Back to Graffiti Alley for the first time this spring… well, for the first time since the snow melted since I’m not sure you can call it spring yet!
Here are a few poser and abm crew bunnies that I saw.
Posts Tagged ‘photos’
Memory Unearthed
Posted: February 17, 2015 in galleriesTags: AGO. Art Gallery of Ontario, black and white, exhibit, gallery, Henryk Ross, historic, historical, Jewish, Memory Unearthed, negatives, photographs, photos, Toronto, WW2, WWII
Photographs of the Lodz Ghetto (Poland 1940-1945)
by Henryk Ross,
at the Art Gallery of Ontario until 14 June 2015
Ross was a Polish Jewish photographer and one of the official Lodz ghetto photographers under the Nazi regime.
In the autumn of 1944 as the Lodz ghetto was being shut down, Ross buried his 6000 negatives in jars. The Red Army liberated Lodz in January of 1945 after which Ross unearthed his negatives. Water damaged about half of them. Of the surviving 3000 negatives, about 200 form the ‘Memory Unearthed’ exhibit.
Some of the photos are ordinary pictures – portraits of people, children playing. Other photos look ordinary until you learn the context, what is really happening in the picture. Many photos document suffering and despair. They elicit a lot of uncomfortable emotions but as an historical record the collection is excellent as well as much needed.
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!
Irene Ave
Posted: January 16, 2015 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: African, alley, animals, back, Bloorcourt, buildings, Christie Ossington Neighbourhood Centre, colourful, colours, CONC, faces, graffiti, lane, lion, Loft, loftycsei, man, motifs, murals, people, photographs, photos, street art, Toronto, tribute, urban, woman, youth
Irene Ave. is a short street that runs behind the north side of Bloor Street West between Carling and Shaw streets, just east of Ossington Avenue. Irene Avenue Parkette takes up most of the south side of Irene Avenue. There is an alley that runs between the park and the back of the stores on Bloor West.
The Christie Ossington Neighbourhood Centre, through the Graffiti Arts portion of their LOFT program, has sponsored a number of murals in this alley.
This is what it looked like on a cold afternoon last week.
The next picture was taken in June of 2012.
The mural is still there but I couldn’t take a proper photo of it last week as there was a car parked too close.
When I walked around the block to check out the fronts of these buildings, this is what I found
A mural by Elicser and to the right the LOFT Youth Centre for Social Enterprise and Innovation.
changes under St. Clair East
Posted: January 5, 2015 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: bridge, graffiti, path, photos, ravine, snow, St. Clair, street art, tags, Toronto, urban art, water, winter, Yellow Creek
St. Clair Ave East passes over a ravine just east of Yonge St.
Looking south towards St. Clair
The Yellow Creek flows through this ravine.
To the north, the creek is underground until the south side of Mount Pleasant cemetery.
The ground was slippery and the water in the creek was flowing quickly.
In other words, I didn’t cross over to the other side of the bridge.
At some point in the past year the graffiti that was under this bridge must have been “cleaned up”. Since then, new tags have appeared.
Whether they are an improvement over what was there previously is a matter of opinion.
southwest corner of the bridge
SORT and BEGIN
city under siege
Posted: January 2, 2015 in general TorontoTags: building, closures, CN Tower, condos, cones, construction, cranes, downtown, fence, photos, repair, road closed, roads, signs, site, skyscrapers, Toronto, traffic, trucks
Construction, it’s everywhere.
I’m not sure if it’s my imagination but 2014 seemed to be the year that the city was torn apart in the name of changes, development and/or improvements.
on break
How many cranes are in the sky?
looking towards the CN Tower from Soho St., just north of Queen West.
Yet another crane at work, on Adelaide West.
How many kilometres of road have been dug up or blocked off?
Yonge north of Davisville one summer day. Removing a crane that was used in condo construction.
Near Eglinton West subway station. Construction of the Eglinton LRT affects traffic on Eglinton Ave.
Adelaide St. West
Another street under repair. York St., looking south towards Queen St. and Richmond St.
How many holes have been dug?
Dufferin and Adelaide
How many orange and black cones adorn our streets?
New streetcar tracks at King and Sumach.
How many kilometres of fencing have been erected?
double fenced
How many years will it take to finish Union Station?
Looking west on Front St. The renovation and upgrade of Union Station and it’s impact on Front Street has been ongoing for a long time now. Maybe one day it will be finished!
What construction will 2015 bring?
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
….. they keep coming back!
Zombie Walk 2014, Nathan Phillips Square
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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 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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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 