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A Timelapse from Inside the G20′s International Media Centre

During the weekend of the G20, Torontoist’s two accredited contributors—writer Christopher Bird and photographer Christopher Drost—divided their time between the streets and the International Media Centre inside the Direct Energy Centre. (Bird wrote, and Drost shot, our G20 Dispatches; both also contributed to our live coverage.) By Sunday night, the contrast between the two settings [...]

The Winter of our Discontent

Snow fell for part of Toronto’s first big pre-winter storm last night, but as the temperature ascended, the snow descending was quickly replaced by rain—which has been falling ever since. Torontoist’s Christopher Drost shot thousands of still photos overlooking the intersection of Annette and Runnymede between 12:30 and 4 a.m. last night, and 6:45 to [...]

Stopping to Take in Yonge Street

Yonge Street may not be the world’s longest street, but as Ismail Atiev discovered when he set out to capture its length, it’s still pretty damn long. After first experimenting with stop motion in “The Stop Motion Experience,” Atiev, who’s an aspiring musician and cinematographer, wanted to “up the level” for his next video and [...]

A Strike, Watched

On the second full day of the city workers’ strike—June 23—Torontoist photographer Christopher Drost set up a camera rig in a window at the corner of Runnymede and Annette streets. Set to shoot one photo every ten minutes (and one every two minutes once the deals to end the strike were in place), the camera [...]

Massive Potential

Stills from the Massive Change time-lapse video. For five years now, a camera has been keeping close watch over the Art Gallery of Ontario‘s development on Dundas Street. And for a minute and a half, you can watch just some of what it caught flowing by in a spectacular high-resolution time-lapse video. It’s all part [...]

Mass Romantic

June’s Critical Mass ride this past Friday was a tad less eventful than May’s, but that doesn’t make the sight of cyclists dominating downtown streets any less spectacular. Two great videos of the ride have popped up: one from RebootYourComputer, and another from Martin Reis.

Beauty Queen

From Ryan Feeley comes a neat timelapse video of a three-kilometre westbound trip on the 501 Queen streetcar in the east end of the city condensed into fifty-five seconds. Now, we just need someone who can do the same thing with the whole length of the route. [Tip from Joe Clark, who, incidentally, has some [...]

Time To Go

winter flying by RebootYourComputer. We’re suckers for time-lapse photography (who isn’t?), and ever since Flickr rolled out video-uploading capabilities a month and a half ago, a slow trickle of great clips—like the all-too-brief one above, of a trip towards our shore—have made their way into our Flickr pool. If you’ve got a few minutes to [...]