Nuit Blanche '12

{Nuit Blanche 2012, Toronto}

As it turns out, Nuit Blanche is a bit of a nightmare.  It's such an amazing concept; an all-night city-wide exposition of art exhibits, open to the public to roam until the sun rises.  It sounds beautiful.  It looks beautiful in photographs, and video.  In reality it seems to be an event unique in its ability to draw out the worst of the worst of Torontonians - the obnoxious ones, the drunken ones, the desperate ones, the crazy ones, it's a little disappointing really.  I suppose though, there is nothing to do.  The art remains amazing as always (see '10 and '11 here and here), and while the in-person viewing experience may be mixed, the images are fantastic, and particularly the video above which is enough to make even my cynical self forget temporarily about the pandemonium of the event Saturday night.

-images via BlogTO-