I would consider being at least somewhat dirty/rundown/unkempt to be a necessary component even if not intense enough to earn hellhole status.
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I too was half expecting a tongue-in-cheek set of shots around Etobicoke. Nice work flar. If you don't mind me asking, where did you take shot #17?
It's a little alley off the west side of Spadina somewhere between Dundas and College. Cute little street.
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Brilliant set! Nice to see the city hasn't been robbed of it's energy and uniqueness.
I was talking to a random guy who brought up a great point: Rob Ford is a polarizing figure, but the unanticipated consequence has been to bring those who "oppose" him closer together and to create a sense of urgency leading civic minded people to work harder at protecting and enhancing Toronto's unique urban qualities.
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I think if you were to photograph the Toronto of Rob Ford, you'd need to showcase suburbs, highways, parking lots, and drive-thrus at fast food chains.
I'm glad you showcased the side of Toronto that is mostly anti-Rob Ford. It's fantastic!
Yeah. Gritty is how you feel as you're walking through the city and getting to know it. I've been in Toronto for two months and in no way does this compare to the real grit, character and sense of difference between areas that I felt in Chicago or even Minneapolis/Saint Paul. A lot of these skyscrapers you're looking at are condo towers, so the interesting flair that once was downtown here in Toronto has turned into Yupville; rent a one bedroom apartment for $1480 a month or a one bedroom condo for half a million; the days of the weirdoes or artists or just different people who hung around downtown and rented a room at the 'Y' for $200 a month are over. Too bad. Those were my favourite people.
I hope the beautiful city of Toronto survives that man....if you want to show Rob Ford's Toronto, you should take pictures of crackhouses and cheap liquor stores only.
Definitely not what I expected. When thinking "Rob Ford's Toronto," I'd expect some sprawly hellhole or the projects to parody his crack smoking. The title is a bit of an oxymoron- I'm sure the areas showed didn't vote for him in huge margins, yes?
What is a Rob Ford's Toronto thread without a photo of his Stupidness and a construction crane in the background? Earlier this year he had been taking credit for the recent building boom though media ridicule seems to have made him stop. Mayor Rob Ford by Phil Marion, on Flickr
I hope the beautiful city of Toronto survives that man....if you want to show Rob Ford's Toronto, you should take pictures of crackhouses and cheap liquor stores only.
It's not always obvious where the crack houses are here. Property values are so damn high it's rare that an owner would allow their property to become one. Ford was smoking it in his friends' house and in his sister's basement.
And liquor sales are controlled by the government - it's a big source of gov't revenue so there aren't discount liquor stores the size of grocery stores here.
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