This seven-storey sculpture called Bloom graces the public space on St. Patrick’s Island in Calgary. The assemblage of street lights conceived by Montreal-born artist Michel de Broin was unveiled last year.
Bright bloom
13 Wednesday Apr 2016
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King Eddy reborn
12 Tuesday Apr 2016
Back after a few weeks AFK.
Also (soon to be) back is Calgary’s venerable King Edward Hotel, a noted blues venue, which was carefully dismantled and rebuilt as part of the new Canadian Music Centre in East Village.
Above, how things looked a few weekends ago … and below, when the King Eddy stood alone at the corner of 9 Ave. and 4 St. S.E., almost five years ago.
Buffalo
29 Monday Feb 2016
Azur
28 Sunday Feb 2016
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The Montreal Transit Corp. (Société de transport de Montréal, or STM) recently began revenue service of its next-generation métro cars. Dubbed “Azur”, the STM’s MPM-10 rolling stock is being built by a Bombardier-Alstom consortium. The order is for 468 cars, assembled in nine-car train-sets.
As the newer-model trains are gradually delivered, they will replace vintage MR-63 rolling stock, in service since the Montreal métro opened in 1966.
I only got a brief glimpse of the new Azur train at the Mont-Royal métro station on my last trip to Montreal, on its second day of revenue service. Perhaps I’ll be lucky enough to ride one upon my next visit.
Yet another reason I love my job
25 Thursday Feb 2016
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This isn’t your standard newspaper correction. Published in the Wednesday, Feb. 24, edition of the Calgary Sun.
I was asked to make this correction more nerdy than it already was, so … I made it so.
See some of my more thought-provoking work, mainly commentary.
Posted by Ricky Leong | Filed under Calgary, journalism, media, random
Vintage cycling
23 Tuesday Feb 2016
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Here’s an old-school bike sitting outside an old-school local neighbourhood general store. Snapped outside Bridgeland Market in Calgary this weekend.
Fluid movement
22 Monday Feb 2016
Astute political commentary
21 Sunday Feb 2016
Some very smart graffiti scrawled onto a wall in Calgary’s Kensington neighbourhood, spotted a few days ago. Too bad few people will see it in person: It’s in a space about half-a-metre wide between two buildings on 10 St. N.W.
History fading
17 Wednesday Feb 2016
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When I visit older cities, I love looking out for old painted signs and advertisements, much like this one in Old Montreal. This is something definitely hard to come by in Calgary, where many older buildings have vanished to make way for modern structures.
Artistic rodent
16 Tuesday Feb 2016
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