Zoë Lance.

  • Gold Star for the Internet: Podcasts I’m Currently Listening To

    On Monday, I started a new contract gig for a media company that’s based in Santa Monica. Because of traffic, it takes me about 2 1/2 hours to get there and about the same time to get home. I have a solid iTunes library, and I put my iPhone on shuffle in the morning to help…

  • Link Party: 9/14-9/18

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. I follow Anne Helen Petersen on Twitter, and was not surprised that this profile on Alison Brie was so well-written and so thoughtful. A must-read. (Also, I like how Buzzfeed is stepping up its design game.) 2. This is a great article that explains the history and methodology…

  • Culture Conversation: A 1969 Olin Ad

    I have a stack of vintage National Geographics that I bought from my public library’s bookstore for my art journaling. I’m starting a new journal and was going through the magazines to find photos and words to use. In the October 1969 issue, I came across this advertisement for Olin, which is a Missouri-based company…

  • Culture Conversation: Heads Up Seven Up

    I spend a significant amount of my Internet time researching stuff that is not particularly new or timely but catches my interest, and I inevitably end up thinking about it through some cultural lens. Here is the first post of a new series that chronicles this aspect of my Internet adventures.  I encourage you to share and become…

  • Link Party: 9/7-9/11

    I’ve had this quote from Ira Glass saved for awhile, but one of my closest friends, Valerie, sent it to me this week — a very trying week for me — and it is so incredibly profound to me now that I’m trying my very best to remember it. Nobody tells this to people who…

  • Link Party: 8/31-9/4

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. This is a great interview with Lisa Frank. 2. Discussing the authenticity of Disney World via its food. 3. Here’s the story behind the “Gilmore Girls” music. 4. This guy is the Birkenstock doctor. 5. The ballpoint pen killed cursive. And a bonus: I am living for this Archer x…

  • Culture Connoisseur: Flight of the Conchords

    This summer I haven’t watched that much television. I’ve watched assorted Bravo reality television shows sporadically, the end of Hannibal (RIP),  the second season of True Detective (which was incredibly disappointing) and Show Me A Hero (GO WATCH IT, but that is not the point of this post). But when I heard that Flight of the…

  • Link Party: 8/24-8/28

    Oh man, what a week. That’s all I can say. Here’s what I read: 1. This writer played a word game based on Moby Dick when he had insomnia. His observations are fascinating. 2. A highly scientific, real-life exploration into how anyone could possibly like the rapper J. Cole. (Disclosure: I liked his latest album when…

  • Think Tank: Instagram’s Embrace of Landscape and Portrait Photos

    Instagram announced today that in addition to its signature square posts, the app will now allow users to upload  photos and videos in both portrait and landscape orientations. Prior to this change, users made their whole photos fit by using other apps to add borders. Instagram realized that 20 percent of its users use these apps extensively…

  • Link Party: 8/17-8/21

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. A discussion of the color black in the art world. 2. Living in a post-delete world. 3. The research this article is based on is kind of old, but this is still an interesting perspective on the geography of New York business lunches that I think may be applicable…