October 22, 2007
PhotoTO: Zombies!
Photo by christine mullen photography from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
For horrific undead humans who are sustained only by feeding on our flesh, zombies are surprisingly well-liked. Witness, for instance, Sunday's fifth annual Toronto Zombie Walk, which took zombies on an hour-and-a-half-long lurch from Trinity-Bellwoods up to the Bloor Cinema for the After Dark Film Festival.
Braver souls than us were there to take photos, and, as usual, some great shots were submitted to our Flickr pool. See some of our favourites after the fold.
Photos by yllus
Photos by christine mullen photography
Photos by Eyeline-Imagery
Photo by n0wak
Photos by Squeakyrat
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A perfect Sunday afternoon: Brunch at Saving Grace, a discussion about whether or not the zombies would run into Toronto's other annual falltime walk (the Human River, which was to start earlier at Christie Pits and end in Trinity-Bellwoods), and then sitting in the sun while a great sea of zombies washes over you. We laughed for about an hour straight!
Try explaining zombies to a coworker who recently immigrated from Bangladesh as he watches the hoardes stumble by.
It didn't really translate. "No, there's a difference between zombies and regular monsters." "No, it's not really paying respect to dead ancestors." "Actually, I'm not quite sure why people in North America try to scare people for fun."
This year a small group took it upon themselves to play the role of SWAT and hunted the stragglers down. It was a nice touch, except they used guns instead of bladed weapons.
Everyone knows you last longer with a machete or axe than with a weapon that needs to be reloaded. It's basic zombie uprising knowledge.
as witnessed in "Planet Terror", a helicopter works well also .... damn, i love that movie!!!
I shall forever remember this as the day my photos appeared on Torontoist. *weeps*
Hrm why is it that the portrait photos show up broken in half in the RSS feed?
There's a file size limit of 110 kb on all images, so the larger photos are split into two files of about that size so that they can still look good, quality-wise. Unfortunately, the line dividing them shows up in some RSS readers (like Google Reader).