Electronic Arts recently released an upgrade to the new “SimCity” game that will add the Nissan LEAF to its inventory of cars. It’s an obvious attempt to lure potential car customers, and it got me thinking about advertising – the good and the bad. Read more...
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April 8, 12:00 am
Contestant fuses passion for art and baking into winning entry in UCLA Edible Book Festival
Lauren Peikert’s pound cake, shaped like an open book, was topped with a chocolate powder garden and candy vegetables and exuded a playful and imaginative take on “The Tale of Peter Rabbit.” As the winning selection of two of the festival’s categories, her piece did not go unnoticed. Read more...
Photo: Santa Barbara City College student Lauren Peikert won both the People’s Choice award and the Best Student Entry award at this year’s Edible Book Festival.
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April 5, 2:25 am
BANDALOOP dances on a different plane, founder to perform on the walls of Broad Art Center
Pedestrians walk down the sides of buildings, effortlessly perpendicular to their facades. Read more...
Photo: Amelia Rudolph, founder and artistic director of dance company BANDALOOP, walks down the side of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center during a rehearsal of “Man Walking Down the Side of a Building.”
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April 3, 1:46 am
Student-facilitated course at UCLA explores fashion history
UCLA is moving in forward fashion with the addition of a student-facilitated fashion history and design course this quarter. The seminar course, Theater 88S: “Designing Century: Fashion Design Introductory Course,” was created by fourth-year computational and systems biology student and self-taught designer Jennifer Lee, who said it was the first of its kind. Lee will teach a weekly seminar on the history of 20th-century fashion by analyzing design techniques of distinguished fashion designers like Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. Today will be the class’s first session. Read more...
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March 4, 11:05 pm
UCLA students fundraise to help secure Super Smash Bros. Melee a spot at EVO tournament
The illustration accompanying this article is misleading. See the bottom of the article for additional information. At UCLA the fighting spirit is alive and well, but not in such a literal way. Read more...
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March 4, 12:11 am
Armenian Dance Group depicts family tradition, history
No formal training necessary, most Armenian families find time to practice their moves and rhythmic footwork on the vinyl dance floor found at family gatherings as opposed to studios lined with mirrored walls. Read more...
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February 25, 10:57 pm
UCLA startup VineLust helps cultivate wine preferences
The golden age of the algorithm is now. As Netflix’s personalized video recommendation algorithm catalyzed mass online film distribution and Pandora Radio’s music recommendation algorithm redesigned the way people find new music, so is VineLust’s taste algorithm pioneering the way wine will be recommended and distributed. Read more...
Photo: Graduate student Pallavi Patil founded VineLust, a wine e-commerce startup that aims to help people explore wines using an algorithm.