In 1991, experimental filmmaker Ernie Gehr directed a 41-minute film from the outdoor glass elevator at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. Read more...
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A still from the short film “Side/Walk/Shuttle,” shot from the outdoor glass elevator at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. The film is a part of the “Radical Light” series, which celebrates alternative films from the Bay Area. (credit: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive)
Experimental, digital art by Design | Media arts students meets experimental, digitized hip-hop by Flying Lotus in New Wight Gallery tonight. Read more...
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Los Angeles-based electronic musician Will Weisenfeld, who performs under the moniker Baths, will open for Flying Lotus tonight in Broad Art Center’s New Wight gallery as part of the Design | Media Arts undergraduate exhibition “Offworld.” (courtesy of Will Weisenfeld)
The Design | Media Arts department presented its 2011 undergraduate exhibition, Offworld, last Thursday. There were stop-motion videos, an origami folding station and a giant container of inflatable French fries. [1:45]
"Long Story Short: Design | Media Arts undergraduate exhibit Offworld encourages pushing boundaries"Design | Media Arts students work with a different kind of canvas. The "Offworld: Where you are "“ where you want to be" exhibition offers a look at the multidisciplinary nature of the Design | Media Arts program, which fuses digital technology and art. Read more...
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Design | Media Arts “Offworld: Where you are ““ where you want to be” exhibition opens with a reception tonight at 5 p.m. in Broad Art Center’s New Wight Gallery. (courtesy of Takumi Akin)
With multitudes of new cake-baking shows as well as the Cooking Channel popping up on TV, the Food Network has lost its monopoly on culinary television. Read more...
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Megan Rountree works on the Monopoly cake cubes in “Cake Boss: Next Great Baker.” The TLC show is among the increasing trend in shows based on baking competitions. (Credit: TLC)
Entering a competitive industry such as the music business is no easy task, so it's inspiring to know that some notable UCLA alumni have gone on to pursue successful music careers. Read more...
Perhaps in conventional circumstances, when a princess goes to war against a general, we expect the one with the bow in her hair to lose. And so it was easy to dismiss 2009 UCLA alumna Dorothy Tong, the self-proclaimed "Cupcake Princess," when she competed on season two of Food Network's "Cupcake Wars." After all, the final competitor standing between her and victory was Bruce Zipes, a gruff New Yorker who wore camouflage and called himself "The General." Tong opened Cupcake and Cookie, an online bakery specializing in her trademark cookie-filled cupcakes and cupcake-filled cookies, only a month before appearing on the show. Read more...
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UCLA alumna Dorothy Tong is the founder of the Los Angeles-based bakery Cupcake and Cookie and the winner of the season two finale of “Cupcake Wars,” a reality show baking contest on the Food Network.
They come in shapes that range from little princess castles to horses and unicorns. Read more...
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Silly Bandz, founded by Robert J. Croak, are rubber bracelets that come in different shapes, including animals, castles and even Justin Bieber.
