New photography by Robert Canali
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Robert Canali is an emerging artist from Toronto who explores the way in which photography and its relationship to presence can be experienced through installation.
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NXNE and LuminaTO in Toronto
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If you’ve always wanted to visit Toronto, but never really had a reason to go, now’s the time to head north by northeast, in more ways than one. The so-called little brother to SXSW, NXNE is a full week’s worth of nonstop live indie bands, film programs, and much less attitude than many other music-fueled juggernauts. Happening from June 11-17, NXNE also overlaps with LuminaTO, another Toronto-based arts festival that focuses on the latest creativity coming from the biggest city in Canada.
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Drawings for sportswear label Muttonhead Collective
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Recently, I got to work on a series of illustrations for Toronto-based sportswear label, Muttonhead Collective. Their passion, combined with a commitment to fair trade and ethical practices, is something rarely seen in this day and age. I tried to create my own interpretation of the brand and their clothing through the combination of different [...]
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Love it or hate it: Toronto’s OCAD building
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Love it or hate it, the Sharp Centre for Design, aka theOCAD building, in Toronto gets the artistic juices flowing. Art is about inspiring the mind, including the stuff that makes you say WTF? This building is polarizing to say the least, but good on Toronto for thinking outside the, erm, checkered box.
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New music by Toronto band The Handsome Fix
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One night in February, I attended a little musical gathering at the SuperMarket in Toronto. This is when I first heard the Handsome Fix and their remarkably fresh new sound. New album dropping Spring of this year.
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Nuit Blanche: an annual celebration of the arts in Toronto
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Experiencing Nuit Blanche in Toronto is a must for all artistic types around the world. Toronto becomes a playground of artistry for one night and the lingering effects last longer and longer every year. Make it a goal to walk the streets of Toronto during Nuit Blanche. You won’t regret it.
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Toronto Underground Market
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Get ‘em if you can. The Toronto Underground Market is back and tickets are going faster than you can say ‘foie gras dumpling’. Better known as simply TUM, this underground market is a successful monthly food festival where hungry patrons sample tasty treats from amateur chefs wanting to make it big.
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Prints by Diana Lynn Vandermeulen
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Diana Lynn Vandermeulen is a student of York University in North York, Ontario. She just had her first solo show in Toronto exhibiting her meticulous new series of prints. Her work is currently exploring themes of identity, curation of objects, and natural phenomena.
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Surrealist collage photography by Dean West
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With dazzling attention to detail, Toronto-based Australian photographer Dean West creates surrealist collaged images that tell quite a tale. Always using a multi-layered approach, his commercial work is slick while his conceptual work features suspense filled storylines and emotionally charged subjects that are in the midst of a visually intoxicating commotion.
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The Joy of Books: brilliant stop motion animation
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This magical time-lapse of sorts was meticulously shot in the independent book store Type Books in Toronto by animator Sean Ohlenkamp and his wife (as well as a few extra hands. no doubt).
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Existential game where you have to figure out the plot
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Rory Viner, an experimental composer from Toronto, and Japanese developer Kanoguti have created a free art game that will leave you trying to decide what this existential game actually means as the developer wanted the player to figure out the story for themselves. The game is called Lost & Found and has five mini-games set as five stages, all different in concept. You only need to use the arrow keys and the ‘z’ button. To get to the next stage, you just beat a level or you can exit the game and just select the next stage from the title splash screen.
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Sandman Viper Command: Yo Bobcat
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Burlington, Ontario natives Sandman Viper Command destroy the competition when it comes to bluesy garage pop. My first experience with them was during our second trip to play NXNE 2011 in Toronto, Canada. As it goes with most city music festivals that feature a marathon of bands, I stumbled in on these guys because the bar they were playing at offered free booze.
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Shit Girls Say (episode one)
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The genius team behind the popular Twitter account @ShitGirlsSay have finally brought out a video, and as expected, it is every bit as accurate and hilarious as their feed suggests. Toronto-based filmmaker Graydon Sheppard and his partner Kyle Humphrey created the humorous account for laughs, and now along with pal Juliette Lewis, the pair has [...]
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GG Allin: the new single from Toronto rapper D-Sisive
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Toronto rapper D-Sisive is a don. This guy does not do ‘rap’ in the traditional sense, although he has been one of the best artists in the genre for the last three or so years. His new album, Run with the Creeps, is out now and his first visual for the project, GG Allin, does [...]
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Handsome clothing collaborate with Young Empires
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Handsome continues their venture into the marriage of music and fashion. Their latest collection is a collaboration with Young Empires, a Toronto-based band on the rise. Young Empires have shared stages with acts like Chromeo and Girl Talk this year.
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