The name, Fario, keeps popping up on walls in downtown Toronto. But who is Fario?
Author: David Barker
Guelph, Ontario
Took a walk around Guelph the other day. Was there to pick up my daughter from school, so didn’t have a lot of time. Just used my little mirrorless camera.
Birds: Pretty/Disturbing
But sometimes the natural world defies our expectations. Certainly that was the lesson from a hike through Tommy Thompson Park when I saw something hanging high in a tree. Zooming in, I discovered that it was a cormorant, neck broken, head wedged in a forked branch.
Tommy Thompson Park
One place I like to go when I need to scratch my photographic itch is Tommy Thompson Park on the Leslie Street Spit.
Toronto’s First Frost
Toronto had its first frost on October 12th. But it wasn’t a killing frost and it didn’t happen much of anywhere. In fact, because it was Thanksgiving holiday, most people missed it.
Canada Malting Silos
Here’s an image of the Canada Malting Silos at the foot of Bathurst Street in Toronto. They’re abandoned and, I expect, will be dismantled. I’ve often wondered how much beer you could get from those silos if they were full of hops.
Pastels Are Grossly Underrated
An Authentic Photograph
Sometimes taking words out of context makes them anything but …
Synaesthesia and The Ongoing Moment
Geoff Dyer’s The Ongoing Moment is a continuous cover-to-cover meditation upon the art of photography. I say “continuous cover-to-cover” because the book has no breaks, no arbitrary chapter divisions. Instead, it’s a series of riffs that follow one another in an associative way. He writes about Stieglitz and his relationship with his wife, Georgia O’Keefe…
When Love Fades
What does it feel like when love fades?
Playing With “Toy”
I am a toy: I like to play with Toy: I am a dead Toy:
Ugly Beauty
I know it’s an oxymoron to write about ugly beauty, but that’s sometimes how I respond when I encounter an object which I would ordinarily think of as ugly but which nevertheless draws to itself something strangely attractive.
Bronze Doors
This is the A. E. Gooderham mausoleum in St. James Cemetery. Gooderham was the grandson of William Gooderham, co-founder of Gooderham & Worts, the reason Toronto has its so-called Distillery District.
Nuit Blanche 2014
Nuit Blanche is Toronto’s way of saying yee-haw to the arts — a festival running from sundown to sunup where people wander the streets from exhibit to exhibit.
McLaughlin Planetarium To Be Demolished
According to the Toronto Star, the McLaughlin Planetarium is going to be replaced by a cultural complex owned by the University of Toronto and leased to, among other things, a Jewish Museum.