The Extraordinary Ordinary - La Fontaine Door Arches, Manama, Bahrain...

The Extraordinary Ordinary - Manama Buildings II...

The Extraordinary Ordinary - Manama Buildings I...

The Extraordinary Ordinary - As it's Exam Time...

Further Extraordinary Ordinary Images - Sea Over Spain...

A few additional images from the ongoing exhibition taking place at the La Fontaine Centre of Contemporary Art in Manama, Bahrain...  

The exhibition concludes on May 20, 2013... 

More Extraordinary Ordinary Bahrain Exhibition Images - Mannequins in Doha, Qatar...

More Extraordinary Ordinary Images from Bangkok - Diptych Statue Portraits...

The Extraordinary Ordinary Exhibition in Bahrain (Bangkok Photos)...

In Bahrain, in the process of setting up an exhibition at the La Fontaine Art Centre where I'll be showing some of photos from the Extraordinary Ordinary blog sub-topic on the Kuwait School blog... 

The here included images, some of which might be shown in the exhibition, are all from Bangkok... 

The Extraordinary Ordinary - Generic Shop Fronts in Arabic...

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It's been a while, but the blogs are back in action..!

Included is a small quiz, of sorts, for those of you who do not read Arabic. The images are of 'Arabified' logos of generic high-street brands. See how many you can guess... 

The answers can be found at the end of the blog entry....

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Answers

1. Virgin 

2. Gap 

3. Claire's 

4. Dean & Deluca 

5. Vision Express 

6. Zara 

7. Costa 

8. Starbucks 

9. Paul's 

10. Dunhill 

11. D & G Junior 

12. Burberry 

13. Dior 

The Tasmeem Doha Event Begins in Three Weeks...

The biannual Tasmeem Doha Conference begins in three weeks time. It's the biggest Design Conference of the MENA/ GCC region that, this year, not only includes a two day talking-heads component, but also five days of Student Labs, done in collaboration with the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art; a set of Academic Research Workshops, a number of exhibitions by both regional and international artists, designers and architects, and a film festival. The keynote speaker is Rem Koolhaas... 

There's still much to do during the next few weeks (I'm co-chairing the event) but I think it's going to be a very exciting and interesting eight days... 

Small Bizarres No. 52 - Falcon at Airport, Dubai...

The Extraordinary Ordinary - Stockholm Scaffolding...

Small Bizarres No. 51 - Ski Dubai - Temperature Oscillation...

Outside (Hot)... 

Inside /outside (Cold)... 

Outside/ inside (Warm)...