Toronto Garbage Update

Toronto, Ontario 2008
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Drama Queens
People only deserve as much privacy as they can muster between the time I decide to take their photograph, and when I actually make said photograph. Your favorite penis
While I was in Toronto, with no sense of irony at all, I made dozens of photographs of the CN Tower. It is the tallest free standing structure in the world, but it quickly becomes a highly ubiquitous feature of the skyline when you are plodding around the city on foot. From any distance it looks like a dated sci-fi prop and up until the moment I was standing underneath it I had a hard time mustering any awe whatsoever. Nonetheless, its’ omnipresence during my explorations in the city—the never ending spire-peak-a-boo, popping out behind other structures—compelled me to photograph and rephotograph. For this reason alone would have I cast my vote for the Canadian National Tower in Cabinet Magazine’s Most Phallic Building in the World contest, had some lame building in Michigan not already won. Toronto in two photographs
Plus there is that big phallus down by the water. |
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