C-mac
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There's no question the dimmed lights are better. The building looked gaudy when the lights were bright. It looked like giant version of an 80's light bright.
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There's no question the dimmed lights are better. The building looked gaudy when the lights were bright. It looked like giant version of an 80's light bright.
skycandy
Senior Member
Cell pics from the rooftop of McLennan Physics Lab, U. of T.
tstormers
Senior Member
From this morning May 29th
skycandy
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mburrrrr
Senior Member
Last year, I was puzzled by a new Pride symbol, and now today another updated display on TD's 160 Front Street tower. While I actually like the new design, I’m questioning the frequent logo changes. Classic, recognizable brands like the Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Yankees, rarely change their logos much. I’m wondering whether frequent rebranding helps or hinders the creation of a timeless identity — is it about selling more merchandise or searching for universal appeal?
Then this picture above reminded of yesterday’s lunch-time storm. More pina colada drinkers
Then this NYTimes story popped up on my phone. The phone doesn’t listen, it reads your mind.
One of the gaudiest ways to track the mainstream acceptance of the L.G.B.T.Q. community in America is how openly and enthusiastically brands have turned it into a market to be catered to. Pride-themed sneakers and Oreos must mean progress, right?
This embrace became known as rainbow capitalism, a phrase often accompanied by something of an eye-roll by activists who found the merchandising of a long-oppressed minority a bit fatuous. As editor-in-chief of Out magazine from 2006 to 2018, Aaron Hicklin had a front-row seat to this gush of money. In a new guest essay, he argues we should not be surprised that many corporations which once jumped on that bandwagon have been abandoning it just as quickly as the political winds have shifted in the wake of the Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light backlash and the Trump administration’s efforts to undermine D.E.I.
All over the country this month, Pride parades are losing their sponsors, but Hicklin wonders if that might be a good thing after all, enabling these celebrations to get back to their political roots, fighting for the expansion of rights rather than wallowing in the glittery swag. “A leaner, meaner Pride won’t have the branded sheen of rainbow capitalism,” he writes. “But it could rediscover its teeth.”
We’ve Reached Rainbow Capitalism’s End
Then this picture above reminded of yesterday’s lunch-time storm. More pina colada drinkers
Then this NYTimes story popped up on my phone. The phone doesn’t listen, it reads your mind.
| By Carl Swanson Deputy Editorial Director, Opinion |
This embrace became known as rainbow capitalism, a phrase often accompanied by something of an eye-roll by activists who found the merchandising of a long-oppressed minority a bit fatuous. As editor-in-chief of Out magazine from 2006 to 2018, Aaron Hicklin had a front-row seat to this gush of money. In a new guest essay, he argues we should not be surprised that many corporations which once jumped on that bandwagon have been abandoning it just as quickly as the political winds have shifted in the wake of the Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light backlash and the Trump administration’s efforts to undermine D.E.I.
All over the country this month, Pride parades are losing their sponsors, but Hicklin wonders if that might be a good thing after all, enabling these celebrations to get back to their political roots, fighting for the expansion of rights rather than wallowing in the glittery swag. “A leaner, meaner Pride won’t have the branded sheen of rainbow capitalism,” he writes. “But it could rediscover its teeth.”
We’ve Reached Rainbow Capitalism’s End
UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
^...I still have mixed feeling on that That is, I am disgusted that way companies capitulated on that signalling as they where never really supportive about that to begin with. But I am also relieved that the likes of TD hasn't fallen to the Trump disease and his bigoted brain rot. Well...at least not yet. >.<
Niklas
New Member
Companies will do whatever they think will be attractive to their customers. They will follow whichever way the wind is blowing, no matter the direction.
UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
With that though, they've would of told Trump where to stuff his hair loompa...as those customers never went away during his reascension. So I think it was a bit more going on there, to put it mildly.
OpenClosed
Active Member
Saw this today:
it was so damn bright lol
Koops65
Senior Member
Those pix reflect on you well...
wmedia
Senior Member
"Dear Tenants,
Please be advised that an exterior window pane on the 18th floor of 160 Front St W, on the north-facing side of the building, has spontaneously cracked and we expect with the incoming storm, this is going to fall.
For your safety, please do not walk outside along Simcoe St.
Toronto Police Services is on route and we expect that Simcoe St will also be closed to vehicular traffic.
Unfortunately this may impact the Loading Dock. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Further updates will be provided when they become available."
Please be advised that an exterior window pane on the 18th floor of 160 Front St W, on the north-facing side of the building, has spontaneously cracked and we expect with the incoming storm, this is going to fall.
For your safety, please do not walk outside along Simcoe St.
Toronto Police Services is on route and we expect that Simcoe St will also be closed to vehicular traffic.
Unfortunately this may impact the Loading Dock. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Further updates will be provided when they become available."
evandyk
Senior Member
There was an incoming storm yesterday?
jackattack
Active Member
a few from sunday eve -
kinda hard to capture but the sun was shining through the atrium
kinda hard to capture but the sun was shining through the atrium
wmedia
Senior Member
Friday evening:
