Guillaume Simoneau — Between Glass and Steel

"Over almost a decade, Guillaume Simoneau has documented high school students from Lévis, Quebec, on graduation night, resulting in a series of formally posed portraits that belie the emotional and alcohol-fuelled chaos of the actual “bush party” event."

More on Simoneau's site.

I first saw Guillaume Simoneau's work yesterday: Untitled (Kanazawa 02), Ishikawa prefecture, Japan at the Bulger Gallery in Toronto. Stunning piece, which you can see below.

Untitled (Kanazawa 02), Ishikawa prefecture, Japan, 2017

People, Places, Things — Bulger Gallery

Lake Erie / Sarnia #2, Robert Burley,2022

Yesterday, after injuring my toe yet again, I hobbled over to the exhibit, People, Places, Things — Part II at the Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto. It was recommended to me by David Liss and it was great. There's a wonderful variety of work. Well worth a visit.

Portrait of Neil Young, circa 1969. Photographer Unknown
Motorcyclists at Lake Balaton, Gabor Szilasi, 1954.
[Manhattan Skyline], Nathaniel Lieberman, 1982-1986

Nicholas Kristof's Gift Guide


JamCorder

The website leaves much to be desired, but the JamCorder device seems pretty nifty. You plug it into your keyboard and never think about it again — it records and saves everything you play, automatically.

Sure, you could just record on your phone, but because the JamCorder is always working in the background, it'll capture any greatness you may have done unintentionally and will allow you to stay in flow without interruption. Pretty neat.

$99 on the JamCorder site.


Rebind

Rebind claims to be a "mindfulness app for deep reading, guided by the world's most interesting people. Rebind challenges you to engage with a book in a whole new way."

Huh?

Yeah, so it appears to be a site that at the moment has a limited library of titles, each "hosted" by experts on that title. While you read the ebook, their notes and commentary are available. In addition to just annotation, there's an AI interface that connects you with the notes of that expert, so you can, at any time, ask specific questions and have them answered by the AI which uses the well of information that the expert provided.

Current titles on offer are

  • A Tale of Two Cities with Margaret Atwood
  • Huckleberry Finn with Marlon James
  • The Age of Innocence with Roxanne Gay
  • Dubliners with John Banville
  • And more

It's certainly an interesting idea, and if I had an extra $120 lying around I'd try the annual membership. I'll check back in the future to see how the library expands. It's certainly an interesting approach to AI.

More on the Rebind site.


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