Thursday, November 17, 2011

The Extraordinary Ordinary - Ski-slope in Summer, Finland


Usually one is used to seeing a ski-slope snow covered - a white-blue mantle of pale sparks descending down below... It's a bit more unusual to visit one in the summer... 

The photos were taken in Noux (Nuuksio in Finnish) in southern Finland... 







Wednesday, November 9, 2011

The Extraordinary Ordinary - Tokyo Bookstore...


Some iPhone photos from a bookstore in Tokyo's Shinjuku district. At one level it all seems so familiar (the fragrance of the paper & ink, the [book] muffled acoustics, the lighting, the textures of the extended queues of stacked books...), yet all still simultaneously remaining very foreign (to me - in a good, thrilling, way)...