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A few Toronto Festivals in September: Junction Arts, Ukrainians, Poles and Movie Stars

By Ian | August 28, 2009

The Junction Arts Festival is back on Sept 9 to 13, 2009 of its 17th occasion in Toronto’s west end on Dundas Street West between Keele Street and Quebec Avenue. The festival presents visual, musical, performance, new media and site-specific works to over 150,000 people transforming Dundas Street West into a pedestrian-only, urban cultural destination.
September [...]

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Kandyse McClure (BSG’s Anastasia “Dee” Dualla) glamour shots

By Ian | June 30, 2009

Rising star and Actress Kandyse McClure (born Candice McClure) and African-Canadian beauty, know to fans of Sci-Fi/Scy-Fy channels Battlestar Galactica as Anastasia “Dee” Dualla, recently did a shoot in Mexico with photographer Darryl Humphrey, a horse, and not much else! (She may have been filming for TV series “Persons Unknown“)

I’ve been told that the glamour shots [...]

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A Successful Failure – Fail Whale

By Ian | February 15, 2009

via the New York Times’s Consumed – A Successful Failure – Fail Whale the story of the Twitter Fail Whale that we love and hate, and the an artist and designer Yiying Lu behind it.
See the Fail Whale in it’s native enviroment.
Via Flickr, you can see some of the variations on the Fail Whale [...]

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JunctionWalk : the Junction on Youtube

By Ian | August 7, 2008

The West Toronto Junction Historical Society, celebrating the Junction’s Centennial of becoming a city in 1908, has a serires of (well 2 so far) YouTube video’s of Historical Walking Tour in the Junction.
Junction Mayor G.W. Clendenan (Gib Goodfellow) and journalist A.B. Rice (Neil Ross) come back to life to share fascinating tidbits from the Junction’s [...]

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Bloor West Village Art Tour 2008 this Weekend (May 30 to June 1) !

By Ian | May 29, 2008

This weekend starting on Friday (May 30) at 6-9pm, then Saturday 11am-5pm until Sunday (June 1) from 11am-5pm, it will be time to enjoy the 11th Eleventh Annual BLOOR WEST VILLAGE ART TOUR SHOW & SALE some of the best art in Toronto’s West End, at 19 locations from Swansea to The Junction.

The http://www.arttour.info/website has [...]

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SMASH : The Junction of Art and Salvage in Toronto

By Ian | May 23, 2008

New to Toronto’s Juction Junction area is SMASH (http://www.smash.to, 2880 Dundas Street West,Toronto, Ontario, M6P 1Y8 , Phone 416-762-3113) a gallery of Art, Photography, Architecture and Residential / Industrial Salvaged Objects, and visual inspiration. It also includes a satellite location for design and architecture bookstore Function 13.
Currently in per opening mode, to take advantage of [...]

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Japan link roundup Sept 07

By Ian | September 4, 2007

I’ve gone and collected another set of Japan links once again, cause its the future, or at least one piece of it….
Via TokyoMango : Takeshi Kitano ( sometimes credited as ‘Beat’ Takeshi and best known in the West 1995 for his role is the 1996 “Johnny Mnemonic” film adapted from the William Gibson short [...]

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Tales of the BunnyFish : Kozyhdan Solo Show @ Magic Pony

By Ian | June 15, 2007

Tales of the BunnyFish is a new exhibition for Kozyndan at West Queen West’s Magic Pony from June 28 till July 29 2007.
So What’s a BunnyFish?
The bunnyfish is a unique being from a highly sentient race that has lived in the seas for many thousands of years unbeknownst to man. We have been following [...]

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Flight Club at Magic Pony Oct 2006

By Ian | September 14, 2006

Magic Pony is pleased to announce Flight Club : Solo Show with Moira Hahn. A stylized menagerie of classic Japanese deities and demons blended with contemporary anime culture. The exhibit will run from Oct 5 – Nov 5, 2006. The opening reception will be held Thursday Oct 5th, 2006 from 6-10pm.

Last Feburary, Magic Pony had [...]

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Katrin Clark Citroen At The Gladstone Hotel

By Ian | February 26, 2006

One of my very, very, local artists k.c. Citroen, who participated in the Bloor West Village Art Tour, is amongst the artists showing at Toronto’s Gladstone Hotel on Thursday MArch 2nd (2006) as part of SpeakEasy’s 10th anniversary Fine Art Show (one night only)

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