Hustler of Culture

LA - "Seasonal Changes" (03.16.13 - 04.03.13)

Hello Kitty in Space

Michelle shared this "Hello Kitty In Space" video with me knowing our family would enjoy the video tremendously (we did). While it's near identical to last year's "A Toy Train In Space" video, it's just as fascinating to see an every day object in near space propelled by a child's imagination and doing.

Lauren Rojas, a 13-year-old Californian sent Hello Kitty up into the atmosphere to test the effects of altitude on air pressure and temperature for her school's science fair. More about the video:

Cornerstone Christian school 7th grade science project.
The effects of Altitude on air pressure and temperature.
Cameras: GoPro Hero2 video footage.
Edited By: Eddie Lacayo elacayo212@gmail.com
Flight gear: High Altitude Science.
Flight computer / Data acquisition: High Altitude Science.
Tree Climber: Woodpecker Arborist.

LA - "Living Depictions" (01.12.13 - 01.30.13)

LA - Post-It Show Eight (12.08.12 - 12.16.12)

"Hello Kitty, Hello Art!" Recap

So many friends were involved with the art show for "Hello Kitty, Hello Art!": Roger Gastman, Adam Wallacavage, AIKO, RISK, Shepard Fairey, and Simone Legno so it didn't take much to get us to go and support the creative cabal. Lulu, a big fan of all things Hello Kitty slept through the whole event.

LA - Hello Kitty "Hello Art!" (10.14.12)

Tokyo - Mike Ming "makaREyOzE" (10.12.12 - 10.21.12)

Now Showing: Mike Ming!

[makaREyOzE !!!]
Starts: 12th(Fri.) PM12:00~ Oct. 2012
2012年10月12日(金)-10月21日(日)/月曜定休

2012 OCT. 12th(Fri) - Oct. 21rd(Sun)／Close on Monday
OPEN: 12:00-20:00 (Last day 17:00)

http://www.diginner.com/index.html

LA - Giant Robot Biennale 3 (09.23.12 - 01.20.13)

LA - Luke Chueh Event (06.24.12)

 

LA - "Game Over" Video Game Culture Art Exhibition (06.02.12 - 06.27.12)

LA - Tongue and Groove Series Author Readings (05.25.12)

 

LA - Ed Lin Event (05.23.12)

 

Hello, Girl Crush Readers!

Hey there everybody! I wanted to say hola to all my new Girl Crush readers. And thanks again to Wendy Withers for the super fun interview! I puffy heart sticker all of you, welcome again!

LA - Eishi Takaoka "I Am Fine" (05.05.12 - 05.30.12)

LA - Ragamala Dance (04.28.12)

Ragamala Dance
April 28, 2012
W.M. KECK CHILDREN'S AMPHITHEATRE, WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL
 
Ragamala Dance
Ragamala Dance performs Sacred Earth fusing two rich and ancient Indian visual art traditions - Warli mud paintings and Kolam rice flour drawings -- with Bharatanatyam, the classical dance of Southern India. The choreography invokes a deep connection to the Earth, celebrating the on-going, ever-renewing cycle of life.

Cai Guo-Qiang's Mystery Circle: Explosion Event (Video)

Raw footage of Cai Guo-Qiang's Mystery Circle: Explosion Event for MOCA, Los Angeles. Highlights at the start, :58, and 1:27. While the spectacle lasted a short period of time, it was talked about all night long.

RELATED: Cai Guo-Qiang's Mystery Circle: Explosion Event for MOCA, LA Recap

Cai Guo-Qiang's Mystery Circle: Explosion Event for MOCA, LA Recap

We secured front row seats shared by the press corps, for Cai Guo-Qiang's highly anticipated Mystery Circle: Explosion Event for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Lulu waited patiently. I waited anxiously.

More about Mystery Circle from MOCA:

Mystery Circle, a site-specific work created for MOCA, will contain four stages of special pyrotechnics. At the moment of ignition, 40,000 firework rockets will form a string of crop circles and launch perpendicular to MOCA’s north wall, toward Temple Street, before falling onto the ground. Amidst a curtain of smoke, approximately 100 spinning pyrotechnic UFOs will sporadically appear from the parking lot grounds, while an imaginary alien-god figure on the left side of the wall is outlined from bottom to top by gunpowder fuses. When the burned fuses reach the “halo” of the figure, mini Titanium Salute rockets will shoot into the air followed by a grand finale. The rockets will create a burned imprint on the museum wall, leaving an outdoor drawing. While Cai’s signature explosion events, Project for Extraterrestrials, have been dedicated to creatures from outer space, his new project at MOCA will be the first time an imaginary alien figure actually appears.

Plenty of Angelenos showed up for the post-sunset fireworks show. 

After much anticipation, the time finally arrived! We experienced Guo-Qiang's site-specific work created for MOCA up close. Maybe too close. When the first humongous explosion ignited, everybody screamed because they were simultaneously scared and excited. People generally expect fireworks to explode in the air, vertically. At blast off, we experienced a wall of 40,000 firework rockets with full visual, auditory, and olfactory senses dialed up on overdrive. Not to mention the heatwave that followed. The spectacle lasted only a minute but it had the crowd chattering all night long. It was an amazing, amazing, amazing event to experience.

[I have a full unedited three minute video too.]

The imaginary alien figure appears on the smoldering firework wall.

After the outdoor exhibition, we toured Guo-Qiang's first west coast solo museum exhibition, "Sky Ladder". Upon seeing this crop circle piece, Lulu pointed excitedly and yelled, "The carpet is on the ceiling!" This made me laugh.

The rest of the evening was spent dreaming about the explosions in the sky.

Visit The Museum of Contemporary Art before July 30, 2012 to view Cai Guo-Qiang's "Sky Ladder".

LA - "Post-It Show 7" (12.10.11 - 12.29.11)

Rostarr: B-Boy Abstraction

Rostarr: B-Boy Abstraction on Nowness.com.

It's easy to love Ro. He's so charming, talented, and humble. And those dimples. Man... Ro is the shit!

Studio Ghibli's "Kokuriko-Zaka Kara"

"Kokuriko Zaka Kara" (From Poppies Bloom Hill) 『コクリコ坂から』予告編

The second film directed by Hayao Miyazaki's son Gorō Miyazaki, the film is scheduled to be released on July 16, 2011 in Japan. The screenplay is by Hayao Miyazaki and Aoi Teshima, who sang the theme song for the film "Tales from Earthsea", will provide the score for this movie.