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We did a contest a couple of years ago using Paris rooftops. The roofs in Egypt are very different, but equally intriguing: I can easily imagine Aladdin, or even Ali Baba, making his furtive way across these. Of course, it would have to be at night to get the atmosphere right.
Anyone here inspired by some Middle Eastern views?
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Great to see tooquilos and vibeke meeting up in person this week - rather like when actors break the fourth wall and come down off the stage. And thanks for posting the photographs, too.
It seems to me, though, that there's room for a couple more of us around that table. Can we squeeze a few more Forum members in? Perhaps those of you with wacky avatars could be persuaded to make them more representational for this week...
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I was on a short break in Egypt last week, and while on a snorkelling trip I spotted this rather splendid shipwreck. The boat went right past it, so I was able to get some detailed shots.
Of course, this wreck would look a lot better at the bottom of the ocean than sticking out of the coral reef like this. Can you oblige?
I've supplied a larger than usual starting image this week, so you can choose either to include a section of the ship at full size, or the whole thing if you shrink it down.
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I'm indebted to Deborah Morley for having spotted this week's image. Codenamed Dextre, it's a Canadian "Special Purpose Dextrous Manipulator" that's been sent up to help out in the International Space Station.
Sounds like just the sort of thing we could all do with at home. Any ideas for a more domesticated version? Feel free to disassemble this prototype for spare parts, of course.
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Another photograph from my Oslo trip. This is the main entrance to the university, built - as you can see - in the Classical Overbearing style. There's an awful lot of enclosed space behind those massive columns, housing just a grand staircase. Which may have been fine in those days, but I'm sure the university is now running short of space, along with every other seat of learning in the world.
So can we collectively come up with a better use for that void? It's a tricky angle, looking up at it from below; but some kind of architect's rendering of how the finished building might look would be good.
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I was giving a lecture in Oslo, Norway, yesterday when I came across this rather splendid clock tower. It was sitting all by itself at the end of a pier, looking rather lost. I thought we could find a better place for this excellent object. Any ideas on where we could locate it to show it off better?
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A rather different kind of Challenge this week. I've just had a commission from a trade magazine to produce a full page illustration to accompany a feature on rebranding - when companies change their logo, name, or house style in an an attempt to appear fresh and new.
The article is about rebranding in the catering and hospitality industries, so the illustration should reflect this. It needs to draw the reader into the feature, to give a suggestion of what the story might be about. Not all rebranding exercises are successful, of course, so it might be fun to look at failed attempts.
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