We’re at Pride Toronto 2008, getting tons of crazy video of the various bands, performers, and people on the street. We figured that instead of saving the best for last we’d just give the best there is right up front, and as such, we present to you the Pride Toronto 2008 Ice Cream Puppies.
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Metronauts is an evolution of last year’s Transit Camp - a community of enthusiastic, open-minded people who care about the future of their city and the role transportation has in their lives. This was my first unconference and I was really inspired by the free-flow of ideas and open-mindedness most people showed. Metronauts will continue to hold events around the Greater Toronto Area with officials from Metrolinx there to hear ideas and contribute to the conversation. This is a pretty brief look at just a couple sessions out of the dozens held at Metronauts. Full-length, unedited video will be available soon at the Metronauts site.
Update: This irony is not lost on us that this video was released mere hours before the TTC strike. If it wasn’t clear before, it is now; Toronto’s transit system is in dire need of innovation and fresh thinking.
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Music by Kaimoku (via the Podsafe Music Network)
The Toronto Ice Race is an annual event put on by owners The Bike Joint that’s usually held on Toronto Island, but has been recently moved to the vibrant community centre at Dufferin Grove. Racers outfit their typical bike tires with homemade studded tubes and hit the ice (usually with a few bruises to show for it). I swung by Dufferin Grove for the night to see what the event was all about, and to get the word from some of the very colourful characters who took part in the race.
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Reuters’ Photo/Audio Coverage of the Race
Helmet cam from one of the racers (YouTube) (spot Adam shooting this episode for bonus points)
Music: Datarock (myspace)
For our first episode, we tracked down Liam O’Doherty and a mini-mob of public space activists from the Toronto Public Space Committee’s Art Attack wing. During one of 2008’s worst snowstorms in early February, the group converged on a lonesome transit shelter in Leslieville to give it some beautifying love.
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