Los Angeles-based three-piece electronica group The Glitch Mob will be performing Friday at the second weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Sahara tent at 7:30 p.m. Composed of DJs Edward Ma (edIT), Justin Boreta (Boreta) and Josh Mayer (Ooah), the DJ collective, known for its blend of electronic and live […]
Author Archives: Aalhad Patankar
Q&A: Fitz and the Tantrums bassist relates band’s style, inspirations
Since forming in 2008, Los Angeles-based six-piece Fitz and the Tantrums have seen a steady rise in the band’s popularity. In May 2013, the band released its latest album, “More Than Just a Dream,” and is back on the road. It will be playing at the Hollywood Palladium on April 5 Daily Bruin’s Aalhad Patankar […]
UCLA alumnus builds Lego art brick by brick
Seventeen years ago, under the lights of his Christmas tree, six-year-old David Tracy unwrapped his present and began building his future, brick by brick.
UCLA students use unconventional animation in ‘Retrospect’
The stage is set to a perfectly still living room: a bookshelf lines the back wall, a television encased in the shelf flashes static, and a cozy couch sits facing the television. Soon after, the silhouette of a young woman walks in and takes a seat on the couch as the screen turns to images […]
Q&A: Judd Winick shares ‘storyboards’ behind ‘Pedro and Me’
In 1994, a young cartoonist named Judd Winick entered the cast of MTV’s “The Real World: San Francisco.” It was there he met Pedro Zamora, a young AIDS educator and fellow cast member who made waves as one of the first openly gay, HIV-positive Cuban men on television. A few months after the season ended, […]
UCLA alumni reunite for horror comedy ‘Ghost Team One’
The original version of this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. When UCLA alumni Scott Rutherford and Ben Peyser first met as graduate students on Professor Duane Dell’Amico’s web series, they had no idea what they were doing. It was improv; the two played […]
Q&A: UCLA alumni Rutherford and Peyser discuss filmmaking experience
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television alumni Scott Rutherford and Ben Peyser are the co-directors of “Ghost Team One,” a horror comedy that follows slacker friends Brad and Sergio, madly in lust with beautiful Fernanda, who believes the house they all live in is haunted. Daily Bruin’s Aalhad Patankar sits down with Rutherford and […]