{"id":1170,"date":"2006-09-23T14:31:47","date_gmt":"2006-09-23T18:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2006-09-23T14:31:47","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T18:31:47","slug":"david-toppings-every-subway-station-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/09\/23\/david-toppings-every-subway-station-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"David Topping’s every subway station trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

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David Topping of Torontoist<\/a> has a piece in the National Post today about his summer project 69 Stations<\/a> — he took a trip every day to one of Toronto’s subway stops and did a short photo essay. In the end, he posted a photo from every station. Here’s an excerpt or read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I should’ve listened to that bus driver at Jane Station.<\/p>\n

It was May 23rd. Two weeks before, I’d decided that I wanted to photograph all of Toronto’s TTC stations, and bring Torontoist along for the ride. Jane was only the fifth station out of sixty-nine, and by the end of the project – including travel time, shooting, and editing – the project would suck up more than 300 hours of my summer. At the time, however, I was blissfully unaware of how consuming the project would become.<\/p>\n

Motioning towards my camera as I got on the bus, the driver — young, wearing orange sunglasses with a black baseball cap on top of his shaved head, and a light blue TTC collared shirt – asked if I was “taking pictures of all the hot girls.”<\/p>\n

“Nah, I’m doing this project over the summer where I’m taking pictures of all the TTC stations.”<\/p>\n

“Why?”<\/p>\n

“I don’t know, it seemed like a cool idea.”<\/p>\n

He paused. “Sounds pretty boring…”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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