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Pride Parade 2022
Posted: June 27, 2022 in events, peopleTags: Bloor St., costumes, crowds, dancing, dogs, flags, hugging, parade, people, placards, pride, Pride Parade, rainbow, signs, spectators, tattoos, trans, umbrella, watching, Yonge St.
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a rainy September day
Posted: September 9, 2019 in construction, events, general Toronto, graffiti and street art, public art, reflections, storesTags: birdo, Born and Raised, bricks, crowds, dragon, dragon festival, hot dog, hot dog vendor, King Street, mural, nathan phillips square, octopus, Olexander Wlasenko, paste up, potato spiral, public art, reflections, sculpture, snowman, streets, TIFF, umbrella, wall, Yonge Street
A grey day. The kind of day that when it starts to rain you head to a subway station, only to have the rain stop before you get there. So you walk more. Then it rains again so you buy an umbrella and minutes later the rain stops. So you walk more.
below: Southwest corner of Yonge & Wellesley
below: Northwest corner of Yonge & Wellesley
below: Marks left behind, traces of lives once lived there.
below: Do you think that there will ever be a time when we can walk downtown without encountering construction zones?
below: If it’s a gaggle of geese or a parliament of owls, what’s a group of cement trucks?
below: A new large mural by birdo at Dundas & McCaul
below: Same mural, different angle
below: “Keep going” at the Children’s Healing Garden outside Sick Kids Hospital on University Avenue.
below: You can do anything
below: A large hole on University Ave
below: There was a Dragon Festival at Nathan Phillips Square this past weekend.
below: Friday was a rather quiet day at the festival, probably because of the weather.
below: But there was lots of different food available including skewers of octopus
below: There were also these fried potato spirals on sticks that are available at every festival and street function.
below: Hot dog vendor on Queen Street
below: Snowmen? This is “Born and Raised” designed by Studio How-to-See.
below: The tallest snowman is 5 “snowballs” high, or 17 feet tall. Oh no! The snowman in the middle has lost its head. What would Olaf say?
below: Of course early September means TIFF. King Street West closed and many people were walking or hanging out there trying their hand at celebrity spotting. We are all groupies during TIFF.
below: I wouldn’t know a famous actor or director, or anything like that, if they came up to talk to me. My attempts to follow the crowd to get celebrity pics weren’t very successful. This is the kind of photo that I ended up with – The eye belongs someone called Jason who is taking a selfie with a father and daughter. I didn’t linger long on King Street.
below: Having King Street closed didn’t help the traffic on nearby streets. Mind you, this is normal for Toronto especially around rush hour. Stand at any intersection downtown and you’ll find many instances where cars block traffic when the traffic lights change.
below: The driver knew I was there taking pictures. It didn’t make much difference.
below: Paste ups on Richmond Street. I find these mesmerizing. I love the positioning of the eye and the way that it is staring at you .
below: And my last stop that day, a quiet charcoal drawing by Olexander Wlasenko at the Arbozzo Gallery at 410 Richmond Street.
Now, all that’s left is the pink umbrella that I bought, still unused.
Kensington Pedestrian Sunday, July 2019
Posted: August 4, 2019 in general TorontoTags: boy, bubbles, dogs, graffiti, Hero-san, Kensington, kids, marijuana, mural, people, performance, poser, saxophone, sidewalk, street, umbrella, violin, walking, weed
It was a very busy (i.e. crowded) Sunday afternoon at Kensington. Last Sunday that is.
below: Bubbles of joy
below: Honkers on their saxes performing on the sidewalk.
below: Street performance by Hero-San, a Japanese man who has been performing around the world for 25 years.
below: His show is part comedy and part stunts involving standing or walking on his hands.
below: The finale was Hero-San walking on his hands while going through the open legs of a young boy. Even though his body was very close to the ground, only his hands actually touched the ground.
below: A wagon full of plants to sell. $25 each.
below: Sitting in front of poser bunnies while the world walks past.
below: A dog and many tattoos
below: Paper graffiti on a utility pole
Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington are the last Sunday in each month from May to October.
Dyke March 2019
Posted: June 23, 2019 in events, peopleTags: banner, bikes, bubbles, cheer, colours, costumes, couples, dog, dyke, flags, motorcycles, paint, parade, people, pride, protest, rainbow, spectators, umbrella, walking, whip, women, Yonge Street
Dyke March 2019, sunshine and smiles, and a lot of positive energy.
I’ll let the pictures do the talking.
below: Pride over Mannum and a sign for Amma
below: I don’t exist for your pleasure and something about liking girls!
below: Let me be perfectly queer, respect existence or expect resistance
below: Society has Evolved in 2019, Love Wins, catch up!
below: Playing with dolls
below: Many flags! Pink, yellow and blue horizontal stripes for pansexual and pink, purple, and blue for bisexual.
below: Another flag, this time it’s asexual.
below: A large transexual flag and a group from Womens College Hospital
below: Ford Cabinet for sale, real cheap! Just a buck!
below: Proud to be queer and Jewish
below: Still a Pakistani, Still a Muslim, and Still a Dyke, along with a proud Polynesian dyke.
below: Say Know to Sex Ed
Halloween on Church, 2018
Posted: November 2, 2018 in events, peopleTags: baby, camera, candle, clowns, costumes, dark, day of the dead, dog, doll, drag, fun, instagram, Kermit, keyboard, light, lights, makeup, man, mask, Miss Piggy, night, party, people, street, umbrella, woman
It was the last night of October, the rain had stopped earlier in the evening, and Church Street was closed between Gloucester and Wood streets. It was ‘Halloween on Church’, an annual street party filled with costumes on display wanting to be seen and other people wanting to see and take pictures. These photos represent only a small selection of what there was to be seen that night (obviously!).
below: A one night stand to remember
below: Glowing red and green
below: Japanese ghouls, dressed to kill?
below: White man on keyboard.
below: A group of people went as the 3D Toronto sign.
below: More playing with lights, this time as stick people.
below: Looking at instagram in a new light, from a different point of view.
below: With a doll and a lit candle
below: With a doll and a dog.
below: This one is for Jude, something about wanting to take this one home with her…..
below: With pale pink hair, a shimmering dress, and a big smile
below: Crossing light sabres with Darth Vader.
below: Kermit only has eyes for Miss Piggy….. or else!
Graffiti Alley all over again
Posted: August 10, 2018 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: bunny, door, Elicser, garage doors, Graffiti Alley, head scarf, immortalwales, kyleghostkeeper, love, lovebot, mural, Nick Sweetman, people, pink roses, poser, sandwiches, uber5000, umbrella, wall, woman
Graffiti Alley keeps drawing me back to see if there are any changes. What is new and what has disappeared. To see who is hanging out in the lane today and have a silent chuckle or two at the tourists.
below: Sunny days in Graffiti Alley
below: Let’s Eat Sandwiches Together Forever, by elicser, seems to have been refreshed recently.
below: He’s pointing to the sky because he’s giving us a detailed weather forecast.
below: The last time that I walked down Graffiti Alley, elicser was in the midst of painting this door.
below: Hello!
below: Montreal and Toronto and the writing in between.
below: A lovebot of a different sort. Almost unrecognizable except for that heart. Only lovebot has a heart like that.
below: A large carp painted by Nick Sweetman. A fish out of water.
below: Broken window
below: Pink roses and words of love and encouragement (and a little bit of flattery). The future is bright and do more of what makes you happy.
below: A new poser bunny at Portland Place
below: Toronto Blue Jays vs. stencils are wack
below: Walking past the praying mantis which is memorial to Jesse.
below: Rat and a spray paint can can’t keep the eyes in their heads.
below: Unfortunately, part of the uber5000 wintertime Toronto mural has been tagged over.
below: Honk! honk! An uber5000 yellow bunny offers a donut
below: Starbursts (or flowers, or just interesting shapes) in pink and yellow
below: The elephant isn’t in the room, it hasn’t made it down the stairs yet.
below: A collaboration between immortalwales and kyleghostkeeper. Both are tattoo artists and they both have instagram accounts if you are interested in seeing their work.
Saturday afternoon in the city
Posted: July 21, 2018 in peopleTags: bench, bike, bubbles, bus, Cheese magic, children, city, cyclist, Dundas Square, Eaton Centre, hug me, Kensington, men, people, red dress, sitting, stores, street, umbrella, walking, windows, women, yellow hair
A Saturday walk about with friends
Looking at people. Ordinary people. Going about their summer lives.
it rained last night
Posted: October 24, 2017 in people, reflections, transportationTags: bike, car, city, crosswalk, dark, downtown, lights, night, pedestrians, people, rain, reflections, sidewalk, sky, streetcar, tree, TTC, umbrella, wet, windows
It was a rainy commute home for many people last night. Not too miserable though, just enough drizzle to bring out a few umbrellas and create some wonderful reflections to play with.
animals and birdo birds in Roncey
Posted: March 18, 2015 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: alley, baboon, beach, birdo, birds, cabana, destination mammal cabana, dogs, faces, giraffe, hot day, lane, mammals, man, murals, ostrich, Queen St. West, rhino, rhinocerous, Roncesvalles, ske1, spudbomb, sticker, street art, summer, sunglasses, tiger, Toronto, turtle, uber5000, umbrella, urban art, woman, women, zebra
On Queen St. West, just before it meets Roncesvalles Ave., is the Corona Restaurant and Nightclub. Along the wall of this building are a number of pieces of street art. Only a small section is visible from the street.
If you follow the alley that runs behind Queen St., you will find more street art alongside the same building.
The back part is a mural entitled ‘Destination Mammal Cabana’ by Birdo, Spudbomb and SKE1. It was painted in 2012.
On the north wall of the same building…..
If you look closely at the above picture, on the right hand side metal pole supporting the landing, is a sticker. Below, that sticker up close.
Looking west along the alley towards Roncesvalles Ave.
but if you walk slightly west, away from Roncesvalles, you will encounter two more pieces by Birdo. The ‘Dreamer’ is on the same building as the Destination Mammal Cabana that is pictured above.
dyke march – the befores
Posted: June 29, 2014 in events, peopleTags: #dmto, #wemarch, bikes, crochet, downtown, dyke march, dykes, flags, gay, LGBT, parade, people, pink, pride, queer, rainbow, Toronto, umbrella
Getting ready, or waiting, for the Dyke March. Saturday 28th June, from Allan Gardens west to Yonge St then north to Charles St. It was a very warm and sunny day.
Carlton street awaits the start of the march.
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reflecting on the CUPE bus, painted in pink and flying a pink flag.
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I bought a flag.
Him: Oh, this is going to be put online?
Me: If it works.
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It was a hot day and the parade was late getting started…….
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I spoke briefly to a woman who was wearing this bracelet. One of the women she was with was wearing a sticker that said, “Eat Me, I’m Kosher” but I didn’t take a picture of it.
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something about gender, details of a crocheted banner that was made to be carried in the march
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pretty in pink
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custom crocheted umbrella to keep the sun off…. sitting on the grass before the parade
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waiting to ride
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as I walk Toronto 