His special skill is taking something mundane, unremarkable or even ugly, adding a twist, and making it into something that women want now, now, now.
And then the conversation turned to something less unremarkable; something most people will never talk about with their friends.
And this is true of anything I draw, including people, buildings, even something as unremarkable as a filthy subway entrance.
The British North-South divide has been with us for so long that, shamefully, we have almost come to accept it as being something normal, unremarkable, natural even.
Many here are perplexed about why the Americans have made such a fuss over something as unremarkable, in local eyes, as a man taking a woman to a hotel room, and paying for sex.
I bet it's something really unremarkable, like 17. It's a bit like the derivatives market, social media: engrossing, totally unproductive, and not related to real life in any way, unless something goes horribly wrong.
It is hard to describe how a building that was arrived at by trial and error - conceived as something fairly unremarkable by the architect Adalberto Libera but transformed into a masterpiece by the writer Curzio Malaparte together with a local builder - could be so highly charged.
But it's also about working with what you've got and being open to the transformative potential of something apparently unremarkable: a patch of scrubland, a rusting bridge, an overgrown canal path, walls, concrete – trying to invest these things with new magic.
