sholis.com
Chicagoan in Toronto, art worker, autodidact, dad. More at sholis.com; building valise.works for artists
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Do you use the Markwhen plugin inside Obsidian at all? It might finally end my endless Bear/Obsidian debate …
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Tell me you’re taking the train to the event
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“Perfect Teeth gathered Unrest’s omnivorous collage of ideas and polished it to pop perfection, leaning into their melodic impulses without losing the eccentricities that defined Teen-Beat’s irreverent philosophy.” –Arielle Gordon, in @pitchfork.com
pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
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Find out more about this nonprofit w/ a half-century history of supporting artists:
artmetropole.com
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Here are four foundries/designers I’d say are somewhat lesser known, but have released typefaces in the last ~2 years that I’ve added to my favorites list:
- dennisgrauel.com
- counter-forms.com
- www.allcapstype.com
- www.fairetype.com/fonts
Thanks for asking. Watching the replies. 👀
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Are enough people signed up for Gather yet for us to go in 50/50? I'll work on some more Valise outreach emails … 😀
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Case study here: www.caserne.com/projects/clu...
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Oh, I agree about the definition of journalism! I’m not asking about the award. I just put a lot of thought and energy into the book and I appreciate your expertise and contextual knowledge and would love to hear someday what you think of it as a book.
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As an editor who was instrumental in putting the book together, I’d love to hear your separate comments on it as a book and in comparison to other monographs! 📬
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in keeping alive the possibilities inherent in the past, one preserves a hope for a future.”
Colin Dickey reads a new collection of W. G. Sebald’s early academic essays in a way I haven’t seen from other reviewers, who have been critical bordering on dismissive.
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I found this related thread interesting (this is a link to one of the last posts in it):
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My appreciation for MacOS/iOS apps that just do one thing well—Bear, Things 3, Fantastical—increases by the month.
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Barker’s “Stochastic Drift” is my other favorite from last week. Generally chill but not in any way boring—fun details to listen to all the way through.
sambarker.bandcamp.com/album/stocha...
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It’s kind of a DAMS. We encourage users to keep another copy of high-res image files. It's more like a status tracker as work gets consigned, sold, etc. All interlinked, all with places to add related files (PDFs of invoices, etc.). Happy to show it to you some time, as I love informed feedback!
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Valise is built on both my 24-year experience in the art world and helping my wife run her studio, plus my near decade-long friendship with Ross. We’re bootstrapping the business and promise to never lock you in. Here’s what we wrote last year about longevity:
valise.works/blog/longevity
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+tells AI+: “please make me a photorealistic image of an Antony Gormley metal figurative sculpture, the kind often sited at the edges of bodies of water, sitting on a toilet—and place it on the edge of a body of water, looking out to sea”
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It’s telling that the spaces that seem most appealing to me are the few that have wooden floors. A lot seems to be riding on the “softness” and “elegance” of those concert curves.
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A friend also taught me, a few years ago, to put lemon or lime zest on vanilla ice cream, which I now also really like … as a treat
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Wouldn’t be a problem for me, since I find Gormley sculptures so moving
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Sent me back to the review I wrote last September, which holds up OK, I think (nevermind the technical snafu attributing it to my former boss):
magazine.frontier.is/if-you-build...
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Promise not to belabor the point, but I will say that Feedbin allows you to see emails in their original HTML form (see attached). I'm responding so much b/c I know the pain—I’m apparently just shy of 2,000 "feeds" in my account.