Spacing magazine's 5th anniversary and biggest issue yet!
In yesterday’s Metro newspaper there was an article on the crew that founded ‘Spacing,’ Toronto’s innovative public space magazine. Matthew Blackett and Dale Duncan are two of the founding editors and they are very deserving of all the praise and awards that have come Spacing’s way. As you may be aware, there are many activists in the city – from Dave Meslin of ‘Toronto Cyclists Union’ to Shamez Amlani and ‘Streets are for People’ – and they work hard to counter the excesses of a consumer-car culture, from championing the rights of cyclists and walkers, to critiquing illegal billboards to hosting street parties in the form of summer events like Kensington’s ‘Pedestrian Sundays’ (now spread to other neighbourhoods throughout the city).
Spacing first graced the magazine stands five years ago. It has grown from a scrappy indie zine to a full-fledged glossy with amazing colour photographs and illustrations. The anniversary issue features dozens of pages devoted to innovative ideas to change the look and feel of Toronto – initiated through a competition called “Think Toronto.” The quality of ideas is stellar, particularly the notions to ‘green’, transform and reclaim the Don River area and lands near the railway and expressway south of Front St!
The magazine is excellent but I do have some suggestions - Spacing needs more features and more photography! Too many stories are less than a page and many pictures are tiny – how about more 3-4 page features from writers like Dylan Reid and Edward Keenan or some ‘photo essays’ from superstar Toronto photobloggers like Sam Javanrouh? (Look up his beautiful time-elapse photography of Yonge/Dundas streets).
We are blessed to have this voice in our community. Congrats Spacing!
Spacing Magazine
http://spacing.ca/
Sam Javanrouh time-elapse photography (beautiful)
http://www.vimeo.com/wvs
