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Nuit Blanche Toronto 2011

Took the girls down to see some of this year’s Nuit Blanche late last night. We headed down to Nathan Phillips Square and basically roamed around the area and saw (and heard) what we could see.

Here’s a couple of my favorite shots from the evening:

Nuit Blanche: Cardiac Combustion Chamber 1

Nuit Blanche: Cardiac Combustion Chamber 1

While you can’t really see it in this shot so much, the drummer was playing within an “exploded” car (think the technical drawing version of “exploded”), with all of its parts suspended by wires, providing enough space for the percussion equipment.

Was annoyed by another photographer who waded in past the crowd barrier and took close-up shots of the drummer. In so doing he managed to become a largely blobby blur in most of my shots, and worse, encouraged others to do the same. So this shot and one other were the best I could do.

I also like this shot of a kid pointing at something while visiting the sound+light display that accompanied the Chevy Volt ad display:

Nuit Blanche: Volt Promo Tent 1

Nuit Blanche: Volt Promo Tent 1

Many more shots were taken, the rest of which you can see below:

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New Roman/Byzantium Galleries at the Royal Ontario Museum

I had to do an errand downtown, and since I had the time I went to the Royal Ontario Museum, where I knew that they had just opened a new Ancient Rome/Byzantium gallery space. I had thought it was to be in a whole new gallery space, and was somewhat disappointed to find that they were filling in a space which previously had been set aside for temporary exhibitions. Still, in addition to items they had on display before the renovations, they also had the chance to show other things which had been in storage.

I took my camera along and took many pictures — especially of the Roman-Egyptian items as well as the new display on Nubian/Meroë culture — but was struck by the scene of a number of artists who were sketching the Imperial Roman marble busts in the middle of the new gallery. They sketched, and I shot pictures. Here’s my favourite of the bunch:

Artists Sketching Roman Marble Busts at the ROM

Artists Sketching Roman Marble Busts at the ROM

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