The Extraordinary Ordinary - Scaffolding, Singapore...

The Extraordinary Ordinary - Scaffolding, Istanbul...

The Extraordinary Ordinary - Mannequins, Istanbul...

The Extraordinary Ordinary - MIA Shadows II, Doha...

A few additional photos taken of the shadows formed by the artifacts displayed at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) in Doha...

The photos were taken with an iPhone 4... 

For a set of earlier images of shadows at the MIA click here... 

The Extraordinary Ordinary - Windmill Shadows on Dorm, Education City, Doha...

The Extraordinary Ordinary - Cool Doha...

No need for AC, and we're sleeping with the windows open for the first time this Fall...

The Qatari winter is a bit like the Finnish summer... 

Agreeable indeed... 

Small Bizarres No. 70 - Toilet UI, Tokyo...

I particularly like the right hand side button titled 'Flushing Sound' which, as it suggests, makes an extended 'flushing sound' to, assumedly, blank out any other awkward auditory emissions... Conveniently (see buttons below),  the volume level of such flushing sounds can also be controlled... 

To view a comparable panel in Korea click here. 

The Extraordinary Ordinary - Chilled Beverages, Tokyo...

Healthy Milk and The Pungency...

Salt & Fruit and Fruit Vinegar Sparkling...

Happines! Orange & Pine...

Sparkling Muscat (something Oman must be thrilled about)...

Pocari Sweat...

Small Bizarres No. 69 - The Jockstrap Manifesto, Doha...

In the top-floor men's bathroom here at VCU in Qatar a somewhat peculiar manifestation has appeared onto the bathroom mirror, a manifesto, called the Jockstrap Manifesto, arguing for a more pronounced role for members of the less fairer sex within regional art & design schools... 

The project is (assumedly) a part of an assignment titled Daily Provocations given by our current visiting Critic in Residence Alice Twemlow. 

More about the assignment can viewed here...