Monday, December 15




Alum's 'Direction Pieces' exhibit explores alternate perspectives through video

Creating a video of people playing a piano with another person's head is a far cry from UCLA alumnus Tejpal Ajji's original intention of becoming an ancient Greek art historian. When he was a second-year undergraduate student at the University of Toronto, Ajji started making videos in a sculpture class and got hooked on video making. Read more...

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Exhibit creator Tejpal Ajji said that in choosing locations for his videos, he went with places that stood out in his memory.


UCLA alumna’s theater production explores her role as mother and dancer

Raised in a bicultural household with a Venezuelan physician as a father who brought pictures of dead bodies found in swamps to the dinner table and a mother who got her master's degree in statistics, Christine Suarez pursued an unanticipated career. Read more...

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UCLA alumna Christine Suarez created her own theater production “Mother.Fucker.” in which she evaluates her role as both a mother and a dancer.
(courtesy of Cedarbough Saeji)



Video Game Review: "Dishonored"

Vicious, man-eating and disease-carrying rats infest the city of Dunwall, where steampunk meets supernatural in Arkane Studios' new first-person stealth title "Dishonored." Aesthetically similar to industrial 19th century Britain, "Dishonored" puts players in control of Corvo Attano, Dunwall's royal protector and the Empress' personal bodyguard. Read more...

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(Credit: Bethesda Softworks)



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