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Massive hulk rising

01 Monday Dec 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in architecture, montreal, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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canada, Chinatown, CUSM, hospital, montreal, night, photography, photowalk, quebec, random, Travel, urban

Géant en construction

Now *that’s* different!
It was utterly shocking to turn a corner in Montreal’s Chinatown and see the new University of Montreal hospital complex (Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal) rising high where there used to be only sky. I’ve seen it slowly built on my visits over the years but this is the first time the structure’s seemed so in-your-face.
The building is clearly going to dwarf the entire neighbourhood around it. (For the sake of perspective, I was a bit shy of 500 metres from the building when I snapped this shot.)
There’s a website for the new hospital, en français bien sûr!

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Someone doesn’t want to pay their ticket …

30 Sunday Nov 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in montreal, photowalking, random

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Contravention

Found this citation buried under autumn snow and detritus as I wandered the other day on a visit to Montreal.

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City view (Part 7)

14 Saturday Jun 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in iPhone, montreal, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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canada, HDR, iPhoneography, montreal, photography, photowalk, quebec, random, skyline, Travel, urban

Métropole dorée

One more skyline photo to round out this week’s series of posts featuring city views. This is of Montreal in the autumn, captured on my phone from the Olympic Stadium tower back in 2011.

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Game of shadows

28 Friday Mar 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, iPhone, montreal, photography, photowalking, random, Travel

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art, canada, fine arts, iPhoneography, montreal, museum, photography, quebec, Travel

Projection

One of the exhibits at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

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Another cheesy post

23 Sunday Mar 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, fun, montreal, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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art, canada, cheese, graffiti, meme, montreal, photography, photowalk, quebec, Travel

Fan de produits laitiers

Add this to the many other “I Heart Cheese” sightings in Montreal! Spotted a few months ago.

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Talking fish

04 Tuesday Mar 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, iPhone, montreal, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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canada, montreal, photography, photowalk, quebec, random, street art, Travel, urban

La déclaration du poisson

Recently spotted this … eclectic door on rue Rachel in Montreal, not too far from Jeanne-Mance Park.

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Esthetics of triangles

19 Wednesday Feb 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in architecture, art, iPhone, photography, Travel, urban

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architecture, art, canada, design, iPhoneography, montreal, photography, quebec, Travel

Esthétique triangulaire

This is part of the newer wing at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

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Shadow of Venus

11 Tuesday Feb 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, montreal, photography, Travel

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L'ombre de Vénus

This lovely shadow is cast from a sculpture called Venus Victorious by Renoir and Guino, displayed at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

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Montreal’s adhesive art

06 Thursday Feb 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, montreal, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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art, canada, montreal, photography, photowalk, poster, posters, quebec, random, sticker, stickers, street art, Travel, urban

What if art ruled the world?

On every visit back to Montreal, the place where I grew up, I take great pleasure in just walking around, looking for all kinds of stickers and posters placed by street artists.
The truly gifted creators will have made something that rises above the morass of vandals’ visual cacophony — something worthy of permanently adorning the backside of street signs, the faces of traffic light control boxes, lamp posts, bollards, parking meters, bike stands and more.
Indeed, Montreal is full of unremarkable, annoying stickers and posters … but there are so many gems, too.
Here are some of my favourites.

Chiens en promenade

See ya later, alligator

Le voyageur

Imaginary cleanup

What is Adam?

Meow

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Incomplete thoughts

05 Wednesday Feb 2014

Posted by Ricky Leong in art, iPhone, montreal, photography, photowalking, random, Travel, urban

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Fragment poétique

Found this poetic fragment pasted onto (and partly torn from) some kind of utility box in Montreal’s Plateau Mont-Royal area.

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