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Old Posted Jul 24, 2014, 1:17 PM
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Those are some pretty cool public art installations, Quebec City! Le Belle Province really seems to punch above its weight when it comes to public art.
Tee hee hee. He said "punches above its weight".
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Old Posted Jul 24, 2014, 2:11 PM
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Those are some pretty cool public art installations, Quebec City! Le Belle Province really seems to punch above its weight when it comes to public art.



Another major public art project which will be installed in Quebec City next spring: les Attracteurs. This project has been in the making for quite some time. 36 bronze sculptures such as the following will be installed throughout the hip St-Roch neigbourhood and its particularity is that it will be interactive. The sculptures will be equipped with sensors so that it will emit light and sound as a person walks by.

The city was worried that the technology would not resist Quebec City's winter so it tested the one you see here during the last 2 winters and the sculpture resisted the weather quite well.



http://www.lapresse.ca/le-soleil/art...hivernales.php











http://clcarchitectes.com/wp/project/attracteurs/
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Old Posted Jul 24, 2014, 5:49 PM
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^ Very cool. Montreal also has some amazing public art, but I had no idea QC had a lot of this funky public art too.

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Tee hee hee. He said "punches above its weight".
Am I missing something here?
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Great stuff from QC and Vancouver
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Old Posted Aug 2, 2014, 5:24 AM
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Toronto's most recent installation, Nyctophilia:



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By: Jack Landau at Urban Toronto


More info here: http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2014/07/...-neighbourhood
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Old Posted Aug 2, 2014, 6:14 AM
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Douglas Coupland's Four Seasons, wherein each of the four pylons represents a different season:


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More info here: http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2014/01/...s-emerald-city
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Old Posted Aug 2, 2014, 1:17 PM
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Those colored lamp posts are very cool.
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Old Posted Aug 2, 2014, 1:59 PM
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How about an example of private art made accessible to the public? Local coppersmiths were commissioned to produce these famous figures for the community gardens of Hacienda Sarria, Kitchener.

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Old Posted Aug 2, 2014, 5:02 PM
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speaking of Coupland, he's doing a piece for a condo development in south vancouver. it's a replica of Stanley Park's hollow tree.


Photo http://biketourvancouver.com/wp-cont...olden-Tree.jpg

and another piece from him (also in south vancouver

Photo http://ourcityourart.files.wordpress...anorama-sm.jpg
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Nice light feature on Trump Tower.


Picture by me.
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Public art display on an apartment building in St. Jamestown near Sherbourne and Bloor Street East.


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One of these is not like the others....
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North Battleford is getting a gigantic baseball bat, usurping Edmonton's giant bat that was on 118th Avenue.

When I lived in Edmonton, I always looked at the placement of the bat and thought what a truly random and unspectacular place to have put it. The photo in the article depicts that very well. Some days if you weren't paying attention you might be hard-pressed to not think it was just another streetlamp at the intersection.
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North Battleford is getting a gigantic baseball bat, usurping Edmonton's giant bat that was on 118th Avenue.

When I lived in Edmonton, I always looked at the placement of the bat and thought what a truly random and unspectacular place to have put it. The photo in the article depicts that very well. Some days if you weren't paying attention you might be hard-pressed to not think it was just another streetlamp at the intersectionff.
Chalk up another addition to the great Canadian biggest stuff list.
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Sherbrooke was recently hosting the 9th Global Mural Conference as well as the 1st Symposium Art mural Sherbrooke 2014. The latter was a three-day-long event, during which 10 artists created medium-sized murals (2.5 X 5 m) that will be displayed on King Est street (see here).


By MURIRS, les murales de Sherbrooke on Facebook


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Nice murals. Thanks for sharing.
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speaking of murals, Brazilian brothers Osgemeos are currently working on their largest mural ever on 6 silos at Granville island.


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[QUOTE=Delirium;6701415]speaking of murals, Brazilian brothers Osgemeos are currently working on their largest mural ever on 6 silos at Granville island.


Photo by j_anxious https://www.flickr.com/photos/j_anxi...447092/sizes/l

I'd read about this - this is great. While this is obviously an important functional economic site, it's always been an eyesore right in the middle of Vancouver, totally sticking out from what Granville Island is today. It's nice that the owners agreed to this, and it will now go all the other way to becoming a new tourist attraction.
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That is fuckin' awesome. Nicely done vancouver.
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