Author: S Weir

January 2022 street photography, murals, dive related, historical too

Post author By S Weir
Post date January 11, 2022

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 picture

Blood and Bubbles from the 50s

best patties on Elm St. closes on Jan 27 to make room for condo tower

The Path. Underground downtown Toronto. Everything closed because of Covid

chef does Facebook with AGO and I write about it

Sign in Eaton Centre. Mostly empty. Covid. I was walking the Path on Saturday to get my 10,000 steps

January 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.

DECEMBER 2021 dead santas, family, bat girl, murals, misc

Post author By S Weir
Post date December 26, 2021

Christmas dessert. Homemade Chocolate Butt cake

Bat Girl spreads her wings — Mas Camp Costume Launch. Took this picture 4-years ago

A 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 Sabre

Air-Out Santa Face Plow - Toronto — Happened 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 snowbank

Boxing 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

NOVEMBER 2021 MURALS, OLDIES AND LIFE IN TORONTO AND WINDSOR

Post author By S Weir
Post date November 1, 2021

A day after I fell face first onto the road. October – first fall. Went to hospital

photo by Herman S for my urban art class

Jully Black backstage photo by sweirsweir. Old. Costume launch used for class

mural screen save for urban art course at Windsor U exam

picture used in essay for windsor U urban art class

used for creative writing course assignment Nov 2021

third fall in the last two months November 26 behind eg arena

pat and stephen on Tobermory dive boat. 1995. Testing a new Sony underwater camera. Cold! Maria took picture

Last 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 table

picture 2 – Spam stacked differently. don’t mess with the Spam police. Shot picture with my Ipad on the dining room table

police raid pot shop in Toronto and seize pot made to look like real kids’ candy

sporting life mural of bike riders, removed. replaced by BofM mural for diversity. yonge and roselawn – Toronto

Actually 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 home

graffiti alley – photo by Herman – Toronto November 2021

Sporting Life replacement mural. November 2021. Roselawn and Yonge St. Toronto

The day after the night before. Tripped or collapsed on street near our house. Spent day in Sunnybrook Hospital. All okay

food truck mural popped up over the weekend. Yonge and Roselawn. Toronto

Ghosts on Castlefield Avenue

photographs taken during chemo (not many and not very good)

Post author By S Weir
Post date October 15, 2021

pictures taken in August 2021 including Emancipation Day events

Post author By S Weir
Post date August 9, 2021

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 Parade

Section from the parade — Signs say it all. Christie Pitt Park. Stephen Weir photographer

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End of the Bloor Street walk. Slave section show their signs

End of the Bloor Street walk

holding up the signs that were shown on Bloor Street in Toronto

Playing in front of the ROM. Part of Emancipation Day event in Toronto

downtown Toronto

The joy of Mas

Major media story for CBC radio, TV and cbc.ca

more pictures crom yonge and bloor

In costume for a serious reason!

missing red shoes — Yonge and Montgomery – shoes part of functional art installation. But, have been removed as of August 5, 2021

Mas in front of the Tiffany store on Bloor

young drummer in Christie Pits Park – Toronto

Neville’s book – for a 1990 show at the McMichael Canadian Art Gallery

actors wearing slave chains

Slim 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 St

Waiting for the event to begin. In the shadow of the Hudson Bay building at Yonge and Bloor in Toronto. Emancipation Day event – August 1, 2021

The Joy of Mas in front of Bloor St subway enterance — August 1, 2021 Emancipation Day in Toronto

Emancipation Day walk down Bloor, The Resistance with Calypsonian Henry Gomez left and company

The Joy of Mas on the Mink Mile -Toronto- Emancipation Day event August 1

purple 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 use

used in stories for media for this year’s Caribbean Carnival

Scarborough Town Centre, Toronto. Photo by Herman S, Do not use without permission

Mas at the Mall — Full 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 permission

Emancipation Day event on Bloor St August 1, 2021 — Wendy Jones (Pan Alive) with the Garvey sign. Young girl and her mother with Black Power signs.

Yesterday treasures, Today's Trash — 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!

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Pictures taken in July – most by cell – some classic shots from the past

Post author By S Weir
Post date July 21, 2021

piano playing in the Kensington Market Park — A Hit Before Your Mother Was Born

do 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 Ontario

Windsor, Walkerville. Neighbour’s antique car collection out on the street for a wash

Two head sculpture hunts for bugs. Kensington Market home’s side-yard. Mural on wall behind. Street Art. Cell phone photograph

Devil, 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 resto

walk in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Bird part of the headstone. A puzzler

Rose and Maria at our old house on Lake Clear near Eganville

Herman 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 Stadium

WALKING 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 July

Renfrew 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 editor

my first picture that I took for the Lakefield Leader. 1975. First day on the job as editor

June 2021 pictures, taken/ harvested / created pandemic shutdown continues

Post author By S Weir
Post date June 1, 2021

Planters Peanuts Canada owns the Big Apple. Hormel/Spam now owns Planters

Long-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 competition

G’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 Valley

still trying to get my Ryerson marks over to University of Windsor

Wrote 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 only

Anti Vaxers take to the ancient protest form of grafitti

Those were days! Working on film for the McMichael Gallery, Charlie Pachter and Margaret Atwood

May 2012 – Pandemic Photos for the month and pics from the past

Post author By S Weir
Post date May 9, 2021

MashUp Mammut — Mammut was one of the top acts at the 2018 Airwaves Festival in Iceland. Mammút is an Icelandic rock band based in Reykjavík. Formed in 2003 this all-female trio highlighting vocalist Kata (Katrína Kata Mogensen) pictured in the mashup above. After the concert I posted a mash-up photo of Mogensen. 3-years later revisited the mashup and switched out one of the source photos- Still a mash-up double exposure, blurry photograph!

Newspapers on my table — Used to illustrate a weekly twitter I do about art and authors in the Toronto Star

Cleaning files. From a story in the 1974 Ryerson Eyeopener

There she Blows — St Vincent supplied photo

Cleaning files. From a story in the 1974 Ryerson Eyeopener

Jack Weir — My Dad passed this month at the age of 96 in Ottawa

Voice of the Turtle? — Cell picture of Toronto street anti-vax message

Ross King - big news in the Toronto Star — Have been tweeting about authors and artists appearing in the Toronto Star. Use my Ipad to take pictures of Deb Dundas’s articles

Bean Bag Concerts — Bean Bag Concert 2019 in Bogata Colombia

Octopussy Mas Costume — On the catwalk of NBA’s Jaamal Magloire (Revellers) costume launch. Theme? James Bond Movies. 5 years ago.

A really old street dog — Toronto restaurant sculpture promoting their hot dogs. 2018

Voice of the Turtle? May 2021 — Cell picture of Toronto street anti-vax message

Cleaning flies Eyeopener newspaper — 74/75 era picture of Joni Mitchell on stage in Toronto. On back of photo I have written “With the Band”.

Voice of the Turtle? — Cell picture of Toronto street anti-vax message

May 2021 Mash-up, photos from New Orleans January 2020. Sign made me take this picture of my shadow as I took a photo at the New Orleans Sugar Bowl Parade.

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April 2021 – photographs taken and material from 70’s files

Post author By S Weir
Post date April 15, 2021

Message in a Barrell — Street art photo taken in 2019. Used in Social Media Posting in April 2021

promo pix from the mid 70s. Lakefield Leader

Lawn blow-up dolls on an east Toronto front yard. Knife attack photo by George Socka

Volunteers are in Toronto shipping warehouse preparing donations for Volcano relief in St Vincent

Toronto Star feature on Laurie Ryerson Ap 2021 — Ipad photo of Laurie Ryerson’s picture on Deb Dundas feature. Dining Room pix for social media posting

Ipad Windsor Pizza — Ambassador Pizza on Bloor St in Toronto introduces Windsor style pizza. Excellent. Social media posting. Ipad dining room table picture April 2021

Columbia Beans (bag seats) — Outdoor concert in Bogota. Taken in 2020 and used in Social Media post in 2021

March 2021 lockdown continues – events, travel and old photographs

Post author By S Weir
Post date March 5, 2021

January1974, the Band performs at Maple Leaf Gardens. Toronto

Think 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.