The jungles that people experience nowadays are made of concrete. More time is spent climbing the corporate ladder than trees, and the world’s most famous tigers play golf and advertise corn flakes. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Disney)
Arts, Lifestyle, Podcasts
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April 15, 8:20 am
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
Arts, Music
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April 15, 12:00 am
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)
Arts, Lifestyle
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April 14, 11:10 pm
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)
Arts, Film & TV
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April 14, 11:06 pm
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)
Arts, Arts Columns, Lifestyle
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April 14, 12:00 am
Love Apptually: Bumbling along in the quest for love
Each week in “Love Apptually,” Daily Bruin staffers Nico Correia and Natalie Green will take turns attempting to find love in all of the wrong places: dating applications. Read more...
Photo: (Harishwer Balasubramani/Daily Bruin)
Arts, Theater & Fine Arts
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April 14, 12:00 am
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)