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On Sunday afternoon, one of the coldest days of the year so far, the Art Attack wing of the Toronto Public Space Committee spent several hours turning a TTC shelter into a cozy igloo.
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Looks like the art attack wing was missing a few feathers that day.
I was going to head over to shoot this but the cold defeated my intentions. Glad that you ventured out Miles. Looks better than last year's effort.
As a calloused observer who isn't doing anything about it, this city needs a kick in the ass: Between the end of Torontoist, the 'death of the hipster' (always more civic-minded/involved here at home than you were likely to find elsewhere) and the climax and subsequent general ebb of Toronto-thusiasm these past two years, the groundswell of enthusiasm in matters city-related has begun to necrotize.
I don't know if building snow forts around bus shelters (again) is going to cut it.
It must have been pretty cold out there.
When will these public space zealots halt their tyranny?!??!?
How do you make an igloo anyway? are there instructions anywhere? Is there a method? Or do you just pile up the snow? Or what? No, really.
"the groundswell of enthusiasm in matters city-related has begun to necrotize."
Really? Well, I'll keep reading Spacing.
Up next: Newmindspace builds human ladder.
how could one see if the streetcar was comming? how could the driver see anyone in the shelter?
how could one see if the streetcar was comming?
As you can see in the fourth pic, a window was created on the vehicle-approach side. It was remarkably functional.
how could the driver see anyone in the shelter?
I suppose people would have to take a step out of the shelter as the vehicle approaches, as they already do.
And Maria: I imagine that there's a fairly specific method for building an actual igloo, but Chris Bilton's Eye piece does a decent job of explaining the simplified process we used.
This is nothing short of awesome. Come on, seriously. Its awesome eigth different ways.
And there is a lot of infor on building an igloo, but you really got to build lots of em to get good at it.
DO more!
I happened to be at Trinity-Bellwoods Park on Sunday afternoon and saw the igloo, presumably shortly after it was built. It was wickedly windy and cold on that stretch of Queen West, and I am impressed by what a great job was done under those conditions.
maybe i was just depressed...