Tag: Toronto
Not sure what they were on – perhaps just high on life, but these dudes were determined to out-do each other somehow.
I am not a morning guy; I can sleep-in with the best of them.
But I do love the rare occassions when I have to be up extremely early. You get to see the world in a whole new light – literally.
This was the case with the photoshoot I was on yesterday morning. Call time at the Scarborough Bluffs was 5:30am.
It was dark, cold and – except for the two guys who had clearly been out clubbing and had talked their high-heels and mini-dress clad ‘dates’ into the romance of driving out to watch the sunrise – quiet.
Then the arc of that orange-pink sphere begins to peek above the horizon and the flat grey light begins to separate into highlight and shadows.
After a very long drive back from Niagara, my girlfriend looked in our rearviewmirror and declared that a ninja was tailing us.
I snapped this pic and the next thing I know the guy is beside my open passenger window congenially asking if I got a good shot.
Appropriately, his bike’s model name was Ninja.
A very inventive way to make an empty gravel lot surrounded by barbed wire fence look friendly.
I think all vacant lots should do this.
Like many cities, Toronto has experienced a burger craze of late. Here’s a reminder that way before it became cool there was a place that dedicates itself heart and soul to the simple hamburger.
Going to Johnny’s Burgers can feel a little soup-Nazi-ish (don’t even think about losing your ticket) but the service is fast and the burgers are good.
So I’d hear about this new coffee shop in Leslieville and decided to check it out a while ago.
The barista at Te Aro made me this kick-ass latt?? with a rosetta so solid it damn near imprinted itself on the bottom of the mug. Now that’s craftsmanship!
Check out Te Aro online or in-person – I recommend the latter…and the latt??. (Ha! – Did you see what I did there? Did ya? Did ya?…yeah I’m lame.)
This one adds to the series I started with my “Referential-ness-ness” post on June 15th.
That’s right, I’m going to out-postmodern the postmodernists.
1, 2, 3…ART WAR!!!
You can view more of Thomas Struth’s work here.
I always enjoy finding these ‘building stains.’ It’s as though the demolished structure has gotten the last laugh and is thumbing it’s nose at the progress which deemed it expendable.
You can watch the film North Circular HERE.
Watch it.
Take a picture of yourself watching it.
Then post that photo back here.
This image is the first iPhone photo I have ever posted to The Daily Mobile. Up to this point all the images on this blog (older,
non-Posterous posts can be viewed at http://twitpic.com/photos/TheDailyMobile ) were taken with a Nokia 6265i.
I think Nokia makes great handsets. My 6265i was a great handset – until it died. But, it got fixed and it was still a great handset. Then it died again; this time for good.
Apparently this was a common problem with the model, which was somewhat of an unwanted step-child for Nokia.
Nokia had long ago decided that GSM was the way of the future and CDMA would eventually die out. To that end, they essentially stopped making CDMA handsets. However, the size of the CDMA market in North America – particularly in Canada where number portability was not yet a reality, caused them to keep getting pulled back in. Albeit, with only half of their R&D ass in tow. Hence the 6265i: a handset with all the awesome
features of a regular Nokia product but with none of the stability or support.
It was my sheer love of the Nokia interface and features that made me revive the damn thing once and desperately attempt to do so a second time. Ultimately, it was not to be.
With my (finally) portable number, and the bright lights of the
smartphone world beckoning, I decided to take the plunge and get an iPhone.
Many months had passed between my Nokia dying and getting my iPhone, yet interestingly enough the dates almost perfectly coincided with two separate visits to the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO).
So it is that The Daily Mobile climbed Frank Gehry’s stairs with Nokia and descends them with Apple.
This will not be the last time an image from my 6265i will be posted here but for the most part from now on The Daily Mobile has joined the ranks of the iPhonographer army.
I’ve got one word for you: synergy
Despite the naysayers Yonge & Dundas Square has become a vibrant part of the Toronto cityscape. Some may deride it for its massive billboards and say it’s trying (unsuccessfully) to be Times Square, but regardless people still flock there. All kinds of people.
The Lord Dufferin Apartments is an unsightly building at the western border of the recently minted and continually expanding Liberty Village.
Its decaying and junk-strewen balcony fa??ade dominates the skyline – I am sure much to the chagrin of the village’s residents and condo developers.
One day while exploring the building’s perimeter I came across this cable box. It looks like something out of a third-world country and it’s obvious that Rogers long-ago gave up any hope of controlling this rampant signal stealing.
Here’s to DIY ingenuity!
