After two and a half hours, and 4 kilometres or so, i needed food and rest. Just after 10 pm, inside The Queen Mother Cafe, while i waited for my Strongbow and chicken breast with grilled vegetables with fingerling potatoes. The blur doesn't convey the crowds in the streets. There were tons of people everywhere.

Simcoe St. at Queen St. W. - Nina Czegledy, Greg Judelman, Deborah Hession and Daniel Barber WHAT WILL YOU DO? "An interactive installation displays the question 'What will you do (to stop climate change)?' and invites the general public to declare their actions in defence of global warming. Responses are by SMS text message to a specified local phone number and appear within seconds as part of a projected real-time visualization. This project explores the potential of participatory art in public space to convert individual awareness to collective action on the climate change crisis." I never got a good focussed shot here, but i like the face of the guy on the left, but the women in front and just to the right is a ghostly blur of motion.

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts - A Window on Ballet "The University Ave. window of the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts will be illuminated with larger than life images of the National Ballet's dancers, in performance and backstage, taken by some of Canada's most talented photographers and filmmakers." It may have been larger than life, but relative to the spectacle of the building itself, the video is feeble. Not bad for handheld, huh? Huh?!?!

My original intent was to walk west and down Spadina to King, then west towards Strachan, but i had to revise my plans based on practicality - and since i'd decied to focus on the special installations, and not galleries, i just jumped on the streetcar and headed west towards Shaw. Ha ha, the train was packed (why didn't i get a photo?). Now in Zone C, this is at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art at 952 Queen St. W. I'd been meaning to see their Eat The Food exhibit since it opened. But this was in the courtyard in front, and i don't know what it was called.

I decided to take a shot of this from below, and didn't know what the white structure was when taking the photo. AUGGHHH! It was my forehead.

Better...

The east wall was painted with life-sized silhouettes.

You can see the wall and the blue things in this shot. It was interesting how respectful people were being of the space in front of the wall.

Because otherwise the courtyard was PACKED full, and there was no way i was getting inside the museum itself. Too bad, because apparently they also had food back there somewhere.

Around 11:30 at Shaw and Queen, crazy, crazy, ful of people.

Uhh, the motion is intentional?

This was something about renewable energy. I was distracted by something.

I can appreciate some mod fashion.

Something else not on the list, north side of Queen just east of Shaw, she kept striking diferent poses, some robotic, some more Sears catalog natural.

Trinity-Bellwoods Park - One of those silly fair props for photos.

Trinity Bellwoods Park - Michael Bartosik Fluorescent Dome "...serves as a beacon for the city. Universal in form and origin, it resonates in a dynamic equilibrium; unifying cultural difference through a non-hierarchical structure."

I don't think i did a good job of finding the exhibits in the area.

847 Adelaide St. W. - Chris McCarroll We Are Not Home Free "A looping video projection comprised of excerpted footage from the classic PBS miniseries Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. Through the resurrected (and reinstated) figure of Carl Sagan, the piece seeks to reconstitute past images of historical materialist reverie as objects for contemporary awe." This was down Strachan - pretty empty street, unusual. This was projected on a building wall, in a parking lot.

Massey Harris Park, 945 King St. W. - Chiho Aoshima City Glow "Travelling playfully and unstoppably through seductive and sinister settings, the animation gives an account that traverses geographical and temporal confines. Scenes constantly unfold and emerge at the periphery of the frame."

north Stanley Park, 845 King St. W. - Simla Civelek Wish Swing "Where do your daydreams come from? Where do they go? Wish Swing is for you to discover. Come and hop on it. I will push you higher and higher into the sky where you are free to wish upon a star."

south Stanley Park, 845 King St. W. - Stephanie Avery Starry Night "Living in Toronto, we forget what it looks like to gaze into a star-filled night sky. Light pollution has made the night sky nearly invisible. Stars and planets are confused for satellites and airplanes. For one night the night sky has been brought back to the city." There were a bunch of people in sleeping bags under the baseball cage. After this, couple of more kilometres walking, i was spent. It was around 12:45 am. A much less crowded streetcar ride, then subway, to get my car, and finally an hour's drive home.

(not my photo) The next day, i went back to the city to see Eat The Food. It was a LOT quieter than the night before. I didn't really get all the connections, like how Jill Greenberg's End Times fit into the theme.

(not my photo)

Afterwards, i went to the Word On The Street book festival. First stop: the food concessions. Then just wandering from booth to booth, which surrounded Queen's Park Crescent.

Okay.

His comic book character looked exactly like him.

Comic book nerd.

The only book i ended up buying.

After i also went to the Victoria College Annual Book Sale, but didn't get anything.