Such a light-hearted sight in a very business-oriented neighbourhood.
How much is that Minion in the window?
06 Saturday Feb 2016
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All to myself
05 Friday Feb 2016
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This is one of the innumerable corridors making up Montreal’s so-called underground city. Whether it’s to avoid bone-chilling cold in the winter or face-melting heat in the summer, this maze of connections allows one to walk all over the city’s downtown in sheltered comfort.
With its judicious use of building materials and accent lighting, this specimen definitely falls into the art world, in my opinion, while others are a tad more utilitarian or commercial in nature.
Taste of Paris
03 Wednesday Feb 2016
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When Montreal was planning its métro system some half a century ago, it decided to go with Parisian-style trains fitted with tires in addition to steel wheels.
Consequently, experts from the RATP, the Parisian public transportation authority, acted as consultants throughout the planning and construction stages.
That cross-Atlantic connection is symbolized in one of the entrances to Square Victoria station, which has authentic Art Nouveau signage as you’d find in the French capital, a gift from the RATP first installed in 1967.
Trash talk, Montreal style
02 Tuesday Feb 2016
Here’s some creative editing on a sign that originally asks people not to leave their garbage lying around because the area isn’t a dump. The sign now (predictably) invites people to place their trash here because it is a dump. Of course.
From Montreal’s Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood over the weekend.
Dream big
01 Monday Feb 2016
This is a larger-than-life, two-dimensional astronaut drawn into in a huge space travel dreamscape on a wall along Mont-Royal Avenue E. in Montreal, as seen last week.
How much larger than life is it? The photo below gives you a hint.
Spud buds
06 Friday Feb 2015
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These potatoes sure look as if they’re having a great time! Spotted somewhere in the Plateau in Montreal about a year ago.
Two dimensional, three dimensional
03 Tuesday Feb 2015
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You’ve got the city behind you
25 Sunday Jan 2015
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Connect the dots
14 Wednesday Jan 2015
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Behind barbed wire
28 Sunday Dec 2014
Ricky Leong 