Metronauts is an evolution of last year’s Transit Camp - a community of enthusiastic, open-minded people who care about the future of their city and the role transportation has in their lives.
The Toronto chapter of Cut&Paste happened this year at the FITC festival of design and technology. Look for me in one of the designs as I happened to be standing in the wrong place at the wrong time with my camera.
Juneâs Pride Week in Toronto has come and gone, but weâre still drowning in a ton of fun video. Crazy factoid: many of the girls in the front of this very hyped-up crowd came from the US, Europe and beyond to see her perform!
Nuit Blanche is an annual âall-night contemporary art thingâ that sees hundreds of thousands of people come out to see public art sprout up along the city streets. Itâs always a really great feeling being out and seeing the streets packed with people who are all so excited to see what the nightâs got ahead of them. Enjoy the haunting performance âLa Momma Mortaâ staged right next to Torontoâs historic St. James Cathedral and look forward to more video from Nuit Blanche coming soon! Subscribe and see more videos at DearToronto.com
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Dear Toronto #27 - Fashion We-err, Marath-err, BRAAAAAAINS!
October 19th started out as a relatively quiet Sunday by Toronto standards, but little did we know that by the end of the day we would have an insatiable thirst for sweet, tender, under-nourished frontal lobes.
On Sunday January 25th, CUPE 3903 held a rally in front of Queen's Park in Toronto to protest back to work legislation announced by Ontario premiere Dalton McGuinty. The event was attended by several hundred union supporters from all walks of life.
We sure seem to have a thing for Posterchild, but only because his work is awesome. Recently, PC held an exhibition at Hot Shot Gallery wherein he hung up his dead astronaut dolls for Earthlings to ogle.
Earlier today thousands of Torontonians braved the cold and snow in support of two opposing rallies. I'd guess at least 2,000 made their way to Nathan Phillips Square in support of a coalition government, while about 500 rallied at Queen's Park to support the Conservatives and oppose the coalition. There was certainly a lot of strong words said on both sides, and the occasional clash as seen near the end of the video. Regardless of your political inclination, I think today's events speak volumes about how contentious an issue this is for Canadians and how passionate they've become about it.
On Valentine’s Day The Atomic Cherries performed a sold-out live burlesque show at the Cadillac Lounge on Queen West. NSFW
Left Feet and Heart on Your Sleeve held their first annual Vegan Chili Cookoff, outdoors, in January. DT got some of the secrets to contestant’s chili recipes (hint: beans), and captured the crowning of the best vegan chili cooker in Hogtown.
Gabe Toth is a photographer in Toronto who does some incredible portrait photography, so I was happy to come by and document his latest photoshoot with Superstein’s John Walke. Probably NSFW. For more videos check out http://DearToronto.com
The Bax Bears World Tour is hitting Toronto, bringing the DIY (design-it-yourself) toy-like bears to our city, and enlisting a number of local artists to take on the task of creating unique designs based on the bears.
Keri (of www.TheCanadianExplorer.com) and I ventured to the H.M.C.S. York for Doors Open 2009. She refused to tell me what we were doing prior to sitting in her studio/Jetta, preferring instead to keep her love of all things navy/military as a surprise.
The Idiotarod is a dog sled race in Toronto. Except instead of sleds the contestants use shopping carts. And instead of dogs the carts are pulled by people. Also, thereâs very little chance of getting bitten by a rabid huskie or mauled by a bear.
This year saw an amazing turnout given the inclement weather earlier in the day, and we were there right in the thick of the action to capture every bit of it. Watch as Rebecca, Ryan and I nearly destroy one of our cameras making this very fun video.
Frigid weather, unclosed streets and some poor woman having been run over by a streetcar notwithstanding, Toronto's 2008 edition of Nuit Blanche was successful in keeping many of us way out past our bed times. This vid represents what we saw outside of La Momma Morta which Adam caught on his stumble home. View more videos and subscribe at DearToronto.com
Adam (dressed as Doctor Who, NOT Sylar) and Ryan (dressed as Frank West, and not pictured anywhere as he was manning the camera) hit Church Street in Toronto on Halloween night to talk to paintings, shower curtains, and Facebook. www.DearToronto.com
Video Games Live is an interactive concert showcasing some of the best music in video games, put on by famed games composers Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall.
The five guys behind galleryDK recently launched PhotoLab. The exhibit features over 200 photographic pieces of work from an international talent pool of over 80 artists.
On January 20th, 2008, I Bike T.O. held their first (hopefully annual) Toronto Bike Awards at the Gladstone Hotel, complete with a winter-layering reverse strip-tease skit, cycle-machine races and live music from GUH and DJ duo Dorian and Dorian.
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