July 6th, 2009
Poster Pocket Plants
Posted by Jake Schabas
The Toronto Cyclists Union’s executive director Yvonne Bambrick pointed out this new addition to the Queen and Spadina corner. Using the posters already pasted to the poll, some unknown individual must have carefully ripped, wrapped and re-pasted them into cones, filled them with dirt and planted the pockets with flowers.
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My money’s on this being the work of Posterchild (http://www.bladediary.com/) who both does a lot of work in the area and who’s big on (guerilla) gardening.
Comment by David
July 6, 2009 @ 5:10 pm
Absolutely love it. Very interesting.
Comment by Josh M
July 10, 2009 @ 1:50 am
I love it, I wanted to do something like it in Montreal, and then I realized that we don’t really have any wooden lamp posts downtown.
Comment by Alanah Heffez
July 11, 2009 @ 2:08 pm
That post is metal, Alanah — though the posters give it a woody “bark”.
Comment by Shawn Micallef
July 12, 2009 @ 11:39 pm
It’http://twitter.com/ToPosterboy
Comment by casie stewart
July 13, 2009 @ 9:37 am
Check the “revisted” post guys- this was actually done by two artists named Eric Cheung and Sean Martindale…
Comment by Jean Francois
July 22, 2009 @ 12:35 pm
Revisited Article with information on the artists: http://spacing.ca/wire/2009/07/15/poster-pocket-plants-revisited/
Comment by Jake Schabas
July 22, 2009 @ 2:12 pm
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