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Fragments of Everyday

"Fragments of Everyday" is our first solo show, we really hope you will come and celebrate with us! The exhibition will feature many photos from our daily photoblog http://www.istoica.com/everyday.

For more information about our show or the WhipperSnapper Gallery check our their website at http://www.whippersnapper.ca

When: Friday September 15th, 2006 @ 7pm
Where: WhipperSnapper Gallery 587A College Stree t (at Clinton)

Please feel free to pass along this invitation.

Hope to see you there :)

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and the nominees are...

Finalists for the 2006 Photobloggies have been announced and we are so pleased and surprised to find istoicaEVERYDAY nominated along with the best of the best. We are up for Best Portrait Photography, Best Studio Photography, Best New Photoblog and Photoblog of the Year - against some pretty stellar competition. Congratulations to all the finalists, and Thanks so much to everyone who nominated us!

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make CONTACT with the photojunkie

Our friend Photojunkie has a showing as part of Contact this year. It's called "Toronto Squared" and everyone who can should go see it. His work, both in photography and community building, is truly inspiring.

Toronto is a city of a million stories, some told, many hidden. Over the years, Rannie Turingan has captured this by seeking out inspiration in the unlikeliest of places. Through his lens he uncovers a patchwork of scenes from the everyday, often dismissed by society. In Toronto Squared, he presents you with his view of the city, one square at a time.

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identity crisis

The photography festival Contact is going to begin shortly, and while looking at the upcoming exhibitions I came across this...

In 1992, Bruno Rosier found twenty-five prints dated from 1937 to 1953 in a flea market, showing the same person posing alone in front of famous landmarks all over the world. This discovery was the starting point for a photographic odyssey that was also intended as an exploration of self- representation and the artistic process. Rosier decided to follow this man's footsteps (only his initials, R.T. are known), in order to re-create the same shots half a century laster he dressed and posed in accord with the original photographs.

Now that is determination.... should be fun.

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exploring flickr

Scout and Leech are two different ways of looking at flickr. Scout allows you to find pictures that broke into explore based on username and cites their ranking in "interestingness". Leech eliminates multiple pages by displaying lots of images on one page.

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the King

Sometimes flickr is beyond bizarre. This is a shot from DIgital DI's photostream. Even monkeys have to put pants on one leg at a time.

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Hidden City: Tropolism Photo Contest

"The theme of the contest is uncovering the Hidden City, your Hidden City, the one you see every day. It may be in plain sight of everyone else, but it is your eye that finds the extraordinariness in a particular street corner, a unique stair, a crazy intersection, a visually arresting approach, or a particular tree in the city. The photographs can be of a beautiful (and perhaps unpublished) park, or as simple as the sun hitting a particular building at a particular time of day. Please include a caption, or a Flickr annotation, about what makes it extraordinary to you. The entries should have one thing in common: they demonstrate, to you, the pleasure of living in the city."

The categories are:
Best Hidden Place
Best Density
Best Natural/Urban Overlap
Best Unofficial Landmark
Best Building

Add your photos to the Flickr group to enter.
Read the details here.
Link from Cool Hunting.

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flickr in the city

The zarinmedia photo exhibition project is a flickr group. The administrator has an office at 458 Ossington ave and the pictures posted to the group cycle through on an LCD in the window of his office. We think its a really great project with lots of fun possibilities. ...So if your in the area walk by and have a look.
(picture borrowed from zarinmedia)

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