More Toronto Sculpture

 Recent posts have told you about my looking for doors and street art during my walks around Toronto, and the other thing I am constantly on the lookout for are sculptures. A couple of months after we “moved” here I posted about a Toronto Sculpture walk, and did the same in China, and in Florida. There are lots of statues and sculptures all over Toronto and I find something new on most walks. Here are a few of the most recent ones I have found.

This one is in what is called a "Sculpture Garden", and the art featured changes regularly. This one looks like the Loch Ness Monster, but is in fact the wave lengths of various local sounds, a Streetcar, a church bell, etc. Very interesting. 

This sculpture shows how everyone is equal before the law - thus the lion on one end and the small cat on the other, but the scale is level. 

This is three cube shapes balanced together in a little park but I have no idea what it represented.

A fireman rescuing a child from a fire is at Queen's Park and honours Toronto's fire service.

This one is a mystery. It is a huge metal stop watch but has no hands on the face. It is fastened to a large rock and is facing away from the street, so you can only see it when walking between two large office building. And behind the watch is a little sculpture of a sleeping cat. 

This is one of my favourite statues. It is huge and extends up and becomes part of the building behind it. It looks like an animal with four legs, but also like a tree with branches, but what looks like leaves from a distance are actually hundreds of metal birds. I could find no plaque explaining what it was, but it is an amazing piece of art.

Graffiti Alley

 Toronto has lots of amazing street art, and as I walk around the city I am always looking for examples to photograph. I wrote a while ago about the great work done to decorate one of the many highway underpasses, and the other day I finally found my way to the actual “Graffiti Alley”. I had read about this street art location, but I was never completely sure where it was; downtown off Queen St. Somewhere I knew, but Queen St. is long and very interesting on its own, so I had never actually found it. 

But, on a mission to visit one of the many Bead Stores in the area, I noticed some interesting looking street art down an alley and detouring to take a picture, I accidentally found my way to graffiti alley. It really was one of the best displays of Toronto’s amazing street art culture. Here are some of the photos I took.

This was the art that drew me down the alley.

Three Stories of street art; the entire building was painted.

Can you find your garage door?

And bonus . . . Another door for my collection.

I don't think the phone still works . . . .

Knitting and Skateboards.

Amazing artwork!

I especially like when windows and doors and backgrounds are integrated into the artwork.

More Doors

Are you ready for more of my doors? I have been taking photos of doors for years and I have over 500 pictures of them from all over the world. I am not doing much traveling anymore, but here in Toronto I manage to find interesting doors on most of my walks around the city. I do get some odd looks from people when they see me stopping to take pictures of doors.

 Not sure what happened to this door, but the simple grey tones caught my attention.

Not only interesting old doors, but some very cool dragon lights. 

Yes, if you look closely there is a door blended into this "street art".

A very cool old door, but the handprints made me stop to snap a photo.

A Frankenstein door "stitched" together?

Another door integrated into some beautiful street art.

A very "Industrial" door on the back of a building which featured this metal look all over. I also liked the wires beside the door. 

Okay . . . this door is just really extra cool.

Slightly vandalized and tagged.

And finally a door from Sorento Italy sent to me by a guest photographer Jim Ballinger who was traveling and thought I'd like this door. 

Joy of Writing - Story 8 - Emulate

The hallway seemed to go on for at least three more classrooms, before he finally got to the computer lab. It had been years since he had worked on a computer, his years in the prison did not allow him to use computers since his crime was computer fraud and hacking. But now he was finally out and although he was not supposed to be anywhere near any serious technology, he thought he might be able to get into the lab here in this old seldom used school. 

He cautiously entered the lab and sure enough there was only one other person in the room a fellow with a long ZZ top beard was all the way over on the other side of the lab.

Sitting at one of the computers he quickly logged into the network and then was able to  navigate to the website that had sat there for the 10 years he was away. Typing in the code he was able to access the program to emulate the 12784 COMPAQ system he was used to using. 

Five minutes later he had access to the files he needed. 

Delete . . . . Delete . . . . Delete . . . . . Delete, Those files were all that was left of his attempts to get into the government network, and he should now be able to escape the punishment  that he had worried about for years. 

As he pushed the final “delete”, The ZZ Top guy stood up and smiled, “Thanks, we were waiting for that.”