Results tagged “peterstreet”

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute.

Fauxreel's pairing with Vespa to produce street art ads has always been contentious; as Carl Wilson pointed out in last month's Toronto Life, the intersection of street art and money-making is messy as hell. While one Toronto tagger took matters into their own hands to protest the corporate backing, and one Toronto book store threw their ad on top of Vespa's, others have participated in the discussion by literally changing the subject: a Montreal artist changed one ad to comment on Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz's relationship, and, near the corner of Peter and Richmond here in Toronto, someone got Barack Obama in on the action. (Reader Kat A captured it in May and sent it to us this week.) Good thing, too: street art—ad or not—isn't supposed to be static, and while the transformation may not be the perfect example of change we can believe in, it sure is change you can Xerox.

Every weekday morning, bright and early, we feature a photo (or two) from a photographer in the Torontoist Flickr Pool. It's our way of giving the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve.

Spacing reports on the fate of the Hug Me tree at Queen Street West and Peter Street after it was found knocked down yesterday. After narrowly avoiding being hacked up by the City's Forestry department, the tree is back—intact—in the hands of Elicser, the artist who had been painting it for the past few years, thanks in part to a woman whose husband proposed to her in front of the tree six years ago.