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Spadina Avenue, Toronto, 1985 Posters for legendary Toronto punk band Stark Naked and the Fleshtones. This photo is on Alternvative Toronto 1980-1995, a cool new online archive. http://alternativetoronto.ca/archive/about

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DOS game nostalgia @ Bazaar of the Bizarre: FrostBite Edition 2017

The itty bitty DOS game canvases have been wildly successful. I’ve received such amazing feedback on them and many commissions throughout the year. A new set will be ready for your viewing (and pawing) pleasure at the upcoming Bazaar of the Bizarre: FrostBite edition 2017. Scroll down for a preview of new DOS Gamer Nostalgia canvases! Plus come see many new original watercolour pieces and prints…

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Explore Toronto during Aftermath Festival

Explore Toronto during Aftermath Festival

From the smouldering remains of Kinetik sprung Aftermath, Toronto’s leading dark electronic music festival. Between August 27 to the 30th Darker Side of Light Productions bring you no less than 24 amazing acts from around the world. When we visited Calgary for Terminus Festival, I was constantly amused by the all the imported freaks marauding through town. I can only hope Aftermath will likewise…

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The post-modem city - a photo tour of Toronto latrinalia

The post-modem city – a photo tour of Toronto latrinalia

I’m not the first to marvel at bathroom graffiti and certainly not the last.

Java House – Queen St & Augusta Avenue

My fascination with these writings is hardly academic. Take it from someone who has a fruity liberal arts diploma, there is no shortage of literature on the matter. There are thousand of doctoral theses on gendered studies of bathroom graffiti, structural analyses of urban stall…

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