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Entitled to humour

02 Tuesday Mar 2021

Posted by Ricky Leong in Alberta, art, Calgary, Canada, photowalk, photowalking, random, urban

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Entitled to humour

Some interesting and … uh … provocative alternative titles to some classic works is this display outside a southwest Calgary bookstore/café.

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Messages driven home

25 Thursday Feb 2021

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Messages driven home

Important words and images at the entrance to a Calgary parking garage.

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Starry-eyed

24 Wednesday Feb 2021

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Starry-eyed

One of the newish pieces of art at the ContainR site in Sunnyside, after many of the mural were renewed in 2020.

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From the River to the City

22 Monday Feb 2021

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From the River to the City

An interesting piece of public art at 8th Street S.W. under 9th Avenue and the Canadian Pacific Railway main line. The curved LED display reproduces streams of newspaper stories and advertisements from long ago.

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Howling good time

19 Friday Feb 2021

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Howling good time

More colourful alley art, this time from a back lane in Calgary’s Beltline neighbourhood.

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Happy Year of the Ox

12 Friday Feb 2021

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Happy Year of the Ox

This ice sculpture is one of several installed in Calgary’s Chinatown neighbourhood, part of this year’s extremely muted recognition of the lunar new year.

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Adventures by the bins

09 Tuesday Feb 2021

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Adventures by the bins

A colourful find just beyond the main entrances of Hotel Le Germain in downtown Calgary.

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Dear Santa

24 Thursday Dec 2020

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, Christmas, Las Vegas, photography, Travel

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Dear Santa

Santa Claus gets ready to take a peek at a last-minute Christmas wish before he checks his list twice and heads out on his annual visit. This scene was from a light show outside the Rio hotel in Las Vegas in December 2018.

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Candy cane

23 Wednesday Dec 2020

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Candy cane

Alas this one’s just to look at, of course, not for eating.

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Frosty and friends

19 Saturday Dec 2020

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, Christmas, Las Vegas, photography, photowalk, photowalking, Travel

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Frosty and friends

From a couple of years ago: Frosty the Snowman (I presume?) hangs out with his pals as part of one of many displays at a winter lights show outside the Rio hotel in Las Vegas.

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