Yesterday it was a train ride, and today it was a long and leisurely brunch followed by a parade of zombies through the streets of Toronto. (We like to mix things up here at gailatlarge.com!)
http://www.torontozombiewalk.ca
The Toronto Zombie Walk is in its sixth year of parading zombies through the streets of the city in search of brains, and apparently every year the numbers grow. This was my first Zombie Walk — last year Arliin and I had brunch together that day and I was all set to photograph the zombies but by the time we finished brunch I was feeling like a zombie myself and I chose to go home for a nap instead.
This year I decided to walk with our little group of zombies and zombie support staff (makeup people, photographers, videographers, bag handlers) and capture some of the creative costumes milling around. You can get an idea of the size of the crowd gathered at Trinity Bellwoods Park from my cameraphone picture in the previous post — it’s difficult to estimate the numbers, but I’m guessing there must’ve been at least 1,000 people at the beginning of the walk.
I missed the zombies at Nuit Blanche, but Jan says today there was a lot more creativity and variety. Here’s what comes up in a Flickr tag search.
Some articles:
JPG Magazine: Photo Essay: Toronto Zombie Walk
Toronto Sun: Zombies take to the streets
Toronto Star: Afternoon of the (nerdy) undead
For the sake of those amongst us without the stomach for blood and guts and gore, I’m only going to post this one group pic and direct you to the rest of them via links. If you click, don’t say I didn’t warn you!
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