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Portfolio

4 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 9 years ago -

Portfolio is a weekly podcast where Kate St. Clair (photographer/artist) and Jonathan Lynch (software engineer/music lover) discuss art, music, books, and a little bit of tech. Each episode has a main topic, and often a smaller second topic.

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Episodes

4: Why Not Make Every Word Ten Syllables?

January 27, 2015 03:38 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MB

Jonathan cops out several times, and Kate loves the black sheep (surprise!) of Decemberists albums. Pitchfork interview with Colin Meloy and Rachel Blumberg from 2003 The Decembrist revolt, 1825, a Russian protest against Emperor Nicholas I; it did indeed fail, after artillery fire into the crowd Pitchfork's review of The Hazards of Love "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy Picks the Decemberists' Best Songs" in Vulture DIY Magazine interview with Colin Meloy from 2015 The Decemberists play ...

3: We Stole Walden Pond

January 19, 2015 19:28 - 43 minutes - 15.1 MB

Kate doesn't like Henry David Thoreau's Walden, Jonathan loves Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago, and the topic is artists who go into seclusion. Follow-up: "RIP Gotham" on Rands in Repose Links: The Guardian piece by John Updike My Side of the Mountain series by Jean Craighead George Stephen Colbert's interview with Justin Vernon Andrea Swensson's interview with Justin Vernon in The Current Jeff Mangum, lead singer of Neutral Milk Hotel "JK Rowling revealed as author of The Cuckoo's...

2: It's Either Boring or Wrong

January 06, 2015 04:06 - 52 minutes - 36.2 MB

Kate and Jonathan talk about iPhoneography, photography, Instagram, photojournalism, and selfies. And yes, Jonathan knows he got the beloved Instagram filter wrong. And who talked about it. Oops. The removed Instagram filter was Gotham, not "Chicago," and it was discussed at length on Rands in Repose, not on Daring Fireball Damon Winter's "A Grunt's Life" Damon Winter's response to criticism of his use of Hipstamatic: "Through My Eye, Not Hipstamatic's" Alyssa Bereznak and David Hume Ke...

1: Lorde & Taylor

December 29, 2014 06:58 - 1 hour - 56.2 MB

Kate and Jonathan discuss Taylor Swift, Lorde, and feminism. They also talk a bit about New Year's resolutions. Taylor Swift talks about song-writing and poetry Dodai Stewart's 2012 rant about Taylor Swift The Guardian interview where Taylor Swift revisits feminism in 2014 Rookie Mag interview with Lorde Nico Lang's criticism of Lorde Where Lorde discusses sex positivity

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