Sign out front of gallery. Hamilton Gallery of Art June 2022Just before Trudeau’s convoy of 10 SUVs arrived at Black Methodist church, Anthony and I were escorted off the propertyBrampton gallery’s summer outdoor exhibitionMaria’s old apartment building on University Ave in Windsor back in 1077. Took June 2022January 1971 – hit parade from CKLW WindsorOdie from the Caribana parade 10 years ago. Rob Ford wines a revellerWall art. Windsor’s oldest fish and chips pesto. Tecumseh Ave. Pat and Hanks. July 2022 (it opened in 1955)Four Principals come to a fork in the road. Actually a 4-way crossing. Walk of Distinction June 2022 near York UniversityCouldn’t use Herman’s photo of the Energy Costume launch. Catches the energy of the mas but not suitable for community paper. Did use a few others of his thoughSinging Goodbye to her classmates. Grade 12 graduates at CWJefferies June 2022sunlime 2022 costume launch – by Herman SilochanFace of the Festival at Media Launch for Caribbean Carnival 2022. June 2022 at Hotel X photo by weirFat Stephen about to say good-bye to his fav jean shirt. Should never have washed it. July 2022. Maria did the honours with her cell phonethe late Max Eisen. Was helping him with a reading at the Yonge Eg Indigo Book Store. Sold out. Store forgot to provide a signing table, no matter men in the long waiting line took turns lending out their backsstill my favourite spam shot. used a black table cloth for the studio I set up in our dining roomIn My Body By Bboyizm/Crazy Smooth Co-presented by dance Immersion, Canadian Stage, and TO Live. March 2022. used in my interview of Crazy Smooth – the man in the air aboveThe Ford boys hang out at the Caribana Parade. mayor Rob, bro Doug and councillor Joe Mhivek 2011.jpgGetting the finger from a dummy at the Hudson Bay store at the Eaton Centre in TorontoJohn Bennett. The former McMichael Gallery executive chef passed away in June 2022 – McMichael photo 14 years old, brought out for obitCaribbean Camera cutline says it allReal estate sent out this flyer bragging that the Premier Ford is using their services to sell his Etobicoke home. I got the oversize flyer shoved through the mail box June
Craigg’s Eye View. Craigg Slowly took this for me. Mas costume show before this year’s ParadeJune 2022 Back on Yonge St. Million fanssilent protest to street preacher calling down God’s wrath on the gays in the Pride Parade. He couldn’t handle the topless ridicule and put his megaphone awaya aauantil she left.
Old picture used on Facebook109 Castlefield Avejust in time for St Patrick’s Day – Eglinton St10th of March. One last snowstormBloor Street – snow almost gone – coffee shop ready to serve
February Mini Anti Vax paradePromo for my story on Caribana 2022 is a Go, Caribbean Camera Feb 23 2022Display case for Rhythms and Resistance Exhibition at Friars MuseumCaribbean music store neon sign. Now hangs in Friars Museum. TorontoCaribbean Camera, my story on Caribana gets the go ahead and Jamaal Magloire announces 2022 costume launchAfter 10 years – bought a new computerStory about the Friars Museum exhibitFriars Museum floor panelPromo pix I used for story about The Porter TV seriesscreen grab from the Revellers Face BookNicholas, cutout, Mark and Klive at Friasa Museum installation – Yonge/DundasFriars Museum, Toronto, opens a new exhibition – History of Caribbean music in Toronto
Vet’s basement window in Toronto. Pet murals don’t disappear they just fade away. Think this Yonge Street mural is over 10 years old.went to the PATH on Saturday to get my steps in. Empty save for other walkers like me. Union Station to College.went to the PATH on Saturday to get my steps in. Empty save for other walkers like me. Union Station to College.Bridge over Queen St between Saks and Eaton Centre. walking the path on Saturday. cell pictureBlood and Bubbles from the 50sbest patties on Elm St. closes on Jan 27 to make room for condo towerThe Path. Underground downtown Toronto. Everything closed because of Covidchef does Facebook with AGO and I write about itSign in Eaton Centre. Mostly empty. Covid. I was walking the Path on Saturday to get my 10,000 stepsJanuary 7th, Christmas Day (if you are of the Orthodox faith) in Toronto, Slashers last slash of the season? White, Red and Dead. This Lytton Park household woke up to find their lawn Santa deflated and the air blower removed. Home owner said Santa will rise again, only small puncture wounds found on the victim.
Christmas dessert. Homemade Chocolate Butt cakeMas Camp Costume Launch. Took this picture 4-years agoA fan of my Santa killer files may have discovered who the Santa Slasher is. He took this pix of Yoda killing lawn santas with his Light SabreHappened on my street Christmas Eve. Saw a man in the shadows slicing a lawn Santa. I yelled and ran to save the man in red. No luck. The force of the Air-Out Slash pushed Santa face first first into the snowbankBoxing Day walk. Spotted a recently aired-out lawn Santa Claus. Don’t know who sliced and diced the lawn man, but I do know that a big brown Santa leech finished him off
A day after I fell face first onto the road. October – first fall. Went to hospitalphoto by Herman S for my urban art classJully Black backstage photo by sweirsweir. Old. Costume launch used for classmural screen save for urban art course at Windsor U exampicture used in essay for windsor U urban art classused for creative writing course assignment Nov 2021third fall in the last two months November 26 behind eg arenapat and stephen on Tobermory dive boat. 1995. Testing a new Sony underwater camera. Cold! Maria took pictureLast air out of Halloween blow-up. Didn’t get a picture of his face, but, did catch his shadow near the dead Black Cat Halloween blow-up
don’t mess with the Spam police. Shot picture with my Ipad on the dining room tablepicture 2 – Spam stacked differently. don’t mess with the Spam police. Shot picture with my Ipad on the dining room tablepolice raid pot shop in Toronto and seize pot made to look like real kids’ candysporting life mural of bike riders, removed. replaced by BofM mural for diversity. yonge and roselawn – TorontoActually Starweek hasn’t just improved. No Canadian content. Meters not Feet. Color not Colour. NFL not CFL Maybe next week?Suggested Tip Iar for Andrew’s coming piano recital. I made this from a long damaged backyard planter found in Maria’s Windsor homegraffiti alley – photo by Herman – Toronto November 2021
Sporting Life replacement mural. November 2021. Roselawn and Yonge St. TorontoThe day after the night before. Tripped or collapsed on street near our house. Spent day in Sunnybrook Hospital. All okayfood truck mural popped up over the weekend. Yonge and Roselawn. TorontoGhosts on Castlefield Avenue
Shortly after showing up at the Bloor Street Emancipation Day event, the Fort York MP announced he isn’t going to run again for the Liberals. His wife Nicole in Red, organizer Itah Sadu has her arm raised.Many sections to the Emancipation Day ParadeSigns say it all. Christie Pitt Park. Stephen Weir photographerOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAEnd of the Bloor Street walk. Slave section show their signsEnd of the Bloor Street walkholding up the signs that were shown on Bloor Street in TorontoPlaying in front of the ROM. Part of Emancipation Day event in Torontodowntown TorontoThe joy of MasMajor media story for CBC radio, TV and cbc.camore pictures crom yonge and bloorIn costume for a serious reason!Yonge and Montgomery – shoes part of functional art installation. But, have been removed as of August 5, 2021Mas in front of the Tiffany store on Blooryoung drummer in Christie Pits Park – TorontoNeville’s book – for a 1990 show at the McMichael Canadian Art Galleryactors wearing slave chainsSlim Jim®, the on-the-go meaty snack has partnered with Chris ‘Slim Duck’ Boucher, Canadian professional basketball player, as its newest brand ambassador. The endorsement partnership will come to life in advertising materials, including social media and in-store displays at retailers across Canada this fall. (CNW Group/Conagra Brands, Inc.)Emancipation Flex on Bloor StWaiting for the event to begin. In the shadow of the Hudson Bay building at Yonge and Bloor in Toronto. Emancipation Day event – August 1, 2021August 1, 2021 Emancipation Day in TorontoEmancipation Day walk down Bloor, The Resistance with Calypsonian Henry Gomez left and companyThe Joy of Mas on the Mink Mile -Toronto- Emancipation Day event August 1purple door – toronto island – photo by Pat Whetung – do not borrow without permission. Needed for a photo savage hunt for Women’s Health
press photo from truck festival, not my photograph. do not useused in stories for media for this year’s Caribbean CarnivalScarborough Town Centre, Toronto. Photo by Herman S, Do not use without permissionFull Mas costume. Model at Carnival Flavours, outdoor music festival at the Scarborough Town Mall. Last event for 2021 Toronto Caribbean Carnival. Photo by Herman S. Do not use without permissionWendy Jones (Pan Alive) with the Garvey sign. Young girl and her mother with Black Power signs.Sign says child in this Edith Avenue house has graduated from grade 6 (Allenby) and a few days later the grad’s Power Ranger toys were up for grabs!
A Hit Before Your Mother Was Borndo I eat the limited edition chicken mcnugget sauce or sell the two packs. Big interest in the BTS special McDonald’s menu. Mikey bought it for me in Windsor.went to city hall Toronto to take picture of Windsor Churchill. Figure he will be next work of art to end up in Lake OntarioWindsor, Walkerville. Neighbour’s antique car collection out on the street for a washTwo head sculpture hunts for bugs. Kensington Market home’s side-yard. Mural on wall behind. Street Art. Cell phone photographDevil, Skelton. Artist Graffiti on the boarded up window of a Kensington Market building. street art. Toronto.26 years later we retired our Carrier central air conditioner. New one installed. Model? A carrier.first lunch with friends Bill and Barb in over a year. Patio on third floor of the Gardiner Museum, on Queens Park, across from ROM. Maria looks great. I look like shit, like death rushes in. waitress took picture. The Clay restowalk in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Bird part of the headstone. A puzzlerRose and Maria at our old house on Lake Clear near EganvilleHerman S sent me this picture he took of me at the King and Queen contest, 2015. All part of Caribana. Sold out show. King / Dufferin Lamport StadiumWALKING CROCK. Statue in the Gardiner Museum street side cafe across from ROM. The Gardiner is Canada’s top ceramic museum.Windsor mural on the side of of a Polish restaurant. I am seeing an homage to Tom Thomson, the Northern Lights and flowing Lava. Tecumseh Ave. Street art. Mural.an Ipad photo of my Op-Ed about dad’s death in the Windsor Star.Pierogi / Tom Thompson mural – full view. Windsor, Ontario. Street Art.My father’s home for sale. Prescott. 300 feet from the St Lawrence River and the wreck of the Rothesay. Diver’s paradise. Check out the pool.My father’s home for sale. Prescott. 300 feet from the St Lawrence River and the wreck of the Rothesay. Diver’s paradise. Check out the pool. 22 Sunnymeade Rd. / Highway 2 Just outside of town.but will the food concept work. Suddenly the Green Papaya on Yonge St In Toronto has moved from just Thai food, to Vietnam and Brazilian Cuisine. Patio right on the street, doing well in the warm nights of JulyRenfrew hippy days. 1969. Car wouldn’t make it to Woodstock. Me at left, Robin Burgess on guitar and the late Bruce Paton with the flower. Rob Agnell on the rough. Raglan Street. Renfrew, Ontario.the wreck of the Rothesay. The sidewheel paddler sank at the end of my dad’s street in Prescott. Most popular shore dive site on the St Lawrence (and you can suit up in our garage and walk 300 feet to the water’s edge.my first picture that I took for the Lakefield Leader. 1975. First day on the job as editormy first picture that I took for the Lakefield Leader. 1975. First day on the job as editor
Planters Peanuts Canada owns the Big Apple. Hormel/Spam now owns PlantersLong-time facebook follower photographer Herman Silochan, sent me this picture of myself 5 years ago giving the press a backstage look at the King and Queen competitionG’Day are you from the Valley? If so pick up today’s Sunday Star. Front Page features Olympian runner Melissa Bishop-Nriagu as she prepares for Tokyo. As everyone knows she’s from Eganville, Ontario, the heart of the Ottawa Valleystill trying to get my Ryerson marks over to University of WindsorWrote a story about the new Face of the Festivals. Celina
Celena Seusahai, well-known Toronto Mas Model, Queen of the Carnival and longtime Carnival organizer sent this picture to me for my article. Copyright by Cee don’t use without permission
Prescott Dump, cans and shadows onlyAnti Vaxers take to the ancient protest form of grafittiThose were days! Working on film for the McMichael Gallery, Charlie Pachter and Margaret Atwood
