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14:34:48 06/02/09

NOTE: This is a new version which should play nice with your iPod. The last Sunday in every month from May to October is a Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market. ...

Dear Toronto #40 - Pedestrian Sundays at Kensington Market (re...

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Dear Toronto #40 - Pedestrian Sundays at Kensington Market (re-post)

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NOTE: This is a new version which should play nice with your iPod. The last Sunday in every month from May to October is a Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market. What that means is that there aren't any cars allowed to drive through the area and people are free to wander the streets. The area gets swarmed by tons of people, all of them taking in the sights and sounds of the many buskers in the area. I hit the area for this year's inaugural car-free Sunday to see some of the fancy capoiera martial artists, jugglers, mimes and folk trios.

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14:28:25 06/02/09

NOTE: This is a new version of the video which should play nice with your iPod.Keri (of www.TheCanadianExplorer.com) and I ventured to the H.M.C.S. York for Doors ...

Dear Toronto #39 - Doors Open 2009 at H.M.C.S. York with Keri

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Dear Toronto #39 - Doors Open 2009 at H.M.C.S. York with Keri

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NOTE: This is a new version of the video which should play nice with your iPod.Keri (of www.TheCanadianExplorer.com) and I ventured to the H.M.C.S. York for Doors Open 2009. She refused to tell me what we were doing prior to sitting in her studio/Jetta, preferring instead to keep her love of all things navy/military as a surprise. The explorer knows how to reload a Navy-issue handgun, which is kinda cool and kinda freaky at the same time.

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22:46:13 05/05/09

T.O. Jam hit Toronto on May 1st and kept going for 72 hours straight. The event is designed as sort of a high-speed NaNoWriMo for game developers, where participan...

Dear Toronto #38 - T.O. Jam

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Dear Toronto #38 - T.O. Jam

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T.O. Jam hit Toronto on May 1st and kept going for 72 hours straight. The event is designed as sort of a high-speed NaNoWriMo for game developers, where participants take 3 days to spit out a game, both in teams and solo. Ryan was on hand to see what was going on and to get some advice from both veterans and rookies. http://www.tojam.ca Cross posted to www.AbootPlay.ca, a site dedicated to "play" in Canada.

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18:00:34 03/24/09

On February 21st, 2009, Bloor-Yorkville's Icefest Festival took over the affluent retail neighbourhood. Armed with chisels, grinders, icepicks and chainsaws, ...

Dear Toronto #37 Icefest Festival 2009

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Dear Toronto #37 Icefest Festival 2009

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On February 21st, 2009, Bloor-Yorkville's Icefest Festival took over the affluent retail neighbourhood. Armed with chisels, grinders, icepicks and chainsaws, artists from across Ontario carved out beautiful masterpieces out of the over 25,000 lbs of ice brought in for the event. Kids and adults alike were there to see the winter magic at work during the ice carving competition and demonstrations. Rebecca and Calvin tag-teamed to capture the sculptors and their emerging frozen wonders.

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02:00:47 02/10/09

On January 20th, 2008, I Bike T.O. held their first (hopefully annual) Toronto Bike Awards> at the Gladstone Hotel. With a winter-layering reverse strip-tease skit...

Dear Toronto #36 - Toronto Bike Awards

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Dear Toronto #36 - Toronto Bike Awards

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On January 20th, 2008, I Bike T.O. held their first (hopefully annual) Toronto Bike Awards> at the Gladstone Hotel. With a winter-layering reverse strip-tease skit, cycle-machine races and live music from GUH and DJ duo Dorian and Dorian, I Bike T.O. made sure it was an event to remember. New guy Calvin was on hand, and he got the goods from the organizers. He most definitely got the strip tease as well.

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15:55:33 01/29/09

On Sunday January 25th, CUPE 3903 held a rally in front of Queen's Park in Toronto to protest back to work legislation announced by Ontario premiere Dalton Mc...

Dear Toronto #35 - CUPE 3903 Queen's Park Rally

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Dear Toronto #35 - CUPE 3903 Queen's Park Rally

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On Sunday January 25th, CUPE 3903 held a rally in front of Queen's Park in Toronto to protest back to work legislation announced by Ontario premiere Dalton McGuinty. The event was attended by several hundred union supporters, including members of other unions, York U. students who are unaffiliated with CUPE 3903, and NDP city councillor Howard Moscoe.

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06:52:56 01/16/09

Canadian artist Max Dean's work focuses heavily on the performance and interactive aspects as well as the experience that the viewer gets when approaching his...

Dear Toronto #34 - Max Dean

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Dear Toronto #34 - Max Dean

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Canadian artist Max Dean's work focuses heavily on the performance and interactive aspects as well as the experience that the viewer gets when approaching his work. Perhaps best known in Toronto for his Robotic Chair which briefly was on display during Luminato in 2007, Toronto now gets a the chance to take a closer look at Max's work. Until January 31, more than 40 years worth of his work is on display at the Nicholas Metivier Gallery (451 King St. W) in Toronto. I stopped by on the opening night to experience some of Max's work. Music by Stars.

Dear Toronto #33 - ...
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05:59:34 01/05/09

It's been at least a year since I first came across Seen Reading, a blog run by Torontonian Julie Wilson that I once called "the Gossip Girl of book readers."...

Dear Toronto #33 - Seen Reading

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Dear Toronto #33 - Seen Reading

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It's been at least a year since I first came across Seen Reading, a blog run by Torontonian Julie Wilson that I once called "the Gossip Girl of book readers." Since then, Julie has spotted hundreds of readers on the TTC, blogging them in her very unique fashion. Just before Christmas, I tagged along with Julie along the Bloor West subway line to get her take on readers in Toronto.

Dear Toronto #32 - ...
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21:49:31 12/26/08

To close off the year, here's a 16-minute shot of the Sunset on Christmas yesterday from my family's home east of the city, presented in just over 30 sec...

Dear Toronto #32 - Happy 2009

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Dear Toronto #32 - Happy 2009

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To close off the year, here's a 16-minute shot of the Sunset on Christmas yesterday from my family's home east of the city, presented in just over 30 seconds. On behalf of all of us at Dear Toronto, we wish you, your family and friends a happy and awesome holiday season and look forward to bringing you some fun stuff in 2009. Music by Sufjan.

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15:45:59 12/08/08

The five guys behind galleryDK (as well as the DK photo group) recently launched PhotoLab. The exhibit features over 200 photographic pieces of work from an intern...

Dear Toronto #31 - galleryDK's PhotoLab

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Dear Toronto #31 - galleryDK's PhotoLab

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The five guys behind galleryDK (as well as the DK photo group) recently launched PhotoLab. The exhibit features over 200 photographic pieces of work from an international talent pool of over 80 artists. We had the chance to talk with the DK group about the exhibit, what's coming afterward, as well as their new TV show debuting on the Bravo! network in 2009.Music by These Electric Lives

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00:35:27 12/07/08

Earlier today thousands of Torontonians braved the cold and snow in support of two opposing rallies. I'd guess at least 2,000 made their way to Nathan Phillip...

Dear Toronto #30 - The Opposing Rallies

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Dear Toronto #30 - The Opposing Rallies

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Earlier today thousands of Torontonians braved the cold and snow in support of two opposing rallies. I'd guess at least 2,000 made their way to Nathan Phillips Square in support of a coalition government, while about 500 rallied at Queen's Park to support the Conservatives and oppose the coalition. There was certainly a lot of strong words said on both sides, and the occasional clash as seen near the end of the video. Regardless of your political inclination, I think today's events speak volumes about how contentious an issue this is for Canadians and how passionate they've become about it.

Dear Toronto #29 - ...
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21:50:21 11/18/08

Gabe Toth is a photographer in Toronto who I've known since my early days in blogging, and he does some incredible portrait photography, so I was happy to com...

Dear Toronto #29 - Gabe Toth + Superstein

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Dear Toronto #29 - Gabe Toth + Superstein

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Gabe Toth is a photographer in Toronto who I've known since my early days in blogging, and he does some incredible portrait photography, so I was happy to come by and document his latest photoshoot with Superstein's John Walke. Fair warning - this video is probably a little not safe for work seeing that Superstein was doing a shoot for some new underwear designs they're releasing.

Dear Toronto #28 - ...
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19:50:48 11/04/08

Adam (dressed as Doctor Who, NOT Sylar) and Ryan (dressed as Frank West, and not pictured anywhere as he was manning the camera) hit Church Street in Toronto on Ha...

Dear Toronto #28 - Halloween

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Dear Toronto #28 - Halloween

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Adam (dressed as Doctor Who, NOT Sylar) and Ryan (dressed as Frank West, and not pictured anywhere as he was manning the camera) hit Church Street in Toronto on Halloween night to talk to paintings, shower curtains, and Facebook. In the end, it's all about job creation.

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02:39:24 10/22/08

October 19th started out as a relatively quiet Sunday by Toronto standards. Sure, there was some sort of fashion week thing happening at Phillips Square, and somew...

Dear Toronto #27 - Fashion We-err, Marath-err, BRAAAAAAINS!

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Dear Toronto #27 - Fashion We-err, Marath-err, BRAAAAAAINS!

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October 19th started out as a relatively quiet Sunday by Toronto standards. Sure, there was some sort of fashion week thing happening at Phillips Square, and somewhere in the city a marathon was happening, but little did we know that by the end of the day we would have an insatiable thirst for sweet, tender, under-nourished human frontal lobes.

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01:17:16 10/08/08

Frigid weather, unclosed streets and some poor woman having been run over by a streetcar notwithstanding, Toronto's 2008 edition of Nuit Blanche was successfu...

Dear Toronto #26 - Nuit Blanche 2008

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Dear Toronto #26 - Nuit Blanche 2008

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Frigid weather, unclosed streets and some poor woman having been run over by a streetcar notwithstanding, Toronto's 2008 edition of Nuit Blanche was successful in keeping many of us way out past our bed times. This vid represents what we saw outside of La Momma Morta which Adam caught on his stumble home. Music by Mojib

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21:27:17 10/05/08

Nuit Blanche is an annual "all-night contemporary art thing" that sees hundreds of thousands of people come out to see public art sprout up along the city streets....

Dear Toronto #25 - La Momma Morta (Nuit Blanche 2008)

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Dear Toronto #25 - La Momma Morta (Nuit Blanche 2008)

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Nuit Blanche is an annual "all-night contemporary art thing" that sees hundreds of thousands of people come out to see public art sprout up along the city streets. This is my second Nuit Blanche, having missed the first, and it's always a really great feeling being out and seeing the streets packed with people who are all so excited to see what the night's got ahead of them. I was about to throw in the towel and call it a night at around 5am when I came across a stunning display at St. James Park on King Street East that really made the night for me. Enjoy the haunting performance "La Momma Morta" and look forward to more video from Nuit Blanche coming soon! DearToronto.com

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Dear Toronto #21 - Posterchild Gets All Dolled Up

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Dear Toronto #21 - Posterchild Gets All Dolled Up
08/05/08

Sure, we may have a thing for Posterchild but only because he really does a lot of awesome and creative work in the city, even if it isn't always met with the most positive of feedback. Recently, PC held an exhibition at Hot Shot Gallery wherein he hung up his dead astronaut dolls for Earthlings to ogle. We caught up with him at the gallery and got the juice on his expired astro boys, why sewing machines aren't for sissies as well as what he thought of Fauxreel's commissioned Vespaheads, all to the tune of "Flashman".Links: - Posterchild's Blade Diary- Hot Shot Gallery Music performed by The Runaway Five (www.therunawayfive.com), arranged by Brendan Swanson

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