Manifesto, in an alley, appropriately enough.
“You can’t silence my thoughts”
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Posts Tagged ‘Toronto’
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
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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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Noble Anser faces
Posted: September 30, 2014 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: anser, eyes, faces, graffiti, line drawings, Noble St., parkdale, street art, Toronto, wall
Seen on a wall on Noble Street:
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Ireland Park
Posted: September 22, 2014 in history, locations, memorialsTags: 1847, Arrival, famine, immigrants, Ireland Park, Irish, limestone, memorial, names, people, poor, refugees, Rowan Gillespie, sculpture, statues, Toronto
By the time of Confederation in 1867, one quarter of the population of Canada were of Irish ancestry. Although the Irish had been immigrating to what is now Canada for a long time, the Irish famine years of 1845 to 1849 saw an increase in the number of immigrants. Immigration peaked in the summer of 1847; boatloads of Irish settlers arrived. Most were very poor and sick. They landed in a number of places along the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario, including Toronto. Thousands of those Irish immigrants died in Ontario that summer, mostly from typhus (or typhoid fever).
Ireland Park is home to a memorial in honour of those immigrants. It is on the waterfront between Lake Ontario and the old Canada Malting Co. silos.
Sections of limestone fit together in a shape that resembles a boat.
Names are engraved on the sides of the limestone sections. They are placed such that they are in the gaps between the sections. At first they are not visible. It is only when you are close to the stone that you can see the names.
675 names are carved in the stone. These are the known names of the 1000 to 1100 people who died shortly after they arrived in Toronto in the summer of 1847.
The park also has seven sculptures by Rowan Gillespie of Dublin Ireland.
The installation is called ‘Arrival’.
‘The Jubliant Man’ from behind.
‘The Apprehensive Man’
for more information: the Ireland Park Foundation website
grammar?
Posted: September 22, 2014 in general TorontoTags: confusing, dogs, don't parking, incorrect grammar, lamp post, municipal code, no parking, open, signs, silly, Toronto, we open
Considering the number of different languages spoken in this city, it is not surprising that some signs have English grammar mistakes. It is the official signs with incorrect grammar that make me shake my head.
Lack of subject makes for an incomplete sentence, not to mention some confusion. Something will be removed.
If only dogs could read.
don’t parking
we open
as I walk Toronto 