Archive for category: Splorpist

Photos in the genre of Grant Hutchinson’s Splorp.com

Auger or augur?    (2006.03.08)

If it is the quintessential New York story to pack up and move from Idaho to a cold-water tenement and a life in the theatre, and if it is the quintessential British story to leave in the morning with everything you own in a little black case –

– then surely it is the quintessential Toronto story to ride one’s bicycle in mid-winter past a lakefront beach barely dappled with snow only to encounter a disused front-end loader with rear auger attachment hiked up on its haunches on the sand.

Backlog    (2006.03.04)

Not as bad as the last time, but still rather formidable.

Light-reading-for-a-Saturday-night kind of thing.

Stealth milquetoast    (2006.03.02)

In a previous era, I was able to photograph the rarest of police vehicles, the stealth cruiser (reproduced here).

Sort of like putting a studded collar on an accountant, it is now possible to photograph a stealth minivan.

Unctuous    (2006.02.24)

Home Depot wasteland    (2006.02.23)

I’m not gonna dignify this one by calling it a Homo Depot, as is often done here.

Fieroté    (2006.02.23)

Yes, this is a flat-tired Pontiac Fiero with a pickup-truck cap piled onto its roof.

Arch    (2006.02.23)

My photo of these concrete arches being driven down Bay St. makes me think of May Day parades in which everything under the sun gets driven down the boulevard.

Icebiking in action    (2006.02.19)

Yes, of course I attended the icebike race last night. I coined the word. Why wouldn’t I go?

My first time, curiously enough. It was actually held in a semiconvenient location and, more importantly, inside. The disadvantage? No wolves or coyotes.

Bronze cars look better in the rain    (2006.02.19)

I seem never to have published this photo, despite having it in my completed files:

Hence my hope for a triumphant sequel is somewhat truncated. En tout cas: