I assume the homeless in Toronto are treated a lot like they are in New York City: Unless they’re willing to sing, tell a joke, or perform some other act of public embarrassment, they’re virtually nonexistent—except if the Satoralist finds then fashionably relevant. But not everyone is talented, so street artist Fauxreel launched a guerrilla PR campaign to humanize these poor Canadian vagabonds as part of his “Unaddressed” series. Some samples above and the full set here.

Photos by Fauxreel

Combining guerilla gardening and illegal ad takeovers, two Toronto artists cut and fold billboard and flyer ads into planters.

Photo by Spacing Magazine

After planting some trashed newspaper dispensers with flowers and herbs, Posterchild is looking at what the city of Toronto is sowing. Instead of foliage, weeds, trash, even more trash, banana peels and “nada” are filling the city planters that Posterchild carefully cataloged. With the small signs, the guerilla gardening street artist hopes to inspire others to claim these misused spaces and at the minimum “discourage people from planting anymore garbage trees.” |Blade Diary|

Photo via Blade Diary

In addition to sanctifying subway advertising, Toronto-based street artist Posterchild does guerrilla gardening too. He posted some new photos of his latest project: flower planters built inside trashed and mostly unused distribution boxes for crappy free papers no one wants. Sadly, the flowers don’t last long. Read more »