Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'matto'
July 11, 2007
If a poll were held to declare an official anthem for the city of Toronto, what song would get your vote? Well, whatever your answer, prepare to change your mind, as Torontoist submits this video of local karaoke hero Angelo Tony Luongo's "I Love You My Beautiful Toronto." In this lovingly rendered tribute, Angelo somehow manages to capture the quintessential Toronto experience. He recalls growing up in a multicultural landscape while hanging out with......
Continue Reading "Go Every Team Go!"January 19, 2007
If, as the saying goes, every picture is worth 1000 words, then Matt O'Sullivan's must be worth 10,000. Many photographers aim to capture our city and it's wealth of stories, but it can be argued that nobody portrays these stories better than Matt. Since 2004, O'Sullivan has been documenting slices of Toronto life on his website, The Narrative, connecting you to subjects most people don't ever take a second glance at. Matt seems to......
Continue Reading "Images from The Narrative"May 29, 2006
Torontoist wants to send out congratulations to Matt O'Sullivan of The Narrative Photoblog for taking home the best Canadian Photoblog prize at the 2006 Photobloggies. We also want to congratulate has to go out to Sam Javanrouh. His blog, Daily Dose of Imagery, was voted Best Photoblog of the Year. See the rest of the nominees and winners here.......
Continue Reading "Toronto Photobloggers Take Home Some "Hardware""May 11, 2006
Those TO photobloggers seem to be very busy this month with all sorts of shows and projects going on. Tomorrow night four high profiled photobloggers will be presenting their images at Harbourfront centre in a show called Photogrammetry. The show was produced in association with our pals over at Spacing magazine and is also a part of Digifest 2006. Participating in the exhibition are Davin Risk > lowresolution.com Gayla Trail > makinghappy.com Matt O'Sullivan......
Continue Reading "Photogrammetry"May 4, 2006
That's the question that Broken Pencil asks in its latest issue, which they're launching tonight, 7pm at the Toronto Free Gallery. The launch will also include a panel discussion on this very same question with art critic RM Vaughan, Shawn Micallef, Photo blogger Matt O'Sullivan and Brenda Goldstein. Goldstein, coincidentally, or not so coincidentally is also the curator of the Centre Cannot Hold show currently running at Toronto Free Gallery.......
Continue Reading "Is Indie Culture the Future?"November 22, 2005
Torontoist's favourite magazine about the city (sorry Toronto Life) is celebrating the launch of its fifth issue at the Arts and Letters Club this Thursday night (14 Elm St., 8pm, $10 includes a mag). The most exciting development over at Spacing is the fact that the new issue is in glorious colour, which fits the new issue's theme of public art. Torontoist got its hands on the new issue at Sunday's uTOpia book launch and......
Continue Reading "Spacing Now in Technicolour"August 24, 2005
Local photographer and TOist contributor Carrie Musgrave is one of the thoughtful organizers behind tonight's Picture the Cure silent photo auction at the Gladstone Hotel. Musgrave and felllow photographers Kendall Anderson, Charles Bodi, Catherine Jamieson, Matt O'Sullivan, Irina Souiki and Miles Story will be auctioning around sixty photos to support the Princess Margaret Hospital in the fight against breast cancer, with funds going specifically toward 'The Weekend to End Breast Cancer.' The event will......
Continue Reading "Picture the Cure"December 9, 2004
Spacing Mag launches its third issue tonight, with a par-tay at the El Mocambo. Audio by Reid Jamieson and Audible. Work and Play in Public Space is the name of the issue, and it'll be available round town following the launch. Torontoist is particularly interested in the mag's new public space etiquette column, 'Ask the Manners Duck.' If only we didn't have to 'duck' every time an absentminded, umbrella-wielding spacehog shared the sidewalk. The issue......
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