Exploring the city, October 2012
Mount Pleasant cemetery
Queens Quay West, late October
Ernest Thompson Seaton park
Alexander Muir Gardens, Yonge & Lawrence
Stone wall beside St. Cuthberts chuch, Bayview Ave.
Northrop Frye Hall, Victoria University – University of Toronto
Looking north towards Don Mills from the Millwood Bridge.
But fall isn’t just about the leaves…..
Apples for sale!
Words to come later I think
I love the names!
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Cirque de Poulet
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Baldwin street, walking towards Spadina
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Taking photos of people I don’t know has never been my forte. Kensington is one place in the city where it’s easy to practice!
two smoothies
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Faces on posters and faces on the street
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Kensington has its regulars
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and Kensington has lots of visitors.
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Store fronts, like doorways, are faces to the world.
on target with L and T
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The face we put out towards the world. Again, another fascination of mine.
Neat and tidy, welcoming doors….
Blue house, cream door, white flowers
and some not so neat and tidy …..
Messier doors that need some TLC
Appliances by the door. This is actually a store on Queen St. West, not someone’s house
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Chaotic doorways….
Doorways for numbers 69 and 71
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Colourful doors are always fun.
Bright orange door on orange walls, on Peter Street
We like to decorate our entranceways too.
Poetry on the stairs. Bathurst Street
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More Toronto doorways!
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ready for Christmas
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Liberty Village
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purple! in the Kensington area
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green garage door, Cherry St, port lands area
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there’s a dragon at the door – in an alley off of Dundas St., just east of Spadina
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little guy at 539 Queen Street West
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anti Ford graffiti words and pictures can be found
on dumpsters ……..
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Seen on a dumpster in Renfrew Place,
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on fences…..
Stencilled onto a fence on Eastern Avenue in Leslieville. October 2012. Not the best quality photo I’m afraid. As of December 2012, the fence is gone.
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on walls….
“My heart bleeds for them when someone gets killed. But it’s their own fault at the end of the day.” Rob Ford quote from March 7, 2007.
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We can’t afFORD painted on a wall on Augusta Ave., Kensington
I am not sure if this started life as an anti-Ford piece of street art, but the placement of the sticker has made it one.
Ford gives and gets in this one. Seen on “Graffiti Alley” behind Queen St. West
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Rob Ford on Spadina near Baldwin
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Ford for ex-mayor. On Spadina near Baldwin
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and on garage doors……
Rob Ford lurking in an alley.
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I like taking photos of eyes whether they are part of a larger piece of street art of they are from something else! Here’s a selection of some of them.
Graffiti eye
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Veiled eyes. What expression do you see?
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These blue eyes are part of an advertisement in the window of a store. She reflects the other side of the street back to you.
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eyes for sale
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Eye detail
Not just the eyes, but the whole face.
I have taken a lot of photos of graffiti and street art faces. Here are 15 of them in no particular order.
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more graffiti and street art faces
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hidden identity
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sombre greys, Sterling Ave.
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the prude cropped version – she’s in an alley behind Bloor West between Keele and Dundas West subway stations
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Marilyn, Bruce Lee and the back of a car. In an alley behind Bloor West between Keele and Dundas West subway stations
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big ears and fangs
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the Queen of Hearts
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a skull can be a face too – concrete and bone
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faces outside the windows
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pointing in anger
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creepy in black and white
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octopus personified
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red blobby face
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angry army guy
as I walk Toronto 