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i was working on a uni project with my cousin the last three weeks. we built a webapp called "cost share". the idea was to make it easier to calculate debts after you were buying groceries for your flatshare or something like that. that's not always as easy as it seems, because not everyone is paying for everything.
so yesterday 23:59 we had to commit the whole thing and as always we experienced some last minute deployment problems. that was really stressfull and i had to stay up late to get it done...
if you zoom in, you can see the app. :]
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Then & Now Mural
1167 Weston Rd. (North facing wall of building)
We start the tour with the oldest mural, called Then & Now, which was painted in 2010 by lead artist Diliana Popova with the help of six local youth whose names are at the bottom left of the mural in a yellow semi-circle. The project was funded through the Graffiti Transformation Program and designed by Diliana and the youth in consultation with UrbanArts and the property owners to reflect the history of the Weston-Mount Dennis area.
An information panel is painted on the wall in a box to the left of the mural explaining the imagery and features a quote that is not attributed to anyone that reads “The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.” These are the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. who was a US Supreme Court Justice from 1902 to 1932.
On the left are featured two local Meals on Wheels volunteers who served this community in the 1970s. According to the panel they represent charity, one of the community values the artists wanted to emphasize, especially with it being on the side of Humber Community Services for Seniors. Beside that are three images of different vehicles that operate on rails, two old streetcars and a train, referencing the area’s historical importance as a rail hub. The contrast between the sepia-toned image of the old streetcar on the left and the colourful, fancy new train on the right is meant to lead the eye forward through time and evoke the idea of progress. To the right of the train is a man with a camera, a symbol of the contributions the Kodak plant has made to this community throughout its growth and into the present and future.
It’s holding up well considering it is over 10 years old. Speaking from experience, one added challenge for an artist working with a team of youth volunteers who might be painting a mural for the first time or even painting for the first time is finding work that can be done by beginners, and breaking the picture into areas of flat colour like this is a great way to give people a simple job that they are less likely to mess up. You transfer the outlines of your design onto the wall by projector or however, and then assign each area a colour to be filled in. Then all you have to do is teach your volunteers to spot areas that need two coats and how to make the edges nice and clean by keeping the brush very wet and moving slow.
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This Kensington Market landmark was created by local artists Ryan Dineen and Alexandar Bacon. Both artists are well known in the Toronto arts community and have shown work around the world. This iconic mural is one of the longest running street art pieces in the area. My favourite part about this piece is the level of detail and intricacy. It's also really cool how they were able to find a balance between figurative illustrative imagery and traditional graffiti forms.
Dengys map y degwm am 1842 nad oedd dim tai annedd yn y man y datblygodd Trehopyn, dim ond tir fferm, a oedd yn nwylo Evan Hopkin.
Erbyn diwedd y degawd, roedd llawer wedi newid. Daeth Glofa Gyfeillion (Tŷ Mawr), a datblygiadau diwydiannol eraill, i weddnewid y cwm. "Rhondda Road" oedd enw'r man lle yr oedd y tai yn 1851 ac yn 1861.
Ceir yr enw Hopkin's Town yn 1871. Cymerodd ei enw, Trehopcyn yn Gymraeg, oddi wrth y gŵr a fu'n berchen y tir.
Caewyd y pwll yn 1983.
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Ti ar c'heflusker, Meingleuz-c'hlaou ar Great Western
E 1842 ne oa ket a diez el lec'h ma kreskast bourk Trehopcyn, nemet douaroù ur feurm dalc'het gant Evan Hopkin. Dek vloaz diwezhatoc'h avat e oa bet treuzfurmet an draoñienn gant Mengleuz Glaou Gyfeillion, ha gant greanterezh all. An anv Hopkin's town ne gaver nemet e 1871.
Serret e voe ar poull-glaou e 1983.
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Teach Innill Hetty, Mianach Guail an Great Western
Taispeánann léarscáil na deachún do 1842 nach raibh aon teach cónaithe ar bith san áit a d’fhás Trehopyn. Ní raibh ann ach talamh feirme, a bhí i lámha Evan Hopkin.
Faoi dheireadh na ndeich mbliana, bhí athruithe ollmhóra tar éis tarlú sa tír. Claochlaíodh an gleann le Mianach Guail Cyfeillion (Ty Mawr), agus forbairtí tionsclaíocha eile. Ba é “Rhondda Road” ainm na háite seo i 1851 agus 1861.
Ní fhaighimid an t-ainm Hopkin's Town ach i 1871. Is é ainm an úinéara talún a fheictear in Hopkinstown, nó Trehopcyn sa Bhreatnais.
Dúnadh an mianach i 1983.
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Hetty Engine House, Great Western Colliery, Hopkinstown
In 1842 there were no homes on the land here Hopkinstown developed, only farmland which was owned by Evan Hopkin.
By the end of that decade, the place had been transformed by the opening of the Great Western Colliery and by other industrial activity. The name "Hopkin's Town" only appears in 1871, and seems to refer to the former landowner.
The mine was closed in 1983.
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Sky Ellipse
Highway 407 Station
As you take the escalator upstairs to the street level you will see large, oval windows above that appear to be smeared with bright blues and volcanic oranges, as if painted onto the glass. The coloured glass covers the western facade of the station and the skylights, bringing coloured natural light into the cavernous subway below.
This is Sky Ellipse by David Pearl, a work which occupies several places in this subway station, and complements both the airiness of the station and the open oval that punctures the north corner of the roof. Ahead, at street level, in the GO bus waiting area, there is a panel of coloured glass facing the south parking lot. The piece brings movement and colour into the space in a simple way, by taking advantage of the shifting angle of the sun, and the movement of people within. David Pearl explains it this way: , “a simple palette of expressive coloured glass works with the dynamic of natural light and the movement of the observer to animate the space and interior surfaces. This is colour that is not coded to sign or direct - just pure coloured natural light; responding to the cycles and rhythms of the sun; echoing the building’s response to the greenbelt surroundings and its environmental sensitivity celebrated as art and architecture.” The stained glass is an apt tribute to this cathedral of transit.
David Pearl is a glass artist working in Toronto. His work has appeared in Toronto, the UK and elsewhere.
Parmigiano polenta pollo espinica. Picpoul salsa de pan (picante).
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Piston Effect
York University Station
Look up as you step off the train onto the subway platform. You will see a number of dark glass panels each containing a grid of small squares. This is Piston Effect, by London interaction designer Jason Bruges. Like much of the art we’ll see on this tour, it has been fully integrated into the architecture of this station, which was designed by UK architects Foster + Partners. This work runs almost the whole length of the station, and in addition to being an interactive work of art, also acts to contain smoke in the event of a fire.
Let’s look closer now, do you see anything changing when you look at the dark glass panels?Those small squares are actually LCD screens which respond to changes in air pressure as trains enter the station (called the piston effect) illuminating each of the squares in the panel display, in shades ranging from white to black.
As the artist states: “Station air movement is the invisible element explored in this artwork. Air is disturbed and excited by people and trains passing through the station. The Piston Effect... is [an] air movement type being investigated to bring the station to life. The arrival and departure of the trains and the passengers and staff all create this flux, creating a generative and random choreography. This will be used as the score or algorithm to control the digital canvas, creating a unique and ever changing real time four dimensional artwork.”
Jason Bruges has installed similar works in England, such as London's Digital Fountain. Based in the UK, he works at the intersection of art and technology, creating interactive works. His Canadian work includes a project for Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa.
A breath of the past
My inspiration songs for this pictures:
1. Egzod & Maestro Chives - Royalty
Visit: Panjin
Inspiration finds its way:
In this series of pictures I want to give you all something the feeling of freedom of letting go of daydreaming the feeling of the higher self that is world-spanning.
Do you know the feeling of being completely detached from everything? The feeling of just letting go you just let go of everything you let it go no matter if it is a thought or a situation you let go of the old you let go of the old you spread your wings and finally start to fly.
Do you feel it?
Do you feel the air that fills your lungs and gives your wings lift?
I am taking you on a journey through time and we are sending an important message in both the past and the future so hold on tight because it is going to be turbulent.
My message to my past self and my future self:
Life is a marathon so don't give it your all right from the start keep your pace you will still need energy towards the end when life goes uphill pull it through grab the uphill and keep the focus looking forward and yes you will overtake people you will leave people behind but you don't have to worry about them they will go their own way. Believe in yourself! And when you realize that your lungs are burning your body is heavy and you want to give up pull it through!!!
Because I believe in you and I have done so since I existed in so many reincarnations in which I accompanied you and was at your side . . .
So many lifetimes we have been through together to arrive here and now I know you feel it you can see your past lives you can feel them and accept them . . everything is happening now you are the one in all the multiverses the one who will change everything and yes it will take everything from you and you will make it you will climb every obstacle you will change all the bad into good because you are the born alchemist . . you will be the one who sees everything from a different point of view yes many will not understand you do not let this discourage you stand up for yourself you know your ancestors stand united behind you you will always see the light and you will be the light you will be a bright light to so many people in their darkest days you will give them the strength and courage to walk your soul path . . .
I tell you that you have the iron will to create everything that you dream of, so believe in yourself and trust your higher self. . Do what you love, follow your heart and have the deep trust in yourself, in your strength and in your big heart . . .
Because what makes you tick is what the people you meet in your life love you show them something they don't know you show them their own inner self I show them how it could be and yes some will run screaming some will hate you some will do bad things to you and you will grow through every experience through every hurt you will mature until one day you look back and see the whole picture . . .
Because no matter where you are right now your past has strengthened you for what is coming and what may come. . . .
So Sophie come what may and will wath may come
Then God damned Girl you're ready!
Bei dieser Bilder Serie möchte ich euch allen etwas schenken das Gefühl der Freiheit des Loslassens des Tagträumens das Gefühl des höheren Selbst das Weltenüberspannend ist.
Kennst du das Gefühl völlig los gelöst von allem zu sein? Das Gefühl einfach los zu lassen du lässt alles einfach los du lässt es frei egal ob Gedanken Situationen du lässt altes hinter dir lässt dein altes ich hinter dir breitest die Flügel aus und fängst endlich an zu Fliegen.
Spürst du es?
Spürt du die Luft die deine Lungen füllt die deinen Flügeln Auftrieb gibt?
Ich nehme dich mit auf eine Zeitreise und wir setzen eine wichtige Botschaft ab sowohl in der Vergangenheit wie auch in der Zukunft also halt dich fest den es wird turbulent werden.
Meine Botschaft an mein Vergangenes Ich und mein Zukünftiges Ich:
Das Leben ist ein Marathon also gib nicht gleich von Anfang an alles halte deine Pace den du wirst zum Ende hin noch Energie brauchen wenn das Leben bergauf geht zieh es durch greif im Anstieg an und halte den Fokus den Blick nach vorn und ja du wirst Menschen überholen du wirst Menschen auf der Strecke lassen doch um die brauchst du dir keine Sorgen zu machen den sie gehen ihren eigenen Weg. Glaube an dich! Und wenn du merkst das deine Lunge brennt dein Körper schwer wird und du am liebsten aufgeben möchtest zieh es durch!!!
Den ich glaube an dich und das habe ich schon getan seit ich existiere in so vielen Reinkarnationen in denen ich dich begleitet habe und an deiner Seite war . . .
So viele Leben haben wir gemeinsam gemeistert um im hier und heute an zu kommen ich weiss du spürst es du kannst deine vergangen Leben sehen du kannst sie spüren und nimmst sie an. . . alles geschieht jetzt du bist die Eine in all den Multiversen die Eine die alles verändern wird und ja es wird dir alles abverlangen und du wirst es schaffen du wirst jedes Hindernis erklimmen du wirst all das schlechte in gutes verwandeln den du bist die geborene Alchemistin. . . du wirst die eine sein die alles aus einem anderen Blickwinkel siehst ja viele werden dich nicht verstehen lass dich davon nicht entmutigen Steh für dich ein den du weisst deine Ahnen stehen geschlossen hinter dir du wirst immer das Licht sehen und du wirst das Licht sein du wirst so vielen Menschen in ihren dunkelsten Tagen ein helles licht sein wirst ihnen die Kraft und den Mut geben Ihren Seelenweg zu gehen . . .
Ich sage dir du hast den eisernen willen alles zu schaffen was du dir erträumst also Glaube an dich vertraue deinem Höheren selbst . . . tu was du liebst folge deinem Herzen und habe das tiefe vertraue in dich selbst in deine Stärke und in dein grosses Herz . . .
Den das was dich ausmacht ist das was die Menschen die dir in deinem Leben begegnen Lieben du Zeigst ihnen etwas das Sie nicht kennen du Zeigst Ihnen ihr eigenes inneres ich zeigst ihnen wie es sein könnte und ja manche werden schreiend davon laufen manche werden dich hassen manche werden dir schlimme Dinge an tun und du wirst daran Wachsen durch jede Erfahrung durch jede Verletzung wirst du reifen bis du eines Tages zurück blickst und das gesamt Bild siehst . . .
Denn ganz egal wo du gerade bist deine Vergangenheit hat dich für das gestärkt was gerade kommt und was noch kommen mag. . . .
Also Sophie komme was wolle und wolle was da komme
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This is the basic kit lens that comes with the Sony a200 camera.
DT - 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Zoom Lens
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ED (Extra-low Dispersion) Glass
To reduce chromatic aberration at telephoto extension, correcting certain wavelengths of light for sharp, clear images with well defined colors.
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Barren Ground Caribou
Spadina Station
In 1977 artist Joyce Wieland travelled to Kinngait (Cape Dorset) for the first time, to the West Baffin Eskimo Co-op, by then a well-known print-making studio. She had already, in 1971, established a firm reputation as an artist, being the first living woman to have a solo exhibit at the National Gallery of Canada. So when she was invited to create a piece for the new Spadina subway line, she declared that she wanted to bring the Arctic tundra to the city, but in a surprising and feminine way. She says, “I think of Canada as female.”
This large 8' by 30' quilt features a herd of seventeen barren ground caribou on a low rise. Barren-ground caribou are a species of reindeer that comprise about half the caribou in Canada and since 1937 have appeared on Canadian quarters. Both males and females have antlers. The colours and textures of the Arctic tundra are reproduced in swaths of bright fabric which complement the pale blue Arctic sky above and the muted tones of the caribou which, coincidentally, mirror the brown tiles of the station floor. Perspective is created through horizontal bands in the blue quilted sky which become progressively narrower as the sky approaches the horizon. The animals face us, observing us, as if we are interlopers in their land, not the other way around.
This quilt was sewn over a period of eight months by Joyce and a team of six quilters. It was created ten years after Joyce Weiland's famous 1968 quilt “Reason over Passion” where she subverted a statement by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau by passionately illustrating his quote with quilted hearts.
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It's a 20km one way in, one way out hike that encompasses almost 1000m of elevation gain. The last 2km is a scramble up the peak. My favorite hike trail, also the most challenge hike on my Rocky Mountain trip.
I am still somewhere among the Rockies… See you later my dear Flickr friends!
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K'San Village Posts
Spadina Station
The three figures behind the metal barrier are traditional cedar house posts from the Gitxsan First Nation in Hazelton, British Columbia, about 1,000km north of Vancouver in the BC interior. They were commissioned by the Wigwamen Housing Corporation to commemorate the building of Wigwamen Terrace, a residence for First Nation seniors, at 14 Spadina Road across the street. The three figures were donated to the Toronto Transit Commission in February 1979 shortly after the station's opening in 1978 when the TTC acquired nine other artworks for the newly built stations located North of here on Line 1.
While house posts like these were not traditionally used by First Nations peoples who inhabited this area, they are a highly recognizable symbol of the presence of First Nation peoples of all nations in the city. K'san Historical Village stands in Gitxsan Territory where the village of Gitanmaax “the people who fish by torchlight” existed for centuries. The community was part of the 1997 Delgamuukw Supreme Court of Canada ruling that affirmed aboriginal treaty rights to land claims.
K'san is the home of the Gitanmaax School of Northwest Coast Art, and is a showcase of skilled Gitxsan craft, with elaborate totem poles and seven decorated houses at the confluence of the Skeena and Bulkley Rivers. Carved out of western red cedar, these traditional housing supports depict an owl, a wolf and a hawk, and represent family crests. The owl was carved by Fedelia O'Brien, the wolf by Murphy Green, and the hawk by Chuck Heit, all of whom, at the time, practiced at the Gitanmaax School of Northwest Coast Art. Chuck Heit has also carved the totem pole at the federal court building at 180 Queen West and a large carving at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University.
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Spin
Downsview Park Station
If you are starting this tour from the subway, proceed up the escalators to the concourse level, through the turnstiles and up the escalator to exit the station at either the East or West entrance. It’s there that you’ll find the best vantage point from which to view this work. Can you see the giant black arc, opening like a wide mouth, encompassing the entire station?
Move around, and you’ll see how these arcs become disjointed. Move back to see them realign and leap out at you as the circle completes itself when you’re looking at it from just the right angle.
Artist Panya Clark Espinal uses anamorphic techniques to create this perspective-shifting effect. Her previous work at Bayview Station, which uses the same technique to create playful forms throughout the station, could be regarded as a sketchbook for the astonishing size of this work “Spin”, a collaboration of art, architecture and skilled trades that seamlessly wraps the space in its embrace.
The artist worked with architect Nathaniel Grey to perfect and execute this idea, a process that required precise 3D digital models of the architecture overlaid with hand-drawn sketches of the rings.The artist described the experience this way: “Designing it was a bit of a game… We had to figure out where people could stand to view these floating rings, but also where they could be rendered into the architecture.” Finally the idea was translated into drawings that were used to create just the right shapes in the terrazzo floors, enamel metal panelling, ceramic wall tiles and ceiling panels, all working together to achieve the effect of rings floating in space.
Keep observing the work as you head to the trains. When you arrive on the platform, look for two columns in the centre of the subway platform decorated with black lines. Move around them to observe how they change. Have you found the right place to stand to see a perfect teardrop shape?
Panya Clark Espinal is a multi-media installation artist interested in exploring the act of looking. She holds an MFA from OCADU where she received the Governor General’s Award for her work in Experimental Art and Sculpture Installation. She has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Canadian Embassy (Tokyo), the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, and the National Gallery of Canada.
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The Vessel
Taddle Creek Park
When you arrive in the park, look for a gigantic pitcher that seems to be composed of wires. This is The Vessel, our next stop. This work aims to connect us to Taddle Creek that once flowed here and is the namesake for this park. Like many of the creeks in Toronto Taddle Creek has been buried, but still finds ways to make its presence known. Artist Ilan Sandler will explain how this work invokes the creek and the long history of inhabitation along it. He’ll also tell us the story of how this piece was built. The clip you’re about to hear is a part of the Artbuzz project produced by David Tarnow.
My name's Ilan Sandler. I'm the artist who created the vessel that you're looking at in Taddle Creek Park. The Vessel's made up of 4 kilometers of stainless steel rod. The reference to 4 kilometers was the length that Taddle Creek River ran from the park down to Lake Ontario.
When you look up to the top you can see a large pipe that's running around the rim of the piece. It's perforated with about 180 holes through which the water is flowing in the summer. As the water cascades down over the object it hits the piece, which creates a certain amount of resonance and then drains into a catchment basin for later irrigation of the park.
Taddle Creek, from what I gather, ran for millennia. It ran through what is now Toronto from Wychwood Park southeasterly through Taddle Creek Park along Philosopher's Walk and then eventually meandered down to Queen and Parliament and then down into Lake Ontario. It was dammed up in the late 19th century primarily due to pollution, but prior to European settlement it had been of great importance to the Anishnabe people, an Ojibwe speaking nation. And there's evidence of a long history of using it for sustenance. So I wanted to make an object that could somehow transcend particular groups or nations and become emblematic of human civilization as a whole.
The intention was to make an object that was both there and not there at the same time, something that you could see but also see through. And in looking through it you were able to relate the park itself to this lost river.
I've certainly gotten to know my welder really well. We spent 4 months together and Paul was always on the inside of the object and I was on the outside holding things in place; and both of us grimacing as we stretched our arms a little further than we'd ever anticipated having to do. But at the end of those 4 months we had over 11,000 welds and 4 kilometers of rod forming this large vessel.
We built the piece in 4 sections. The bottom two-thirds, which in a sense looks like a large vase was the first part that we completed. After that we built the top third which included the spout. Once these sections were finished, and the handle was basically built from an arc and a set of concentric ellipses - if you look closely you'll see how the rods are sitting on sprocketed ellipses that run through that handle - we then took all 4 sections out of our fabrication shop and spent several sunny days putting the piece together. Once that was done the most difficult part was to determine whether in fact the handle was going to fit into these pre-ordained sizes that we had come up with using our computer modeling. And of course we were off by about 3.3 centimeters. So a little hole had to be cut and the handle was re-positioned and sure enough everything fit together. It was at this moment, a really exciting moment, where I was able to create all the splaying rods. If you look at the bottom of the handle or the top you'll see a number of rods, which are emanating from that elliptical handle out onto the body of the piece. And this was a really fun thing to do. It was at this point that I could leave behind all of my preconceived calculations and all the numbers that we had gone over in our minds and slowly link one rod to another rod on the body of the piece. And there are actually 84 rods around the bottom and another 84 around the top of the handle, and on-by-one we positioned them, created the arcs and then welded them in place.
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Water Birds
1162 Weston Rd. (South and West facing walls, visible from Eglinton)
This mural was painted in 2018 by lead artist Bacon and features three local bird species, all of which can be spotted in and around the waters of Topham Pond, just west of where you are standing, down the hill in Gladhurst Park. The inspiration for the subject matter came from the owner of the building, Dr. Marvin Cooper of Northwestern Eye Associates, who loves to birdwatch by the water and takes beautiful photographs of the pond.
The birds featured on the South-facing wall are the Great Horned Owl to the left and the Red-Winged Blackbird to the right, while the west-facing wall features a Great Egret. Bacon selected these from studying various species that frequent the pond or the Humber River nearby.
Throughout the mural, the images of the birds are interrupted and fragmented by shards of different colours and spliced with images of flowers. All are rendered with Bacon’s usual realistic precision and vibrant, highly saturated colour palette. He describes his style as a combination of Abstraction, Realism and Expressionism. Speaking as a huge fan of his work this is an exciting evolution of a style he has been exploring in his graffiti pieces over the years where he fragments the letters into flat forms like overlapping stained glass windows. Seeing him do this with an animal, I think this was the first time he did it that way and when I saw the design my mind was blown, but he pulled it off perfectly.
Fun fact about this wall, in addition to Bacon having the assistance of two talented Toronto artists, Christina Mazzulla and Wales, I got to help out on this project. We did the whole thing in spray paint, which is the preferred medium for all four of us. I could only help for a day because of my own schedule, but I’m glad I did because I got to meet Bacon’s 13-year old apprentice Sam who was well into learning the basics of spray painting and ripping through cans of purple with great enthusiasm.
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Mid Summer’s Night Dream by Wessel Couzijn, High Park: Lying in the grass by the path are two barely discernible shapes in cement, wrapped in strands of stainless steel. At first it is unclear what they are, until we perceive the fingers wrapped around the side and the chrome metal “parts” on each of the shapes. These are lovers, lying side by side, oblivious to the world, their shapely contours reduced to the barest essentials, their topographies outlined in steel bands like lines on a map.
We circle around them to learn more and discover what seems to be a piece of a wing emerging at the head. This is a fragment of a dream: have these lovers crashed to earth in a rocket ship? Where have they come from?
Wessel Couzijn was a Dutch sculptor who studied in Amsterdam, Paris and Italy. Stricken with polio as a child he spent years in hospitals. A Jewish anti-fascist, Couzijn fled Nazi violence to New York in 1940, but returned after the war to teach and work in the Netherlands. In 1960 the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Biennial was almost wholly devoted to his work. In 1963 his bronze work “Corporate Entity” was placed outside the headquarters of Unilever in Rotterdam.
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Don't say thank you or please, I do
What I want when I'm wanting to
My soul? So cynical
So I'm a tough guy
Like-it-really-rough guy
Just-can't-get-enough guy
Chest-always-so-puffed guy
I'm that bad type
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Anonymous Somebody
Runnymede Station
Elicser Elliot's distinctive aerosol style is on display in groups of portraits of subway patrons throughout the concourse and street level. The images are taken from Elliot's sketchbook of real and imagined people: for example, the nurse is actually Elliot's agent's grandmother who lives near Runnymede Station, and took the same subway to work every day for 40 years. As the artist says, ““Anonymous Somebody” captures the snippets of our bustling Bloor West Village lives while standing still. The artworks aim to communicate the story of individual spirit as fresh and relevant to the metabolism of the neighbourhood. The images work as an anchor to a thought or memory for the person viewing it - to commemorate, celebrate, provoke, and heal”.
The characters are presented three-dimensionally, on panels that do not wholly align with the surrounding tiling, as if served up to us for our contemplation. We might recognize ourselves in them – the woman on the cell phone at the top of the escalator, the man sleeping on a streetcar after a hard shift, the woman sitting on a bench with a coffee and a magazine, the man waiting for a bus with his hands in his pockets. These are the glimpses we see as we transit through our day, and these we see again and again as we pass through the station. We will have our favourites, wonder at their stories, give them names, design a backstory for them.
Elicser Elliot is an alumnus of Sheridan College's animation program. Initially an aerosol artist, his work has been shown at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the McMichael Museum.
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Spring
Further down south, spring has arrived and a brown bear comes out of hibernation, searching for food and water. Ecosystems abound, and as the bear paws around, she is surrounded by networks of underground mycorrhizae, who live in symbiosis with plants, insects, and bacteria. These under-soil mycorrhizae help to provide phosphorus and nitrogen to their soil-plant friends. And every once in a while, these mycorrhizae reproduce and send up fruiting bodies that produce spores, or as we know them, mushrooms, truffles and chanterelles.
Fresh water gives life to surrounding fauna, and with help from the sun, growth is restored. These ecosystems are a source of energy, a glowing nucleus pulsating life into centuries old forests. In these woodlands, a magical owl watches over the cycles of life that have sustained themselves since before humans arrived. Forests that thrived, where once prehistoric animals roamed, and where hybrid dinosaur creatures capture our imaginations. They come to remind us that the fossil fuels we excavate today - oil, gas and coal, come from these ancient forests, plants, algae and plankton. As we consume these decaying organic remains that are over millions of years old, we release carbon dioxide into our airs and consequently cause man made exponential global warming.
As spirits of these ancient plants are released into the skies, they take the form of carbon dioxide and populate the air like vagabonds far from their underground home. Upon their journey drifting through northern skies, they too are witness to the surreal beauty of Aurora Borealis. Northern lights - a sign that solar winds have paid us a visit and altered electrons and protons in Mother Earth’s atmosphere. A reminder that our tiny earthly ecosystems are interconnected with far away giant stars and energies.
Down below, an elder shares the ways of times past when humans lived in harmony with nature, when we lived from earth, with earth, and we would make sure to replenish and respect all living beings. We treated Mother Nature for the grand spirit that she is, abundant, inspiring, magical, and strong. Humans were not above nature but part of her great and wise ecosystems.
The big blue moon overhears these tales and whispers her song down to the waters, making the tides dance to her melody, as the fisherman paddles through the currents and is guided by her nightly sky map. She sings to the fox and the farmer, and all of the villagers below, telling them when to plant their crops in harmony with her lunar cycles, reminding them to cultivate sustainable lands and to respect the wisdom of ancient seeds. The farmer listens intently, casting her eyes up thanking the moon for its song, and grateful for her crop. The farmer’s friend, a Praying Mantis, known as a master predator of arthropods, sits guarding her crop of corn. Corn is a staple food and cultural symbol of Indigenous Peoples across the Americas for over 10,000 years. After Indigenous peoples taught European settlers to grow the indigenous grain, it was introduced around the world. Considered a sacred plant, Maize shapes daily meals, and influences spiritual, physical and economic systems.
Spark Knight
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Hetty Engine House, Great Western Colliery, Hopkinstown
Dengys map y degwm am 1842 nad oedd dim tai annedd yn y man y datblygodd Trehopyn. Nid oedd ond tir fferm, a oedd yn nwylo Evan Hopkin. Erbyn diwedd y degawd, fodd bynnag, daeth tro ar fyd. Sefydlwyd Glofa Gyfeillion (Tŷ Mawr), a bu datblygiadau diwydiannol eraill. Gweddnewidiwyd y cwm. "Rhondda Road" oedd enw'r man yr oedd y tai yn 1851 ac yn 1861. Ceir yr enw Hopkin's Town yn 1871, fodd bynnag, a'r lle wedi cymryd ei enw, Trehopcyn yn Gymraeg, oddi wrth y gŵr a fu'n berchen y tir. Caewyd y pwll yn 1983.
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E 1842 ne oa ket a diez el lec'h ma kreskas bourk Trehopcyn, nemet douaroù ur feurm ne oa. Ar feurm a oa dalc'het gant Evan Hopkin. A-benn dek vloaz avat e voe treuzfurmet an draoñienn gant Mengleuz Glaou Gyfeillion, ha gant greanterezh all. Ne gaver ket anv ar bourk a-raok 1871. Serret e voe ar poull-glaou e 1983.
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In 1842 there were no homes on the land where Hopkinstown was to develop. There was only farmland which was owned by Evan Hopkin. By the end of that decade, however, the place had been transformed by the opening of the Great Western Colliery and by other industrial activity. The name "Hopkin's Town" only appears in 1871, and seems to refer to the former landowner. The mine was closed in 1983.
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English
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Corinthian columns and capitals of the former bank building at King and Bay in Toronto. Built in 1912 by architect Carrere and Hastings of New York and Eustace Bird of Toronto. The building was demolished in 1966.
Excerpt from webapp.driftscape.com/map/912c610e-fcd4-11eb-8000-bc1c5a8...:
The white marble marvel is composed of a stepped stage backed by an arrangement of grand Corinthian columns, archways and ornate panels.
The Greek Theatre is made out of salvaged pieces of the former Bank of Toronto building on the Southwest corner of King and Bay streets, which stood where Mies Van Der Rohe’s TD Centre now stands. Constructed in 1913 and demolished in 1965 the neoclassical building was designed by the New York City architectural firm Carrere and Hastings, who designed the New York Public Library, and Toronto based Eustace G. Bird. Inspired by the historical Paris Stock Market—Palais Brongniart— the Bank of Toronto was a grand building; the plinth/base of the colonnade alone was taller than the people walking past it.
But this isn’t just a reconstruction - it is a complete reimagination! The elements were rearranged, shortened and adapted into a new structure designed by renowned Canadian architect Ron Thom in the 1980s. Unlike other artifacts at the park, this theatre is not just a folly, it is an actual working stage with productions throughout the year. And it’s the perfect place to get your wedding photos or that perfect Guild Park selfie!
An Infra Red shot of one of the Radical Horizons sculptures at Chatsworth which were originally produced for the Burning Man Festival in the Nevada Desert.
www.chatsworth.org/events/burning-man/
This Sculpture is called Lodestar and is by Randy Polumbo
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Explored September 23, 2025
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Tent Ridge Hiking - 11km climbing mountains up and down... The Spay Lake is so beautiful even the wildfire causing the mist looking at Rocky Mountains.
Met 4 guys from US, we hiked together in order to scare the bears, it is the bears' country at Kananaskis. The Park Alberta staff told us, there were 6 bears in the area.
It is the exclusive pano view from 12 vertical photos.
The videos show our hiking on the ridge.
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PS: Experiences and recommendations:
-- This is not a simple walk-up. You can go "Clockwise" or "Anti-clockwise". Clockwise is a bit easy.
-- You must be comfortable using your hands to scramble.
-- This is a long, demanding hike. Take enough water and food, no water on the ridge.
-- Start early to avoid afternoon thunderstorms and to give yourself plenty of time.
-- Go with a group to avoid the bears in the bears' country
-- The ridge is completely exposed. If there is thunderstorm, high wind, rain, or snow/ice on the route, the rock becomes very slippery, do not attempt to hike on those weather!
-- You need download offline map (AllTrails, Gaia GPS or Topo Maps Canada). AllTrails and Gaia GPS need to pay, Topo Maps Canada is free, and it has all the trails info all over the world! You need to download it beforehand when there is signal, and you can use it offline!
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Williamson Park in Lancaster was built on the sandstone quarries from which much of the stone for the city was cut. In the 1860s it was landscaped by mill workers left unemployed by the "Cotton Famine" of the US Civil War.
The park has many outcrops of "Pendle Grit" sandstone overgrown with ferns and ivy and covered with lichen. I was surprised to see a band of softer rock, shale I think, between the two thick beds of sandstone, something I had not noticed before. See webapps.bgs.ac.uk/Memoirs/docs/B01527.html
Make your own: Badge Maker
Original idea from LarimdaME. All the cool kids are doing it.
Flickr blogged June 27, 2005 and again on June 28.
Check out the badge and flickrbadge tags. Add your badge to the dedicated group pool and to the more generic Flickr Toys pool.
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The Windows of Time Mural
1971 Weston Road (on the side of the building)
The Windows of Time is a vibrant mural done by Brazilian born artist Christiano de Arte. The artist uses acrylic airbrush and brush for smooth and seamless blending of colours to create panels or “windows” of specific time periods of what life was like in Weston Village from the late 1800’s to present day.
The mural design consists of four segments that are separated by the use of an illustration of a wooden frame. The segments come together to make one fluid image. Each segment represents a time period which can be identified by the fashion and other time markers such as the “penny farthing” or “high wheeler bicycle” and fashions of the 1800’s, 1940’s, 1960’s and present day. It is interesting to see how the artist not only uses the people in the foreground of the mural to identify the period and how it has evolved but also the use of the space in the background.
I particularly love this mural because it captures when Weston became the diverse, multicultural community it is today while celebrating its history.
A shot of one of the Radical Horizons sculptures at Chatsworth which were originally produced for the Burning Man Festival in the Nevada Desert.
www.chatsworth.org/events/burning-man/
This Sculpture is called Mum and is by Mr and Mrs Ferguson and is made out of coins.
Try the Chatsworth audio guide for more info
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From Here to Now
Bayview Station
Throughout Bayview station you’ll find twenty-four pieces. Start exploring and look for black swirls on the floors and walls. At first you might not recognize what they are, but keep moving, when you view these works from the right perspective you’ll have that A-Ha moment! You’ll often see a block of colour near the black illustration, shift your perspective until it starts to look like a square to view the piece from the right angle. Keep your eye out for a needle and spool, a tea cup, a cut apple, slices of lemon, a salt shaker. There are more treasures in store up the stairs.
The visual distortion, known as anamorphosis, shifts with the viewer’s position. The image seems distorted when seen from a frontal position but when viewed from one side or from an angle it resumes normal proportions. For a real treat view the images through the lens of your smartphone: they’ll appear as if in augmented reality – a ladder leaning against the wall, a stepladder, a pocket watch floating in the air, a dog waiting at the top of the stairs for its owner to come home.
The work heightens our awareness about movement and travel through these pedestrian spaces and infuses our experience with a sense of play. The pieces are made from waterjet-cut glazed ceramic tiles laid in the walls and floors, and based on free-hand black line drawings. The artist, Panya Clark Espinal, is a Toronto-based multi-media installation artist who has produced many public art commissions. Her pixelated interpretation of the famous Jack Pine painting by Tom Thomson is installed at Barberry Place, just a block from this station.
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Type: ATA-170-class tug (SEMPER PARATUS )
Built At: Gulfport Boiler & Welding Works, Port Arthur, Texas
Commissioned: 8 December 1944.
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Renamed (Jul 16, 1948) USS Wampanoag (ATA-202)
Decommissioned
Donated to the Comanche 202 Foundation to serve as a non-profit historic and educational vessel in the south Puget Sound area...
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I'm happy to report that Petey is still enjoying the big pillow I got him for napping on the sofa. And that led to poodlenose mentioning some dog blankets they got at LLBean, which led me to order a bed with a quasi-real mattress from LLBean, which Pete loves. So thanks to poodlenose for the suggestion. Pete can rest comfortably in pretty much any room of the house now :-)
Explore #10 on 27-Nov-2007
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Lawrence Underpass Mural
Lawrence Ave underpass (at Weston GO/UP Express Station)
Underneath the railway is a colourful mural on both sides that incorporates flora, fauna and a modern touch with the use of graffiti font.
Artists Alex Bacon (Alexander Lazich) and Que Rockford (Quentin Rockford) have incorporated local flowers and wildlife against an abstract background. The artists use spray paint to give the animals and flowers a soft feel which contrasts with the hard lines and sharp edges of the graffiti-style writing.
Quentin is Anishinaabe and Odawa: the artist’s indigenous background influences his style of painting and ultimately the mural itself. Quentin fashions the images of animals in the style of native art.
The artists have incorporated natural features of the Humber River and Weston, such as great blue herons, saw-whet owl, blue jays, salmon and local flora such as the red trillium.
The mural is a celebration of Rockford’s family and heritage. If you look closely you will see an image of the artist’s great-great grandmother incorporated into the mural’s vibrancy.
Excerpt from webapp.driftscape.com/map/19d41cae-db10-11eb-8000-bc1c5a8...:
Anonymous Somebody
Runnymede Station
Elicser Elliot's distinctive aerosol style is on display in groups of portraits of subway patrons throughout the concourse and street level. The images are taken from Elliot's sketchbook of real and imagined people: for example, the nurse is actually Elliot's agent's grandmother who lives near Runnymede Station, and took the same subway to work every day for 40 years. As the artist says, ““Anonymous Somebody” captures the snippets of our bustling Bloor West Village lives while standing still. The artworks aim to communicate the story of individual spirit as fresh and relevant to the metabolism of the neighbourhood. The images work as an anchor to a thought or memory for the person viewing it - to commemorate, celebrate, provoke, and heal”.
The characters are presented three-dimensionally, on panels that do not wholly align with the surrounding tiling, as if served up to us for our contemplation. We might recognize ourselves in them – the woman on the cell phone at the top of the escalator, the man sleeping on a streetcar after a hard shift, the woman sitting on a bench with a coffee and a magazine, the man waiting for a bus with his hands in his pockets. These are the glimpses we see as we transit through our day, and these we see again and again as we pass through the station. We will have our favourites, wonder at their stories, give them names, design a backstory for them.
Elicser Elliot is an alumnus of Sheridan College's animation program. Initially an aerosol artist, his work has been shown at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the McMichael Museum.