Car Modern 2011

During a recent visit to Toronto's Kensington Market area we came upon some weird ghouls hanging out in the window of one of the stores. They looked like a combination of skeletons and aliens just looking for someone to probe.
Kensington Market has a tradition of Car Free Sundays on the last Sunday of the month from May to October which is probably a good idea. The combination of narrow and one way streets with trucks making deliveries makes for a tight squeeze.

You can see one of their metal art signs and bike racks in the photo above. Like the name says Kensington Market is full of fruit and vegetable stores as well as some cool restaurants and clothing stores. It is a great destination for walking around and enjoying the flavour of the city. Then you can wander over to Little Italy or Chinatown which are both close by.

I love those zombies, those brain eating, greedy ghouls who shuffle along city streets (with proper permits and insurance) and entertain the multitudes who have grown to enjoy the annual Zombie walk. Blood and guts is always a good zombie costume but it is the unusual costumes that help to make the walk a great event.

It doesn't have to be out of the park to be bizarre. Sometimes it is a fine line between funny and just a little odd or peculiar. Toronto has a few strange things going on out there. You can help me find them - post your comments or send me an email about interesting or bizarre stuff.

Some wacked out pics after the jump.

Artists and gangs tag the walls wherever they have even the slightest access. Cans of spray paint litter the alley, leftover from a day of painting. The artists get mad when taggers wreck their work.

1. Harry Winston



2. Cabestan Winch Tourbillion Vertica



3. Hironao Tsuboi



4. Diesel DZ 9044



5. Charles Windlin



6. Horological Machines No3



7. Ibiza Ride



8. Chapter One



9. TAG MONACO Twenty Four Concept Chronograph



10. ODM Pixel Watch

Carnivorous plants (sometimes called insectivorous plants) are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients (but not energy) from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans, typically insects and other arthropods.

There are five basic trapping mechanisms found in carnivorous plants.

1. Pitfall traps (pitcher plants) trap prey in a rolled leaf that contains a pool of digestive enzymes or bacteria.
2. Flypaper traps use a sticky mucilage.
3. Snap traps utilize rapid leaf movements.
4. Bladder traps suck in prey with a bladder that generates an internal vacuum.
5. Lobster-pot traps force prey to move towards a digestive organ with inward-pointing hairs.

Nepenthes pitchers hang from tendrils



N. rajah, also occasionally take small mammals and reptiles.



Cobra lilies (Darlingtonia californica) use window-like aeriolae to lure insects into their hollow leaves



The Albany Pitcher Plant is the only member of the Australian genus Cephalotus



Heliamphora chimantensis



Sarracenia (the pitcher plant genus most commonly encountered in cultivation, because it is relatively hardy and easy to grow.)





Butterwort with prey



A sundew with a leaf bent around a fly trapped by mucilage.



The leaf of a Drosera capensis bending in response to the trapping of an insect



Cephalotus



The snap traps of Dionaea muscipula close rapidly when triggered to trap prey between two lobes.



Sarracenia psittacina, also known as the Parrot pitcher plant, is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sarracenia. Like all the Sarracenia, it is native to North America.



Sarraceniaceae