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This weeks theme is Metal
Mooses? I don’t think that there’s a plural for moose …
We took this photo of a metal moose while attending an Art fair here in Toronto. This moose is made out of a recycled oil tank!
This second moose was found in front of a Chicago building.
Do you have interesting animal artwork or statues in your city?
We’ve all heard stories about home owners who refuse to sell when big commercial projects are planned to be built around their property … well 86 year old Edith Macefield is another property owner who refused to move from her home when developers from Seattle decided to build a commercial property in her neighborhood.
Macefield refused an offer of 1 million dollars to move.
They’ve decided to go ahead with their project and her home will have a five story construction project around and beside her home.
“I don’t want to move. I don’t need the money. Money doesn’t mean anything,” she said.
There’s one house downtown here in Toronto that looks so tiny with a huge 20 story building almost on top of it. I imagine that Mrs. Macefield’s home will look like that too!
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This weeks theme is Original
This is a photo that my wife took a year or so ago. We were driving in downtown Toronto along Lakeshore BLVD and I believe this mural is painted on the side of the Redpath sugar refinery building.
It’s a gigantic mural. The building is at least 100 feet tall and 50 feet wide if not even bigger and the mural covers the extent of one whole side of the building. It’s beautiful!
If that’s not original I don’t know what is!
Now this is odd, Hans Monderman, a Dutch transportation planner is pushing his innovative plans for improving traffic.
Would you like to know what proprosals he’s made? Glad you asked. His proposals include eliminating traffic signs and street markings, which he thinks will force drivers to be careful as they hunt for their destinations, and building children’s playgrounds in median strips of roads, figuring that drivers would surely slow down.
Hans - you haven’t been taking your medications have you? Kids playing in the medians? No traffic signs? Hello? People have a hard enough time driving and not getting into problems with traffic signs. Plus- what wouldn’t that confuse tourists and out of towners even more?
What do you think of this proprosal?
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