{"id":9181,"date":"2018-01-10T06:09:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T06:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=9181"},"modified":"2018-01-10T06:09:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T06:09:26","slug":"dubai-landmarks-given-star-wars-spin-in-celebration-of-the-release-star-was-the-last-jedi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/dubai-landmarks-given-star-wars-spin-in-celebration-of-the-release-star-was-the-last-jedi\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai Landmarks Given Star Wars Spin In Celebration Of The Release Star Was: The Last Jedi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of Dubai&#8217;s most iconic landmarks &#8211;\u00a0 the Burj Khalifa and Burj Al Arab \u2013 have been given a Star Wars spin by Instagram artist Paperboyo (Rich McCor), who travelled to Dubai from London to create Star Wars architectural artwork, in celebration of the release of\u00a0<em>Star Was: The Last Jedi.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rich&#8217;s unique work \u2013 in which he turns ordinary landscape photographs into clever artwork with a simple\u00a0paper\u00a0cut-out technique \u2013 has earned him a large following across the world (326,000 at the time of writing) within just two years.<\/p>\n<p>In his artworks shot in Dubai, Rich created paper cut out&#8217;s of\u00a0<em>Star Wars: The Last Jedi<\/em>\u00a0main character Rey, and much-loved droid BB-8, and positioned them against shots of the Burj Khalifa and Burj Al Arab to create the illusion (respectively) of Rey holding the Burj Khalifa as a lightsaber and walking with BB-8 along the beach by Burj Al Arab.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9182\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/burj-878x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/burj-878x1024.jpg 878w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/burj-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/burj-768x896.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/burj-624x728.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of Dubai&#8217;s most iconic landmarks &#8211;\u00a0 the Burj Khalifa and Burj Al Arab \u2013 have been given a Star Wars spin by Instagram artist Paperboyo (Rich McCor), who travelled to Dubai from London to create Star Wars architectural artwork, in celebration of the release of\u00a0Star Was: The Last Jedi. Rich&#8217;s unique work \u2013 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9183,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9181\/revisions\/9183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}