Today launched Dear Toronto, a new independent videoblog site by Adam Schwabe, Ryan Couldrey, and Rebecca Black. The trio had previously collaborated at BlogTO, but recently decided to branch out on their own to focus on strictly video-based content. It's only Day One, but Dear Toronto already has two posts up: one for Video Games Live and one for Art Attack. The videos vary between interviews and pure camera work, with whimsical music played......

Last night a gaggle of H2O architects descended upon the quiet Leslieville intersection of Queen St. East and Jones in order to convert a barren streetcar shelter into a snow palace. Organized by the TPSC subcommittee "Art Attack," the event was designed to enhance the original reasons behind Toronto's boxed bus stops—being shelter—while replacing ad space with icy ingenuity. Torontoist joined a team of over a dozen amidst last night's storm for the construction......

On Friday night at 10:30, the Toronto Public Space Committee's Art Attack will "descend on the streets to re-imagine bus shelters as sensational structures of snow," converting the two ad-adorned boxes at Queen and Jones into something a little more whimsical. Transit shelters, like garbage bins, are giant heaps of private property littered throughout the sidewalks and roads of our city. And, most of the time, they serve a purpose. But every now and......

Tomorrow night, scores of arts collectives and community groups will be putting on impressive exhibits, performances, and workshops as part of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. The Toronto Public Space Committee thought it would be neat to do something, too, but guess which word in the event title made the TPSC uncomfortable. So instead they bring you noncorporatized Not Blanche, "a pwyc all-night public-space thing," straight outta the Brunswick Theatre from 11:00 p.m. Saturday through 3:00......

The Toronto Public Space Committee last night Art Attacked every single Astral pillar in the city. Photos are here and here, with more to come. The revulsion with which Torontonians responded to last week's sudden advertising invasion got us wondering: If that's how the public reacted to forty street-level ad structures in place for two days, how will people feel about the one hundred twenty new "info pillars" that will be in place for......

On Monday and Tuesday nights, the Toronto Public Space Committee will be holding its third Art Attack event. The first, in 2002, had people meet up at the Tranzac to make art and then tape it over outdoor advertisements in the Annex. Last summer, the art-making took place at the Gladstone Hotel and the ad-jamming occurred mostly in the West Queen West area (with one excursion to King and Strachan to hit the Monster......

The Toronto Public Space Committee has revived Art Attack, an evening where members of the public are invited create works of art and then place them over advertising in our public spaces. So if you're sick and tired of looking at that SUV ad go and do something about it. Art Attack takes place this Saturday, 7:00-10:00pm at the Gladstone, PWYC. Some Art supplies will be provided but please bring your own markers (we really......

A Torontoist reader passed this photo of Mao on a Queen Street West transit shelter on to us. He writes on his flickr site: On first glance, I thought this was an ad. But on closer inspection, realized someone had removed the Viacom ad, painted this Mao on the back of it, and carefully inserted it back into the transit shelter. Interesting subversive commentary on the commodification of the Queen West West area. The......