I CAME TO DANCE!

Part of the on going Cityshoots series at Le Petit Déjeuner, I CAME TO DANCE! is a collection of photos taken at various House parties in Toronto over the last year from venues like 99 Sudbury, Sunnyside Pavilion, The Rivoli, and West.

I'm inviting you all to come and check out my work over the next six weeks. Sign the guest book (if I have it ready in time), and spend a little cash while you're there. LPD has a good brunch, and great artwork up for sale (wink, nudge).

Le Petit Dejeuner
191 King Street East

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www.petitdejeuner.ca

Hi all,

Just wanted to share some news about exciting blog related initiatives happening at the AGO.

I've been working with the gallery to start embracing the blogging community in the city as media. As a first initiative, a group of bloggers - photo, video, podcast & others - will be reporting from the opening launch of the Frank Gehry exhibit next Tuesday. The group will have almost total access and I'm hoping some wonderfully creative work will be produced.

There's some more info here: http://singer.to/2006/02/09/blogging-at-the-ago/

As well, you may want check out the AGO blog: http://www.artmatters.ca/

Cheers!

Eli Singer
http://www.singer.to

While checking out the action on Flickr today I found Nighthawks, a night photography group blog with the best pictures from the Flickr night photography groups:

http://night-hawks.blogspot.com/

Not much there as yet, it's only a week old, but what there is looks pretty good.

The finalist in this years Photobloggies were announce yesterday evening. I'm happy to announce that Torono was well represented in many different categories.

Congrats to everyone who was nominated.

Miles from Mute
Jon from Groundglass
Alison from Hello
Gayla from Making Happy
Sam from Daily Dose of Imagery
Matt from The Narrative

You have until next Monday to vote.

Also Congrats to Sam who won Best Photography of a weblog in the 2005 Bloggies which were announced last week.

There's a great interview with our own Rannie over at the Torontoist. Check it out!

Yesterday was a beautiful day in Toronto and many photobloggers took the opportunity to capture the iced branches that gave the trees a crystal-look. The more I look, the more beautiful pictures I see. Why don't you share yours?

Some of the shots I saw already :

Merry Christmas from Ground Glass
Iced Branches 1, 2 and 3 from Ride My Pony
Frozen Branch Macro at Daily Dose of Imagery
Cold Bud by seems Artless
Still Memory here and here
Sparkly Trees and Sun Comeback II at Blog at the Photo

I can't wait to see more!

I think we've all been to Whitby Psych by now. Well, Mat at ThePhotoMat has posted an awesome slideshow of our trip there a couple of weeks ago. Be sure to check it out.

Jay

http://thephotomat.blog-city.com/read/942332.htm

Today Weblogs, Inc. , the largest publisher of professional blogs, announced the launch of their 58th and 59th Weblogs—“The CSS Weblog” with James Jackson and “The Unofficial Photoshop Weblog” with Glenn Hauman.

Weblogs, Inc. also publishes The Digital Photography weblog which started in September 2004.

I have passion, maybe someone can hire me to write a weblog for a living.

Miles over at Mute has posted this wonderfully stark, yet stunning image of bare trees against a glorious blue sky. Yes my friends, winter is ahead of us and will be here soon.

Mark over at Selective Memory has started posting again after a two month hiatus. Sometimes life and priorities take over and that's okay. But I must say, I am please to see that Mark is back and look forward to seeing his almost daily offerings once again.

Carrie from Delineated bought a new Black Digital Rebel last Friday a purchase she has been putting off for weeks now. On Saturday evening, we found ourselves on Queen Street West where she thought she would try her hand at panning. The shot below of a skate boarder was the result of standing along Queen Street for about an hour.

Gayla has posted this stark, yet stricking image of the railroad tracks by her home. They are not a new subject for her, but there is definitely something haunting about this image that draws me in. Shot with a Horizon 202 (I think Gayla is the only photoblogger in Toronto with one of these, definitely on my wish list), you totally get a new and interesting perspective of this urban wasteland.

Andrew at Worksongs. captured this beautiful scene in a closed down private school. The colours of the cabinets and the floor tile really stand out. Also the left over math work on the chalk board add to the images, "frozen in time" feel.

Jay is starting to post a series of images that he recently shot at the Abandoned Whitby Psychiatric Hospital called Apple Psych. Since everyone else has captured the facilities in all it's glory, Jay thought he would try something different, by using a bright red apple as a prop. The series starts today and will continue through the week.

Yesterday, Sam made his readers geuss how he created this abstract geometric image with a simple digital camera and no photoshop tricks. His readers posted their geusses over on his comments and in his forum. Today, Sam explains how the photo was taken over at his forum. Very clever.

Matt O'Sullivan from The Narrative pulls out the smoke and mirrors as he inadvertently fools people to believe that he actually shot this scene in downtown Toronto. What people don't realize at first is that the woman, is actually a part of a Town Shoes Advertisement.

Jay Morrison captures some interesting graffiti over at his blog Art is Everywhere. Definitely a piece of work that almost seems like a tribute to photobloggers everywhere. Nice find Jay. Now I wonder if Jay will reveal this location of this jem, so the rest of us can photoblog it to hell.