#exhibition place

[zbphotography]

Atmosphere on the Exhibition grounds during Canadian National Exhibition taken through 3 consecutive summers. (Zoran Bozicevic photos)

Photojournalism in Toronto sometimes gets repetitive. Some big events we covered year after year. As mentioned in the previous post, “the EX” was one such event. It’s dangerously easy to fall into routine and snap the same pictures one did a year earlier, and a year before that … I liked to challenge myself to find new angles and different details each time.

[abitmoredetail]

CN Tower amid towers #toronto #exhibitionplace #cntower #tower #skyline

[greenconverses]

oh no, no, nonononononono you don’t get to retcon the first series basically being an all white cast because now you’ve realized it’s Not A Great Look by blaming publishing standards and pretending that annabeth is presented as anything other than a blonde white girl in the text or any of the marketing material ever.

you wrote her as white! you wrote all the main characters as white and made it very clear when the secondary characters weren’t! it’s fine to admit you just had a blind spot and self-corrected with HoO and the other series!!! you don’t get to go back and retroactively collect diversity points by pretending annabeth is in any way presented as racially ambiguous in the text now that you’ve decided to make a tv show!!!! gaaaaaaaaahhhhhh

[starsh0cked]

messing around with text posts. being a silly billy out here

[glitxd]

Had a dream where Warframe has their own exhibit irl and it looks a lot like those fancy interactive art ones. Each warframe has their own room and theme, also the exhibition is right next to DE's HQ.

All of the models are 3D printed and you could even see how the abilities work with the work of practical and light effects that will change in a push of a button, complete with a disembodied voice (Lev?) that explains the ability to you.

One thing that stuck to me is that somewhere in the upper floor there is a bar that's themed around Lavos, where you'll be served drinks in various glass vials.

[puppyeared]

if escape rooms as team building exercises became popular im not sure if id be more excited or terrified

[themuseumlady]

we are sorting the mannequins! it has started me so many times!

the museum is currently littered with mannequin parts and bodies as we work to sort our exhibit mannequins - which is exciting!! but also extraordinarily unnerving as I keep running into mannequins that are not where I expect them to be

here are some of the less scary (newer) ones next to my archive entrance

unfortunately I can't post the torsos and heads on the first floor (the ones being decommissioned) for privacy reasons. I wish I could though, because it is hard to put into words how genuinely unnerving these figures are.

immediately upon entering the museum each day I am greeted by a distant hoard of torsos, limbs, and heads decorated in obscenely dramatic makeup - the mannequins having been taken apart for ease of transport down the stairs. This is actually my first time seeing the faces of many of these figures, during the exhibit season they were covered with stockings as the makeup did not suit the clothing displayed. Which was frankly also pretty terrifying, seeing just the clear ghost of a hidden face underneath the fabric

a part of me feels bad for the ones we are disposing of?? they have spent their career in this institution, helping us display history, and now their future is wholly unknown

-- but also they are the type of model that do pose a threat to delicate historical clothing (damn you articulated arms that can pinch and tear), so I am glad we have found the means to upgrade --

ANYWHO - despite my terror the museum is once again filled with life! we are preparing for our opening, building exhibits, and diving back in to in-person projects! :)

[city-cost]

Artist Shogo Kariyazaki brings flower power to Kyu-Iwasaki-tei Gardens in Tokyo's Taito ward.

[paeinovis]

Compiled this lil piece from solar filter I used during the eclipse and plants I grabbed from my friend's parents' yard in Arkansas (they have those cool helicopter seeds we don't have around Florida)! Included Jupiter and Venus symbols on two handheld filters since those planets were very visible during the eclipse, and bits of a cyanotype I did the day before! So all the components are directly related to the eclipse/general area I viewed it from :-)

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Can we submit info on sanctuaries as well, if they have lots of public visitors and run like a zoo?

Yes! For the accessibility spreadsheet, “zoological facility” is any facility with exotic or non-native animals in the collection where one of the primary things they do is allow public visitation.

So it includes zoos, sanctuaries, aquariums, safari parks, even places like theme parks (think six flags) if they’ve got animals on display. Even if a facility is only open to guests for tours on a certain few days, that still counts!

Folk can send an ask, comment on the spreadsheet, comment on a reblog, whatever works! And any facility that isn’t on the list yet can be added.

[somecunttookmyurl]

wild to me that people are actually trying to defend that classification system cause my reaction whenever i see poor curation is the unshakeable urge to go get a qualification in curation just to be able to storm back in and smack everyone's hands away so i can do it properly this time (yes i know it would never be that easy, but a woman can dream)

even if it would make sense at all ever to group them all together like that (it wouldn't! if for no other reason than they aren't ordinarily labelled like that and so the natural reaction is at least some degree of confusion) there are still... literal factural inaccuracies everywhere?

It's Just Bad, Man

[abitmoredetail]

Princes' Gates from behind #toronto #exhibitionplace #cntower #princesgates

[macadam]

Megop is such a funny ship it is so funny I want to know what was going through any of the writers heads when writing megatron talking to optimus the complete and utter obsession is so insanely visceral how can you write that and not see what you are placing down I just

[thistransient]

around C-LAB, Taipei (臺灣當代文化實驗場)

[garadinervi]

Park Place Group, (offset lithograph invitation), Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, May 10 – September 15, 1968 [Alpha 137 Gallery, New York, NY]

Artists: Jon Baldwin, Mark di Suvero, Dean Fleming, Peter Forakis, Gay Glading, Robert Grosvenor, Bernard Kirschenbaum, Tony Magar, Tamara Melcher, Forrest Myers, David Novros, Edwin Ruda, Leo Valledor, David Von Schlegell

[arc-hus]

Roden Crater Project, Flagstaff - James Turrell

https://jamesturrell.com/