In Toronto, we are fortunate to have many public labyrinths scattered throughout the city, due in large part to the Labyrinth Community Network and labyrinth enthusiast and creator HiMY SYeD. One of my favourites, the High Park Labyrinth, is shown here.

The best thing about this labyrinth is that it is kind of a secret.

By Joanna Lavoie, InsideToronto
For his latest “outstallation” project, a giant labyrinth in the form of a three-leaf clover, West Toronto resident Himy Syed uses the Beach as his canvas.
Syed’s Triskelion Labyrinth can be found on Woodbine Beach, just east of the Donald D. Summerville Outdoor Pool.
He started the project about a week ago and had hoped to finish it by St. Patrick’s Day, but life got a little busy and he’s now hoping to wrap up the project in the next few days.
Creating large-scale public art …

By Derek Lang, BagelHot
Ended up walking down to the beach today. It was rainy and it’s been a while since I’ve been down there since moving to the other side of the city. Not surprisingly there was no one around. Torontoians are odd that way in that a bit of rain scares them off. Being a saturday they couldn’t even use the excuse that they were at work.
While walking toward the life guard station, in the distance I saw a figure …

By Fabiola Carletti, Toronto Star Staff Reporter
Himy Syed examines a tattered subway map written entirely in phonetic Chinese characters.
Without understanding a word, he draws a translation for Queen’s Park station right on to the pavement in front of the Bickford Centre, a language school for adults.
“People come from all over the city, here, to learn English,” says Syed, 40. “This is my way of saying ‘Welcome,’ ” he says, adding that he wanted to do something for the school after a lockdown drill in May 2009 led the community …

By Thom Hamilton, Last 100 Days Photo Project
Day 48
Lovers in a dangerous time.
August 14th 2003 45 million people on the eastern seaboard of North America had their lives go dark. Everyone has a slightly different way to remember that day, I tend to have very fond memories.
Never in my life have I seen community come together like it did that night, neighbors talking on the street, hundreds of people in parks simply laying down looking up at the stars, giving strangers rides home, checking …

By Ghazaleh Etezal, Big on Bloor Festival
share your media on this year’s Flickr pool Facebook group or #bigonbloor09 Twitter. Thank you Himy Syed for the BiG letters stopping to capture the festival!

A 2.5 km section of Bloor Street West, from Christie to Lansdowne, became a car-free space for a day of fun, games and art.

Grab the local Bloor News paper to get your full guide to the festival.
Saturday June 20, 2009 1:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Every weekday morning, bright and early, we feature a photo (or two) from a photographer in the Torontoist Flickr Pool. It’s our way of giving the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve.
The other scramble intersection — HiMY SYeD
BY HYFEN

Blue  P E A C E  letters at 3:57 mark by HiMY SYeD
Peace NOW!
Anti-War Actions in Toronto and Ottawa, Canada
September 2002 – April 2003
The 25-minute video features a chronological series of over ten clips from peace demonstrations including Toronto’s contribution to the massive February 15th event, part of the largest coordinated international mobilization in history, and One Big No, the largest political arts event in Toronto in two decades.
The video includes exclusive footage of such prominent individuals as Canadian musician Sarah Harmer, MuchMusic …

By Ramanan Sivaranjan, A Funkaoshi Production
I thought this wasn’t a political debate.
Shima and I attended a talk last night at the Theatre Centre — it’s part of that gorgeous building at the corner Dovercourt and Queen. In attendance were 2 candidates from our ward, Adam Giambrone and Simon Wookey. Shima informed me that the remaining guests were also worth paying attention to: they were John Sewell, who is apparently a bit of a planning superstar, but is better known for being a former mayor of Toronto (before my time), and Adam Vaughan, who …

Artist and photoblogger HiMY SYeD likes to claim Woodbine Beach as his canvas. See him do so tonight as he creates a lantern work of art monument to spell out Nagasaki Hiroshima.
The Full Circle project is an offshoot of a series of events taking place worldwide.
SYeD has charted the progress of a group of Buddhist Monks who have walked for twenty-five days to raise awareness, and keep alive and ‘atomic flame’ that will finally be extinguished 60 years to the date.
“To co-incide to the minute in realtime in New Mexico …

By Jackson West, sfist
The above photo, from a series by Your Waitress, is of HiMY SYeD placing candles as part of his art piece and vigil to commemorate the one month point since the horriffic tsunami in the Indian Ocean. SFist also posted the personal story and photographs of Wyatt Gallery, who recently returned from the scene of the disaster in Sri Lanka. SFist Cares explores the rules relating to your 2004 tax return and your charitable giving.
In much, much more trivial news, the San Francisco Ballet held …

Photo by Matt O’Sullivan, The Narrative