Movie trailers are like free samples at Costco: The good ones excite you and leave you wanting more, while the bad ones make you cringe. Each week, A&E columnist Matthew Fernandez will dissect movie trailers and analyze the Hollywood fare to come. Read more...
Photo: “Alice Through the Looking Glass,” released May 27, will not be directed by Tim Burton like 2010’s “Alice in Wonderland.” (Disney)
Chad Sellers makes magic with Disney. Sellers works at Walt Disney Animation Studios as an animator and has helped craft films like “Tangled,” “Wreck-It Ralph” and “Frozen.” The partially self-taught animator worked for a video game company and Blue Sky Studios, most famous for the “Ice Age” series, before securing a job with Disney. Read more...
Photo: Chad Sellers, an animation supervisor for “Zootopia,” visited a film class at UCLA on Wednesday to give a guest lecture. Sellers said the biggest challenge on “Zootopia” was capturing the movement of many different species, from an elephant to a shrew. (Courtesy of Disney)
Three was the magic number for Jenée Dana. Dana graduated from UCLA in 2005 as a third-year geography and environmental studies student, rather than completing the traditional four-year undergraduate track. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumna and book author Jenée Dana discusses the benefits of graduating in three years. (Courtesy of Isis Guzman)
This just in: Kanye West announces the beginning of Yeezy Season 4. Though it’s been just over a year since the premiere of Kanye West’s Yeezy Season 1, the hype is as strong as ever. Read more...
Photo: Rapper Kanye West showcased his fashion line Yeezy Season 3 and his album “The Life of Pablo” at Madison Square Garden on Feb. 11. He announced the creation of Yeezy Season 4 on Thursday. (Creative Commons photo by Rodrigo Ferrari/Flickr)
Ruoxuan Li’s costume design takes the form of dresses in green and pink plaid and elegant velvet coats on the stage of “Cosi Fan Tutte.” She feels she shines whenever she makes actors on stage shine through her costume designs. Read more...
Photo: UCLA graduate student Ruoxuan Li designed the costumes for Opera UCLA’s “Cosi Fan Tutte,” inspired by fashion from 1920s England. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Twin sisters Daphne and Marielle Meyer do everything together. Their sibling dynamic is always present, whether driving to a hidden beach, squabbling in a hardware store or play-fighting between the camera flashes of Brandy Melville photographers. Read more...
Photo: Twins Daphne, a second-year world arts and cultures student, (right) and Marielle Meyer, a Pitzer College student, (left) are models for clothing company Brandy Melville. (Courtesy of Daphne Meyer)
Each week, Daily Bruin A&E will explore the instruments of the World Musical Instrument Collection and their performers that all contribute to the musical landscape of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Read more...
Photo: Ethnomusicology graduate student Marc Bolin plays the American washtub bass, an instrument made of weed-whacker line, a washtub and a wooden pole. The instrument was built by former UCLA graduate student Scott Linford. (Kathy Chen/Daily Bruin)
