Sometimes I wonder if heading out of the house 2 hours in advance really does me any good. No matter what I seem to do, the TTC (Toronto Transit Commission for those who don’t know about Toronto) appears to be some sort of great equalizer that somehow eliminates as much time as possible between me getting out of the house up till the point I get out of Union Station. Today I managed to get delayed twice while sleeping on the subway. Normally I don’t notice this since I’m dozing off on the subway but today was different. We had to stop at Davisville because someone had pressed the emergency alarm. Automatically people began to panick as the train was delayed and started flocking out of the train as if the world was about to end. The funny thing is that after about 5 minutes, the subway operator announced our train would be ready to leave as soon as the paramedics took the ill person off the train. Of course people began flocking back into the train only to have the operator announce yet again that we would not be departing until the train behind us went first. This of course, led to people flocking back out like there was no tomorrow. I could not help but smile at the silliness.
This has made me decide to start yet another a new blog about the TTC, the people who ride the TTC and have a few people join me in discussing ideas and whining (some prefer the word critiquing…) about daily life on the TTC. I guess technically Spacing Magazine does a pretty good job of discussing the TTC, but I don’t read magazines very often (no time) and Spacing Magazine really is much more activist-like than I am, so this blog will just be for the average person. So … let me know if you’d like to join in on the ruckus.
So aside from my rather silly TTC story, I was studying for my midterm today and I happened across of old goggles. Not just any pair of old goggles, but this pair is classic just because it really illustrates graphic design back in 1995. Not that this relates to graphic design at all, but ask yourself, what were you doing back in 1995? Here’s a shot of it below:
I can’t remember if this was for Chemistry or Industrial Arts…
So you’re probably wondering why I have a pair of these goggles? Actually I don’t, I was looking for Goggles for a photo shoot that I will probably work on tomorrow at Dundurn and I figured it’d make a good prop? Maybe I’ll post them later.
And while I was pondering about life back in 1995 … I recalled a discussion over the weekend about The Littlest Hobo and I figured what better way to honour the past with the intro to one of the best tv shows ever to come out of the Golden Age of Canadian television … well almost. I have a couple of episodes still on VHS although the quality is dying, sadly enough and I have photograph of London. In case you didn’t know, London was the name of the dog in the show. It’s amazing how many people on YouTube still fondly remember the show so well.
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