A mural near Church and Wellesley
Most of the mural.
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Ultra Church
Posted: October 17, 2014 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: alley, chicken, Church St., ear rings, faces, glittery, jewelry, lane, LGBT, men, mural, necklace, party, people, public art, smiles, sparkly, street art, Toronto, ultra church, women
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worldpress photo exhibit
Posted: October 15, 2014 in events, locationsTags: Brookfield Place, display, exhibit, looking, people, photographs, Toronto
World Press Photo 14,
a traveling exhibition of prize-winning photographs assembled by World Press Photo.
At the Allen Lambert Galleria, Brookfield Place until October 21st
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These pictures were taken from drones that were flying over playing fields. The shadows of the players look like they are the people.
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Photo on the far left is “A flock of Guillemots (Uria aalgae) in a snowstorm in Vardo, Norway” by Markus Varesvuo of Finland.
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LEFT: Survivors of typhoon Haiyan march during a religious procession in Tolosa, on the eastern island of Leyte. One of the strongest cyclones ever recorded, Haiyan left 8,000 people dead and missing and more than four million homeless after it hit the central Philippines. Photo by Philippe Lopez of France.
CENTER: A woman reacts in disappointment after access to see former South Africa President Nelson Mandela was closed on the third and final day of his casket lying in state, outside Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa. Photo by Markus Schreiber of Germany.
RIGHT: A group of blind albino boys photographed in their boarding room at the Vivekananda mission school for the blind in West Bengal, India. Photo by Brent Stirton of South Africa.
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autumn 2014
Posted: October 13, 2014 in general TorontoTags: alley, autumn, cemetery, flowers, lane, leaves, Mt. Hope, mums, October, photos, potted, reds, season, September, shadows, store, sunlight, tombstones, Toronto, trees, vine, yellow
Fall colours in a lane near Queen West and Bathurst.
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sunny sunflowers
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autumn vine in front of a garage door
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A quiet corner of Mount Hope Cemetery in the late afternoon.
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parked in the alley
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shadows and grain
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straw men in the garden
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Bobs Garden Centre with pots of colourful autumn mums for sale
Their blog.
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Raining little yellow leaves in Scarborough
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leaves under the streetlights
nuit blanche 3
Posted: October 13, 2014 in eventsTags: alley, boxes, cardboard, graffiti, manifesto, night, nuit blanche, paint, public art, robots, snbTO, street art, Toronto
Manifesto, in an alley, appropriately enough.
“You can’t silence my thoughts”
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faces on both sides
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nuit blanche 2
Posted: October 10, 2014 in eventsTags: amazing, colours, lights, maze, metal bars, nuit blanche, people, rays of light, shadows, snbTO, Toronto, walking
Nuit Blanche – the Amazing Maze.
Some metal framework, some gauze-like fabric, and some interesting lights.
Shadows, lights, and colours to play with.
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nuit blanche 1
Posted: October 10, 2014 in eventsTags: aerialists, cameras, downtown, globes, hanging, inflatable, lights, night, nuit blanch, people, photos, Queen St. West, ropes, scream, snbTO, toilet paper, toilet tissue, Toronto, walking through worlds
Nuit Blanche, night of October 4 to morning of October 5
Queen Street West near John St., 4:30 a.m.
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Walking through the worlds, hundreds of inflatable globes. Even at 4:30 a.m. there was a long line to enter this installation.
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waiting for the screams
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tissue in greens and yellows.
Looking like candles on tall metal candlesticks.
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hanging
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fire fighters memorial
Posted: October 9, 2014 in memorialsTags: boy, downtown, fire fighters, flag, mask, memorial, names, reflection, remembering, sculpture, statue, stone, Toronto
The Ontario Fire Fighters Memorial is near the corner of Queens Park Crescent and Grosvenor Street.
The names of fallen fire fighters are engraved on black stone.
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police memorial
Posted: October 9, 2014 in history, locations, memorialsTags: city, died, fallen, hats, in the line of duty, memorial, on duty, Ontario, police, policemen, remembering, statue, Toronto, uniform
Near the corner of Queens Park Crescent and Grosvenor Street is the Ontario Police Memorial.
It was dedicated in May of 2000.
The names of fallen Ontario police are carved in the stone at the base of the memorial.
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Regent theatre
Posted: October 9, 2014 in history, locationsTags: cinema, crest theatre, davisville, historical, mount pleasant, movie, mt pleasant, north toronto, regent theatre, Toronto
On Mt Pleasant Road, just north of Davisville Ave. is the Regent Theatre. It is a rather nondescript brick building with an ugly white piece of something across the front. Sometimes the names of the movies that are showing appear on the south side of that white thing (on the side you can’t see in the photo!).
The Regent theatre today.
It was built in 1920 as the Belsize Theatre. As you can see, the front of the building hasn’t changed much after almost 90 years.
Even back then the hydro poles and wires were an eyesore!
A mid life name change and it became the Crest Theatre.
Crest Theatre – The movie ‘The 7 Year Itch’ came out in 1955. I have been corrected (see comments below). Between 1954 and 1966 the Crest Theatre was not a movie house, but was devoted almost exclusively to live theatre. The “now playing” refers to the theatre production of ‘The 7 Year Itch’ which pre-dated the movie. The original stage play was by George Axelrod (1962) and was presented live at the Crest in December of 1963. Their production starred Toby Tarnow and Douglas Rain. (with thanks to David Rain for the correction and added information).
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walking the Milky Way
Posted: October 1, 2014 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: aliens, animals, brick walls, cement, cherries, city, colours, concrete, doors, faces, fence, fish, ghost, ghost dick, graffiti, Jarus, letters, metal, mural, people, persue, photos, shark, street art, Toronto, urban, weeds, woman, words
The Milky Way from Dufferin to Elm Grove.
Once upon a time this alley led to a dairy. Story has it that milk was often spilt along the way.
At the west end of the Milky Way is a mural of two horses (one shown here), a wagon wheel, and an overturned milk can.
There is also quite a bit of graffiti in the alley.
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as I walk Toronto 