Archive for the Category ◊ Toronto ◊
The focus isn’t bad considering I’m on a cruising boat and it’s windy. I should’ve brought the monopod, but I haven’t gotten used to carting it around yet — it lives in the back of my car. [View Larger]
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!
Scramble from Sam Javanrouh on Vimeo.
A time-lapse video by Sam Javanrouh (Top Left Pixel) of the launch day of Toronto’s first scramble intersection at Yonge and Dundas. Or check out the HD version on Vimeo.
I booked into this Summerlicious event before I went to Vancouver, an inaugural visit to Starfish at 100 Adelaide Street for their $35 prix fixe dinner menu. It’s a good thing I did, too, since I started my seafood kick in Vancouver and I was still craving it after I arrived home. There’s something very summer about seafood.
During Summerlicious, more than 130 of Toronto’s top restaurants offer residents and tourists alike the opportunity to sample a wide variety of diverse and innovative cuisine through prix fixe menus. Foodies can dine for a lot less on the specially created lunches and dinners that come complete with promotional prices.
Now in its sixth year, Summerlicious features three-course prix fixe menus priced at $15 or $20 for lunch and $25 or $35 for dinner. Restaurants will begin taking Summerlicious reservations on June 19 and American Express Cardmembers can book early reservations on June 17 and 18.
Vincor Canada returns as a sponsor of the event, featuring wine selections by Niagara’s Inniskillin and Jackson Triggs wineries paired with select menus at participating restaurants.
Six of us from Toronto Linkup reserved the 7pm seating and pored over the menu, studiously examining each listed ingredient in order to make a decision. It wasn’t easy, not even for appetisers! Half a dozen oysters or Manhattan chowder? House cured lake trout escabeche with lemon and tomato relish or grilled Portuguese sardines with homemade sourdough panzanella, green olives, and fennel oil? It all sounded so good!
Taken from the Press Box.
The workers are busy converting the field from (gridiron) football to baseball. There was an Argonauts vs. (Hamilton) Tiger-Cats game last Thursday, the Blue Jays are hosting the Baltimore Orioles from Tuesday to Thursday, then the New York Yankees from Friday to Sunday.
You can always tell when I’m travelling: mostly photos and few words.
(Written after midnight on Saturday, July 5th.)
What a day! We went sightseeing from 9:00 this morning to midday, taking in a trip up the CN Tower followed by a one-hour tour of the Rogers Centre (formerly Skydome), lunch at Richtree, then it was off to the airport to catch our flight. I just happened to be on the same flight to Vancouver as the Japanese guests, so the timing and such worked out beautifully.
At YVR we met up with more people for dinner at the Globe (Fairmont YVR’s restaurant) before calling it a night. I can’t think straight enough to post more photos from today, so I’ll just post one link that should display all of today’s uploaded photos, a mix of cameraphone shots and DSLR. Good night!
http://flickr.com/photos/gailontheweb/archives/date-taken/2008/07/05/
Am I turning into a local now, referring to The King Edward Hotel as the King Eddy?
At 0800 on the nose I entered the lobby to meet with the Japanese family I am looking after during their brief stay in Toronto. I informed them that the King Eddy was popular among businesspeople for breakfast meetings before work. Indeed, there was a job interview being conducted over bacon and eggs at the table directly beside us. I could hear the ambition in the interviewee’s voice as she pitched herself in the buzzwords of today’s marketing strategies.
(For the last 10 years I’ve known about the King Eddy because one of our TD clients at the company I was working for always had his regular client meetings there at 7:45 in the morning. Which was brutal considering my boss, who’d arrived the night before from Vancouver, lived on Pacific Time (-3 hours). Firing on all cylinders when your brain is expecting it to be 4:45 in the morning requires discipline and a lot of caffeine.)
In the meantime, I tried my best to communicate in the clearest English possible at a rather early hour (for me) while devouring my Swiss rosti, and planning our sightseeing for tomorrow morning. (Mmm-m-m-m, rosti — which I remarked upon after spotting it on the menu; the waiter told me the chef is Swiss.)
Before breakfast I called the tour office to confirm where the coach driver was to meet them, and he rendez-vous’ed with us promptly at 9:25 at the front entrance of the hotel. They’re off to Niagara Falls now, and we resume our whirlwind tour of Toronto in about 24 hours.
A couple of my favourite photos after last Sunday’s Pride Parade. I didn’t actually take that many of the parade itself because we were initially waiting on Church Street and apparently the organisers had changed the route! By the time we got wind of that, the parade had already begun and we were unable to get to the front of the crowd. Plus, I am short!
(One saucy photo after the jump. The rest are still on my computer.)
I was running an errand at the Apple store in Eaton Centre when I came across this scene in Dundas Square this evening: tango dancing as the tunes of a band filled the heavy summer evening air.
http://www.luminato.com/festival/eng
This is probably my favourite shot of City Hall thus far (from my cameras, anyway). Taken from Nathan Phillips Square on a chilly Victoria Day holiday Monday night while sightseeing with a couple of visitors and Garry. I took a few film shots with my recently-purchased Chinon CE-4, but I’ll have to finish off the roll before I see the results.
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