We showed you photos of the Urban Repair Squad's latest intervention in a post on Tuesday—wherein we firmly insisted that the future health of the region's transportation infrastructure hinges on the presence of two twelve-foot-tall plywood figures—but today we have a video for you! The clip is a "bit of a first," the URS tells us, in that "It was made collectively."
On first glance, the above shot could be a generic photo pulled from our Flickr pool to accompany any article about pedestrianism/cycling/active transportation/Toronto. But look at it for another moment, and you may notice that there's something amiss about the City's topiary logo alongside the Gardiner...
At 7:46 Monday morning, Torontoist received a release from press@ttc.ca, headed "TTC launches the 'WARM WELCOME' campaign":
Street artist and former Torontoist contributor Fauxreel (which, contrary to what The Globe and Mail says, is not his real name; it's Dan Bergeron) received both a considerable amount of disdain and a considerable amount of cash recently (as well as some praise), when he designed and helped execute a nationwide corporate vandalism campaign on behalf of a well-known motorized vehicle brand. At the time, Torontoist attempted to contact "Mr. Reel" (as the Globe called him on second reference), for his side of the story, but he declined a request for a public interview. Which was too bad, because we really were very interested to hear his rationalization for his involvement.
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