http://ordinarymagazine.org/ Home to all things beautifully ordinary, everyday and all around us. en-us Wed, 27 May 2009 04:00:00 GMT Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:00:00 GMT Copyright 2009 Ordinary Magazine Paul Rogers v1.0 contact@ordinarymagazine.org (Caddie Brain) contact@ordinarymagazine.org (Caddie Brain) http://ordinarymagazine.org/issuethree/modeltrains.html You may think it odd, even a bit obsessive, but Caddie Brain speaks with a group of men don’t give a rat’s arse what you think because right now they’re too busy making the trains run on time Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://ordinarymagazine.org/issuethree/modeltrains.html http://ordinarymagazine.org/issuethree/undies.html When he got mixed up in a series of practical jokes, Brendan Phelan didn’t know how nasty the consequences would turn out to be Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://ordinarymagazine.org/issuethree/undies.html http://ordinarymagazine.org/issuethree/illustrator.html Robert Haynes is a very special kind of artist - so special that one day your life may depend on just how carefully your doctor has looked at one of his intricate drawings. He spoke recently with Laura Bronneberg Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://ordinarymagazine.org/issuethree/illustrator.html http://ordinarymagazine.org/issuethree/pickingupgirls.html For just $2000 you too could spend a weekend learning the skills, the moves and the secret language of the professional pick-up artist. After that, all you need to learn is how to live with yourself, as Simon Nichols discovered Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://ordinarymagazine.org/issuethree/pickingupgirls.html http://ordinarymagazine.org/issuethree/ninjitsu.html Growing up is so dangerous that every year it turns thousands of people into lawyers and real estate agents. But when Andrew Beattie was growing up, he chose differently. He chose to be a ninja. Oliver Downes tells us why Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://ordinarymagazine.org/issuethree/ninjitsu.html http://ordinarymagazine.org/issuethree/proproom.html At any given time, Opera Australia is storing thousands of stage props in a vast warehouse in Sydney, just in case they’re ever needed again. Ordinary stuck its head in and got a little bit creeped out Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://ordinarymagazine.org/issuethree/proproom.html http://ordinarymagazine.org/issuetwo/lostandfound.html Deep beneath Central Station there's a peculiar room. You've never been there, but maybe your umbrella has (...or your mobile, or your bag). Caddie Brain took a journey to the Mecca of forgotten objects Mon, 6 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://ordinarymagazine.org/issuetwo/lostandfound.html http://ordinarymagazine.org/issuetwo/matchboxes.html Rachel Olding found out why Sonia Gee gives beautiful things to people she'll never meet Mon, 6 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://ordinarymagazine.org/issuetwo/matchboxes.html http://ordinarymagazine.org/issuetwo/kolesphoto.html A strange old shop had always fascinated Vanessa Berry. Then one day she got inside, and heard a story she can’t forget Mon, 6 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://ordinarymagazine.org/issuetwo/kolesphoto.html http://ordinarymagazine.org/issuetwo/parkingticket.html Caddie Brain talks to a man who took on the parking authorities...and lost Mon, 6 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://ordinarymagazine.org/issuetwo/parkingticket.html http://ordinarymagazine.org/issuetwo/jaffles.html Tega Brain presents the 'Six Best Jaffle Recipes of All Time', with an eye to Health & Safety issues Mon, 6 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://ordinarymagazine.org/issuetwo/jaffles.html http://ordinarymagazine.org/issuetwo/taxistories.html Ordinary gets a glimpse of what cabbies are thinking about during those long silences Mon, 6 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://ordinarymagazine.org/issuetwo/taxidrivers.html http://ordinarymagazine.org/issueone/tollbooth.html When the machines took over the Harbour Bridge's toll booths they showed no mercy at all. Tega Brain went looking for some answers from a surviving toll collector and found that something very weird was going on. Mon, 1 Jun 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://ordinarymagazine.org/issueone/tollbooth.html http://ordinarymagazine.org/issueone/openletter.html I Am Poor and Insignificant – Please Don't Sue Me: An Open Apology to Cary Elwes. For many years, writer Nija Dalal has accused that guy from The Princess Bride of some awful crimes. Now it seems she made a terrible mistake. Mon, 1 Jun 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://ordinarymagazine.org/issueone/openletter.html http://ordinarymagazine.org/issueone/barbershop.html Is there not enough gay porn at your hairdresser? Does your stylist know nothing about break-core music or global politics? Then Ulrich Lenffer suggests you need to visit Sedition. Mon, 1 Jun 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://ordinarymagazine.org/issueone/barbershop.html http://ordinarymagazine.org/issueone/firstkiss.html Seven strangers told Keppie Coutts and Caddie Brain the story of their first kiss. We didn't expect the amount of blood, emotional damage and slapstick that poured out. (Then we remembered our own first kisses, which we're too gutless right now to share.) Anyway – here they are... Mon, 1 Jun 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://ordinarymagazine.org/issueone/firstkiss.html http://ordinarymagazine.org/issueone/artistprofile.html David Wills collects stuff - most of it really everyday stuff. But somehow it builds up until it's not ordinary anymore... He tells Tega Brain why he does it (but we're still not sure why it works so well). Mon, 1 Jun 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://ordinarymagazine.org/issueone/artistprofile.html http://ordinarymagazine.org/issueone/stonemason.html Stonemason John Edstein is exactly the kind of guy you want carving your tombstone. Nic Stone tells us why. Mon, 1 Jun 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://ordinarymagazine.org/issueone/stonemason.html