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 Suspended Moments captures fleeting human leaps — spontaneous, playful, and sometimes theatrical. Whether cosplayers at conventions, strangers on streets, or people in parks, each jump embodies freedom, release, and the temporary suspension of everyday routine. By alternating between fantastical costume and ordinary attire, the series emphasizes that the joy of motion is universal. Costumes, props, and urban or natural settings enhance the drama, but the core of the project is human energy — visible in posture, expression, and mid-air tension. These photographs explore the ephemeral, the in-between, and the shared thrill of defying gravity, revealing how movement connects us all.”

  FLORA: Taxus × media (Overview) A hybrid yew commonly used in landscaping across Canada. Key Highlights Hybrid species → Cross between Japanese yew ( Taxus cuspidata ) and European yew ( Taxus baccata ) . Evergreen shrub → Stays green year-round; dense, needle-like foliage. Extremely hardy → Handles Toronto winters well. Slow-growing → Good for shaping, hedges, and formal garden design. All parts are toxic (except the red berry flesh) → Keep away from pets. Basic Description Taxus × media is a tough, adaptable evergreen shrub often used in hedges, foundation plantings, and parks. It keeps its shape, tolerates heavy pruning, and grows in sun or shade. Because it’s a hybrid, you often see many named cultivars like ‘Hicksii’ or ‘Densiformis.’ Growing Conditions Light: Full sun → full shade Soil: Moist, well-drained, slightly acidic Hardiness: Zone 4–7 (very safe in Ontario) Growth rate: Slow–moderate, usually 3–6 ft tall depending on c...

  CITIZEN CANADA PRESENTS 🔴  “BUY, BELIEVE, OBEY: THE ACID-AGE CHILDHOOD EDITION” America once feared the future. Not with nuance. Not with science. But with filmstrips. And so, in classrooms across the 1960s and 70s, the lights dimmed, projectors hummed, and government filmmakers rolled out their latest cinematic crusade: Technicolor terror designed to stop kids from even looking at a sugar cube. The message? Drugs were everywhere. Your friends were probably on them. And if you even  thought  about LSD, your brain would become a lava lamp with legs. With Playboy-esque swagger — glossy, ironic, and a little too confident — the state produced films that treated psychedelics like forbidden glamour. Not education. Not health literacy. But spectacle. INSIDE THIS ISSUE: 🧧 “Reefer Madness Reloaded (Kids Edition)” The government’s greatest cinematic hits: orange-tinted hallucination montages, fast cuts, sweaty close-ups, and the eternal warning: “This is your brain… on vi...

A Letter to Jenna — What You’ve Taught Me Jenna, You didn’t arrive where you are because someone opened a door for you. You found the handle, tested the hinges, and walked through before anyone realized the path even existed. I want to acknowledge that clearly — your success is something you discovered yourself, not something handed to you. Watching you navigate it has taught me more than I expected. Here are a few of the things you’ve shown me, the parts I’ve been able to understand — and there are others I’m still learning from you. 1. You taught me that momentum isn’t magic — it’s discipline. I used to think breakout moments were lightning bolts. Then I watched how you post, how you refine, how you repeat until something clicks. You showed me what consistency actually looks like. 2. You taught me that a voice becomes iconic when you decide how to use it. I thought it was the sound itself. But you showed me it’s the choices around the sound — when to soften, when to hold back, ...

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  BUY BELIEVE — Pacific Mall Anime Takeover Issue Cover Story: “Neon, Noise, and Necessary Escapism” — Pacific Mall turns into a hyper-stylized anime biome: LED halos, pastel furs, claw-machine saints, and pop-up shrines to characters who feel more real than politicians. Fans didn’t just attend; they transformed . Inside This Issue: 📸 GreatGuyAAA x Bell: Field Notes from the Floor A roaming camera, a thousand colours, and the miracle of catching authenticity in a place designed for simulation. GreatGuyAAA documents it all—arcade bleeps, micro-communities, and that one cosplayer who stole the whole festival without saying a word. 🎎 “The Mall as Multiverse” Food courts become fantasy courts. Narrow hallways morph into narrative corridors. You’re not shopping—you’re shifting timelines. 🔊 “Hyperpop Is the New National Anthem” Booths blasting glittery distortion; masked DJs turning nostalgia into noise; teens chanting hooks that sound like the future glitching into place. ...

   #scholx  CITIZEN CANADA PRESENTS 🔴 "BUY, BELIEVE, OBEY: IDIOCRACY ISSUE" 📰 The Magazine That Reads You Back (Even If Your Brain Isn’t Listening) 💬 Society has evolved… downward. Advertising is the only smart thing left. Propaganda is survival. 🛍️ Are you thinking, or is thinking happening to you? 🎭 Satire has become instruction manuals. Reality? Optional. 💡 Where dumb meets dumber, and influence is king. INSIDE THIS ISSUE: 🍔 "Burger, Beer, Repeat" – The Business of Selling Stupidity (and why everyone’s buying) 📺 "Ad or Apocalypse?" – How Capitalism Turns Chaos Into a Brand 🤖 "The Algorithm Knows Everything (Except Logic)" – Are You Choosing, or Just Following the Loudest Voice? 🧠 "Nothing Matters (And That’s the Point)" – Culture in the Age of Low-IQ Media 🎮 "Game On, Brain Off" – Entertainment for the New Normal 🛒 "Consume or Be Consumed" – The Retail Dictatorship of Convenience 📸 Featuring exclusive...

 Here is the fully regenerated, corrected, cleanly grouped list with TWIRL placed under Athletics & Movement . ✅ Grouped Tags (Revised) 1. Time & Date Tags 20y06m 25y 25y09m 25y09m14d Saturday September Covid-19 Day Count 139 Covid-19 Day Count 146 Reiwa 7 (令和7年) 2. People, Characters & Identity children children wedding celebrity Intertextuality Harley Solomon EpicGirl Stranger collection LegacySubject GLARE failure fear collection Intertextuality 3. Events Anime North COSPLAY cosplay event FanExpo fanexpo2018 fanexpo2020 Pandemic Era 4. Photography / Camera / Techniques CAMERA ROLL Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS II USM candid photography photographers LENS FLARE GLARE Blur project Holga-ish Pixelate INSTAGRAM EXPORT reflective self portrait Scholz STANDOUT 5. Media, Art & Creative Projects Advertisment art Scholz collage p...

  In a corner like this, you can read an entire biography of a room. The mirror catches the old glass-block glow like a relic from a vanished municipal building—half Art Deco, half afterthought. The mop hangs like a tired archivist, the ladder waits for a task that never quite arrives, and the cardboard settles into the quiet economy of survival. Nothing heroic, nothing staged—just the soft geometry of a space caught between usefulness and neglect. Scenes like this hum with the same energy as a Diane Arbus side-room or a Roy Andersson set piece: the poetry of objects that never expected to be seen. And yet, here they are—testifying. #GreatguyTV #CitizenCanada #documentaryphotography #everydayarchives #foundspaces #visualculture #urbanstilllife #cinematicmundane #YouTubeAesthetics #photostudy

  (A Fictionalized Pandemic Tale) Beaver on Bloor: When an Entire City Mistook a Squirrel for a National Icon The story you’re about to read is a fictionalized account based on real conversations, real Toronto energy, and one very real squirrel. The events are reimagined for humour, art, and the joy of urban folklore. During the long, drifting days of the pandemic — when time had the texture of cold oatmeal and the city seemed held together by takeout containers and Wi-Fi — Toronto developed a strangely wholesome urban legend. People kept seeing a beaver on Bloor Street. Or at least, they thought they did. It became one of those small, delightful distractions that cities cling to during collective stress: mysterious footprints, a blurry photo, hushed “I swear I just saw it” conversations. For over a year, reports trickled in. I joined the chase myself, wandering the stretch of Bloor with a camera, trying to catch a glimpse of this shaggy folk hero holding court between stor...

   The Quiet Company Beneath the Sun — Edwards Gardens, September (Scholz) In the gentle radiance of the afternoon sun, the garden presented itself as a small parliament of blossoms, each taking its place with the quiet dignity of characters in some rural chapter of life. Foremost, and with no small measure of enthusiasm, stood the  marigolds —stout fellows dressed in coats of flaming orange, their ruffled collars trembling ever so slightly in the breeze, as though eager to speak but waiting for a proper invitation. Interspersed among them, like modest yet spirited companions, were the  globe amaranths , each bearing a tiny, purple bonnet perched atop a slender stem. They appeared as the cheerful children of the assembly, their bright heads bobbing with innocent curiosity. Behind these, forming a soft, chartreuse carpet, sprawled a bed of  sedum —a most industrious groundcover, glowing with the steady, dependable light of one accustomed to keeping order beneath ...

  A great leader must always keep in mind, That the future is uncertain, but solutions can be designed. To face any challenge that may come, And keep Toronto thriving, for everyone. #TorontoLeadership #metmuseum #Scholz #Ontario #CNtower #Toronto #contemporaryart #TorontoMayor

Multiplicity of Selves in Fandom Spaces   📄 Conceptual Art Statement Title: Multiplicity of Selves in Fandom Spaces Medium: Long-exposure digital photograph Context: Convention / cosplay environment Statement: In fandom spaces, identity becomes fluid—performed, shared, and reconstructed. This image captures not a single self, but the many selves a person inhabits when they enter a world built from imagination and collective myth. The motion blur dissolves the boundaries between bodies, merging costume, gesture, and environment into a shifting field of presence. What is seen is not a portrait, but a chorus. Cosplay becomes a site where identity is multiplied rather than defined: a participant is simultaneously character, fan, friend, and stranger. Each blurred contour suggests a possible version of the self, a timeline of expression that flickers through space. The hall becomes a liminal stage where anonymity and recognition coexist, and where every movement writes a new biog...

  Upon the Blur Project, in the Twenty-Fifth Year In September’s hush, when GOLDEN HOUR fades And shadows lengthen over grass well-worn, I walk the streets, where children , swift as thought, Pursue delight—unbidden, unobserved— In candid photography preserved. This is the Natural world , not framed by art, Yet art itself, where signs of mortal time Mark 25y , and deeper still, the count: 25y09m , and one day more 25y09m14d , a fragile leaf Clinging to the branch of passing hours. O Stranger collection , faces half in dream, Encountered once and never seen again, Your eyes like fountains in a drought of souls, Your stillness caught in silver, stilled yet living. Where FLORA blooms, I see the earth restore What failure sought to spoil; for flowers rise Against despair, and teach a kinder law. Behold: FLORA-Marigolds-Orange burn Like embers dropped from chariots of dawn, And FLORA-summer snapdragon-Purple lifts Its violet banners to the evening wind. ...

Consulting Agreement Parties: This Agreement is made between Ed Scholz (“Consultant”) and Hot Apollo , represented by [Frontman’s Full Name] (“Client”), on this ___ day of __________, 2025. 1. Purpose The Client engages the Consultant to provide general consulting, advisory, and training services to support Hot Apollo’s creative, strategic, and professional development. 2. Scope of Services a. The Consultant shall provide general advice, guidance, and conceptual feedback related to the Client’s artistic, business, and strategic goals. b. Areas of consulting may include, but are not limited to: Networking and relationship-building Marketing and audience development Communications and public relations Data analysis and performance insights Metacognition and self-development Interpersonal Performance and Metacognitive Development , including timing, storytelling, personal brand creation, communication improvement, and performance practice. c. The Consultant...

  ☕ Two Cups at 1:01 PM: A Study of Ten Photographic Worlds and the Maximum Risk for Humanity By Edmundo There are moments that appear insignificant until you look at them long enough. Take two Starbucks cups — one marked  Edmundo , one  Maria  — sitting in soft afternoon light. A cappuccino and a caramel macchiato as the last remaining evidence that two people existed in the same place at the same time. Most people would scroll past it. But photographers — the good ones — would stop. And what they see in that single frame depends entirely on the world they believe in. This is a journey through  ten photographers , ten ways of seeing, and one simple question: What does a tiny moment like this say about the maximum risk for humanity? 1. Saul Leiter — The Poetry of the Unnoticed Leiter would say the beauty lies in the soft blur, the quiet window light, the gentle way the world washes into abstraction. Edmundo Scholz’s photo fits his gospel: The small things matter...

🏰 Canadian & Nearby Festivals — Scholz Master List 2025 Historical Version Ontario — Medieval & Renaissance 🧝 Robin in the Hood Medieval Festival – Elmira, ON (Early May) Trivia: Founded in the late 1990s by local teachers and theatre folks; combines archery, knights, and “Ye Olde Food Court.” Teaches through play like medieval morality pageants. 👑 The Royal Medieval Faire – Waterloo, ON (Mid September) Trivia: Since 1998, incorporates Shakespearean improvisation and drama grads; merges academia and festival performance. 🦅 Oxford Renaissance Festival – Woodstock, ON (~June 14–16, 2025) Trivia: Features falconry and siege weapon demos, some staffed by engineering students. Cross-border performers from Michigan sometimes appear. ⚔️ Upper Canada Village Medieval Festival – Morrisburg, ON (Early June) Trivia: Medieval festival inside a 19th-century village; small events continue even if main festival is not confirmed for 2025. 🎭 Country Renaissance ...