Diantha Ngo is continuing a revived-trend piece with her handmade scrunchies. The second-year bioengineering student founded her own startup brand, selling her creations to those buying into the ’80s trend. Read more...
Photo: (Emily Dembinski/Daily Bruin)
Everyone who falls asleep must first enter a state of hypnosis. Every person experiences hypnosis, and stage hypnotist Brian Imbus, who has performed at True Bruin Welcome Week for the past 10 years, will return on its final Sunday for two evening performances to demonstrate hypnosis routines on students. Read more...
Photo: Stage hypnotist Brian Imbus will perform at True Bruin Welcome Week. Throughout his show, he said he uses a variety of techniques to put one in a hypnotic state, such as asking them to imagine a beach or the feeling of sand between their toes. (Courtesy of Brian Imbus)
This post was updated Sept. 24 at 10:52 p.m. There’s no need for an alarm clock at the Gibbon Conservation Center. At sunrise every morning, Pepper the gibbon usually begins singing, and many of the 38 other gibbons join together in harmony. Read more...
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Movies often include a wide variety of music, but classical music isn’t highlighted as often on the silver screen. “Prelude,” however, puts classical music center stage as the film follows a covertly violent romantic relationship. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Extension student Akasha Coral (left) and second-year music composition student Jahan Raymond (right) collaborated to create “Prelude,” a short film that primarily relies on Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in C-sharp Minor to emphasize the narrative. (Ashley Kenney/Daily Bruin)
Both pets and their owners are posing for followers and likes on their social media pages. Many students and alumni are turning to animal-centric social media accounts – such as those focused on dogs, cats and guinea pigs – in their spare time. Read more...
Photo: The cat Roo, featured in the Instagram account @wheresroo, is one of the many UCLA pets who have accumulated a social media following. (Amy Dixon/Daily Bruin senior staff)
An Instagram influencer without any friends is the paradoxical embodiment of millennial culture. It’s also the foundation of a new web series, “it g(IRL)s,” released on YouTube in June. Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year theater student Viva Rose (left) wrote, directed and starred alongside another fourth-year theater student, Jessie Guthrie (right), in “it g(IRL)s,” a YouTube web series centered on an Instagram influencer with no friends. (Niveda Tennety/Assistant Photo editor)
Jimmy McGill, a young conman trying to clean up his act and become a lawyer like his brother, continually finds himself on the wrong side of the law – but the audience doesn’t mind. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Bob McKean)
