Jason Spielman has flown through mountain passes and over rooftops without ever leaving the ground. The UCLA alumnus uses drones and other video equipment to record remote landscapes, city skylines and college campuses. He then edits and shares the footage with companies and his social media followers. “I’ve always loved being creative and capturing moments,” […]
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Alumna cooks up videos of healthy, tasty recipes for Buzzfeed
Crystal Hatch created one of her first cooking tutorials during her senior year at UCLA. The alumna filmed herself turning fresh-picked lemons into raspberry lemonade. The video landed her a job as a video producer for BuzzFeed’s Goodful page. She now makes cooking tutorials almost every week. As a producer, the UCLA alumna films and […]
Student steps into fashion world with custom painted shoes
Andrea Nguyen said she never thought of herself as a talented painter until this past summer. But when Nguyen posted photos of her hand-painted jeans on social media, a friend requested a pair of custom painted shoes. Nguyen, a second-year mathematics/economics student, said she took on the challenge, improving her painting and eventually launching her […]
Restaurant review: Seoul House of Tofu
UCLA students don’t have to make the long trek out to Koreatown to get some tasty Korean food. Located along Sawtelle Boulevard, Seoul House of Tofu is a prime location for delicious Korean comfort food. The restaurant offers a wide range of warming Korean stew with options for meat eaters and vegetarians alike. The restaurant’s […]
Students personalize dorm rooms with photos, decorations
Wesley Chioh has photographs of Soviet architecture and Galapagos beaches tacked to his dorm room wall. The pictures represent all the places the second-year geography student travelled during his breaks from the Singaporean military and serve as reminders of each destination. The New Student Advisor likes to display his photographs for incoming students to see […]
First-year student posts weekly podcast geared to young audience
Riley Grant went to a high school party during his senior year not to dance or drink, but to conduct field research for his podcast. In the first episode of his podcast, Pique, the first-year pre-business economics student investigated why young people consume alcohol. By interviewing different people at varying levels of intoxication after getting […]
Alumna uses screenwriting experience to write comic book series
Madeleine Holly-Rosing wanted to create a steampunk television show, but when financial backing fell through, she decided to make a comic book instead. The 2009 screenwriting alumna and professional writer uses her experience in screenwriting to write stories in another type of visual medium – comic scripts. Her most renowned work, the 2012 “Boston Metaphysical […]