This year’s Sundance Film Festival will feature the work of myriad artists and content creators, a few of whom were educated at UCLA. From music scores to documentary, the Daily Bruin examines the work of three alumni premiering at the festival. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumnus Roger Suen worked on “Ms. Purple,” which will premier at the Sundance Film Festival, scoring the film from the very start, rather than as a post-production task. (Courtesy of Annie Bang)
The members of Solea first got together at a co-op party last year. The jazz band comprises current and former UCLA students – Sean Lee, Hunter Mee-Lee, Lancelot Chu, Jordan Avesar and Kyle Frankhuizen. Read more...
Photo: Alumnus Sean Lee is the guitarist for Solea, a five-member band that formed during a co-op party last year. The band focuses primarily on jazz but also plays live backup for other genres, such as hip-hop and rock. (Courtesy of Zach Carels)
Thirty years ago, buying cannabis was difficult, expensive and illegal. Buying cannabis in 2019 is somewhere between picking up a prescription from a pharmacy and buying beer from a liquor store. Read more...
Photo: Punch Edibles manufactures cannabis-infused chocolates and fruit snacks from their 7,000-square-foot factory. Like many edibles companies, Punch’s Canoga Park facility has yet to receive its manufacturing permit. (Joe Akira/Daily Bruin staff)
When a tree falls in a movie, and the audience needs to hear it, a dedicated team of experts is there to ensure that it makes a sound. Read more...
Photo: Erik Aadahl co-founded E Squared, an award-winning sound design company that has worked on films including “Argo,” “A Quiet Place” and “Kung Fu Panda.” Aadahl will be the main speaker at a campus event Tuesday, where he will discuss the multistep process of sound design with students. (Niveda Tennety/Daily Bruin)
Lauren McCarthy wanted to bring coding and activism together in a way that is interactive and accessible. To do so, she worked with Xin Xin, the director and lead organizer of Processing Community Day, and Casey Reas, a design media arts professor and the co-creator of Processing, a software that allows coding within the visual arts. Read more...
Photo: Processing Community Day aims to teach individuals the basics of computer programming and coding in art. Lauren McCarthy, an assistant professor at UCLA, worked with the lead organizer of the event. (Courtesy of Processing Foundation)
This post was updated Jan. 23 at 3:38 p.m. Lars Müller’s publishing company has released over 600 books. Most of the books center around the artistic disciplines he enjoys the most: visual art, architecture, design and photography. Read more...
Photo: Design media arts regents professor Lars Mueller will give a lecture Tuesday at the Broad Art Center. Through his publishing company, Mueller said he aims to spread art with social messages, utilizing photographs to illuminate text. (Emily Ng/Daily Bruin)
Nick Marechal occasionally melds his mathematics Ph.D. into the blues-influenced music he plays. The UCLA alumnus has played blues-rock music since adolescence, but only in the past few years did he decide to make music his full-time career. Read more...
Photo: (Rachel Bai/Daily Bruin)
