Sabrina Carpenter spots some gems! / Illustration by Mia Zimonjic
Here are your hand-picked gems of the internet :)
Another studio tour! Genre-bending musician Jacob Collier guides TikToker Caleb Simpson through the music studio he built in his childhood bedroom. Around the 21-minute mark, he uses his Grammy awards as Agogo bells (as we all do).
Olivia Tiedemann, a creator whose show is described as “Food Network meets Shameless”, has a Spotify playlist with all the indie rock she uses in her videos.
I’ve found the productivity concept of ‘non-zero days’ helpful for me as I try and stay consistent with this new project. The full idea is outlined in this reddit post, which is very long, but the gist is this:
“Rule numero uno - There are no more zero days. What's a zero day? A zero day is when you don't do a single fucking thing towards whatever dream or goal or want or whatever that you got going on. No more zeros… Didnt' do anything all fucking day and it's 11:58 PM? Write one sentence. One pushup. Read one page of that chapter. One. Because one is non zero.”
Favorite music: Cinderella by Remi Wolf, Maine by hey, nothing, What Once Was by Her’s, Run Your Mouth by The Marías, and Wish You Could Be Here by Helado Negro. I also made a playlist of songs that feel old but aren’t, and here’s a running list of some of my favorite cover songs:
Hozier: Do I Wanna Know? by The Arctic Monkeys
Hozier - Say My Name by Destiny’s Child
The Frightnrs - I Would Rather Go Blind by Etta James
Remi Wolf - Pink + White by Frank Ocean
G Flip - Cruel Summer by Taylor Swift
Harry Styles - Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel
There’s a new Jim Henson movie coming out May 31st on Disney+, which reminds me of Light & Magic, the fantastic Disney+ doc about the special effects team that made the first Star Wars possible.
As a stationery fan and left-handed person, I’m very partial to ballpoint pens, so when I came across this video on the invention of the Bic pen, I knew I had to watch! It feels just like the ‘How It’s Made’ episodes I loved as a kid.
This MOMA author clock tells time using only quotes from books.
Patreon CEO Jack Conte interviews Kariza Santos (LifeofRiza) on the latest episode of Digital Spaghetti.
Sometimes I worry about finding stuff to share every week, but every week, the internet provides. This reminded me of some great writing advice I discovered via Austin Kleon:
from Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life: “One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water.”
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