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Nathan Philips Square (like you've never seen it before)

Posted by Jerrold Litwinenko / June 4, 2008

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20080604_cityhall.jpgYou may recognize this awesome shot of City Hall at Nathan Phillips Square, taken by Toronto photographer Sam Javanrouh (of Daily Dose of Imagery fame). It was featured on the cover Toronto magazine Spacing's 7th issue.

Sam has delivered a couple more interesting, mind-bending views of the beloved/dreaded square. Cruising the blogTO Flickr Pool, I stumbled upon his "tunnel" and "planet" versions.

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Nathan Phillips Square - Tunnelized (click for larger view)


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Nathan Phillips Square - Planetized (click for larger view)
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binlazer / June 4, 2008 at 02:02 pm
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Ahh, I've seen these. I like them, but they make me dizzy for some reason. Talk about art moving people!! wah wah.
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David Toronto / June 4, 2008 at 02:52 pm
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Sam Javanrouh is a true artist with the camera.
We are fortunate that he lives here and shares
his work with us.
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Gloria / June 4, 2008 at 03:04 pm
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I always thought the third photo would be great for a light, fun Toronto Tourism campaign. It'd totally work for that all "Toronto is the world" stuff we love to show off.
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Zack / June 4, 2008 at 08:12 pm
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Toronto is full of amateur photographer, which is pretty cool. Sometimes you go to a street event and there are more photographers than the public watching the event.

IMO that's great because it gets people used to photographer and allows some of us who to get really close.

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Benc7 / June 5, 2008 at 12:05 am
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Sam is a gifted photographer; DDOI is the first site I visit every day.
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James D / June 5, 2008 at 09:49 am
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hes just copied another photographers who did this before... is that what being called an artist is now a days?
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Sharon Wright replying to a comment from binlazer / February 28, 2009 at 10:56 pm
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I love these images of the square but was glad someone else mentioned the vertigo thingey. I suddenly felt sick LOL.
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Toys / December 2, 2011 at 02:34 pm
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What illuminating blog post!
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Check out my carbon fiber hood. / January 2, 2012 at 07:19 am
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That's some revelatory writing..
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Bewafa / February 8, 2012 at 02:03 am
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Thank goodness some bloggers can still write. My thanks for this article!!
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