{"id":661,"date":"2008-03-01T14:25:24","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T19:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=661"},"modified":"2008-03-13T19:15:20","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T00:15:20","slug":"pix-plox-2007-part-2-the-toronto-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=661","title":{"rendered":"Pix Plox 2007, Part 2: The Toronto Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yeah, I know. It’s 2008. I’m still slogging through the photos taken during my 2007 photo trips. What can I say? Digital Cameras and big memory cards equals taking lots and lots of pictures. Multiple gigabytes worth, in fact. Of course that means there’s a lot of crap to sort through and remove, hence the lengthy period involved in getting them online.<\/p>\n

Anyway! Toronto, June 2007. Ahhh what a memorable trip that was. My main reason for going was to attend the Joint Technical Symposium<\/a> for Audiovisual Archivists. It was an extremely informative conference, actually, and I gleaned a lot of info. <\/p>\n

However, there was a funny thing about the timing<\/em> of the event. It took place immediately after Pride Week<\/a> in Toronto, and clearly not everyone got the memo that Pride Week was over. Combine this with the fact that the conference hotel was situated in Toronto’s Gay Mecca<\/a>, and conference-goers had to wade through the center of Yonge Street to get to a number of conference events, the die was cast for a week of hijinks and hilarity.<\/p>\n

Picture if you will, a bunch of moving image archivists. Some are a bunch of curmudgeonly old salts; having been in the business for decades and who take their jobs (and life itself) very seriously. Then there were the young’uns, like myself. <\/p>\n

Now picture, those same crusty old salts colliding with post-Pride-Week Toronto. Hilarity ensued amongst us young’uns as exclamations were heard like:<\/p>\n

“Hey, that’s<\/em> not the Canadian Flag!<\/a>“<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Why are those two young men holding hands?!”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Open till 4 am? What could they possibly<\/em> be doing in that business so late?!”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“What’s that boy doing wearing buttshorts<\/a> out in public?!”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, when you hear stuff like that, and you happen to carry a camera around with you on every trip you go, is it wrong to take photos of the madness? I didn’t think so.<\/p>\n

I’ll be adding captions as time permits. In the meantime, enjoy the randomness… <\/p>\n

Click the “more” link to view photos:
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What happens when you put a semi-serious technical symposium smack-dab in the middle of Gay Toronto? Hilarity, crabby old men, menopause and buttshorts, that’s what!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-stuffs","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}