….. they keep coming back!
Zombie Walk 2014, Nathan Phillips Square
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Posts Tagged ‘nathan phillips square’
return of the zombies
Posted: October 26, 2014 in eventsTags: baby, blood, cameras, clown, costumes, eye balls, gash, nathan phillips square, photographers, photos, poses, scary, selfies, skull, spooky, Toronto, undead, wigs, zombie walk, zombies
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Toronto, block by block
Posted: August 28, 2014 in general Toronto, landmarksTags: city, city hall, CN Tower, CNE, Ex, lego, Lego Discovery Center, Legoland, lights, models, nathan phillips square, Vaughan Mills
A different perspective on the city –
Legoland (Vaughan Mills) model of some of the buildings in Toronto
downtown Toronto, CN Tower, bank buildings, the CNE
City Hall and Nathan Phillips Square. Streetcar tracks but not much traffic on the streets!
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down on the shadowy concrete
Posted: June 6, 2014 in locations, peopleTags: abstract, afternoon, city hall, concrete, diagonal, fountain, groups, lines, nathan phillips square, people, photos, shadows, sun, Toronto, walking, water
From a vantage point over Nathan Phillips Square, we looked down on the people as they passed by. It was late in the afternoon so the shadows were long. Although we were looking for interesting characters, we were also creating compositions with people, concrete lines, and shadows as elements.
hunting shadows
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caught some!
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on the diagonal
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walking over the shadow arches
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with matching little black dresses
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Some shadows kept still so they were easier to capture.
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a multitude of lines and their linear shadows
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Not all involved shadows. Sometimes, just people in the shadow.
Resting by the fountain.
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walking between the lines
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ford love-in at City Hall
Posted: November 13, 2013 in eventsTags: anti-Ford, bobble heads, cameras, city hall, crowd, mayor, nathan phillips square, people, photographers, photos, politics, protest, resign, Rob Ford, RoFo, signs, step down, Toronto, wall
Anti Rob Ford protest
A cold but clear November afternoon at Nathan Phillips Square.
people, signs, cameras, writing, chanting, speeches, media.
Step down or fall over.
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The city’s budget has gone up! Every year Rob has been in office.
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Nathan Phillips Square about 1:00 p.m.
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There was a good mix of people there, young and old.
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View of the crowd from part way up the steps just before they moved towards the front door of City Hall.
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Many creative signs. RoFo, the man from Monopoly, gravy train…..
It’s not about the drugs, it’s about the lies.
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Writing on the wall, about 12:40. I am not sure when the writing started, but when I first got to Nathan Phillips Square there wasn’t too much on the wall yet.
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Of chalk and signs
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A little bit later, a few more words on the wall as well as on the ground. Sashay away! Fraud Nation. No to Drugs. Harper + Ford = Corruption. Help yourself & help Toronto, Step Down.
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You smoked your own pipe. More writing on the upper wall.
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I assume that it became “Get Help”
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Etobicoke, Ford Co. most wanted.
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another view of the crowd
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…finally!
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Resting on the Archer
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Protesters, spectators and photographers. There were a lot of photographers! A lot of media, print, radio and television, were there too. Newstalk 1010 (where the Ford brothers had their radio show) had at least one person walking around with a microphone.
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Leading the chants
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Looking at the ones inside while the ones outside are reflected back
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wanted, A new Mayor! asap
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Writing in the square.
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I got him and he got me (I probably got the better photo!)
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#savetoronto #topoli #robford
With thanks to the Starbucks at Queen and Victoria where I was able to park myself and my laptop while I put this blog together. Wifi and an electrical outlet for the price of a tall coffee, can’t beat it.
piles
Posted: October 13, 2013 in eventsTags: ai weiwei, art, bell trinity square, bicycles, chairs, city hall, metropolitan united church, nathan phillips square, nuit blanche, Pascale Marthine Tayou, plastic bags, squirrel, Tadashi Kawamata, Toronto
Piles of chairs, piles of bicycles and piles of plastic bags. That is the best way to summarize three of the Nuit Blanche installations that remained on display for a week or so after the 5th of October.
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First, the pile of chairs
Garden Tower, by Tadashi Kawamata of Hokkaido Japan
in front of Metropolitan United Church
“As if each person who sat on these chairs left a piece of himself, the work evokes the beautiful and utopian spects of the myth of the Babel Tower, a humanity speaking with one voice and engaged, with solidarity, in the building of a better future.” (from the sign accompanying the installation)
Garden Tower chairs in front of Metropolitan United Church on Queen Street East.
Looking upward from inside the pile of chairs. There was a pathway that ran through the base of the tower.
new found habitat for one of Toronto’s four legged residents
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Then the pile of bicycles:
Forever Bicycles by Ai Weiwei at Nathan Phillips Square
bicycles in front of city hall
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one bike amongst many
Nathan Phillips Square on the wet and foggy morning after Nuit Blanche.
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Last, the pile of plastic bags:
Plastic Bags by Pascale Marthine Tayou of Cameroon
interior, Bell Trinity Square
The plastic bags hang from the ceiling like a big blob. Like confetti, or bits of coloured paper, ready to be dropped on the people below.
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Nuit Blanche 2013
Posted: October 9, 2013 in eventsTags: 401 Richmond St., ai weiwei, bikes, bones, city hall, CN Tower, crowds, George Walker, graffiti, honey, installations, leg, lights, nathan phillips square, nuit blanche, painting, people, phones, photography, pics, posters, prints, spheres, street art, Toronto
Saturday, 5th October
downtown Toronto
This is only a small selection of the art installations and exhibitions that were on display that night.
Bones, leg bones? Part of the ‘Indicator’ installation at Gareth Bate Art Projects, 401 Richmond St.
“Birds, bats, bees. Indicator species tell us when ecosystems are in peril. Bones, sugar, dripping honey – a meditation on catastrophe and connection.” The bones hung from the ceiling and the honey dripped down the walls.
Artists: Karen Abel, Jessica Marion Barr, Gareth Bate
A timeline of the life of Conrad Black in black & white woodcut prints as shown at a gallery at 401 Richmond Street. Artist, George Walker
silhouettes
at Much Music, Queen Street West
phones lifted skyward
Black & white art made using electric currents & little wires that spun in circles.
401 Richmond Street
bkies, bikes, bikes
spraying in the spotlight
On Dundas West near Beverley Street
‘The rose is without why’ by Boris Achour.
This is a short poem written by Johannes Scheffler aka Angelus Silesius, in the 17th century. The words are written with fluorescent lights and is more than 300 feet long. It was bright enough to light up the square.
upper level, Nathan Phillips Square
Nathan Phillips Square
Nathan Phillips Square
On the left – ‘Forever Bicycles’ sculpture by Ai Weiwei lit in pink and purple. There are 3144 bicycles.
On the right – ‘Crash Cars’ by Alain Declercq consists of two driverless cars.
posing
These metallic figures were not part of Nuit Blanche. They are part of a sculpture close to the Court House on University Ave., just north of Queen St. West.
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as I walk Toronto 