Here is another moment in Toronto. Using footage from this fall while I was in the car with my dad and my brother on our way to do some ‘antiquing’ on Queen at Roncesvalles. I bought nothing, but my brother bought some cool theatre style seats and we found the world’s most beautiful and prohibitively expensive teak table. Afterwards, I got my hair trimmed and the lady blow dried it so high, I was a little embarassed on the walk home. I had to flatten it out before going out with my friends. Hair is not meant to defy gravity. You will never see a picture of this phenomenon.
12 hours. What a night! We started our journey at 6:30pm at City Hall and our heads didn’t hit the pillow until 6am the next morning …
There is so much to cover from this years Nuit Blanche in Toronto. So much in fact that it’s best if you watch the video! But here are some of the highlights that we saw on our travels:
Zone A:
Stereoscope, City Hall
An amazing installation turning the windows of City Hall into a giant ping pong game and lighting canvas
Conversation #2, 900 Wellesley Street
12,000 books laid together to create a beautiful sculpture. The different coloured spines even created moasic images wrapped around the sculpture.
Zone B:
r u part of the art?
An interesting mobile installation - subscribe to a texting service and receive updates throughout the night with various things to do like sing the song from The Muppets (Menamena do do dee do do …). We didn’t see many other people doing it, but it was fun to randomly do stuff during the night.
Le Labo, Distillery
A very calming video/sound installation (for the first while we were there) at Le Labo or Le Laboratoire d’art - a “francophone media and integrated arts lab offering opportunities in production, training & showings.”
Higgs Ocean, Distillery
While they weren’t part of the ‘official’ Nuit Blanche schedule, this installation in one of the alleyways of the Distillery, was a highlight for us as it featured many elements from our youth - Lite Brite, a Big Bird lamp, and old films on video projectors! Unfortunately we couldn’t find any info on the group online - so if you guys see this posting, let us know where to find you!
Zone C:
Overflow, Liberty Village
A smaller scale installation by Michel de Broin of a waterfall coming out the window of a 3 storey building and crashing into discarded furniture on the ground.
Imagine Peace, Liberty St. & Jefferson Ave.
Yoko Ono continues to spread the message of peace with this installation. The public is given tags to write a wish on and the hang on the trees lining the street creating weeping willows of wishes, as it were.
While you wait with bated breath for our coverage of Nuit Blanche (you are waiting, right? ), check out this awesome video and sound remix by our good friend Qasim … we met up during the night and some of the video features us!
Just because we missed out on Kathleen’s show in our last episode, doesn’t mean you can’t partake in some of her comedy. Thanks to the brilliance of the inter-web, we bring you a little slice of Kathleen Phillips! You can check out her YouTube page for more hilarious videos.
But here are some of the highlights that we saw on our travels:
), check out this awesome video and sound remix by our good friend 
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