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Meet the Contributors: Amelia Lang is interested in “how we understand people and places through photography and film”
Los Angeles Art

Meet the Contributors: Amelia Lang is interested in “how we understand people and places through photography and film”

You may recognize Amelia Lang from her immersive interview with anti-war journalist Julia Leeb or from her elaborate story about...
The global pandemic has propelled the fishing industry towards a more sustainable future
Santa Barbara

The global pandemic has propelled the fishing industry towards a more sustainable future

Commissioned by Vimeo as part of their series Stories in Place—which explores how the coronavirus has affected local businesses across...
Sick and tired of not being able to grasp anything real these days? American musician Weyes Blood is here to help.
Los Angeles Music

Sick and tired of not being able to grasp anything real these days? American musician Weyes Blood is here to help.

Los Angeles-based Natalie Mering is recording under the name Weyes Blood, and her last two releases, Front Row Seat to...
Keegan Fong: Quit Marketing for a noodle shop
Los Angeles Food

Keegan Fong: Quit Marketing for a noodle shop

In a Nutshell: Keegan Fong on the five flavors at the heart of his Chinese restaurant “The menu is entirely...
Andrea Lenardin: The shifting meaning of things
Los Angeles Architecture

Andrea Lenardin: The shifting meaning of things

At least Andrea Lenardin likes to think so—despite the attribution of a different value throughout time—“the things are also always...
After a book tour, the desert calls. In conversation with iO Tillett Wright
Mojave Desert Art

After a book tour, the desert calls. In conversation with iO Tillett Wright

Io is the fourth largest moon in the solar system. As the innermost Galilean moon that orbits Jupiter, it’s also...
Leslie Williamson captures homes as physical manifestations of people’s lives
San Francisco Art

Leslie Williamson captures homes as physical manifestations of people’s lives

To Williamson, everything starts with the person and their work. “There is a thorough line with everything these people do,...
Creating an illusion of space, Urban Cabins reshape the city dwelling for this year’s L.A. Design Festival
Los Angeles Architecture

Creating an illusion of space, Urban Cabins reshape the city dwelling for this year’s L.A. Design Festival

When thinking about residential life in Los Angeles, the mind often conjures images of canyon cabins, beach bungalows, and mid-century...
Infradisciplinary artist Pinar Yoldas is advocating a good Anthropocene with the help of speculative biology
San Diego Art

Infradisciplinary artist Pinar Yoldas is advocating a good Anthropocene with the help of speculative biology

Pinar Yoldas refuses to tune into this song of doomsday, one that underlies most assumptions about our future on Earth....
Quentin de Coster on the importance of design as a meeting of functionality and aesthetics
Design

Quentin de Coster on the importance of design as a meeting of functionality and aesthetics

After leaving his native Belgium—where he has been running his own successful design studio—Quentin moved to San Francisco. He felt...
The American Southwest Road Trip Pt. 2: Falling for Twentynine Palms and meditating in the middle of the Mojave Desert
Travel

The American Southwest Road Trip Pt. 2: Falling for Twentynine Palms and meditating in the middle of the Mojave Desert

No such luck finding anything resembling a campsite, let alone any people or moving cars. It was a ghost town....
The American Southwest Road Trip Pt. 1: Red Rock Country, desert campsites, and saguaros for days
Travel

The American Southwest Road Trip Pt. 1: Red Rock Country, desert campsites, and saguaros for days

After much discussion about how to make our dreams reality, we finally booked our flights and camper van rental in...
Encountering the other mind: How AI will shift our design process, and in turn, our cities
Moscow Design

Encountering the other mind: How AI will shift our design process, and in turn, our cities

As a professor at Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow and a California native, Benjamin is used...
Hannah Henderson & John Moore
Los Angeles Design

Hannah Henderson & John Moore

In another, two women, each with a barefoot child, halt a friendly conversation to wave; further down, a man paints...
Parton Brothers: Creating a Global Community
Los Angeles Fashion

Parton Brothers: Creating a Global Community

Taking after their father Lindsay Parton, a key figure a in the highly competitive real estate market, the brothers are...
All Summer in a Day Pt. 1: Chasing the California Dream
Ventura Home Stories

All Summer in a Day Pt. 1: Chasing the California Dream

Dylan is best known for his photography that centers around surfing, skating or motorcycles. At any given time, he could...
All Summer in a Day Pt. 2: Exploring the Hidden Wonders of the California Wild
Ventura Travel

All Summer in a Day Pt. 2: Exploring the Hidden Wonders of the California Wild

“When I’m on the road, I work hard,” he says. “You’re up before everyone else, you’re climbing faster than them,...
American Director Claire Cottrell Reveals the Roots Connecting Femininity and Space
Community

American Director Claire Cottrell Reveals the Roots Connecting Femininity and Space

Her photographs explore the relationship between women and their surroundings with a focus squarely on architecture with a historical significance....
California Dreaming: Interactive Art Director Stefan Schuster and his new reality
Sunnyvale Art

California Dreaming: Interactive Art Director Stefan Schuster and his new reality

After chancing on an Eichler Mid-Century Modern house, Stefan, his wife Jana and their two boys Josha and Silas made...
Capturing the fascinating bleakness of an abandoned Californian resort town
Mojave Desert Photo Essays

Capturing the fascinating bleakness of an abandoned Californian resort town

Back in the ’50s and ’60s, Bombay Beach was a buzzing resort town revolving around water sports and attracting visitors...
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