Stephen Kooshian brought the cool glass of beer to his lips while sitting in the noisy Manhattan Beach bar. The Sierra Nevada Pale Ale washed over his tastebuds, and Kooshian was shocked beer could taste so fresh. The Sierra Nevada beer led Kooshianto recreateit in hisPalmsapartment as a third-year history student at UCLA in 2008, […]
Author Archives: Kayla Hausmann
Photographer Nolan Isozaki inspired by the pretty and the gritty
Nolan Isozaki clung to the side of a mountain, watching stones dislodged by his backpack tumble down 14,000 feet to the ground. Freezing wind whipped around him as the sun’s light faded over the Rocky Mountains, muffling the warning shouts of his friends in the valley below. Isozaki clasped his Fujifilm X20 camera with frozen […]
Bruin Consent Coalition aims to empower through self-care art
Ishani Patel reached into her backpack to dig for a pen at the beginning of her Classics 42: “Cinema and the Ancient World” course. Instead, her fingers clasped the smooth, glassy surface of the small stone she carried everywhere. As her professor began to pass out quizzes, Patel laid the rock in her palm to […]
Graduate art student explores intersections of human, technology
Nikita Gale and her then-girlfriend’s voices rose in pitch and anticipation as they sat parked in front of a gas station in late spring 2015 weighing the pros and cons of abandoning weekend plans in Joshua Tree and driving to Vegas to get married. As they spoke, Gale’s iPhone recorded their 10-minute conversation. A video […]
Festival of Books drew alumni from UCLA, USC to promote books, speak
Festival goers strolled under umbrellas and ponchos, ducking into tents to flip through books and escape the drizzle. Authors, vendors and readers congregate for a weekend to celebrate the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books each April. Saturday and Sunday marked the event’s 21st anniversary and sixth consecutive year at the University of Southern California, […]
Artist depicts Oscar winners as Mexican to highlight lack of diversity
UCLA professor Chon Noriega smoothed the front page of the Los Angeles Times out on the table in front of him. Twenty white faces and one headline glared back: “Oscars 2016: Here’s why the nominees are so white – again.” In response Noriega, the director of UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center, contacted Los Angeles artist […]
UCLA student displays self-taught, YouTube-inspired makeup skills
Samaria Hudson has transitioned from dancing on stage to working behind it over the course of 2015. Third-year psychobiology student Hudson and two other students will be makeup artists for the UCLA Cultural Affairs Commission’s fashion show, “So Fresh and So Clean,” Thursday. A budding makeup artist, Hudson was chosen because she can craft natural […]