Street art photo taken in 2019. Used in Social Media Posting in April 2021promo pix from the mid 70s. Lakefield LeaderLawn blow-up dolls on an east Toronto front yard. Knife attack photo by George SockaVolunteers are in Toronto shipping warehouse preparing donations for Volcano relief in St VincentIpad photo of Laurie Ryerson’s picture on Deb Dundas feature. Dining Room pix for social media postingAmbassador Pizza on Bloor St in Toronto introduces Windsor style pizza. Excellent. Social media posting. Ipad dining room table picture April 2021Outdoor concert in Bogota. Taken in 2020 and used in Social Media post in 2021
January1974, the Band performs at Maple Leaf Gardens. TorontoThink it was 22 February 1974 Maple Leaf Gardens. Toronto. Six word review. Was it a mind-blowing concert?Innocence Canada confirmed today that a confidential financial settlement was recently reached between the Nova Scotia and federal governments and Glen Assoun, a 64-year-old Nova Scotia man who was exonerated in 2019 in the 1995 murder of Brenda LeAnne Way.Birthday time. August 1975.
Picture of the Toronto Star’s front page of the Arts Section. Used it in a tweetPR photo from 1973-ish. Wrote a story for Ryerson papers about the band’s performance at Massey Hallnot sure this is mine. used on my website and facebook for carnival. mas camp launch for Jaamal Magloire’s Revellers.Those were the days. Early 80s probably. Porch of the Kaileo’s cottage on Lake Clear, Robbie and Maria in front, My parents on leftsideMas camp launch from 2015. Richmond Hill near the 404. sweir photo
Maria took this picture. Me in front Dad and Mom beside me. Lake Clear, Kalieo cottact porch. early 80s or late 70s2019 – cab driver said this street art was called Ape Shit MuralThose were the days my friend. 1975 – I was the editor of two papers in Lakefield / Bridgenorth. One day I drove into Toronto to sit in on a Hollywood presser at (as I recall) the Sutton Place Hotel. Red Hot director Peter Bogdanovich and equally Red Hot actress Cybill Shepherd were in town to promote their new musical comedy At Long Last Love. Was suppose to be her Bofo follow-up to her 4 star film, Daisy Miller. At Long Last Love was a flop even before it hit theatres. Movie plotline self described it as the story of “four socialite old friends unexpectedly clash, and switch partners during a party and attempt to make each other jealous.” Bogdanovich was a great interview, even put up with one dumb question from me. Cybill Shepherd came down from her room late, looked at the half filled room from the elevator and promptly returned to her suite! A no show. I went back to Lakefield with half a page of notes and theis (now badly faded) picture in my camera. btw – At Long Last Love starred Cybill Shepherd, Burt Reynolds, Madeline Kahn and Duilio Del Prete.Still cleaning out my old school files. Ryerson Eyeopener, probably fall 1975 Roxy Music at Massey Hall. Andy Mackay – Sax, Oboe & Keyboards. I developed my own pictures back in the day, Now 46 years later the print is showing how badly I screwed up mixing the fixer. I wrote “Roxy Music” on the bottom of the picture for the paste up of the paper before it got sent to the printerDancing in the Tweets – cleaning out my arts and entertainment files from my days with the Ryerson Eyeopener. 45+ years ago – Martha Reeves performing in Toronto, Picture probably taken at the late great Yonge Street’s Colonial Tavern.Ipad picture of the front page of the Globe Arts Section for twitter postStory about a radio station for Pickering and Ajax. Not happening because of CRTCmashup of pictures of the Kars glider club and a screen grab from the movie Greenland. Used in Weir Here post
JANUARY 05: Reverend Jesse Jackson gets Covid-19 Vaccine administered by Dr. Kiran Chekka Co-Chair of Covid Task ForceThe Penalty Box bar and restaurant in Windsor (Walkerville/Tecumseh) is a fav watering hole and take out stop for medical types from the nearby hospital. Penalty Box recently had a mural painted on its parking lot wall. Mural in support of the hospital workers during this Covid pandemic. Across river from Detroit.Banned by Facebook – Important painting exhibition in TorontoThis picture taken first week of January 2020 in the French Quarter – New OrleansOfficial picture for Order of Ontario AwardSun cartoonist buys his book at Ben McNally launch. Picture by sweir for Order of Ontario storyNeighbour’s waste between houses. Pile started in early December. Hauled away January 11. 2021
I was walking late at night near the John Ross School when I heard a hissing. Santa bleeding out. Tried to save him. Knife hole too big. This is a 10second mash-up of Santas last breath of air.Santa aired out just before he could reach the safety of the porch. Leaside, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaPain by the Drain. Willowdale Santa aired out with a knife wound. Extension cord left behind but Claus’s lights taken.Leaside – Toronto. Extension cords and lights missing, so said the distraught owner… and someone cut Santa’s guy wires.Etobicoke vandals took down Santa but couldn’t bleed out his air – This Claus a tough old birdMass murder, only the penguins left standing. Uhmm. East York, OntarioOwner and I chased away a killer just after he created a pyre of aired out Santa Claus and helpers. Had gasoline ready to melt them down. Blower and lights taken. I left duct tape with the ownerSanta and the dead raccoon reindeer Wendy Robbins.Suggested I put it on my front lawn come summerAss Up For Dead Santa. Oriole Park district, Midtown Toronto. Last days of the XMAS holidayOriole Park district, Midtown Toronto. Last days of the XMAS holidayNo one in Forest Hill heard to this tree-tall giant santa fall (except me). With a bang Christmas ended on this quiet street. Blower, lights and extension cords stolen (along with the spirit of Xmas). Toronto, Ontario, CanadaDidn’t see Santa’s remains in the bush till the wind ruffled his red cap. Shived. Midtown Toronto.But no sticking Santa’s head back on his deflated body. Chainsaw massacre in Forrest Hill, TorontoMassive pile of slain santas in Leaside. Deflation hits midtown Toronto,Many Santas taken out, but somehow snowman survived. Hmmm suspected we have an accomplice. Leaside.Streetside view of the mass murder scene. Snowman somehow escaped knife attackI walked by just as Santa was airing out on the front lawn (St Clair and Bayview). No cops on the scene and I was without my yellow crime scene tape. Luckily there were Candy Canes nearby, so I put them to good use to preserve the murder scene.Santa Yoda lost! knife beats light sabre. Mill St and Mount Pleasant
thaw finds another frozen santa corpse in the snowAgent Anna took this picture of an Etobicoke Mass killing. Only the snowman in the flowerbed escaped.Late night vigil near Lawrence Avenue. Reindeer watch over a sleign Santa SnowmanNot only did santa get his throat slit, the light inside his bum, was stolen. HorrorsSanta aired out within feet of the safety of the front porch St Clair / Yonge Street districtEvil santa cheers as his next door santa airs out in the flower bedSudan and Bayview. Toronto.Lytton Park, North TorontoNot likely. Santa Snowman missing his head.Kildare Road, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, December 2020Owner patching stabbed giant santa blow-up. Says he will put away once it dries. See you in 2021. Davisville Park district, Toronto, Ontario CanadaOne stab wound takes down a whole train of Xmas mascotsOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERASouth of Eglinton, this orange assed Santa had his guy lines snipped by vandals.6 ft tall headless Xmas snowman lies in the bushes and snow. Owner said that after it is patched it will be put away until next yearDavisville area. as the snow melt on December 27, the dead began to be found. Santa under a bushIt’s an ill wind that blows no one any good, at least not in Leaside. Walked past the house this morning and the owners had righted Santa’s gift train and tightened up the guy wires. Midtown Toronto
Downtown on Ouellette St. Picture taken with cell. Spring 20Deep in the bowels of Toronto City Hall parking lot. Long neglected sticker car! Cell phone 2019Get you haircut by a shark! Ouellette Street barber shop. cell photo. Spring 2020Jeff the mural guy – daily tour in downtown Bogota, ColombiaDowntown Windsor Canada. Radio station mural, Ouellette Street. Cell phone picture spring 2020Face and back of Jeff’s head – Bogota muralback alley tour by Jeff in Bogota Colombiafishing village in Iceland. Mural on side of fish processing plantOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAicelandic street art6 years on as a Yonge Street alley north of Lawrence. TorontoMurder Mural – Port Hope Ontario. Downtown back alley mural was painted for the filming of the Stephen King movie IF 2. (or maybe IF). Pix taken fall 2020Fake backdoor to fake butcher store in downtown Port Hope, Ontario. Used in film of IF (or maybe IF 2)Harsh Canadian weather is hard on murals. 3-years in, this Toronto back alley art is on its way outO stickers are from the art gallery in down New Orleans – picture by M Nenadovichcell photo near lawrence and bathurst – covus related. But like the late Hoyt Axton sang, “My Griffin is gone” – only up for a week or so in early 2020
November. 2020. Outside the windows of the North Toronto Swimming Pool. cell phone photographFamilies out in force on Xmas morning at the Eglinton Park hillBack in the 90s Maria and I and a lone male diver signed on to a six-pack dive boat to do a drift dive on a reef off St Croix. Amazing reef, hundreds of thousands of schooling fish, healthy corals and terrific viz. Pre-climate change days. We were at 60 ft and were planning a dive of 50 minutes. Boat was to follow our bubbles. We whizzed above the corals barely having to kick. When we came to the surface after a 5 minute stop at 15 feet, we found ourselves alone a fair distance offshore and a long way from our boat. Unbeknownst to us the current had changed and we drifted one way while the boat went in another pushed by a different surface current. Pictured is Maria and an American CIA agent who signed on for the dive. We pumped up our BCs and waited and waited and waited. Talked ourselves out. Weren’t particularly worried, since we weren’t far from shore, but we were concerned the nanny we hired to look after our sons back at the hotel might freak out. Also thought about the reef sharks we had seen below. After taking this picture were able to flag down the boat that was searching for us!Actress Dawn Wells best known for her role as Mary Ann Summers on the Gilligan’s Island sitcom (1964 until 1967) has passed away due to the Covid virus. She was in Toronto five years ago to help open the Toronto International Boat Show. I got her to pose for this picture in a very expensive Sea Ray, a far cry from the Minnow. Very knowledgeable about boats and fishing and Toronto. A joy to photograph.Actress Dawn Wells best known for her role as Mary Ann Summers on the Gilligan’s Island sitcom (1964 until 1967) has passed away due to the Covid virus. She was in Toronto five years ago to help open the Toronto International Boat Show. I got her to pose for this picture in a very expensive Sea Ray, a far cry from the Minnow. Very knowledgeable about boats and fishing and Toronto. A joy to photograph.
Photographs – In focus and also the best of sweirsweir’s Art of the Blur. Fall 2020. Taken with various Olympus cameras, Iphones, Ipads and pictures supplied by associates (where noted). Contact me if you wish to use any of the photographs (usually no cost). stephen@stephenweir.com
Used in the filming of It2frequent sight on street corners and in the parks of TorontoPort Hope, downtown used for filming of It and It2closing service for Caribana downtown at St Stephens on King St East. Anglican with members of the FMCJane Finch May 2020Guess Where? Beside Niagara Falls. Only place that has a recycle bin for ponchos!Still surviving Covid after 10 years Sept 2020Castlefield AvenueSuiting up beside the St Lawrence RiverHighway 2 chipwagon opened shop in August across from shore dive site just east of Prescott. St Lawrence riverDivers in Prescott. 40-50 divers every Saturday and Sunday at the wrecksite. No charge. No boat needed! Crowds dropped off by mid-OctoberPhoto from Airwaves 2016- Young Karin, an Icelandic singer still in her pajama phase. Was often called Young Karen but that has changed with because of the new meaning of Karen. Iceland music festival November 2016you wash the dog. you buy our soap. you pay us for the water. you open the front door – it is covid time at Yonge and St Clair in Toronto. October 2020Media night at the Italian Film Festival. August 202oin front of Roehampton condos. Public art. Yonge and Eg – TorontoWaiting for our food at Port Hope’s Schnitzel drive-inTwin Lion platePORT CREDIT – fishing for salmonEvery gift bought after December 2nd was purchased online.Had to find watermain shutoff for plumbers on Boxing Day – sprung a leak (and the furnace broke down)Andrew, Mike and Donna talk to the family in Ottawa and Osgoode, Ontario Christmas Day. Dining Room has become the Zoom RoomDoggy Mural and Christmas stickers on the window – Gerrard and RiverChristmas afternoon. Donna, Mike and AndrewWeir Here Zoom screen
Robot Broil House, Yonge Street, north of Bloor. Maria took picture with her cell phoneChimney on next door neighbours house is all I seePublic art in front of apartment/condo complex. Davisville Avenue, Toronto, ONTSilly Pigeons. Photo taken on Sunday. Bank doesn’t open till MondayOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAWeir Team. Popular mid-town Toronto real estate company. No relation.Popular CHUM FM morning hosts aren’t popular these days thanks to their maskless picture. Defaced. Broadway and Yonge, Mid-town Toronto.someone used two homemade stickers to point out that the two CHUM radio morning hosts are wearing anti-covid masks!Leaside pony left out for the garbage truck. TorontoBack alley butcher shop, set for IFMonster’s lair, sewer pipe, If movie(s). Port HopeMural painted for the making of the movies, If. Back alley downtown Port HopeGina, Donna, Andrew, Mik, Maria and Peter, Schnitzel House patioPort Hope’s Roadside Schnitzel HouseOn the banks of the mighty Ganaraski River, Port HopePORT CREDIT Fishing for Salmon in the Ganaraski RiverPHONE BREAK FOR THE YOUNGUNs Schnitzel House Patio, Port Hope
tent city – Toronto City Hall – Nathan Phillips Square
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Gas Station Holy Water – sanitizing your hands anyway you can
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAIt was 42-years ago that I took this picture for the editorial page of the Lakefield Leader. Editorial all about the joys of summer in the Kawarthas. Nothin’ changed, except the bait shop boat house fell over a few weeks after I took this black and white picture. Lakefield, Ontario, Canada.Public Art yonge/eg
BLM at city hall Toronto July 4thview from the Niagara Falls Canada trainmaid of the mistMostly empty (because of virus rules) Cdn Hornblower shipdeck crowded, US’s Maid of the Mist – under the Canadian fallsNiagara Falls Canada – their version of the Lock BridgeEmpty OnDuty 24 antiperspirant serves as a glasses holder on my deskOnly in Niagara Falls Canada will you find a recycle bin for ponchosFlying the Atlantic Mas coloursSign of the times, July 4th city hall toronto blm protest by atlantic massign of the times BLM at city hallOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAmore city hall blm interviewsBLM city hallBLM city hall Atlantic Mas
Akil interviewed by Global TV and CBC about BLM at city hall in Toronto
tent city at city hall 2-days before it will be torn down
