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Kevin Steele

@KevinSteele

Artist, graphic designer, photographer and cat herder. Order my second photobook ‘Queen West Complete, Summer 2015’ NOW! 🐈

 Hamilton
crowdfundr.com/queenwest2015
Joined January 2009
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Queen West Complete, Summer 2015, is the latest work from Portraits of Queen West, a project documenting over 20 years of change on one of Toronto’s most iconic streets. Preorder a book or poster by Dec. 4 and help me share this one-of-a-kind work. crowdfundr.com/queenwest2015 – at Toronto, Ontario
The image shows a page from a book with collages of straight-on views of city streets arranged across the top and bottom of the page, with addresses underneath the storefronts.

ALT The image shows a page from a book with collages of straight-on views of city streets arranged across the top and bottom of the page, with addresses underneath the storefronts.

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My birthday is not until next week. People just sending tweets without checking where it's going. I get it when it's football coach Kev — he's mildly famous — but how do you assume THIS GUY got here soon enough to use his name as a handle?
Florida Chamber (@FLChamber) profile pictureFlorida Chamber
@FLChamber8 Jun 2024
Happy Birthday, Rep. @KevinSteele! 🎉
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A small sampling of my favorite books about Toronto. What are yours?
Stroll by Shawn Micallef

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Reclaiming the Don by Jennifer Bonnell

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HTO edited by Wayne Reeves & Christine Palassio

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The Bad Trip by David & Nadine Nowlan

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Dylan Reid@dylan_reid7 Mar 2024
The old Cherry Street bridge will soon be demolished. But it would be wonderful if @WaterfrontTO saved that remarkable viewing platform. It would be a great placemaking feature for the new Villiers Island. Retweet or tweet to them if you agree!
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With the first in the series complete, I’m able to describe the vision for the full set of Portraits of Queen West books: link.medium.com/OziGTKKpEHb
One down, five to go.

One down, five to go.

With the first in the series complete, I’m able to describe the vision for the full set of Portraits of Queen West books.

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Rick Paulas@rick_paulas31 Jan 2024
Here’s an ongoing thread of what places in Greenpoint, Brooklyn used to look like vs. what they look like now.
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I'm kickstarting the audiobook for *The Bezzle*, sequel to 2023's *Red Team Blues*, featuring Marty Hench, a hard-charging, two-fisted forensic accountant with 40 years in Silicon Valley, busting every scam hatched by tech bros' feverish imagination: thebezzle.org 1/
A mockup of a mobile phone playing 'The Bezzle' audiobook. Beside it is a quote, 'Righteosly satisfying. A fascinating tale of financial skullduggery, long cons and ice-cold revenge. -Library Journal.'

ALT A mockup of a mobile phone playing 'The Bezzle' audiobook. Beside it is a quote, 'Righteosly satisfying. A fascinating tale of financial skullduggery, long cons and ice-cold revenge. -Library Journal.'

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My wonderful copy of @KevinSteele 's Queen St pics arrived today. BRAVO. Published by @blackeyebooks See this @TOAdamVaughan @MatthewBlackett @dylan_reid @GreggLintern @heritagetoronto @ausmalik @shawnmi Reminds me of effort to establish Queen St Conservation District.
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Image from Ceta Ramkhalawansingh (@CetaR)
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Queen & Roncesvalles in 1935
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I spent more time in the Stewart Building than the main building when I went to OCA.
Alex Bozikovic (@alexbozikovic) profile pictureAlex Bozikovic@alexbozikovic13 Nov 2023
Bad news. One of the best 19c buildings in Toronto - 149 College, by Old City Hall architect E.J. Lennox, 1894 - is now a potential development site.  This means this structure could be reduced to a facade.
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Does anyone use this floating palette in Photoshop frequently? As far as I can tell it's just screen clutter, often in my way. Didn't ask for it. Don't know what it's good for. #photoshop #adobe #why
Floating palette in Photoshop of dubious value.

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Still taking orders for my photobook, the first in a series documenting Toronto's Queen West. Twenty years in the making! Shipping in November!
Kevin Steele (@KevinSteele) profile pictureKevin Steele@KevinSteele22 Oct 2023
From Spadina to Bathurst: What 800-plus photos say about Queen Street West’s evolution thestar.com/news/gta/from-sp… via @torontostar
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Hey, who else woke up to snow?
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Spacing@Spacing23 Oct 2023
Frequent Spacing contributor @jbcurio covers the new book by another Spacing contributor, photographer @KevinSteele, featuring photos of Queen Street West. thestar.com/news/gta/from-sp…
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Happy to hear that football coach Kevin Steele is having a good year in his career but I still intend to get my Google rank back from him.
THEMichaelStJohn (@SaintThatAint1) profile pictureTHEMichaelStJohn
@SaintThatAint121 Oct 2023
Alabama Football 🏈 fans better be happy that @KevinSteele is the Defensive Coordinator. Without his adjustments, @TennesseeFootball smokes cigars tonight.
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From Spadina to Bathurst: What 800-plus photos say about Queen Street West’s evolution thestar.com/news/gta/from-sp… via @torontostar
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The stretch goal has been achieved so now my photo book "Portraits of Queen West: Spadina to Bathurst" comes with a poster for all backers! Thanks for the retweets today @heychristofur & @dylan_reid! We'll still take pre-orders for a while at go.blackeye.ca/queenwest
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2023 update: cannabis shop
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543 & 545 Queen St W, 2007 & 2017 Comparing details from two pictures in my new photobook documenting over a decade of change between Spadina and Bathurst on Toronto's Queen St West. The presale/crowdfunding campaign for this 162-page full colour 📷book ends soon. 🔗 in bio.
On the left is the bay window of the second floors and a storefront on the first floor, Janette's Fabrics. The building is at least 3 storeys tall. On the right is a building that is about as tall as 1.6 storeys of the taller building. It is made of big grey bricks and says BROWNS A Short Man's World

ALT On the left is the bay window of the second floors and a storefront on the first floor, Janette's Fabrics. The building is at least 3 storeys tall. On the right is a building that is about as tall as 1.6 storeys of the taller building. It is made of big grey bricks and says BROWNS A Short Man's World

The same view, ten years later. It is early evening and we can see inside the lit stores. The store on the left is Hi Beads. On the right is Self-Traits – a shop which makes small 3D prints of people – which has a big red sign and banners. (Most recently this address has been a cannabis shop.)

ALT The same view, ten years later. It is early evening and we can see inside the lit stores. The store on the left is Hi Beads. On the right is Self-Traits – a shop which makes small 3D prints of people – which has a big red sign and banners. (Most recently this address has been a cannabis shop.)

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