Brian
sholis.com
Brian
@sholis.com
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Chicagoan in Toronto, art worker, autodidact, dad. This is mostly a read-and-reply account. More about me at sholis.com; I’m also building valise.works for artists.
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Brian @sholis.com · Apr 2
I don’t say this often enough: my friend Ross and I are building Valise, the best inventory software for artists. We want it to be easy to keep track of your work; the admin side of running a studio shouldn’t be difficult, and information is power. Please share with artists you know!

valise.works
Brian @sholis.com · Jun 17
Last point before I return to my unplanned social-media sabbatical: do not buy this book at Amazon if you can avoid it. Try:

In Canada: www.indiebookstores.ca/book/9781804...

In the US: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Single Book - IndieBookstores
www.indiebookstores.ca
Brian @sholis.com · Jun 17
You know it’s good just from the groups she surveys: the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC), Women Artists in Revolution (WAR), ACT UP, Top Value Television (TVTV), Agnes Denes, Edgar Heap of Birds, Dyke Action Machine!, fierce pussy, Project Row Houses, Nan Goldin’s PAIN.
Brian @sholis.com · Jun 17
I am speaking with Lauren at Type Books in Toronto at the end of the summer! We’ve been friends for 27 years and this is our first public event together! I am excited, as the exclamation marks suggest.
Brian @sholis.com · Jun 8
Funnily enough, I’m also in Canada and found your feed via a search for “TWSBI 580.” I’m navigating my midlife crisis with notebooks & pens, and in the past month have settled on a regular-size TN and yesterday I bought my third pen, a TWSBI 580 Diamond AL R in “nickel" (EF nib). 🤝✒️📔🇨🇦
Brian @sholis.com · May 31
First pen, a LAMY Safari Dark Dusk (EF), purchased May 15. Second pen, a Kaweco AL Sport (Anthracite; F), purchased May 31. 😬🫣
Brian @sholis.com · May 31
👂🏻👂🏻 thanks! I hope these past few weeks you’ve been getting the responses you hoped for!
Brian @sholis.com · May 30
New albums from Al Wootton, Abul Mogard, Deaf Center, Warmth, Heinali, Ellen Arkbro, and Laura Cannell—it’s an ambient/experimental lover’s dream week. Plus Sonnyjim, a Keith Jarrett live set, Andy Shauf’s Foxwarren, Budos Band, Alan Sparhawk … it goes on and on. So much to savor. 🎶
Brian @sholis.com · May 30
Every Friday morning, I set aside time to open @mactanaka.bsky.social’s wonderful app MusicHarbor, which is like an RSS reader for Apple Music, and sort through new releases from the 1,000+ artists I follow. This morning I feel especially blessed.
Brian @sholis.com · May 30
I’m about two weeks ahead of you and have a growing list of pens to buy next …
Brian @sholis.com · May 29
I don’t think so! I opened it up and tried to share an article and it copied the URL to the clipboard. GL parses text and images, so you could conceivably manually copy-and-paste to get that back out. But it’s not like a .webarchive / full copy. I'm a RR user, so you might want to sniff around more.
Brian @sholis.com · May 28
– Readwise Reader is the power-user’s tools, with good parsing, many integrations, customization
– Matter is the best–designed, but a little too heavy on AI & recommendations for my taste
– GoodLinks is great if you're Apple-only and don’t need to easily get highlights out
Brian @sholis.com · May 28
Here’s a new iteration your followers in NYC might want to sign up for, if they missed the first round (from @laurel.bsky.social):

ultralight.school/classes/walk...
Walking the Internet
ultralight.school
Brian @sholis.com · May 25
I've just arrived at the standard TN after a very long journey over two decades (Moleskine → L1917 → Stalogy → Hobonichi →). About a week in and very happy thus far …
Brian @sholis.com · May 21
That’s a lovely drawing! I saw it because I follow the Hobonichi feed. By coincidence an artist friend of mine was on Dutch TV a few days ago talking about his new book, which focuses on butterflies: m.youtube.com/watch?v=hCcD...
What we can learn from a painted lady butterfly | Lucas Foglia | Buitenhof
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We are launching a new exhibition project for art, its discourses, and histories in Portland Oregon above Mother Foucault’s Bookshop. societysocietysociety.com
SOCIETY
SOCIETY is a space for art and its histories and discourses above Mother Foucault's Bookshop in Portland, Oregon
societysocietysociety.com
Brian @sholis.com · May 20
Happy to recommend bookstores and coffee shops and bakeries and the like in Toronto, to round out your trip!
Brian @sholis.com · May 16
The Lamy Safari Dark Dusk special edition got me yesterday, after years of lurking …