The other scramble intersection

Painting a scramble intersection in Kensington Market during the latest Pedestrian Sundays. Most likely, this wasn’t authorized by the City.

Update: Got a message from the painter:

The city by leaving the Yonge Dundas Barnes Dance “incomplete” by painting only two wolid white bars each at the diagonals, inspired me to wanna paint a “complete” scramble somewhere.

Toronto Criterium

A few months ago, the annual Toronto Criterium took place in the St. Lawrence Market area. I wasn’t expecting the event to be so pro — great race.

Guinness

Having a Guinness after Newmindspace’s Capture the Flag game (the purple thing is a glowing team marker)

De Young Museum

Perforated copper plates of the De Young Museum, San Francisco

The designers Herzog & de Meuron also did the Birds Nest stadium for Beijing. Because of San Francisco’s coziness to a fault line, the building was designed to be able to shift almost a metre on ball-bearing sliding plates. Apparently, the Getty Museum in LA (and others) uses a similar technique:

The bottom layer is bolted to the floor, and the upper layers move horizontally on ball bearings in different directions — east-west and north-south — while springs keep them from sliding too far.

Neat stuff.

Lonely Tree

Mouth of the Rouge River, Scarborough, Ontario