toronto bound

Spent the day on Sunday wandering around downtown Toronto. Here is the result, in pictures.

toronto's elephants

Toronto had some. But they were moved last week to a sanctuary in California where the climate, and I assume the space, is more suited to their needs.

But wait.

What is this?

Elephants?

In Toronto?

With their young?

Downtown? With all the traffic?

Clearly, mommy better keep an eye out...

ai weiwei - forever bicycles, 2013

Ai Weiwei is a Chinese artist and political activist. His sculpture, Forever Bicycles, was installed in Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto for Nuit Blanche in 2013. It is made up of 3144 bicycles.

I will let the pictures of it speak for themselves. It was an amazing thing to see.

The sculpture at a distance.

3144 real bicycle frames...

All the wheels are real, laced up bicycle wheels. They also spin freely and it is possible to play with the sculpture a bit.

Depending on how you look at it, the sculpture is a real eye bender. I was not the only one chuckling though at the irony of this particular sculpture being outside city hall, what with a mayor that openly hates cycling.

the adventures of...

... Captain Oblivious and Miss Perkypants.

Blame my daughter for this one - she came up with the names...

Anyhow, we went on photo adventures, me and the kid, and got rained out. So we decided to have adventures anyway.

I present to you, Yonge Street etc, Toronto, in the rain.