Thursday, February 26

UCLA students read things they wrote as kids

Editor’s Note: This segment is inspired by the podcast Grownups Read Things They Wrote As Kids, which invites listeners to “reflect on their own lives, to connect with who they used to be, and to draw a line that connects the past and the present”. Read more...

Photo: Kelly Brennan/Daily Bruin


Sounds of Schoenberg: The Venerable Dark Cloud

UCLA ethnomusicology students from the 1920s to the 1950s could only study foreign instruments in textbooks before the arrival of the Javanese gamelan. In 1958, American ethnomusicologist Mantle Hood purchased the Venerable Dark Cloud gamelan, a collection of 83 percussion instruments. Read more...

Photo: Otto Stuparitz is an ethnomusicology graduate student who is studying Indonesian music. Stuparitz said the World Music Center at UCLA is planning a Javanese gamelan performance scheduled tentatively for fall or winter quarter of the 2016-2017 academic year. (Marley Maron/Daily Bruin)


Art gallery brings students closer to incarcerated LA youth

In a short poem, Diamond penned that love is like a bullet wound that is barely healing. The teenage boy did not intend to write about love in the context of violence; it was an organic thought. Read more...

Photo: UCLA students, including third-year linguistics student Jessica Saisi (above), wrote responses to the poetry and prose submitted by incarcerated youth at Camp Fred Miller for the display “Write Back” Thursday night in Kerckhoff Art Gallery. (Zinnia Moreno/Daily Bruin)


Let’s Animate: Bruin Animated revises goals for 3-D film to focus on modeling scenes

Daily Bruin A&E is following the Bruin Animated Filmmakers, a new club on campus, as they create a short animated film. In this week’s installment: the club’s revised targets and modeling the main character, Zombie Mike, and his environment. Read more...

Photo: The members of Bruin Animated Filmmakers, including third-year Design | Media Arts student Tabatha Yelós, are currently modeling the scenes of their one-minute short movie using the Autodesk Maya, a 3-D graphics software. (Mischa Rajendiran/Daily Bruin)



Graduate art student explores intersections of human, technology

Nikita Gale and her then-girlfriend’s voices rose in pitch and anticipation as they sat parked in front of a gas station in late spring 2015 weighing the pros and cons of abandoning weekend plans in Joshua Tree and driving to Vegas to get married. Read more...

Photo: New genres graduate student Nikita Gale created her masters’ thesis based off her experiences with cars, technology and human interaction. Gale, along with two other graduate students, will exhibit her work Thursday at the New Wight Gallery. (Jennifer Hu/Daily Bruin)


Alumna sees entrepreneurial success despite setbacks

Katie Everds raised $30,000 to get her product out into the world, but then she lost it. “I was so stressed out because I promised all these people that bought my product that I would deliver,” Everds said. Read more...

Photo: Alumna Katie Everds invented the Tillow, a beach towel containing a removable pillow, storage space and a touchscreen-sensitive pocket. She will be featured on the TV show “Quit Your Day Job,” a show geared towards helping aspiring entrepreneurs. (Marley Maron/Daily Bruin)