Zoë Lance.

  • Gold Star for the Internet: Skillshare

    Back in the summer (when I had more time to pursue my hobbies), I found this great website that is chock full of creative tutorials. At my art journaling class, I was telling my coworker about how I learned calligraphy and mentioned the class. Up until then, I had completely forgotten about it. And the more…

  • Undergrad Adventures: Structure of Language

    As an English major, I’m required to take two linguistics courses. I took language acquisition last winter, and now I’m taking structure of language. Because language is a system, a linguistics class is essentially a math class that uses words instead of numbers. In just a few short weeks, I’ve learned a lot about language and…

  • Link Party: 10/6-10/10

    The past few days have been a little crazy, but I did have some time to read a few really great articles. Here’s what I read: 1. Stevie Nicks and Haim in one interview. Life is beautiful. 2. Some scientists found some ancient cave paintings in Indonesia, and they predate the European ones. And because these paintings are so much…

  • Think Tank: Creative Extracurriculars

    I’m taking an art journaling class, and it is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. For two hours on Monday and Wednesday afternoons after work, I get to work on my journal, eat really good food and zone out. I’ve only been to one class so far, but when I got in my car to…

  • Gold Star for the Internet: Fly Art

    Every once in awhile, someone on the Internet gets a really genius idea and deserves a giant gold star. Today, I’m giving it to Fly Art. There are a couple of similar projects, but the jist is that the people behind Fly Art take rap lyrics and layer them over pieces of classical art. It started off…

  • Monday Musings: Julius Caesar

    I caught the second-to-last performance of Southern California Shakespeare Festival‘s Julius Caesar on Saturday. This production was not my favorite of all time, but the casting and the acting were fantastic. It was completely modernized —  a woman (my former film professor, actually) played Caesar, and it took the David Fincher-esque thriller route over the toga and Greco-Roman architecture one. There were a…

  • Think Tank: Throwback Thursday

    I have participated in Throwback Thursday (#tbt or #throwbackthursday, depending on your hashtagging preferences) and Flashback Friday (again, #fbf or #flashbackfriday) a grand total of three times. Coincidentally, all three photos happened to be from concerts. My motivation for today’s photo stemmed from the facts that I found it in my Camera Roll, thought it was cool, and realized…

  • Capstone Adventures: Finishing Kanye

    Last night, I turned in a final draft of an article about Kanye West for Part I of my honors capstone project. I spent all summer working on it, and although I’m mostly happy with it and the experience I had writing it, I’m glad that it’s over. My first idea for my capstone project was…