more small views
Photos taken with an Olympus D-460
More diorama photo fun. An old structural model of a building on the Canadian National Exhibition grounds, this one had handmade and very tiny people smaller than HO scale railroad models.
low resolution photography by davin risk
air show
Photo taken with an Olympus D-460
Today is, I believe, the last day that we will have jet planes ripping through the sky directly above our neighbourhood for the next year or so. Good riddance!
Because we live fairly close to the Canadian National Exhibition grounds we get treated every year to the sounds of Indy cars, fireworks, and jet planes on multiple occasions.
The worse of these are the planes which are part of the Canadian International Airshow. Single and formation flying jets whipping quite low to the ground above residential neighbourhoods just isn’t a great idea. The noise is irritating to say the least and the potential danger is unreasonable.
I’m sure there are a few diehard fans who come into Toronto each year for this but we have to live here and there is really zero benefit to the Parkdale / Brockton area except heavier traffic and maybe some extra cash to those who rent out their lawns as parking to CNE goers in general.
The CIAS website has a banner pointing to a site asking for names on a petition for new jets for Canada’s “national icons” the Snowbirds. There is a load of rhetoric on the linked site about national identity, encouraging Canadian youth to join the Canadian Air Force, and the economic benefits of airshows to the Canadian economy which are all dubious.
textures
Photos taken with an Olympus D-460
I took these photos a few months ago but decided to post them yesterday as I was submitting another photo taken on the same day to LaLaLand for the “Urban Textures” theme. These photos are close-ups of a metal door but to me they have the most amazing accidental composition. I just find them really beautiful.
The photo I submitted to LaLaLand is very different. It’s a shot of a set of rusty keys on a letter “J” keychain. Kind of sad for some reason. (here’s a link to the photo)
150 in ONE
Photos taken with an Olympus D-460
I’ve had one of these Radio Shack “Science Fair 150 in ONE Electronic Project Kits” on and off since I was a pre-teen.
As a kid I made many fun gizmos with it: radio receiver, listening device, various enthalling logic gates. The odd thing was that when I got to high school, I was only mediocre at electronics and did better at programming in BASIC. Yes, it was the early 80’s…
In university a bought the “150 in ONE” again and used it to create a variety of electro-noise makers. One of the setups I dubbed the “Annoy-o-tron”; it generated a single tone pitch controlled by the 0-10 “CONTROL” dial and rapidly toggled on/off by running things through the light sensitive “CdS CELL”. Hours of noisy fun!
Someone somewhere in Guelph was (un)fortunate enough to hear the “Annoy-o-Tron” used on the radio (CFRU) on a number of occasions. I apologize to that one person who might have been listening.
big ghetto
Photos taken with an Olympus D-460
The “Boombox Birth” museum has it. It’s the 4th one on the page and seems to be one of the Holy Grails for boombox freaks.
This page about a JVC Binaural Headphone Microphone Combination also has a scan of an original magazine ad.
basic needs
Photos taken with an Olympus D-460
I didn’t do these two amazing drawings but I wish I had. They may have been done by a graffiti writer who goes by the name “Fathom”. I’ve seen his/her work around Toronto but these quick sketches caught my eye the most.
If anyone knows if these were or weren’t done by Fathom, leave me a comment.
YES! I got an email from Allister Lee (ALIST) today (January 9th 2006). He is the artist behind these drawings. He is also wildly talented it turns out. Check out his website at: enterthealist.com.
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