Brazen
460, Sainte-Catherine street Ouest suite 710
montreal (qc), canada, h3b 1a7
+1 514 439 6542

A glimpse into our work

About Brazen

Brazen is a Montreal based web lab
founded by Michael Ekoka and
François Morin. We strive to provide
an intuitive, innovative and refreshing
user experience. Follow us on our blog, twitter, delicious or contact us to talk about a project.
François Morin
I see the web as a platform bridging the real world to the virtual world. I wish to contribute to the tools required to bring the user experience further and make it more memorable. The web is in motion and constantly redefining itself. Therefore, the developer should always challenge himself by exploring new technologies.
+1 514 569 6245
francois[a]brazen.ca
Michael Ekoka
The Web. So many toys, so little time. We're all kids in this ultimate playground. The planet though, is still not small enough. So much yet to discover and to forget. Lets shrink it some more for the global conversation. That's a journey I wanna be part of... one bug at a time.
+1 514 839 4667
michael[a]brazen.ca
The background is an auto-generated snapshot representing a random excerpt
of today's news.
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Explaining the background

Most people ask what the nonsensical sentences at the center of the background are. At the time we began to work on the site, Frank was toying with the development of an application capable of aggregating articles from a preselected list of blogs and able to generate a sentence from the title mash.

Some of the early sentences were funny enough that we decided to call them "The Bot's nuggets of wisdom". Most times they make us wonder "wtf", occasionally, they almost sound profound, nearly philosophical (in their nonsense), in some instances they might be perceived as perverted or controversial. All in all, there are a few hits and a couple of misses. Though, the excitement over a "good nugget" is worth it enough for us to keep The Bot alive and speaking.

This isn't an attempt to prove anything, it's pure unadulterated fun. We haven't found any specific application for it (yet), but hope, given time, to dig a bit more into Natural Language Processing and help The Bot perform a bit better and maybe reach a purposeful level. In the meantime, The Bot says: "My expensive freshness hit one truly soon"... indeed!

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The background is generated daily from random headlines. It is an attempt at synthesizing in one image and one sentence the news of the day. A work in progress.
Le fond est reconstruit chaque jour à partir d'articles ayant fait la manchette et choisis au hasard. L'expérience consiste à synthétiser en une phrase et une image l'actualité de la journée. Un travail en cours.
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