Results tagged “discovery”

Once a week, Vandalist features some of the most interesting street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute.

The Edgewater Hotel sign is gone. City officials ordered that the Parkdale landmark be removed on November 3, after nearly three years of working to convince the owner of the building to which it was attached to make necessary repairs. According to a Municipal Licensing and Standards manager, the sign had finally become so derelict that city inspectors deemed it unsafe.

Once a week, Vandalist features some of the most interesting street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute.

Once a week, Vandalist features some of the most interesting street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute.

When Matt Greenwood saw this video on YouTube last year, he didn't just gawk in a rude fashion (as we did). Inspired by people's responses when confronted by a camera sans photographer, Matt sought to expand on an idea previously touched on only by self-timers. And when he happened to come across a disposable camera, idea met material and art was born.

Well, look who's offering candy to babies now. Stephen Harper ditches the friendly blue sweater in favour of something a little spookier in this politically themed Halloween montage in Little India. On Woodfield Road, the resident artist's lawn arrangement is placed perfectly for tonight's festivities—the city will be closing down a portion of the road tonight from 6–9 p.m., where a fire eater will be taking the place of cars. And while the performer is busy chomping on flames and captivating the eyes of kids, well, here's hoping the politicians don't pop out and try to eat the children.

Once a week, Vandalist features some of the most interesting street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute.

Wanted: a good home for a down-on-its-luck newspaper box for a defunct newspaper. It's been living on the streets for five months and deserves to reside inside a warm house with a loving family during the coming winter.

So you spent tens of thousands of dollars on a journalism degree from a good school and now you're pulling espresso shots for suits like some kind of industry cliché. Well, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, kid. CTV's got a job that you are eminently qualified for!

Contrary to what Google Street View indicates, Browns Line doesn’t have a huge gap in it. Although Google has mapped most of the city in 3D, Street View still has a few dark spots, including almost all of the neighbourhoods of Alderwood and Long Branch, an area east of the Greenwood Subway Yards, and a residential neighbourhood southwest of Finch Avenue East and Warden Avenue. We smell conspiracy, and based on the omitted areas, we can only conclude that Google is covering up some sort of secret government plot involving City Councillor Mark Grimes, outdated factories, subways, and 1960s-style bungalows. God help us all.

Once a week, Vandalist features some of the most interesting street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute.

If something looks a little amiss about the model in the advertisement above—if her head looks a bit too big for her body, her torso a bit too compact to be natural, her arms, dear God her arms, doing things arms don't do—all can be explained: Bikini Bay on Queen Street West apparently offers its models, like its swimsuits, in "mix & match."

Once a week, Vandalist features some of the most interesting street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute.

The Star recently redesigned their website. Not only does the new site serve up breaking news with style, but, as we discovered, it even makes the CN Tower into a cloud pooing machine. Developers at the Globe and Mail have likewise been very busy on the bizarre web idiosyncrasies front. Their site is now offering readers thirty lives.

Once a week, Vandalist features some of the most interesting street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute.

After street artist (and Torontoist contributor) Posterchild finished philosopher flâneur Mark Kingwell's recent book, Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City, the Vandalist curator and street art advocate noticed that Kingwell's celebration of concrete and the cities built out of it missed one reverie in particular: graffiti.

Once a week, Vandalist features some of the most interesting street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute.

One of the many interesting things about Twitter is its democratizing power. Everyone with an account has an identical ability to get in touch with any other user of the service. The amount of high-profile types using Twitter makes this flat communication structure an especially liberating thing. Wil Wheaton can talk to Levar Burton, but so can we, if we want to (though Mr. La Forge/Reading Rainbow might be more inclined to tweet back to his Enterprise crewmate than to Torontoist). But there's one particular thing that Twitter doesn't do very well, and this minor weakness has resulted, somewhat bizarrely, in the tangential involvement, in Toronto municipal politics, of a conservative family man from Utah.

Once a week, Vandalist features some of the most interesting street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute.

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Once a week, Vandalist features some of the most interesting street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute.

Zombies, beware! Shannon Larratt doesn’t take kindly to the roaming undead in these here parts. After seeing a similar paint job on the internet, Larratt, a long time zombie aficionado, decided to send Toronto’s zombies a message. "I was inspired by a girl in Pittsburgh that did up her car in a similar fashion," Larratt told Torontoist. "As soon as I saw her car, I knew I'd eventually do it—even though it took me a few months to get around to it."

By Ryan North and Unknown Artist