On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:47 AM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > That is really strange, especially the hanging sign, the animal there looks > like a moose rendered by someone who'd only heard rumors of such a beast...
Yes, I've noticed that: the beast on the sign looks more like a cow or oxen than a moose. There's a bit of recent city history that goes along with this. About 10 years ago a the city had a public art project called Moose in the City: http://www.toronto.ca/moose/home.htm whereby several hundred identical moose were placed at various locations and sponsors paid artists to decorate them. Some (but not all of them) had commercial themes. It was actually pretty cool and lots of fun. At the end of it all the moose were auctioned off and funds given to charity. A few dozen (mostly decrepit) moose remain in various locations. I seem to remember this moose, decorated to look like (I'm guessing) a Chinese Mandarin (or at least in some traditional Chinese costume) originally being in some prominent place in Chinatown. Obviously this market bought the moose at the post-installation auction and is now using it for promotional purposes. I don't recall how long that market has been known as the Lucky Moose Market. It might pre-date the acquisition of said moose, which might explain the different look for the moose on the sign. It wouldn't explain why that moose looks so "un-moose-like"... Thanks to everyone who looked and commented! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
