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   (2005.08.27)
Under a metal truss canopy, two rows of nested shopping carts face toward us
   (2005.08.18)
Old blue king-cab pickup truck has elaborate cap and white fender skirts
   (2005.08.18)

Scarecrows or firemens?

Chain-link fence is draped with firefighter turnout coats, one of them spread-armed against the mesh
   (2005.08.18)

The tens of thousands of raccoons in Toronto have a near-perfect habitat, with no predators save for cars and the occasional fox and two unlimited food supplies – wildlife and fish in the ravine and the Don River and an entire city’s garbage.

They’re so tame you can walk right up to them and take a sequence of flash photographs until you get the one you like.

Grey raccoon stands near garbage bags and looks at us with green reflected eyes
   (2005.08.13)

Or, more accurately, de la neige en août.

Window and edge of roof of bus shelter are almost totally obscured by dappled snow
Yellow Smart Fourtwo has windscreen, hood, and headlights obscured by snow
Snow-covered doorway and steps shows blue siding and ‘85’ in metal letters on brick wall
   (2005.08.12)

Clearly the backside of a snowplow blade (found in 34° summer weather) is a great location for half a vintage logotype.

Yellow metal plane has rust spots and a large attached spring. Half a blue sign shows the word FISHER on a yellow blot
   (2005.08.07)

Lisa Rochon, in an article you’ll have to Google-news for by title (embarrasingly: “Raw metal is a major turn-on”), writes:

Fronting the redevelopment of the Royal Ontario Museum in downtown Toronto is a massive steel structure that is raw and mysterious and dirty…. Dark, rough to the touch, heavy enough to crush a man, steel is rarely left exposed. It’s easy to figure out why: It might upset our urbane sensibilities…. During the year that it took to raise up the structure, the workers started to feel the steel come alive. One enormous face in the shape of an X wears bolts like jewellery on a giant….There’s too much to distract an audience looking upon an integrated truss system whereby 3,000 pieces of steel (each weighing about three tons) have been miraculously joined together. […]

A restrictive fire code is often to blame for the architect’s penchant for covering up steel. The truth is that a steel structure painted in tumescent paint meets the code…. At the ROM, the last structural steel beam went in last week at the museum’s topping-off ceremony. The iron workers have gone home. Cherish this moment at the ROM. Visit it like public art.

So we did a drive-by of this sodomizing and parasitizing amyloid plaque.

Giant criscrossing metal girders explode like a pyramid off the roof and across the face of an old stone building
   (2005.08.03)

Technically a shite photo, and would be even if I spent all afternoon dodging and burning, but it’s always magical seeing the police horsies get carted around.

Taillights and decals on a police trailer carrying two horses reflect light from a camera flash

I’m publishing this to make myself feel better for being two seconds late to snap the best-ever mounted-police photograph late last week. How often do you get two cops on horses (with blinking taillights) stopped at a traffic signal while a firetruck races past? Rather as with limerent objects, you never forget the ones that get away.

   (2005.08.01)

It took two shoots at two locations to come up with a photo that’s only this good. That is indeed a fontmodded Cooper Black that attracts your immediate attention.

I stand before a Virgin Mobile billboard of a wrestler snapping on his ear protectors, with the headline ‘I know a painful hold when I see one.’ Green paint obscures the model’s right eye

Somebody’s defaced it already. Here’s mud in your eye!

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