Watch a bullet fly by, and step out of the way. “Superhot,” released Feb. 25, is a first-person shooter game in which time moves when the player does. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Superhot Team)
Arts, Lifestyle
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March 2, 12:29 am
Q&A: Alumnus discusses building his clothing company, filmmaking endeavors
“Dream. Create. Repeat.” UCLA alumnus Kelly Li lives by this motto every day. He owns a clothing company that promotes the motto, in hopes of inspiring others to do what they love. Read more...
Photo: Alumnus Kelly Li created Studio K Apparel Co. in 2015 to promote positive messages on clothing. (Tehya Faulk/Daily Bruin)
Arts, Film & TV
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March 2, 12:25 am
Artist depicts Oscar winners as Mexican to highlight lack of diversity
UCLA professor Chon Noriega smoothed the front page of the Los Angeles Times out on the table in front of him. Twenty white faces and one headline glared back: “Oscars 2016: Here’s why the nominees are so white – again.” In response Noriega, the director of UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center, contacted Los Angeles artist Linda Vallejo and proposed she expand her “Make ‘Em All Mexican” series, in which she reimagines images of American culture as Mexican by painting directly on antiques. Read more...
Photo: One of Vallejo’s images reimagined Academy Award winners Ben Affleck (left) as Bernardo and Matt Damon (right) as Mateo. (Courtesy of Linda Vallejo)
Arts, Music
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March 2, 12:23 am
Surgeons find haven from hospital by performing in indie rock band
Four surgeons changed out of their scrubs, stashed away their surgical tools and plugged in their electric guitars when the workday ended at night. Plastic surgeons Jason Roostaeian, Robert Kang and Phuong Nguyen and oral surgeon Solomon Poyourow are equally at home working beneath operating room lights and in front of stage lights. Read more...
Photo: Plastic surgeon Jason Roostaeian plays electric bass for the band Help the Doctor. (Anisha Joshi/Daily Bruin)
Arts, Arts Columns, Podcasts
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March 2, 12:00 am
That’s a Wrap! Episode 9: Worst in Show
On this week’s episode of “That’s a Wrap!”, hosts Emily McCormick and Carol Yao talk about the upcoming Design|Media Arts exhibitions. Then, we already know the best movies of the year, but what about the worst? Read more...
Photo: Kelly Brennan/Daily Bruin
Arts, Theater & Fine Arts
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March 1, 12:19 am
Tattoos relate mental health stories in art exhibition
Angela Nguyen has a tattoo of a colorful butterfly conspicuously etched on her right ankle. Less conspicuous, however, are the scars that lie underneath the tattoo – the permanent and colorless marks of self-harm. Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year psychobiology student Katie Patel’s tattoo was inspired by a phrase a police officer said to her after Patel’s first attempt at suicide. The semicolon at the end of the phrase is inspired by the Semicolon Project. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Arts, Music
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March 1, 12:16 am
Album Review: ‘I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it’
“I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it” – perhaps one of the lengthiest album titles and longest running times in recent memory – somehow still leaves the listener wishing for more. Read more...