November 18 2012

I’ve been meaning to shoot the great mural at the loading dock of the Théâtre ESPACE GO on blvd Saint-Laurent for a while. Since I was passing by today, it seemed like a good subject for today’s pic.

The mural was commissioned by the Theatre as a way to prevent the dock area from being constantly bombed with Graffiti. They called on MU (a nonprofit promoting public art in Montreal) to produce a mural and the resulting art piece was created. A team of artists collectively known as En Mass worked for 2 days in August 2011 and over a year later the mural remains untouched by graffiti taggers.

The artists: Caro Caron, Zema, Mireille B. Utcher, Krista Bursey, Peru Dyer, flexib, Tyler Rauman, Jason Botkin, Fred Caron and Frank Lam.

As I did with another mural produced by MU on Saint-Denis (Manifeste à Paul-Émile Borduas), I decided to create a collage to show the entire art work. This one was created using 13 images stitched using Photoshop Elements 10.

Quai des Arts mural at Théâtre Espace Go
ISO 250 – 13mm – f4.8 – 1/90 sec

Quai des Arts mural at Théâtre Espace Go
ISO 250 – 10mm – f4.8 – 1/125 sec (-2ev/0/+2ev)

Quai des Arts mural at Théâtre Espace Go
ISO 250 – 10mm – f4.8 – 1/180 sec (-2ev/0/+2ev)

Quai des Arts mural at Théâtre Espace Go
ISO 250 – 10mm – f4.8 – 1/45 sec

Quai des Arts mural at Théâtre Espace Go
ISO 250 – 17mm – f5.3 – 1/45 sec

Quai des Arts mural at Théâtre Espace Go
ISO 160 – 10mm – f4.8 – 1/45 sec

I came across this video on Vimeo that shows the artists at work.

[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/30387707 w=800&h=450]

While crossing avenue du Mont Royal I happened to look up and saw that two plane vapor trails had formed a perfect cross overhead.

Cross in the sky
ISO 400 – 20mm – f16 – 1/250 sec

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Thanks for stopping by. Until next time.

– Martin

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