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| - This is the second year I attended Nuit Blanche, the first time I just walked around for an hour with friends and saw some crap and then called it a night, so I really didn't have a good impression and after going this year I think it's one of the dumbest things I've ever been too. A flea circus would be more entertaining. It is so spread out over Toronto making it difficult to get to and then there are 40 min lines. When you finally get into the area of interest there is usually something there I wouldn't naturally stop at in general, something people want to call "art" but it's as interesting as the scribbles my 5 year old nephew does.
I think it is so sad that something with a semi- good concept is such a disappointment. Placing red blinking lights directed at a big rock and playing a thumping heart beat sounds is not art... taking twinkle lights and placing sensors at the end with a vibration system and faux light bulbs is not art... I wouldn't decorate a party with that crap let alone believe it possible to have to stand in a line just to see it, such a disappointment.... rigging a piano to play is not art... it's cool that the keys are moving, but it's not interesting, they could have made that really cool, make an indentation in the piano chair as if someone is sitting, move it once in a while, just to startle people... I mean Halloween is on the way right.
We also went to The Bata shoe museum, nothing overly interesting there except for some of the shoes that are actually there on a regular... There was a street party on Queen with which consisted of people just being drunk and dancing, nothing special... Bellwoods was funny though, there was a party there and the stereo system was powered by two bikes. That at least was interesting and functional. There was some house somewhere on the walk to church st. that had gay porn either playing in every window or on the side of the house, not to sure how it was hooked up but it was good for a laugh. The pictures on the Holt Renfrew building were stupid. Pictures of random people collaged and projected onto a building is not art.
All in all Nuit Blanche is pure hype, and it's boring as all hell. The only good thing really was the extended drinking hours, and walking in the streets. They really need to showcase some real art next time. All in all, maybe if you are a photographer it is worth it to go to this just to take pictures, you can get some good angles on the stuff they claim is art, and maybe actually make some. Never again.
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