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.
Liveblogging Nuit Blanche
I just got in a few hours ago from liveblogging the 12 hour Nuit Blanche. It was quite the experience to say the least. Check out the results at blogTO.
Your Guide to Nuit Blanche 2007
Photo by blogTO Flickr pool 2006 Nuit Blanche photo contest winner, scienceduck.
We’re mere days away from one of the city’s most anticipated artistic events of the year, and there’s certainly no shortage of buzz going along with this year’s Nuit Blanche. Dubbed the “free all-night contemporary art thing”, the Parisian-inspired Nuit Blanche will go on this Saturday from 7:03pm to sunrise on Sunday.
For those who had the chance to see some of what went down at last year’s event, and even for those who missed out, there was an unmistakable feeling of excitement and energy surrounding the night. This year, the 12-hour arts fest will be bigger than ever, with expanded zones and a surge in artist participation, it’s sure to be one hell of a night.
We’ve got you covered with an exhaustive guide and our picks for what to check out in each of the zones, as well as an interactive map for browsing the exhibits. All that, and more, after the jump.
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Adam is a User Experience Specialist at IBM in Toronto and also produces content of all kinds around the Web.
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