“Cherry Bomb” Tyler, The Creator Odd Future LLC 3.5 out of 5 Paws Tyler, The Creator doesn’t like to follow the rules. At least, he says as much in the bridge of “Deathcamp,” the N.E.R.D.-inspired opener to his fourth full-length album, “Cherry Bomb.” Tyler raps, “I don’t like to follow the rules/ and that’s just who I am/ I hope you understand,” echoing over a tinkling rhythm between bursts of reverberating guitar riffs and shouts. Read more...
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Riding her bike around Los Angeles while wearing a mask, UCLA Design | Media Arts alumna Pinar Yoldas became fascinated with air pollution. On April 9, Yoldas was named as one of the recipients of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for her proposal, “Distilling the Sky.” With an architectural structure, Yoldas said she hopes to compress polluted air particles into a kind of ink for this generation’s stories. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Design | Media Arts alumna Pinar Yoldas has a background in both arts and sciences. Her proposal, “Distilling the Sky,” aims to compress polluted particles into a kind of ink for this generation’s stories. (Matt Cummins/Daily Bruin)
For UCLA Department of Music scholar-in-residence Su Yin Mak, music is more than just sound – music is a language. Mak has dedicated her academic and professional career to interpreting the stories that a piece of music can tell. Read more...
Photo: Department of Music scholar-in-residence Su Yin Mak will give a lecture Thursday for the musicology department. (Manvel Kapukchyan/Daily Bruin)
Disneynature’s eighth theatrical release, “Monkey Kingdom,” opens with a breathtaking view of a fog enveloping the jungles of South Asia at sunrise. Directed and produced by Mark Linfield and Alastair Fothergill, the movie premieres this spring and will join the ranks of Disney’s amusing and illuminative films about nature. Read more...
Photo: Disneynature’s eighth theatrical release, “Monkey Kingdom,” will have its opening week April 17-23, where the money from ticket revenue will be used for making donations to Conservation International. (Disneynature)
For UCLA Department of Music scholar-in-residence Su Yin Mak, music is more than just sound – music is a language. Mak has dedicated her academic and professional career to interpreting the stories that a piece of music can tell. Read more...
Photo: Department of Music scholar-in-residence Su Yin Mak will give a lecture Thursday for the musicology department. (Manvel Kapukchyan/Daily Bruin)
As co-founder and president of Jewish World Watch, an organization fighting against genocide, UCLA alumna Janice Kamenir-Reznik has aided and photographed survivors of mass atrocities during service trips to places, such as the Democratic Republic of Congo and Chad. Read more...
Photo: Co-founder and president of Jewish World Watch Janice Kamenir-Reznik has photographed genocide survivors during service trips in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Chad. The alumna’s photographs will be featured at Hillel’s exhibit “One Life at a Time,” which will open Wednesday. (Max Himmelrich/Daily Bruin)
In a circle of five guitarists, Hanna Yocute picks up her guitar and strums a few notes to the harmony of “Soleares,” a flamenco piece, with the rest of the group. Read more...
Photo: Peter Yates (center), an adjunct assistant professor of guitar, directed seven guitarists for a Spanish music performance at the Fowler Museum on Thursday, playing traditional and contemporary Spanish guitar pieces. The program accompanies the exhibit “Singular Spaces: From the Eccentric to the Extraordinary in Spanish Art Environments.” (Jessica Zhou/Daily Bruin)
