A few guys that I encountered the other day.
a few guys hanging out
Posted: February 11, 2015 in general TorontoTags: black and white, bright colours, deflated, faces, fingers, garage doors, graffiti, hands, happy faces, heads, men, mouth, multicoloured, nose, painted, SAnta Claus, street art, Toronto, urban, wheatpaste, winter
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around the corner
Posted: February 9, 2015 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: alley, black line drawings, cub, faces, geometric designs, graffiti, graffiti animals, J. Mora, lane, mural, polar bears, snow, squares, St. Clair West, street art, Toronto, urban art, winter, Wychwood
I walked around the corner and down a small dead end lane and this is what I saw.
near St. Clair West
beep beep
Posted: February 9, 2015 in graffiti and street artTags: alley, beep beep, brick, building, cartoon characters, chase, chasing, dynamite, graffiti, lane, Looney tunes, roadrunner, street art, the roadrunner always gets away, Toronto, urban art, wile e coyote, window
Wile E. Coyote is still chasing the roadrunner…..
right out of Looney Tunes and onto a wall in a Toronto lane.
the walk
Posted: February 6, 2015 in galleriesTags: Bonnie Eisenstein, cut out, genizot, man walking, memory, remembering, Robert Walser, ROM, Royal Ontario Museum, shadows, The Walk
Seen in the ‘Genizot: Repositories of Memory’ exhibit
by Bonnie Eisenstein,
at the Royal Ontario Museum until 8 February 2015
“Concentrate all your strength, and compel yourself to do the loftiest deed, to endure the most difficult trial, and to survive the most arduous struggle.”
from The Walk by Robert Walser, translated from the German, Der Spaziergang written in 1917.
Douglas Coupland at the ROM
Posted: February 5, 2015 in galleriesTags: abstract, art, blocks, building blocks, Canadian, childrens, colorful, colourful, Douglas Coupland, exhibition, expressions, focus, found objects, looking at art, looking at the world, onto, painting, people, phones, ROM, Royal Ontario Museum, sculpture, smartphones, Toronto
Douglas Coupland: everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything
Royal Ontario Museum
until April 26, 2015
The 21st Century Condition
“I want to explore how it feels to be inside the 21st century brain as opposed to the 20th century brain”
Painted with dots. When they are hanging on the wall, they look abstract.
When they are shrunk down and viewed on a smartphone, the picture comes into focus.
update: Here is an interesting article that appeared in the Torontoist on 24th Feb about this exhibit.
Douglas Coupland at MOCCA
Posted: February 4, 2015 in galleriesTags: #couplandTO, artist, Canada, Coupland, cultural heritage, Douglas Coupland, futuristic, group of seven, history, houses, iconic, Lawren Harris, lego, MOCCA, Museum of Contemporary Canadian art, past, shared, Tom Thomson, towers, urban, utopian
Douglas Coupland’s
everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything
at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Queen St. West
until 19 April 2015
Secret Handshake
What makes Canadians Canadian?
What do we identify with that others don’t recognize?
One of the rooms of the exhibit features Coupland’s re-imagining of famous Canadian paintings, paintings by Tom Thomson and Lawren Harris of the Group of Seven to name a couple.
In the center of the room is a black metal structure that is supposed to represent a damaged hydro transmission tower reminiscent of the ones damaged by the eastern Canada ice storm of 1998.
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Growing up Utopian
below: Towers, 2014
An urban jungle of imaginative lego towers created from selected parts of towers that were “crowd-sourced” at building events at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
below: 345 Modern House, 2014
One hundred identical houses built from a kit that was first issued in 1969.
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gumhead
Posted: February 4, 2015 in eventsTags: #couplandTO, art, chewed gum, creative, Douglas Coupland, everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything, gum, gumhead, head, Holt Renfrew Men, Holts, icky mess, interactive, photos, sticky mess, Toronto
Gumhead is a “gum-based, crowd-sourced, publicly interactive, social-sculpture self portrait” in the words of Douglas Coupland, the artist who conceived and developed this idea.
It sits inside the entrance of Holt Renfrew Men on Bloor St. West.
People are encouraged to add their own chewed gum with the intention that the head will become covered, obscured, and transformed. And people have done so, some with imagination or whimsy.
He now has eyelashes on one eye.
Gumhead is scheduled to remain until March 9th.
And yes, gum is provided…. as is the Purell!
yet another proposal
Posted: February 2, 2015 in locationsTags: another one bites the dust, bathurst, changes, condos, construction, development proposal, downtown, empty, infill, old house, Toronto
Development proposal sign
Bathurst and Robinson
the sign says:
“…to permit the development of a nine storey mixed use building…..
….. consisting of ground and 2nd floors with commercial….
…. 28 residential units….
… zero parking spaces ….”
standing alone
Posted: February 1, 2015 in locationsTags: apartment buildings, buildings, concrete blocks, condos, construction, demolition, digger, dwelling, house, midtown, north toronto, off colour, Redpath Ave., Roehampton Ave., Toronto, vacant lot
at the corner of Redpath and Roehampton
beside 314
Posted: January 31, 2015 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: Adelaide East, BX, dog, Elicser, geometric, graffiti, hug, IAH, IAH media, Li-Hill, paintings, people, printing, street art, T-shirts, tags, Toronto, woman's face
Street art seen in a small lane, on the side of 314 Adelaide East.
above: painted by Aaron Li-Hill
above: painted by IAH Media
people painted by Elicser
314 Adelaide East is the home of Artik, a custom T-shirt (and other things) printing company.
as I walk Toronto 