
But if you are really into Tangier Gardens the book will be launched in early 2022, sign up for details and discounts https://mailchi.mp/5d03fa193609/portals-and-tangier-gardens.
11:: Sun and sand MOROCCO
01.01.1970 · 01:00:00 ··· 01.12.2021 · 12:42:26 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· Discovery of landscape portals?
Christopher Janus, his friends call him CJ, had to do a term abroad design study to graduate in landscape architecture from university.
He chose Morocco. Why? He had been there before. He was only 7 at the time and with his Mom. He had good memories of sun, sand and exciting markets.
That is this video--a trailer of his memories. But Tangier Gardens tells the story of CJ's second trip to Morocco, for his term abroad design study. It became a landscape journey of discovery--discovery of portals--portals he had never imagined.
12:: Flaherty Empty Quarter HD 720p
01.01.1970 · 01:00:00 ··· 14.08.2021 · 09:09:53 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· This is an updated version of the original Flaherty Empty Quarter, with additional description and background music from C418 Minecraft.
This project cannot be separated from the weird environment known as the Empty Quarter. Every day I spent on this project opened my eyes to a world filled with strange portals available for discovery…portals for the senses that took me beyond the senses. Words are not sufficient.
This Qasr Al Sarab Resort in the Abu Dhabi Emirate, sits in the midst of the large red sand dunes of the Rub al Khali, the Empty Quarter.
I had management responsibilities for guiding this project out of final design, through construction and transitioning into ongoing maintenance, assuring all design intent and expectations were met, including time and budget.
All credit is due to the many artists, craftsmen and laborers that made this beautiful project a stunning success.
The background Minecraft music is by c418 and can be found at: https://c418.bandcamp.com/album/minecraft-volume-alpha
13:: Burckhardt
01.01.1970 · 01:00:00 ··· 22.01.2016 · 16:11:42 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· The Arabian Peninsula--chock-full of mysteries.
I had to find answers.
In the early 19th century, Burckhardt lived Arabia the hard way. He recorded all in his books, including incredible insights on Bedu and the Wahabis--all his books accessible via links from Johann Ludwig Burckhardt's Wikipedia entry.
I am still searching… there is more than Islam… https://flahertylandscape.com
14:: Moths to Fire?
01.01.1970 · 01:00:00 ··· 14.01.2016 · 20:43:23 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· That landscape of the Empty Quarter, what is the attraction that has compelled humans to wander, to journey…is it mystique…is it moth to fire…or is it…
15:: Ports and Dhows
01.01.1970 · 01:00:00 ··· 06.01.2016 · 11:41:26 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· Ports and Dhows are why the edges of the Empty Quarter are…not empty.
16:: Southwest Asia
01.01.1970 · 01:00:00 ··· 03.01.2016 · 11:09:49 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· Southwest Asia is where the first time visitor, having cultural roots in Western Europe or North America, and now having both feet firmly on the ground of this unusual cultural landscape, finds, for personal consumption, placed on the table before him, a plate with four pounds of sweets that all are just too sweet…and then, from the mist of too much sweetness, the visitor may just realize…the game is on.
The Southwest Asia background geopolitics establish the contemporary context for the large construction projects in the Arabian Peninsula region--the region in which the Empty Quarter and my landscape story, The 23 Club, take place.
17:: Arabia Felix
01.01.1970 · 01:00:00 ··· 29.12.2015 · 15:00:49 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· Arabia Felix…happy? Why?
Felix is the only portion of the southern half of the Arabian Peninsula to receive regular rainfall. The tail ends of Indian sub-continent monsoon cyclones push into the mountains and valleys of the southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula.
The valleys of Yemen have fertile soil and dependable rainfall--thus, felix, Arabia Felix.
But what is it really like? Without the felix? See here: https://youtu.be/xo4bJkbEeu0
18:: Rub al Khali Enigma
01.01.1970 · 01:00:00 ··· 12.12.2015 · 06:37:20 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ···
19:: Qasr al Sarab 2010
01.01.1970 · 01:00:00 ··· 08.12.2015 · 15:24:51 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ···
20:: Atlantis Dubai 2008
01.01.1970 · 01:00:00 ··· 08.12.2015 · 14:42:58 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ···
21:: The 23 Club: Clip Oct2015
01.01.1970 · 01:00:00 ··· 06.01.2014 · 20:29:43 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ···
22:: Drama Dreams In Dubai
01.01.1970 · 01:00:00 ··· 03.12.2013 · 08:23:21 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ···
23:: Date Palm Agriculture Nile Valley
01.01.1970 · 01:00:00 ··· 02.12.2013 · 13:35:05 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ···