Maddy Pease spent her summer poolside with a Crayola marker in hand. While the third-year design media arts student worked at a swim and tennis club, she used markers and paper lying around the facility to design letters, stars and hearts. Pease’s poolside drawings became the foundations of her first sticker pack for iOS. She […]
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Q&A: Film alumnus discusses achievement award, role in L.A. Rebellion
UCLA alumnus Charles Burnett got his start in film as part of the L.A. Rebellion film movement and has helped paved the way for other filmmakers of color. Burnett has worked on more than 20 films and will receive the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Governors Award at a dinner gala Saturday. Since […]
UCLA’s dance community attended meeting to advocate for more space
The growing UCLA dance community can look forward to more practice space on campus, UCLA administrators said at a town hall meeting Tuesday. More than 100 attendees from UCLA dance teams and the undergraduate student government’s Facilities Commission met with administrators about issues regarding dance practice spaces. A UCLA administrator said the Hedrick Movement Studio […]
Students produce thriller focusing on online dating, avoid overused themes
“Bad Match” crams every fear that comes with online dating into one movie. The film, produced by fourth-year film and television students Keaton Heinrichs and Akiva Nemetsky, tells the story of a playboy who finally meets his match in a mysterious woman he meets online. However, her sweet facade fades as she slowly derails his […]
UCLA art student created quirky T-shirt line, hopes to grow business
Hannah Kim invented a holiday to advertise her hand-printed chicken shirts. Through her National Chicken Shirt Days, which occur sporadically throughout the year with the support of her friends, Kim grew her own T-shirt line under the name of CHINGOOZ, a word which translates to “friends” in Korean. The second-year art student founded the line […]
Dance Break: Icarus
Michelle Barnes, the administrative director of ICARUS Contemporary Dance Company, teaches an excerpt of choreography to the song “Kill the Lights” by Britney Spears.
Student develops TV pilot based on grandfather’s post-WWII experience
Liz Buda’s grandfather survived the concentration camps of Dachau, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Kaufering, only to face the difficult conditions of the black market in a postwar displaced persons camp. His story of survival and hardship inspired the MFA screenwriting student’s TV pilot script, “Zero Hour.” “Zero Hour” challenged Buda to craft a script that accurately […]