Art

Six String Nation is coming up on its 20th anniversary in 2026, and Founder Jowi Taylor is ramping up to it with some events. Next in line is a free, full-length, public Six String Nation multimedia presentation – complete with a live music component from Lori Cullen. It'll be happening at The Henderson Brewery, just north of A Tiny Bell's Toronto headquarters.

Tickets are free and available through EventBrite.

If you're unfamiliar with Six String Nation, check out their official site, where you can learn about Voyageur, the guitar comprised of 64 different pieces of material — wood, bone, metal, stone and others — from across Canada.

A Handyfoto — or mobile photo — captures mundane objects or situations as a photo or video. It is the unexpected synergy between two unharmonious elements. The Marco Land Handyfoto Foundation defines Handyfoto also as a way-of-seeing, a sacred practice: unplanned, observant, and attuned to life’s subtle humor and charm.

This will make more sense if you hop over to the Foundation's website and play with the filters.

On a recent dog park walk, I found myself discussing the work of Ken Loach and Mike Leigh. I saw Leigh's new film, Hard Truths, on Thursday and it was as spectacular as anything he's ever done.

While walking and talking, I struggled to recall the name Nick Hedges, whose b&w work from '68 to '72 reminds me of Loach (in composition) and Leigh (in tone). Took me a few hours or googling to bring his name to mind.

More on Hedges' site. Also available in book form.

Gwen Coyne's iPhone Photography is probably better than yours. It's certainly better than mine.

More on Coyne's site.

Emily O'Leary makes dog rugs.

More on her site.

Eno, the Gary Hustwit-directed generative documentary that I mentioned in July gets its world streaming premiere tomorrow:

This livestream event is more than just the movie, it's a 24-hour curated film, art and music experience with multiple unique versions of the documentary generated around the clock and much more.

Streaming schedule and tickets ($24) are available at Anamorph.

Drawn and Quarterly has published a collection Edward Steed's delightful comic panels.

More on Geddes' site, including timed releases in his shop.

Just reading the collected short stories in Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte and they are brutally good. As the NYT says, "Tony Tulathimutte’s new stories center on the young, alienated, unloved people you can’t stop watching."

The first story, The Feminist, was published in N+1 and is free to read. It knocked me out, as I was friends with someone in the 90s who is pretty much this character through and through. He was my first encounter with Mens Rights Activists and thankfully I've managed to avoid in-depth conversations with others in the movement ever since.

Someone has posted the entirety of Rupert Goold's version of Macbeth to Youtube. It is... something else, and well worth your time.

This is from the Youtube description:

Macbeth is a 2010 television film based on William Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name. It was broadcast on BBC Four on 12 December 2010. In the United States, it aired on PBS' Great Performances. Rupert Goold directed it from his stage adaptation for the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2007. Patrick Stewart is featured in the title role, with Kate Fleetwood as Lady Macbeth.

The film is a more modern re-imagining of William Shakespeare's Macbeth. It evokes the atmosphere of Romania in the 1960s, with parallels between Ceaușescu and Macbeth in their equally brutal quests for power. The Three Witches likewise receive an update in keeping with the 20th-century aesthetics, appearing as hospital nurses. Their presence is pervasive throughout the film, punctuating the horror of Macbeth's murderous reign.

Watch it here:

Via Metafilter.