{"id":7450,"date":"2017-01-17T10:15:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T14:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=7450"},"modified":"2017-01-19T14:42:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T18:42:39","slug":"the-buzzing-lights-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-buzzing-lights-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The Buzzing Lights Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7452\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BuzzingLightsProject.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7452\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7452\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BuzzingLightsProject-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BuzzingLightsProject-sm.jpg 225w, https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BuzzingLightsProject-sm-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buzzing Lights &#8211;\u00a0Tanja Tiziana<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tanja-tiziana.com\/info\/\">Tanja Tiziana<\/a> of our city has just completed her opus to the North American Neon Signs common over a half century ago. The book, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/buzzinglightsproject.tumblr.com\">Buzzing Lights &#8211; The Fading Neon Landscape of North America<\/a>&#8221; uses photographs to record the old neon business signs whose buzz, crackle, and flicker introduced cities to many of us.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Everett-Green of Montreal discusses the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/arts\/art-and-architecture\/exhibit-explores-montreal-through-its-discarded-commercialsigns\/article33620536\/\">Signs of the Times<\/a>&#8221; in the Globe and Mail \u00a0article last Saturday. \u00a0I was a teenager when I first went to Montreal. The flashing neon along streets downtown sang out places like the Capitol and Princess theatres, Dunn&#8217;s and Ben&#8217;s delicatessens, American Lounge and Harlem Nights night clubs, and many more stores and businesses in that magical time between dusk and late night.<\/p>\n<p>The Montreal Movie Palaces, a book by the late <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dane_Lanken\">Dane Lanken<\/a>, lovingly recounts the marvels of the movie houses that formed part of Canada&#8217;s large cosmopolitan city. Dane spoke to us at the March 1999 meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Photographer Tanja Tiziana of our city has just completed her opus to the North American Neon Signs common over a half century ago. The book, &#8220;Buzzing Lights &#8211; The Fading Neon Landscape of North America&#8221; uses photographs to record &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-buzzing-lights-project\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[5,220,862],"class_list":["post-7450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","tag-photographer","tag-photos","tag-tanja-tziiana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7472,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7450\/revisions\/7472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}