11 Thursday May 2017
Posted in Phoenix, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
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arizona, Phoenix, photography, photowalk, random, Travel, typography, urban
Historical painted signs are as rare in Phoenix as they are in Calgary, it seems. Even in the older Warehouse District, south of the office towers in downtown Phoenix, things like these are hard to spot. This image captured on my visit there last month.
10 Wednesday May 2017
Posted in Phoenix, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
09 Tuesday May 2017
Posted in art, Phoenix, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
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arizona, art, Phoenix, photography, photowalk, random, street art, Travel, urban
This depiction of Havana, Cuba, adorns a wall alongside an access ramp to a parking garage in downtown Phoenix … and there’s no apparently obvious reason why this is here. (Was there a Cuban restaurant or social club here, once upon a time?) Image captured back in April.
08 Monday May 2017
Posted in Arizona, art, Phoenix, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
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arizona, art, Phoenix, photography, photowalk, random, street art, Travel, urban
This is among a handful of activism-inspired wall art in the Warehouse District, south of the office towers in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. Spotted this on my visit to the city last month.
07 Sunday May 2017
Posted in Calgary, Calgary Expo
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calgary, Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo, Calgary Expo, Nintendo, random, Super Mario Bros.
Some Super Mario Bros.-inspired goodies, for sale at Calgary Expo last weekend.
05 Friday May 2017
Posted in Calgary, Calgary Expo, random
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calgary, Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo, Calgary Expo, cosplay, costume, sci-fi, science fiction
I don’t recall seeing this done before in cosplay at Calgary Expo: A smartphone embedded into a costume — an used as part of same. Spotted at last weekend’s convention.
04 Thursday May 2017
Posted in Calgary, Calgary Expo, random
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acting, actor, alberta, calgary, Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo, Calgary Expo, canada, Colm Meaney, entertainment, film, Hell on Wheels, Star Trek, television
It was a short visit to Calgary Expo for me this year, with time for only one panel discussion. I picked one with Colm Meaney, known for his roles on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Hell on Wheels and a bevy of feature films. Here, he is speaking about the 2013 flood in Calgary, which affected Hell on Wheels’s production on the outskirts of the city. He said the flood washed away their set and displaced the cast and crew multiple times before they got to high-enough ground.
03 Wednesday May 2017
Posted in Calgary, Calgary Expo, random
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calgary, Calgary Expo, cosplay, costume, sci-fi, science fiction, Star Wars
Amid the dizzying array of dazzling costumes I came across at Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo on Sunday, this depiction from Star Wars is one of the standouts, in my humble opinion.
02 Tuesday May 2017
Posted in Phoenix, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, transit, transportation, Travel, urban
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arizona, bus, double-decker, Phoenix, photowalk, random, transit, transportation, Travel, urban
Double-decker transit buses are something I expect plying the streets of London, not decaying in a parking lot in a run-down corner of downtown Phoenix, Arizona. Made this sad, sad find a few weeks ago.
30 Sunday Apr 2017
Posted in Phoenix, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Travel, urban
Ricky Leong 