Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Fossil Fools Day

It was a typically toxic day in Toronto, sprawling metropolis of landfill and asphalt...


Tessa and Michaela from the Rebel Clown Army were trying to keep their cool amidst the condo gloom...

... but fashionably dystopian urbanism isn't cool, it's depressing.

I was feeling homesick and missing the snow, just killing time under the bridge by myself...



We were so bored and anxious we fought for an umbrella, even though it wasn't raining.



Tessa just couldn't take it anymore, she fainted and I felt bad for not just giving her the umbrella.

I was weak from malnutrition so carrying her home wasn't an option. We waited for the Go train to commute somewhere, anywhere...



We waited forever but still no train service. Luckily a gust of foul-smelling air woke up Tessa, and so it was time to ride the umbrella express...


We considered buying a luxury sports car, but our carbon footprints already dance with two left feet...

... and the costs of gasoline are so high these days...


"What was that you were saying about Biofuels?"




Hark! Remnants of an urban glacier! On The Run!




Woozy from the pollution, our day ends with a lovely stroll along the concrete waterfront.


Shelter at last! An airport terminal on sacred aboriginal land!

And finally some food! Hurray for imported local produce! Just being around the packaging gave us the strength to live for another Fossil Fools day.


Happy April Fools?

photography by Eric Shinn, Michaela Kennedy & Tessa Alexanian

1 comment:

michaelia said...

I love that you made captions and made it into a wonderful story!