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

   (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)

Again, just what it says.

Red White GMC truck has a silver metal grill emblazoned Superior in script
   (2005.07.26)

Just what it says.

Orange car has headlamp behind flat plastic lens and a bright yellow turn signal
   (2005.07.26)

Finally took out the trash, I gather.

Black building angles away from entrance, with concrete steps, curven metal banister, and circular hole cut out of triangular angled roof
   (2005.07.19)

How do they get those giant cranes onto construction sites? They use other cranes to build them.

Crane on right side, platform of stationary crane on left
Orange crane hoists large steel panel to platform of stationary crane
   (2005.07.18)

Wow, this takes me back. Do they also still make Hakkapeliitta fog lamps and driving lamps?

Covers on twin driving lamps attached to a Mitsubishi bumper read Comet 500 Hella in Helvetica

(Hella, admittedly, fits on a lamp cover hella more conveniently than Hakkapeliitta would. And it’s a classic Helvetica usage. But are you supposed to stop your car in the pouring rain, walk out to the front bumper [at risk of being hit by another vehicle], and pull off the antimacassars just so you can switch the lights on?)

   (2005.07.11)

Who knew there was so much of interest in the topography of the ancient Lande Rovère?

Side window, roof rack, and elliptical porthole window in roof of Land Rover
Black-and-silver badge reads LAND ROVER in Silver, with a Z-like line through the two words
   (2005.07.11)
Next to a crosswalk post, a POST NO BILLS sign barely pokes through the hoardings’ bright-green paint

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