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Nuit Blanche 2014

Posted on October 6, 2014October 17, 2022 by David Barker

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.

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McLaughlin Planetarium To Be Demolished

Posted on October 3, 2014October 17, 2022 by David Barker

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.

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The Camera Sees More Than The Eye

Posted on October 2, 2014October 17, 2022 by David Barker

Here are a couple photos I took because I wanted to capture a general feeling, only to discover well after the fact that I’d captured something else in the photo that completely undermined the feeling I was after.

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Men’s Clothing Store Poster On Bloor

Posted on September 30, 2014October 17, 2022 by David Barker

This poster came down last week. It was on the south-facing wall of the new Holt Renfrew Men’s clothing store on Bloor Street. (In case you need to know, like for some trivia game, Holt Renfrew is ultimately owned by the Weston family.)

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Ravines In Toronto

Posted on September 29, 2014October 17, 2022 by David Barker

I grew up in Willowdale near a ravine and a nameless creek that flowed into the Don River. I played in that ravine. Pheasants flew out of it and strutted through my back yard. Weird shit happened down there, too.

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Kirk Newman’s Community

Posted on September 25, 2014October 17, 2022 by David Barker

Standing on the southeast corner of Manulife’s Corporate headquarters in Toronto is a bronze sculpture called “Community”. It’s creator is Kirk Newman.

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Shop Window – Holy Merchandise

Posted on September 24, 2014October 17, 2022 by David Barker

4 June about 3 o’clock someone came to store and stolen holy merchandise. He run away very fast but he put the bicycle on the road I have experience 3 time this year (same man) I forgive again I want to return bicycle but he did not come back I report police station / Police…

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Graveyard Kitsch

Posted on September 23, 2014October 17, 2022 by David Barker

After writing a piece about Barthes’ principles of studium and punctum and how I read them in light of Milan Kundera’s meditation on kitsch, I went for a bit of a photowalk through Toronto’s St. James Cemetery. I like walking through cemeteries.

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Sign of the Times

Posted on August 28, 2014October 17, 2022 by David Barker

I shot this somewhere on Wellesley Street. Liked the textured rust of the sign set against the blurred (& therefore untextured) background of the apartment buildings.

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Chorley Park Switchback Trail

Posted on August 27, 2014October 17, 2022 by David Barker

So I’m standing above the site of the old quarry behind the Toronto Brickworks, tripod set up with my 70-200 mm, shooting across the ponds and paths below, captivated by the Z cut into the far hill, when I hear a voice behind me: “What are you taking a picture of?”

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Buskerfest Toronto – The Watchers

Posted on August 26, 2014October 17, 2022 by David Barker

Mostly, people go to Buskerfest to watch the buskers, but the people watching the buskers can be just as fun to watch.

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Buskerfest Toronto – The Performers

Posted on August 25, 2014October 17, 2022 by David Barker

This weekend, Toronto hosted Buskerfest. Yonge Street between College and Queen was closed to traffic and became a big stage for street performers and food vendors.

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Under the Glen St. Bridge, Toronto

Posted on August 22, 2014October 17, 2022 by David Barker

In Toronto, the Rosedale neighbourhood is noted for its many well-appointed homes. I recently toured one such home which is easily accessed from the Park Drive Reservation Trail. There is a broad, well-lit entrance that makes a bold statement when guests arrive.

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Open Streets TO

Posted on August 18, 2014October 17, 2022 by David Barker

Open Streets TO made its first appearance in Toronto on Sunday (Aug. 17, 2014) and will come back again on Aug 31st. Bloor St. from Parliament to Spadina, and Yonge St. from Bloor to Queen are closed to vehicles so that people can enjoy the streets in a safe & healthy environment.

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Ansel Adams, Graffiti

Posted on August 12, 2014October 17, 2022 by David Barker

In Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Ansel Adams gives accounts of how he produced some of his most famous photographs. When I picked up the book, I noted that he had written an account of graffiti he shot at an abandoned military installation north of San Francisco.

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