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Toronto
Yonge and Dundas
Winter 2008 - Summer 2009
Music: Peter Nashel - Rubicon Theme
Shot on 5D Mark II and EF 17-40L

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High-res photo BlogTO » 13 ways of looking at the CN Tower These are fantastic and original photos of a structure I otherwise don’t pay much attention to.

BlogTO ยป 13 ways of looking at the CN Tower

These are fantastic and original photos of a structure I otherwise don’t pay much attention to.

  • 1 year ago
High-res photo I’m back home in Toronto for 36 hours. I leave again early tomorrow afternoon, and let’s be honest, I spent most of my time in my parents’ Scarborough basement. But still, that was enough. I come back and it feels like home, it feels like I fit in this place and this place fits around me. It’s easier to talk to this city’s strangers, who are less polite and more friendly than strangers in Vancouver. October’s dying on us, the city’s cold here, dry and bright, a sharp chill along the length of my bones. All this light trumps, mountains notwithstanding, the wet greys of the west coast. This is home, despite and because of our industrial wastelands and Rob Ford. This is home, because in our everyday motions in this city we overcome these crazy moments of ugliness by incoporating them into our daily mythologies. The things we fuck up so badly are the things we laugh at. Anyway, that’s an excessive response to a photograph of two attractive men in TO gear. But I’m nostalgic for the person I am when I’m in this city.

I’m back home in Toronto for 36 hours. I leave again early tomorrow afternoon, and let’s be honest, I spent most of my time in my parents’ Scarborough basement.

But still, that was enough. I come back and it feels like home, it feels like I fit in this place and this place fits around me. It’s easier to talk to this city’s strangers, who are less polite and more friendly than strangers in Vancouver. October’s dying on us, the city’s cold here, dry and bright, a sharp chill along the length of my bones. All this light trumps, mountains notwithstanding, the wet greys of the west coast.

This is home, despite and because of our industrial wastelands and Rob Ford. This is home, because in our everyday motions in this city we overcome these crazy moments of ugliness by incoporating them into our daily mythologies. The things we fuck up so badly are the things we laugh at.

Anyway, that’s an excessive response to a photograph of two attractive men in TO gear. But I’m nostalgic for the person I am when I’m in this city.

(Source: glensiuscal)

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Toronto Concerts

The easiest calendar of concerts I’ve ever seen. This thing is fantastic.

In another lifetime, I’d think about putting together the Vancouver version. Someone else want to get on that?

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High-res photo Show and Tell Gallery: Dan Bergeron For the better part of a decade, Dan Bergeron, AKA fauxreel, has been creating subversive, photo-based street works in Canada, Europe, and the United States. Often his projects tackle current social, cultural and political themes, while other works simply re-contextualize the physical spaces he liberates. By wheat pasting images of his subjects in the spaces we all collectively inhabit, his aim is to create work that broad segments of society can identify with, be engaged by, and react to. In addition, Bergeron’s images challenge the city’s predominant visual culture of advertising, not only in their presence, location and scale, but in their efforts, “to document people that are rarely focused on in mass media.” Ultimately Dan wants his work to be inclusive, honest and considerate - asking the questions that everyone is interested in talking about, but not many are willing to raise. His work has been featured in various institutions such as The Royal Ontario Museum and The Art Gallery Of Ontario.
Show and Tell Gallery: Dan Bergeron

For the better part of a decade, Dan Bergeron, AKA fauxreel, has been creating subversive, photo-based street works in Canada, Europe, and the United States. Often his projects tackle current social, cultural and political themes, while other works simply re-contextualize the physical spaces he liberates. By wheat pasting images of his subjects in the spaces we all collectively inhabit, his aim is to create work that broad segments of society can identify with, be engaged by, and react to. In addition, Bergeron’s images challenge the city’s predominant visual culture of advertising, not only in their presence, location and scale, but in their efforts, “to document people that are rarely focused on in mass media.” Ultimately Dan wants his work to be inclusive, honest and considerate - asking the questions that everyone is interested in talking about, but not many are willing to raise. His work has been featured in various institutions such as The Royal Ontario Museum and The Art Gallery Of Ontario.

  • 1 year ago