The keeper and the tower
Oct 18, 2009
The goalkeeper for Toronto FC, an MLS team, plays almost in the shadow of the city's CN Tower.
Hole in the Clouds
Tag: Toronto
Flatiron
Nov 30, 2009
The flatiron building in Toronto is obviously getting out-muscled at night by the glass behemoths behind it. But in an urban setting of this ilk, the drama is all in the juxtaposition.
If a tree falls in a city
Dec 20, 2009
The poor bicycle, chained to a pole, had no chance to escape. But at least nobody was riding it at the time.
Photo by Sam Javanrouh in Toronto.
High heels and briefcase
Mar 11, 2010
A shaft of sunlight has slipped between a couple of skyscrapers to illuminate this woman's walk across King Street in Toronto.
Man of non-stainless steel
May 15, 2010
California sculptor Michael Christian wrought this man--bogeyman?--from rusting steel. The creature first appeared last summer at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert, but he has recently been transplanted to a brick courtyard in Toronto's Distillery District.
He is named Koilos, which is a place of caves in a fantasy-card game. He's fourteen feet high and weighs about a ton. And he is perfectly typical of Christian's monumental-scale work, which is well known on the West Coast: vaguely human, clearly alien, all kitschy with that ineffable low-budget horror-movie something. Many Torontans have quickly grown fond of Koilos; as of last night, at least 339 photos of Koilos in Toronto have been posted on the web.
A city that knows how to keep its secrets
Aug 6, 2010
Back alley in downtown Toronto, Ontario.
"Not a happy day"
Nov 3, 2010
Sam Javanrouh's caption for his nighttime skyline shot was indeed a reference to election results--but not to the mid-term elections at the center of the media universe here in the U.S.
Javanrouh was unhappy about last week's mayoral election in Canada's largest city, Toronto, where a "right-wing intolerant redneck" named Rob Ford trounced former deputy premier of Ontario George Smitherman. Ford ran openly homophobic ads against Smitherman, who is openly gay. He also promised to cut taxes and stop spending and etc.
The CN tower is dark in this photo, not its usually well-lit self, but that's just a coincidence, not an example of early budget-slashing. Must be Obama's fault.
Crossing the street
Apr 5, 2011
This is Adelaide Street in downtown Toronto, Ontario.
April showers
Apr 22, 2011
This windowful of April is in Toronto. Let the May begin.....
Two Feet and Eight Wheels
Jun 23, 2011
Believe it or not, yesterday was Go Skateboard Day in Toronto, where this fella was truckin on down College Street.
Museum Courtyard
Aug 14, 2011
The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
The original building, designed by Toronto architects Frank Darling and John A. Pearson, opened in 1933. The new wing, by American architect Daniel Libeskind, who also designed buildings for the Denver Art Museum and the Jewish Museum in Berlin, opened in 2007 and is referred to as the Crystal.
Bluffing
Jul 5, 2012
Scarborough Bluffs escarpment above Lake Ontario in Toronto.