Categories Uncategorized A New Year Begins – 2023 Post author By S Weir Post date January 2, 2023 Found Party Art. Unclaimed photos from 1964. discovered in closed store’s basement. Party in an apartment on Cadillac Street Windsor AI illustration for my creative writing course story. My new character, the death dreamer (me), here I am getting tossed from a church by the RCMP because Trudeau is attending Black Methodist church service in Malvern AI illustration for my creative writing course story. My new character, the death dreamer (me), here I am getting tossed from a church by the RCMP because Trudeau is attending Black Methodist church service in Malvern AI illustration for my story about the Death Dreamer (me). Inside the PM’s Hummer everyone wants the Death Dreamer to say when Trump is going to die of natural causes AI illustration for my creative writing course story. My new character, the death dreamer (me), here I am getting tossed from a church by the RCMP because Trudeau is attending Black Methodist church service in Malvern inside my head while dreaming about Trump. AI created illustration AI illustration for my creative writing course story. My new character, the death dreamer (me), here I am getting tossed from a church by the RCMP because Trudeau is attending Black Methodist church service in Malvern AI selfie of me the death dreamer Had to create an email friendly logo for it AI illustration for my creative writing course story. My new character, the death dreamer (me), here I am getting tossed from a church by the RCMP because Trudeau is attending Black Methodist church service in Malvern AI illustration for my creative writing course story. My new character, the death dreamer (me), here I am getting tossed from a church by the RCMP because Trudeau is attending Black Methodist church service in Malvern AI illustration for my creative writing course story. My new character, the death dreamer (me), here I am getting tossed from a church by the RCMP because Trudeau is attending Black Methodist church service in Malvern policeman at my door. wants me to come outside and talk to the prime minister about my death dream. AI generated illustration AI illustration for my creative writing course story. My new character, the death dreamer (me), here I am getting tossed from a church by the RCMP because Trudeau is attending Black Methodist church service in Malvern Cast photo from Fifteen Dogs Cast photo from Fifteen Dogs Cast photo from Fifteen Dogs – actor as a dog old carnival pix I took and now use for a Facebook header pix First night of 2023 and the Slasher was still working Leaside. Stole the anchor pegs! Andrew Weir photographer FIRST MURAL OF 2023! Alley in Chinatown. Maria faces Dundas street. Screen shot of my cell picture
Categories Uncategorized December with a lot of Dead Santa Pictures and blasts from the past found during office desk purge Post author By S Weir Post date December 15, 2022 He was hung by his power cable. He was deflated. His friends were tortured.They lost their lights and their blowers. The Slasher wanted to know where Santa’s Village is. None of them talked. They even refused to tell him where the North Pole is! I arrived on the scene and scared the Slasher away. Poor Santa, not a breath of air left in his body. Windsor, Ontario Sad in a way. But patrons in the food court enjoyed ( although many just ate and talked loud to overpower the Devonshire Mall choir in Windsor Last train ride of 2022. Sitting in the Windsor Station and this strange man took my photo. Flash went off a couple of times. Returned the favour Those were the days my friend. Scuba diving with the Minister of Environment July 1994 pix by weir scan of pr photo taken on New Orleans paddlewheel back in 2019. Maria and I scan of pr photo taken on New Orleans paddlewheel back in 2019. Maria and I Dog sticker on Windsor Utility Box December 2022 Power box sticker bombed in Iceland ATHURST-BLOOR-MIRVISH-CONSTRUCTION-CRANES BY HERMAN Slash unicorn in Windsor and yes I brought him back Grinch bites garden dirt. I bring him back thanks to Duct Tape and my mini Bike Pump OPUS Christmas dinner in Windsor. Walker Rd Middle Eastern resto, Photo by Maria Our mall at yonge and eg put out bean bags for soccer fans to sit and watch the World soccer matches on their Giant TV screens above the shoppers. Bit of a scramble missing OPUS cheque for train ticket I bought to attend Senate hiring committee meeting in Windsor. Went missing but here it is! Artist died in December I took this when he came to check out the sculpture he donated to the McMichael Canadian Art Gallery Our mall at yonge and eg put out bean bags for soccer fans to sit and watch the World soccer matches on their Giant TV screens above the shoppers. Bit of a scramble I think I found the slasher’s weapon of choice. Was on the street beside a home that lost its inflatables to air wounds First Trinidad carnival 2023 story written by me for Caribbean Camera Calypso singer Roger Gibbs Shak Shak Hung up to air out. Midnight on Roselawn Avenue by the Egg Park drunken snowman falls off the roof. Could fit in Santa’s sleigh. Windsor I saw mommy killing Santa Claus. Windsor. Walkerville Shadow shows me taking this picture of a BIG Santa reduced t0 smile pile by the slasher Leaside Toronto another pix to show my shadow taking pictures of dead Santas in Leaside another look at my shadow taking dead Santa photo Scan of Oma’s Stern. 80s. Germany worried about Russia and nukes publicity still from a hockey play in 1974 that I probably reviewed for the Eyeopen at Rye Went to the world premier of Maddaddam at the four seasons theatre in Toronto with Noreen Taylor and Maria Front page promo for my mural story in box at bottom right Droid’s AI assisted xmas card picture Star week cover. For twitter post saying they need to feature Cdn TV shows on their cover for a change. I do this every Saturday
Categories Uncategorized December 2022 Xmas, Santa and Windsor Post author By S Weir Post date December 3, 2022 My Saturday rant against Toronto Stars TV guide. Always American. Never Cdn. Why? no worries – duct tape and my bike pump got them back giving full faced grins duct tape to the rescue Two down with one slash snow man mourner on the right arrived before me – but I brought the victim back. Damn you Santa Slasher OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA forensic evidence uncovers another victim. snowman stiff near a red pipe OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA slasher one polar bear no score OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA all signs point to the grinch as being tonight’s guest slasher slasher slashed the train cables in midtown Toronto. police were called. no arrests. I beat it out of there pdq Christmas Eve Star Week TV guide. Still no Canadian content on the cover had to use my night vision filter to get this midnight Windsor picture of a dead Santa waiting for my healing touch and crazy glue to dry before I use my bike pump to bring them back to life in Windsor OLYPenguin got the bird in Windsor. Did pump him up in no time. Had to leave in a hurry, home owner misunderstood what I was doing. score 1 for the Santa slayer bodies amongst a front yard cornfield In Walkerville. interviewing Roger Gibs at a D’Mello’s coffee shop Art in the Park. In Park. Painted car. Windsor. 3 blocks south of the Detroit River and real close to Hiram Walker Distillery Trash can art. Wyandotte Street Windsor. Ambassador bridge painting reindeers ignore dead Santa on the porch in Windsor Carrot points to the sky at mass murder site of xmas inflatables Christmas Card we sent out. AI created by Andrew Weir. Photo shot on the side streets in Iceland November rant against Saturday star December night mural. Bloor and Christie. Toronto Bums up. The wind just blew me this way
Categories Uncategorized November photographs Dead Santa Season begins, Windsor, Toronto, Iceland pictures Post author By S Weir Post date November 27, 2022 Guitar Guru street art. Side of music building in Reykjavik near our Condo November 2022 OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA my next course OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA art bar aired-out knifed and hung up-to-dry on Roselawn at midnight A tray of trouble. wood in the granola bar. brought a box. of 28 to iceland and put out on our counter. Bit in the contaminated boar around number 10 bikes in chains boat on stilts iceland Bumper boat in harbour near harps iceland TRAWLER FROM GREENLAND IN HARBOUR ICELAND PR photo of Patricia Jaguarnauth – story I posted on social media about her return to the public eye (with her permission) This week’s Star Week cover – still pushing American culture and ignoring Canadian films, TV shows and broadcast events Ivan Ayre at installation of his donated sculptors at the McMichael. Used in November for an online obit I wrote for Facebook. I took this picture picture for dealership. damage front right of car Probably done by our “neighbours” the Wyatts. Cell phone picture No shit sherlock. Pun in sign – On Site, but really should be On Sight. Yonge and St Clai. cell photo Toronto Star Week does run an ad for one of its Podcasts buried in the lower left corner First iPad photo of September – my computer screen. Just found it buried on my desktop Bogota Mural photo I took. Used as a background on my University of Windsor Teams account picture of the piece of wood I found while eating this granola bar. Bought a box of 28 for our trip to Iceland. Probably bit into the bar November 3rd. I scanned it on my scanner and sent to manufacturer. An apology of course and a promise of a refund, but, no warnings sent out to consumers. Books, Booze, Food, Jazz Music and Poetry. Saturday in a downtown bookstore during Airwaves (Iceland) Art of the Blur. No idea how I took this. Saw it when unloading my Icelandic pixs ART-OF-THE-BLUR Hermigervill ON-KEYBOARD on stage at KEX-HOTEL.jpeg, Pre Airwaves concert Getting ready for outdoor book launch in Reykjavik. Iceland Noir fiction. Tent in the century+ old downtown jail’s parking lot. lets cancel art graffiti near iceland’s church pictured in the graffiti sweir enters the launch for new novel One of the reasons we go to Airwaves. Laufey Outdoor alley bar in Reyjkavik. Einstein mural, kegs of beer and picnic tables. Urban Art. Street Art.Iceland Rolling Blue Box? Taken June 2021 back when the movie theatre at Castlefield and Yonge still stood. A very small man pushing a very full groccery cart to the LCBO to cash him the empties he has harvested got hot as the concert continued our condo beside chair. Icelandic Chic? Books on stand for outdoor. launch in Reykjavik. Iceland Noir fiction Laufey on the keyboard. Nov 2, pix taken by me from loft in Icelandic downtown church Airwaves left the piano to play her guitar. Every pew taken and some on the floor one in the tree, two on the ground The carnage continues in Toronto. Santa killings all across town. One Santa has been de-aired, two freshly slashed Santas lie beneath. Only part of the second Santa can be seen below the hanging Santa’s feet. Who is the Toronto Santa slasher?
Categories Uncategorized Iceland November 2022 Airwaves, Murals and Art, Family and book launch (and much more) Post author By S Weir Post date November 11, 2022 Book Launch held in a tent, behind the Reykjavik jail, photos by Andrew and sweir It gets dark early. Launch started at 3.15. Crew set up flares to light path back to well lit street I was the only one wearing a mask. I am at the back end of the auidence photo by Andrew books and beer books, booze and poetry reading in book store in downtown reyjkavik on Saturday afternoon Waiting for author Hegningarhúsið, Iceland’s oldest prison, opened in 1874, holds 16 prisoners. This prison is located on Skólavörðustígur in downtown Reykjavík. weir enters tent as launch begins, photo by Andrew Cut flowers very expensive in Iceland. Crew setting up the book launch tent – photo by Andrew
Categories Uncategorized OCTOBER 2022 Post author By S Weir Post date October 10, 2022 Beer bottle for the 60s, made in Ohio. Drank in Windsor Ontario. EECH POSTED TO FLICKR OLD PICTURE OF JAMAICA DANCE TROUPE WARMING UP OLD SHOT – BEFORE HE WAS PM JUSTIN CAME TO THE KIDDIES AND WAS INTERVIEWED BY PATRICIA WINDSOR HOME, LAWN GREMLINS ARE SLASHED OCTOBER 2022 LIVING ROOM – JUST REPAIRED 0CT 2022 OCT 2022 BIBLIOAIS READING/BOOK LAUNCH SEPT 1 – FIRST PICTURE OF THE FALL IN MY OFFICE STAR WEEK COVER BY I PAD OCTOBER 202 THREE OPUS VOLUNTEERS – AI CORRECTED EYES OF WOMAN ON RIGHT THANKS TO DROID stephen in the Blywood Ravine Group7Mural Warm day in October. Thanksgiving snack time: . Spam (I am years ahead of the trend)my late father’s home made wine and a brick to throw at and raccoons trying to get their share. Toronto Two Beers with Two Babies Burger beerr inside the house – Windsor Ontario speakers and OPUS team at a Windsor U pizza and RBC Chicken Pizza at the OPUS event on campus Lucky student – won $250 and all the pizza he could eat! RBC talk at Windsor U Speakers at OPUS evening. Winner – part time student lucky draw winner $35 Talking about OPUS health benefits at Windsor U meeting RBC reps talk mortgage at OPUS event GREMLINS DE-AIRED IN NORTH TORONTO OCTOBER 2022 COVER HOT OCT 2024 SENEGAL DANCER THE RITE OF SPRING – GOOGLE PHOTO The OPUS Gang and speakers are all here I am a trend sender. Been touting Spam for years! Miracle Meat
Categories Uncategorized September 2022 Post author By S Weir Post date September 18, 2022 Windsor U Frosh week near Dillion Hall. Mascot for three off-campus bars including Ariius at the Windsor Casino Windsor. Part Mural, Part Net Flix ad for Iron Ring used iPad to take the first picture of September 2022 Wendy Jones. Pan Fantasy. It was all a blur We all went to the pig roast on the Toronto Island. Queen City Club. Ander took this pix of Maria,donna, super blurred Mikey and me. 5pm, CNE shuts down. The giraffes head into the barns pan fantasy bass pans. CNE concert on the International Stage. Last day 2022 Wendy Jones and Pan Fantasy perform at the CNE. Last act of the summer. Sang Hot! Hot! Hot! Backstage at the CNE with Pan Fantasy. September 1 2022 At the CNE 2022. His famous paintings and sculpture, Cdn flag, the moose. the hockey player Charlie Patcher’s art exhibition beside the Queen Elizabeth Theatre painted on the side of kiddies fun ride, CNE. Last day. Sept 1 Another front page on the Caribbean Camera for weir more tiff and CTFF stories by me Mural art on the side of kiddie’s fun house ride at the CNE. September 2022
Categories Uncategorized Windsor Murals Post author By S Weir Post date September 1, 2022 The SPAM BOBBY portrait. Turned dinning room table into a makeshift studio. Long process but SPAM BOBBY didn't complain mash-up of three alley monster portraits. Alley is in between Drouillard Rd Windsor and the Ford Plant, August 2022 Promoting a long gone cafe on Pelletier St in downtown windsor 8.2022 History of women workers on the Ford Factory line. mural two blocks from Ford plant Windsor august 2022 rum running mural off Drouillard Road in Windsor half a mural. Ouellette St Windsor Fading pirate mural off Ouelette St downtown Windsor August 2022 Alley tribute to the movies mural off Ouelette St downtown Windsor August 2022 Maria at side of Capitol Theatre opening the mural of a theatre door, off University Avenue Windsor usher uses in this Capitol Theatre mural off University Avenue in WindsorMovie mural off University Ave in Windsor august 2022 Not a mural, but it is art. Woman’s tattoo and a pass Panda float on Erie Street in Windsor Canada Day parade august 2022 It ian’t. A Mural but it is Art. Big Bird. Canada Day Parade Windsor 2022 mural facing the loading bays of the now closed Windsor downtown bus station august 2022 More Windsor Street Art. Canada. Canada Day Parade
Categories Uncategorized Lakefield Leader photographs. 1975 to 1978 Post author By S Weir Post date August 9, 2022 The extended Lakefield Leader staff in the newsroom. photo by Stephen Weir. Lakefield Ontario I tour the Lakefield students through the newsroom. Bit hairy. My first tour Sandra Nicholls 1975. Left the Lakefield Leader to open her own store – fabrics and sewing. Downtown Lakefield newspaper photographs B&W. Developed in Bill Dickenson’s basement (and thus are fading and curling into oblivion)
Categories Uncategorized August 2022 Carnival month Post author By S Weir Post date July 28, 2022 All Aboard the Freedom Train and Emancipation Day Service Honorary conductor the Honourable Jean Augustine Belt Line art. The bike/walking trail goes under the Eglinton Rd Bridge. Man’s face painted on wall. urban art mural in basement of St Lawrence Market, in lunch space OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Woke for Vok at Harbourfront Nordic outdoor concert. Vok one of our fav Icelandic bands Who ia the singer in the lite. I took this pix in 2017. Think she is British and very young. One of the acts at Airwaves in Iceland – rediscovered August 2022 while housecleaning my desktop Train Art. Waiting for Go Train in Brampton DRUMMING UP THE UNDERBROUND FREEDOM TRAIN AT UNION STATION JULY 31ST THE BRAMPTON CUP CAME FOR THE EMANCIPATION SERVICE AT SHEPPARD STATION 10 MINUTES AFTER MIDNIGHT AUGUST 1ST TORONTO THE BRAMPTON CUP CAM TO THE PARADE. NOT MY PHOTOGRAPH LONE PROTESTOR AT TRUDEAU’S KICKOFF OF THE KIDDIES PARADE IN MALVERN Stormers take over the road – picture from the Ontario Place Bridge across Lakeshore PR photo carnival nationz revellers in Adidas shoes Bee float stalled by swarming stormers Approaching the judge’s stand. Tribal in red out of focus – four security guards watch stormers from the sideline near Hotel X Luna section performs for the Judges recropped photo of Luna section performing for the Judges vest find at the parade Craigg on a truck A week later Maachel t-shirt for the parade Little Girl and her mom with a big message on the TTC Underground Freedom Train Jean and her friends at Union Station