Spent the afternoon with software and serpentines on the mind…
When I was younger, I ran the Canadian operations for a software company based in the 1960 area of Houston with headquarters on a Drive named Pebble Bend.
Hence, the title for this afternoon’s Boa Constrictor inspired Stone Outstallation on Woodbine Beach, Pebble Bends.
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- A Giant Question Mark from Batman’s nemesis The Riddler
- Spiral Jetty on the mind
- It’s warming up and summer is coming
Early this morning at Woodbine Beach in Toronto’s east end, I became morose at how low the water level of Lake Ontario was.
This giant art outstallation shows how the connectedness of water and earth, the open ended ebb and flow of the infinite whirlpools created one wave followed by another and another at a time [sic intentionally].
Victoria Day Leftover burned out sparklie stems at the centre of the larger whirlpool spiral, with wood sticks standing in the centre of the smaller closer stone spiral.
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It’s finally Election Day across Canada.
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Wednesday night, a couple dozen Torontonians (and an ex-pat Canuck from Ft. Myers, Florida who was avoiding Hurricane Wilma and visiting family), gathered across from the U.S. Consulate in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
We held a silent candlelight vigil to mark the 2,000th U.S. Service Personnel death and the 100,000 Iraqi civilians who have died since this war of convenience and occupation of desperation began.
I arrived at a quarter past 5 pm and met Stan, who had learned of the vigil through the AFSC website, and thereafter another vigilkeeper who learned of it through the United For Peace and Justice Website.
Stan planned to recite the Hebrew Prayer for The Dead during the vigil.
We began at 5:30 pm and spread our End The Occupation as well our Toronto Coalition to Stop The War banners.
Several passers-by smiled and automobiles honked their horns in support as they drove by.
We then created a giant 2,000 TOO MANY sign on the sidewalk by taping simple cash register lengths of paper into the outlines of the letters.
Alex of TVAC (Toronto Video Activist Collective) filmed much of the vigil for a future feature.
As in the Viet-Nam era, many U.S. War Resisters are finding their way north of the U.S. border and seeking asylum here in Canada.
A number of them are in Toronto.
We have an active ongoing War Resisters Support Campaign for them, providing legal, housing, and financial/employment assistance.
Canada is complicit in the Occupation of the Iraq by proxy. Canada has ground troops in Afghanistan and police forces in Haiti. Our troops there mean U.S. troops and supply lines are freed up for use in Iraq.
With the passage of time, Afghanistan may grow to become Canada’s own Iraq-like quagmire.
Our Candlelight vigil here in Toronto being outside of the United States, is our way of letting the American People know that your friends to the North have not forgotten about you nor your just fight to end this unjust war and illegal occupation.
Our vigil ended at 6:30 pm, which was was 10 minutes past sunset time, and time for me to open my fast up the street at Masjid Toronto.
I’m glad this vigil came together on such short notice. I am sad that it had to be held at all.
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Today Toronto witnessed a huge anti-war rally across from the U.S. Consulate and peace march through the streets of downtown.
Following yesterday’s DVPeace Troops Out Now Outstallation which was meant to be seen from a distant express way, today’s Outstallation was to be seen up close and personal — front and centre.
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Created artwork with found paper in front of Erl’s Diner Water Fountain on University Avenue.
Everybody lent a hand to help compose this photograph.
We, the Toronto Psychogeography Society are Locked Out Listeners who are not happy with CBC management.
We want our CBC back !
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Full Circle Toronto at Woodbine Beach — Remembering Nagasaki on 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing.
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You might also enjoy:Artist and photoblogger HiMY SYeD likes to claim Woodbine Beach as his canvas.
See him do so tonight as he creates a lantern work of art monument to spell out Nagasaki Hiroshima.
The Full Circle project is an offshoot of a series of events taking place worldwide.
SYeD has charted the progress of a group of Buddhist Monks who have walked for twenty-five days to raise awareness, and keep alive and ‘atomic flame’ that will finally be extinguished 60 years to the date.
“To co-incide to the minute in realtime in New Mexico with extinguishing of the atomic flame,” SYeD will move his lanterns into place at 11 pm.
The lantern lighting ends at 11:30 pm.
And everything begins around 9 pm.
– By Sarah Lazarovic
This has been my last week in San Francisco and the East Bay.
In the spirit of a going-away party, Zach organized a folderblog photo-walk send-off for me yesterday. Read More
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This panoramic stitching of three photographs shows the original intended width of the Giant Peace Symbol I began, yet failed to complete, upon the Marin Headlands, just north and west of the Golden Gate Bridge.
All the conditions finally were in place, a full day’s worth of fog would keep the GGNRA Rangers from stopping me in mid-Outstallation, it was not raining though it had been, hence the earth was soft enough for the pegs which would hold the pieces of paper in place to stay in position, I found the exact right spot to place the giant peace symbol, which would be visible from San Francisco right beside vistas of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Everything was in place except one thing… Read More
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