On Saturday night, I left harbourfront and headed to the midnight opening of the new Royal Ontario Museum. I didn't have any plans to try to get inside. People had waited from dawn all day in the blazing sun to get one of the free tickets issued to the public, and still had to wait in line until the wee hours of Sunday morning to enter the new structure. I wanted to see the crowd itself. How often to you see people in mob numbers waiting all night to go to the museum?
Daniel Libeskind's Crystal was phenomenal while under construction - Like many in this city, I will always remember the site of those huge steel beams that are the bones of the structure, and watching the process unfold.
Working with a 50mm prime lens makes it difficult to get shots of big buildings. To get a sense of the building as a whole, take a look at
FBismark's blog. For a live webcam view from above, go
here.
What you can see in my blog are some of the first public visitors through the angled windows (unless you bought a $5,000 ticket for a preview the night before).
I wonder about all the people who worked to build this - work I can't even begin to comprehend.
A friend told me he went at 5 am, and by then, all the night birds had gone home. He got in without waiting, and he said he liked it much better from the inside.
