World of Maps...

World of Maps, at the corner of Wellington Street and Holland Avenue in the Ottawa neighbourhood of Hintonburg, is a store I've always meant to visit, but I just haven't gotten around to doing so.

I really like the logo on that store, with the "O" in "of" being a globe.

This shot really reminds me of the "Bohemian Rhapsody" segment from the beginning of one of my all time favourite movies, Wayne's World. Most people, if they remember that scene at all, remember Wayne, Garth, and the guys in the back head banging and lip-synching to Queen, but that sequence also featured some awesome urban night photography of interesting and eccentric storefronts (and the "Spindle" sculpture with 8 cars on a spike) which I think is actually a major subconscious inspiration on my own photography.

World of Maps seems like a store that could easily have been featured in that sequence, if only it was in Aurora, Illinois.