Nate Mohler had to translate a Korean instruction manual the first time he operated a 360-degree camera. The Samsung Gear 360 camera, which was so new at the time that it didn’t even come with English instructions, has come into the mainstream since Mohler first picked it up in the summer of 2016, he said. […]
Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts
Dance student’s piece ‘Fugit Tempus’ frames space in a cardboard world
Sarah Jacobs’ latest dance piece features a cardboard set and a skeleton model named Skelly. Jacobs’ movement-based performance “Fugit Tempus” is part of the world arts and cultures/dance department’s Upstarts Series. The piece, whose name was inspired by the Latin phrase tempus fugit meaning “time flies,” will be shown Friday and Saturday night in Kaufman […]
Alumna fuses Punjabi, modern dance for Bollywood-inspired film ‘The Hideout’
Instead of attending law school, Rippin Sindher decided to take a trip to the Amazon rainforest. The trip allowed her to think about her aspirations and made her realize she wanted to pursue film. “You’re in the middle of this jungle in a canoe, and it’s just a healing process,” Sindher said. “It allows for […]
Looking for laughs: How UCLA students prepare for comedy careers
Asmita Paranjape splits jokes between Westwood and Hollywood – editing an on-campus satirical magazine and performing sketches at a Los Angeles comedy club. For the fourth-year computer science and linguistics student and other aspiring comedians at UCLA, joining a mix of comedic organizations both on and off campus provides space to gain the experience necessary […]
UCLA hosts first of New York Times’ discussion series with Leslie Odom Jr.
The soundtrack of the musical “Hamilton” blared from the speakers as students streamed into De Neve Commons Lecture Auditorium, eagerly awaiting The New York Times’ Get With The Times, a conversation between New York Times reporter Yamiche Alcindor and “Hamilton” star Leslie Odom Jr. Within minutes, the audience burst into song, singing and rapping along […]
TFT students explore clashing generations in play ‘Stupid F#@king Bird’
Actress Jamie Hughes called upon a recent clash with her mother to inform her latest stage role. The altercation laid the foundation for her character’s tense relationship with her son. On Friday, she and a group of students from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television will open the play “Stupid F#@king Bird,” an adaptation […]
UCLA professor’s billboard art piece frames road to Coachella
This post was updated on April 21 at 4 p.m. Jennifer Bolande spent hours taking pictures for an art piece that she says viewers cannot properly capture in photos. Bolande, a UCLA art professor and professional artist, created six billboards along the north and southbound side of Gene Autry Trail. The images of mountains align directly with […]