Art Hangover

While I didn’t take a whole lot of shots on Saturday night at Nuit Blanche with my SLR, this one is certainly one of my faves from Kristen Roos’ The Ghost Station project at the now abandoned Lower Bay Subway station in Yorkville. The irony of this shot is that this is an actively used subway car, yet it looks aged and abandoned.

I spent the entire night, iPhone in hand (which I plan to properly, and exhaustively review at some point still), sending text and photo updates over Toronto Hydro’s WiFi network live to blogTO, and it’s been getting a ton of good feedback from our readers.

For me, it was a really great experiment in several different kinds of technologies converging. In the early hours of the evening, I was ready to give up after having to deal with spotty WiFi coverage in central Toronto, but thankfully that got better as the night went by.

I’m sure I started to become a bit of a nuisance to friends I was out with for the night, stopping every 5 minutes while within range of a good access point to send a photo and sentence or two to the blog.

Part of covering these events as ‘media’ (however you define the term nowadays), is that I’m constantly looking out for interesting things to share, and while I get to experience it all, it can (and often is) highly demanding on my energy and attention to be passively or actively recording the information. I’m still feeling the hurt today of nearly a full 12 hours of walking, typing, and snapping. Was it all worth it though? Absolutely.

October 1, 2007 | Filed Under Uncategorized