Media
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Keep tabs on City Council through Twitter and #tocouncil
Toronto City Council is in session today and you can watch the fireworks streamed live on Rogers website. If you don’t want to watch alone, and are...
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Improv Everywhere give 2,000 high-fives on NYC subway
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abt8aAB-Dr0[/youtube] Improv Everywhere, the performance art group that cause “scenes of chaos and joy in...
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Crow uses a pedestrian crossing
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RPHxA8-aaE[/youtube] I found this delightful video about crows adapting to an urban environment and even learning...
By Dylan Reid -
Couch surfing in Riverdale Park
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_EX0AnSgQs[/youtube] Riverdale Park has been busy this year with the constant snow making sledding conditions...
By Shawn Micallef -
Twitter, Toronto, the TTC, & Me (and you)
The first topic in my rebooted biweekly column at Eye Weekly is about Twittering in Toronto. I’ve written a few times about Twitter here, mostly...
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TTC to announce e-alert service Wednesday
After eight years, it seems the TTC is finally entering the 21st century. On Wednesday, the transit authority will announce the launch of an email alert...
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A Street With a View in Pittsburgh
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIDGyRO6w2o[/youtube] As Google Street View spreads from city to city, it’s inevitable that people will try...
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1914 – 1918 Vigil at Nathan Phillips Square
When we think of World War I memorials we usually imagine stone or granite statues or traditional war memorials, not new media and technology. That has...
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Transit City marketing
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoecnwRr1oA[/youtube] The folks at the TTC have embarked on a major marketing campaign in an effort to sell...
By Patricia Simoes -
iPhone meets Red Rocket
Five years ago when I was a resident at the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab we would brainstorm possible new media...
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Nuit Blanche: Behind the scenes with Blinkenlights
I had occasion to be up in one of the City Hall towers today and got a behind the scenes peek of Blinkenlights’ Nuit Blanche installation...
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Event Guide: CFC Media Lab prototype launch at Nuit Blanche
Images from TRANSPORT Each year the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab launches a new crop of new media prototypes created by lab residents. The...
By Shawn Micallef