The golden hour in filmmaking is a brief and fleeting time of day directly before sunrise and after sunset when the sky is painted in lush yellows and warm reds. It evokes an overwhelming sense of nostalgia, loss and melancholy – a reason it has become the ideal time for filmmakers and photographers to shoot. […]
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Ice Cream Mondaes: Scoops Westside
The walls of Scoops Westside are lined with collages made up of bits of colored tile. However, the mosaic I found most interesting wasn’t in the front in the house, but rather in the back: a monochromatic piece found next to building materials and broken restaurant equipment that gather behind doors marked “Employees Only.” It […]
Student Sartorialist: Doing more with less using crop tops, cutoffs and cutouts
Crop tops, cutoffs and cutouts are all trends that you don’t need to look very hard to find in Southern California. Not only are they in many stores that cater to the young adult demographic, but I’ve also spotted them all across our campus, to a point where I almost feel that the trend has […]
Out of Focus: Egyptian Theatre to showcase Buñuel’s best films
From the smoke-filled cafes of 1920s Paris, where his landmark film “Un Chien Andalou” was concocted with Salvador Dalí, to the poverty-stricken slums of 1950s Mexico, Luis Buñuel crafted a variety of masterpieces that would cement his status as one of the world’s greatest filmmakers. Blending surrealism with elements of naturalism, and dealing in a […]
Student Sartorialist: Normcore trend embraces ironic take on fashion
When the fashionable youth started to trade in their platform heels and leather joggers for “mom jeans” and running sneakers, it became obvious that a new trend was upon us. Normcore is an emerging style that consciously embraces everything that is considered to be normal and indistinguishable to such a degree that it can almost […]
Out of Focus: ‘Nosferatu the Vampyre’ an exceptional take on Dracula story
A fog-enshrouded Transylvania. A castle raised high in the sky in all of its menace and grandeur. A pale and ghastly vampire looming in the shadows. We’ve seen these images before. We know what we’re going to see and what’s going to happen. German auteur Werner Herzog crafts an excellent variation on the Dracula story […]
Student Sartorialist: High fashion on a student budget is possible
Rihanna is spotted in the front row as Cara Delevingne struts down the runway. Karl Lagerfeld directs from backstage, and I’m at home in my pajamas reading all about it in the latest issue of Vogue. Besides the occasional scroll through style blogs, as a student with a busy schedule, it’s hard for me to […]