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 ….”
Posts Tagged ‘Toronto’
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
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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.
stand together
Posted: January 27, 2015 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: city scene, diversity, downtown, graffiti, green, hands, long arms, mural, orange, parking lot, rainbow, Richmond St. East, spud, spud bomb, street art, suit, tattoos, together, Toronto, urban art
Stand Together,
a mural on Richmond St. East between Church and Jarvis streets.
Painted by Spud, 2014
The center part of the mural is a little 3D Toronto under a rainbow.
The CN Tower is there as well as a few cranes. Perhaps you recognize other buildings?
It even has a painting of the mural in it!
Villa Toronto
Posted: January 22, 2015 in events, galleriesTags: art, art installations, art is subjective, contemporary, exhibit, Great Hall, inspired, Iris Haussler, Joseph Wagenbach, light, lights, Navid Nuur, neon, sculpture, shadows, Toronto, ugly, Union station, video
An art exhibit in the Great Hall at Union Station, January 16 to January 23
I’m going to out on a limb a bit here and say like most contemporary or modern art, this exhibit was combination of some shoddily thrown together nonsense and some well executed and interesting pieces.
One of the things that caught my attention was how people reacted and/or interacted with the different parts of the exhibit. Union Station is not an art destination. It’s a space that people walk through on their way to somewhere else.
In the above photo, the women are using a computer monitor to learn about The Legacy of Joseph Wagenbach, an installation by Iris Haussler. In 2006 she turned a house on Robinson St. in Toronto into a ‘discovered’ home of a reclusive older man who had filled his house with over 100 sculptures that he had made. At that time there was some controversy when people learned that there was no real Joseph Wagenbach, that his story was fiction. There is a Joseph Wagenbach Foundation with its own website.
Some of the Joseph Wagenbach sculptures.
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‘Marbled Meanings’ by Navid Nuur.
top right: ‘Broken Diamond’ made of neon, broken glass, argon neon blue light.
center: ‘Threshold’ made of green florist foam blocks
With the above collection, I found that the light and shadows were more interesting than the green column. I don’t know whether or not this was an intentional part of the exhibit.
close up of ‘Broken Diamond’
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“I’m going to use the two hundred dollar artist fee from this project to pay my phone bill and with the money left over I’ll probably buy a pack of smokes and maybe order some Chinese food.”
Is this a statement about the value of art? Is this a f*ck you statement – if you, or society, don’t value art why should I (as the artist) care about my work?
Floating overhead and watching us with yellow eyes.
reflections
I know that art is subjective but I fail to see the appeal in large monochromatic pictures in an ugly shade of green. They aren’t profound; they’re not making a statement; they elicit no emotion.
The projector is playing a loop of blank screen to a garbled soundtrack.
I couldn’t help but chuckle at the juxtaposition of the arty porta-potty and the real trash container behind it. Someone tried to open the door of the potty but it was either locked or not real. Note to artist: Why?
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.
je suis Charlie
Posted: January 12, 2015 in eventsTags: #jesuisCharlie, Charlie, coverage, CP24, crowd, Dundas Square, event, flags, France, French, Iran, march, nathan phillips square, news, nous sommes Charlie, Paris, people, photographers, rally, remembrance, reporters, Solidarity, support, terror, Toronto, winter
#jesuisCharlie Toronto version.
Rally & march, Sunday 11 January.
Nathan Phillips Square
flags, music and people
One of the many Je Suis Charlie signs.
The crowd part way through the rally.
Crowd scene, listening to speeches.
Theo Van Gogh was a Dutch film producer, writer and actor. He helped create a short film depicting the mistreatment of Islamic women after which he received death threats. In November of 2004 he was murdered in Amsterdam.
Many TV reporters were on the scene, including CP24
Je Suis Charlie signs and a few flags
The view from behind the stage.
German participants too
more crowd scene
There was also a group there with a large sign that said ‘Free all Political Prisoners in Iran’. A number of Iranian flags were being carried, but they were the flag with the lion in the center.
The crowd walked from Nathan Phillips Square to Dundas Square.
at Dundas Square
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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?
Four-D
Posted: December 9, 2014 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: arches, asian, bright, fabric, four-D, Gerrard East, goldish, Little India, multicoloured, mural, patterns, public art, Toronto, turquoise
Four-D, a mural on Woodfield at Gerrard East in Little India
by artists Alexa Hatanaka and Patrick Thompson, October 2013
supported by the city of Toronto and Gerrard India Bazaar
as I walk Toronto 