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I helped out a bit at the foundation’s AGM last night. I was pretty happy because I didn’t have to do much other than stand around in a suit (looking great by the way), and plugging a laptop into a projector. I love being the “tech-guy”.
Back when dowloading videos on the internet was difficult and slow, some of my friends thought it would be cool to send me videos of people getting hit by trains. It’s everything you think it would be and more because, apparently, someone somewhere gets hit by a train every day.
Leaving late from work has some advantages, for one the traffic will have calmed down. Except when a compact car hits a motorscyclist; then it slows down a bit.
These guys are everywhere, I know I “cheated” the first time, but this time is for real, these gnomes are everywhere! I just hope they’re not underpants gnomes: Stage 3 – Profit.
I had the pleasure of being the “official” foundation photographer for a meeting that took place at the beautiful Estates of Sunnybrook. Moira’s friends Olivia & Jeff were married there last year and we were fortunate enough to attend. And while the inside of the place was dark, and I’m still trying to figure out […]
I love Toronto architecture, there are some buildings of age that have unique and beautiful decorations. What I like even more is that there’s a trend (or possibly legal obligations) to incorporate this original strucuture in newly fabricated buildings that go bigger and better. Some of them look like they belong in a comic from […]
The film festival is officiallly over, it was capped off with Cashback, which Aaron and I saw and, most importantly; Penelope. When this movie is released you must see it, the performances were equisite, the set and costume design superb, the story wonderful and light, and so very very funny. I am extremely impressed with […]
That’s a little phrase my friend Andrew Lieu used to say, out of context I don’t even remember if he was relating to the Bruce Willis movie or a nihilistic approach to sex. Does anyone else think it’s totally hard to scale a wall with a batarang and a rope? It’s hard enough for me […]
I literally almost tripped on this going the wrong way down College. Wrong way because I didn’t realize the lumps on the ground were installation art. Kensington Market is pretty awesome.
I’m not sure if that’s “smoggy” or not. This pile was *hidden* behind a shut-down diner, tires and canisters, what kills me about dumping is that we actually have city dumps; use those.
Monty is Moira’s mum’s cat. Craziest damn Siamese ever. His eyes twitch back and forth as he plans his clawed swipe, or even slight nibble, on your person. I’d assume that he would eat any one of us given the chance.
I never really drank Tang; Kool Aid and Orange drink seemed to be on the menu enough.
Today was a long day, this is what I saw as I left the house to catch my bus in. Very close to what I saw on the way home too, except the moon was rising in the East instead of setting in the West. Babel at the Film Festival with Aaron this weekend, so […]
I had to play with curves to get this grey building looking better. A lot like how I’d like to play with Jen’s curves! Hey-yooo!
I took this shot in yorkville, so I’m pretty sure they worked hard to scrape what they could of this off the rock as soon as it came up. I love installation art, and I can’t even guess as to what the completed piece was, the colours, the layout, even though it’s a few tiles […]
The town of Weston has a tonne of historic landmarks. Sadly, a lot of it has become rundown, and the railway tracks, in addition to a rash of large appartment buildings has separated the once independent community. This war memorial, for the people of Weston who fell in the great wars, is in a small […]
Really I’m not sure if I can convey this “piece of wall” into a face, but the big teeth and small eyes just remind me of Totoro.
Cookies are great. When I first moved out on my own I decided to buy two bags of those rainbow cookies; they were on sale at the time. And I ate those with milk and felt great. But then I couldn’t get to sleep anymore and I realized that late night snacks of sugar probably […]
Clearcutting is a huge problem the world over, more disturbing is the fact that Ontario *used to* (emphasis added)have more trees than BC. We cut everything down we can so we can water our big lawns. But now we’re out of water so our lawns are dying. **Your lawns**; I got rid of mine last […]
It’s not as hard to get a pint of Guiness as it used to be. What is hard is seeing the head decorated like it *should* be.
I figured I’d share with you what I see every day, twice a day. This bunker-like substructure lays under Lawrence avenue at Yonge street. I think we should build more things underground for effeciency; like the subway, but more.
I don’t know how many stoves still mark their burners, but with all the ambient heat stoves and gas and ways to cook of the *FUTURE*, I don’t know if something like this will be around for much longer.
I always get nervous when I walk on the tracks, and it’s not just because it’s private property. It may have something to do with a WilEy Coyote esque nothing down the road but it’ll come and hit me the second I step on it feel.
this one’s part of a closed down donut-diner, it’s like “yeah fuck this place, let’s break it’s windows”
