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Explore food
A Savory Bite
Take a bite with us in Downtown Los Angeles, as we try Bottegga Louie for the first time By: Ashley Branchick Photographed By: Ashley Branchick
Walking amongst the tall
and late enough for super after the
steamed asparagus blanketed with
skyscrapers and gritty L.A. streets,
opera, serving elaborate meals and
chopped eggs, and a dish of sausages
you may come across a 12-story
tasty bar snacks.
and sautéed peppers that could
classical romanessque revival
probably suffice as a lunch in itself.
building built in 1912 listed on the
served American-Italian classics,
national register of historic places,
like stuffed artichokes, fried cala-
the most successful restaurants to
known as Bottegga Louie. Bottega
mari, and clams oreganata, sliced
open in downtown LA so far. If you
Louie can be considered a grown
steak, eggplant parmesan, and
find yourself with a spare minute or
up version of a kid’s candy store.
crisply sautéed branzino with an-
two and are craving delicious food,
chovies, garlic and olive oil. There
take a trip down to Bottega Louie
all things to all people downtown,
is a small-plates menu featuring
because you definitely will not be
and it more or less succeds. They
baskets of garlicky French fries,
dissappointed.
are open early enough for breakfast
sweet corn flavored with marjoram,
Bottega Louie aims to be
At the restaurant, you are
Bottega Louie is one of
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Explore travel
Journey Along the 1
Travel up Highway 1, from Los Angeles to San Francisico, soaking up the breathing views to come By: Ashley Branchick Photographed By: Neil Tiller
soak up the California sun.
1, from Los Angeles to San Francis-
Traveling along highway
is in Carmel. This is when your
co, you can find some of the most
midway between San Francisco and
beautiful journeu along California’s
breathtaking views of the Pacific
Los Angeles, known as San Luis
iconic Pacific Coast Highway comes
Ocean. A journey along highway 1
Obispo. Its laid-back charm blends
to an end. Carmel is a serence
isn’t complete with a stop or two
with wordly food and activities at
beachside town known for famous
along the way to take in the beautiful
the downtown restaurants.
residents like Clint Eastwood,
views or to just stop and snap a photo.
artissan great food, and wine tast-
Next up is a quaint town
Traveling up the 1, the
The last stop of the trip
ing rooms showcasing Monterey
cliffs of the Santa Lucia Mountain
County wines. If you are looking
Barbara is a scenic city of white
Range, to the gentle cliffs of Car-
for a place to stay, book a room at
mission-style buildings with red
mel when you cross the postcard
La Playa Carmel. The journey along
tild roofs. In Santa Barbara, you
worthy Bixby Creek Bridge. Along
highway 1 isn’t one to skip over.
will find small beaches, quirky little
the drive, take time for a pit stop at
With all of the great food, wine,
shops, and gourmet lunch dining
Pecadero, a quaint farm in San Mateo
and breathtaking scenery, you
options with outdoor seating to
County. just north of Half Moon Bay.
should not say no.
The first stop on the
travel
scenery changes from the rugged
road trip is Santa Barbara. Santa
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Explore 5 Floor th
Visually Pink’d Take a look at the students behind the visually stunning window displays at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising By: Ashley Branchick
The fifth floor of the
windows for the theme: pink’d. You
window to window.
Fashion Institute of Design and
can imagine the sea of pink floating
Merchandising has been pink’d by
around the fifth floor windows.
Fifth Floor are always a beautiful
The displays seen on the
the visual communications department.
The window displays are
surprise that provides such inspira-
Each quater, the students taking
designed and created by groups of
tion. Its rewarding to see that hard
the visual merchandising course are
visual communications students. It
work pays off by looking at these
required to create window displays
is always intersting to see the different
visualy stunning displays from stu-
twice throughout the quarter.
approaches to the windows each
dents who are looking to get out
The visual communications
group of students choose. Some of
into the field in a few months or so.
students are provided the overall
the windows currently on the fifth
theme for the window displays and
floor are funny, quirky, heartbreaking,
chandising, I enjoy taking a stroll
must create accordingly. This
and cute. You are taken on an
around the fifth floor to remember
quarter, the students created
emotional rollercoaster going from
what it felt like not too long ago.
Having studied visual mer-
5 th floor
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THROUGH THE LENS Travel Photographer and YOUTUBE content creator, Benjamin Brown, is entering the small screen in his first series, Mission Selfie. Benjamin Brown talks to THE WEEKENDER about redefining the selfie, his new series Mission Selfie, and opening his first pop-up shop in London with friend Steve Booker. By: Ashley Branchick Photographed By: Benjamin Brown
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Benjamin Brown is
Brown what the viewers can expect
getting that perfect shot had them
from season 1 of Mission Selfie.
a little stressed out. Ben and the
“Expect bromance, adventure, and a lot
team essentially spend a
of stress” he said. Although it was
weekend scoutimg out beautiful
bursting with happiness as he
a very stressful process, especially
locations and take photos just like
has just announced the release of
taking photographs of wildlife, we got
the average person. When the team
season 1 of Mission Selfie. Currently
some amazing shots. The thing
went to Scotland, in the first epi-
the show is only avaialble in the
about wildlife photography is it can
sode, they spent three days on the
UK and Germany, but the team is
take hours to get one perfect shot. Once
Isle of Mull, an island off the coast
working hard to make it available
you get that pefect shot, you feel
in other countries. They promise
unbalievably accomplished. Brown
that it will be available soon, so keep
mentioned he has got some breath-
a look out for your country.
taking shots of eagles soaring in
Scotland.
The name of the series
take your camera and go explore.
has received a lot of backlash and
to our surprise, Benjamin Brown
is about exploring new countries,
and partner Steve Booker are the op-
new places, trying new things and
posite of selfie photographers. The
at the end of the trip, picking one
During season 1, the Mission
series name is a bit ironic in the
photo that best captures the essence
Selfie team visited Berlin, Scotland,
sense that the objective is trying to
of that stay. Benjamin Brown said
Dubai, Iceland, and Scotland.
essentially trying to get people to
that editing down to one photo to
Iceland was where they first filmed
stop taking photos of themselves
express the trip was incredibly diffi-
mission selfie, but chose to air
with scenic views in the back-
cult. “We took so many great shots
Scotland as their first episiode.
ground and instead turn the cam-
during the trips, that we had many
era around and take actual photos
shots we wanted to include, but we
one was very surreal for Brown.
of beautiful locations. Their hope
knew we had to pick one.
Mission Selfie was a project from
is for pople to have more photos
We asked Brown what
start to finish. He said he still feels
they can keep and even print out.
the most challenging part of this
very blessed and is still in disbelief
Mission selfie has already inspired
experience was, and he said, “it
that he has a show. He and partner
many to go take their camera out
was definitely the short periods of
Steve Booker truly put their heart
and explore.
time.” The team did not have a lot
and soul into this project that took
of time to spend in each country, so
several months of hard work.
We asked Benjamin
The show, Mission Selfie,
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of Scotland.
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Watching episode
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Mission Selfie isn’t
the only big thing in Bnejamin Brown’s life. He recently opened up a pop-up shop for a couple of days in
Shortditch, London. In shoreditch, you can find many small boutique retailers selling various products. Benjamin brown along with partner/friend Steve Booker opened up the poop-up shop, selling t-shirts,
hoodies, and photograph prints.
The pop-up shop was a
hit having hundreds of customers a day. Customers had found out about the pop-up shop online, and also by passing through the high traffic area.
Following the pop-up
shop, Brown alone, took to his website to continue selling t-shirts and photograph prints. The t-shirts are sold out, but he is putting up one last batch of prints. Be sure to get your print, because once they are gone there will not be anymore re-prnts. He never expected the products to sell so well that they were overwhelmed with how fast the online orders were coming in. He and partner, Steve Booker, are looking for thei next location to set up a pop-up shop.
From London to Brazil.
Benjamin Brown recently came back from a week In Rio de Janero for the Summer 2016 Olympic Games. He told us that if there is a season two of Mission Selfie, he would definitely put Brazil on the list of places he’d like to go, as well as other places in South America. He loved Brazil and said there are cant wait to take when he has a chance to go back. If you would like to see his travels in Brazil, Brown daily vlogged and live streamed his travels abroad.
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BENS TIPS FOR ADVENTURING OUT ON YOUR OWN #MISSIONSELFIE
Mr Benjamin Brown is
traveling to South Africa allows
not new to the social scene. He has
him to unwind and allows him to
been a YOUTUBE content creator
do the things he wants to do, rather
for many years. His videos are a
than doing thingsfor the cameras.
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visual treat. One of the areas of Every trip begins with the squad
content Brown does, is he creates
Ok, Its a little about the destination
videos titled “Visual Vibes”. The
The all- important playlist
Pop-Up Shop Boxpark, Bethnal Green Road, London, E1 6GY Monday July 25th to Sunday July 31st 2016
traveling to South Africa allows me to do the things I really want to do.
visual vibes videos are snapshot videos of trips he has taken. There
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is beautiful cinematography,
breathtaking photos, and amazing
to South Africa, you can typically
editing. If you had a chance to
find him eating at outdoor shops,
watch one video of his, be sure it is
surfing, or camping along the coast
a visual vibes video.
in his car, Pumba.
Ben Brown currently
Where Brown travels
Mr Benjamin Brown has
resides in London, in an apartment
many great things happening in his
in the city. Although he lives in the
life right now, but things continue
city, his soul yerns for the quiet
to look up for him. he continues to
wild life. He frequently travels to
thank his views, his friends, and his
South Africa, where his girlfriend,
family for the love and support that
Nicole, resides. He finds that
has got him to where he is today.
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A SENSE OF SPACE Photographer Julius Schulman’s photography spread California Mid-century modern around the world.Carefully composed and artfully lighted, his images promoted not only new approaches to home design but also the ideal of idyllic California living — a sunny, suburban lifestyle played out in sleek, spacious, low-slung homes featuring ample glass, pools and patios.
By: Peter Gossell Photographs by: Julius Schulman
E
ven if you’re confused by the fork in the driveway, which slopes up to the Edenic apex of Laurel Canyon, or don’t recognize architect Raphael Soriano’s mid-century design landmark, you can’t miss Julius Shulman’s place. It’s the one with the eight-foot-high banner bearing his name—an advertisement for his 2005 Getty Museum exhibition “Modernity and the Metropolis”—hanging
before the door to the studio adjoining the house. As displays of ego go, it’s hard to beat. Yet the voice calling out from behind it is friendly, even eager—“Come on in!” And drawing back the banner, one finds, not a monument, but a man: behind an appealingly messy desk, wearing blue suspenders and specs with lenses as big as Ring Dings, and offering a smile of roguish beatitude.
You’d smile, too. At 96, Shulman is the best known architectural photographer in the
world, and one of the genre’s most influential figures. Between 1936, when a fateful meeting with architect Richard Neutra began his career, and his semi-retirement half a century later, he used his instinctive compositional elegance and hair-trigger command of light to document more than 6,500 projects, creating images that defined many of the masterworks of 20th-century architecture. Most notably, Shulman’s focus on the residential modernism of Los Angeles, which included photographing 18 of the 26 Case Study Houses commissioned by Arts & Archithe high-water moment of postwar American optimism with an arresting, oddly innocent glamour. Add to this the uncountable volumes and journals featuring his pictures, and unending requests for reprints, and you have an artist whose talent, timing, ubiquity, and sheer staying power have buried the competition—in some cases, literally.
Shulman’s decision to call it quits in 1986 was motivated less by age than a distaste
for postmodern architecture. But, he insists, “it wasn’t quite retiring,” citing the ensuing decade and a half of lectures, occasional assignments, and work on books. Then, in 2000, Shulman was introduced to a German photographer named Juergen Nogai, who was in L.A. from Bremen on assignment. The men hit it off immediately, and began partnering on work motivated by the maestro’s brand-name status. “A lot of people, they think, It’d be great to have our house photographed by Julius Shulman,” says Nogai. “We did a lot of jobs like that at first. Then, suddenly, people figured out, Julius is working again.”
Julius Schilman
tecture magazine between 1945 and 1967, resulted in a series of lyrical tableaux that invested
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cal seven days: “Thom Mayne—we
sign on to a movie. The producer
embarking on another chapter
had lunch with him. Long Beach,
said, ‘Look how much you change
of my life,” Shulman says, the
AIA meeting. People were here for
from the beginning to the end.’ And
pleasure evident in his time-softened
a meeting about my photography
McQueen said, ‘I don’t want to be
voice. “We’ve done many assign-
at the Getty [which houses his
the guy who learns. I want to be
ments”—Nogai puts the number at
archive]. High school students, a
the guy who knows.’ And Shulman
around 70—“and they all came out
lecture. Silver Lake, the Neutra
struck me as the guy who knows.”
beautifully. People are always very
house, they’re opening part of the lake
cooperative,” he adds. “They spend
frontage, I’m going to see that. USC,
picking up the transparencies from
days knowing I’m coming. Every-
a lecture. Then an assignment, the
his two most recent assignments,
thing is clean and fresh. I don’t
Griffith Observatory—we’ve already
he delivers an impromptu master
have to raise a finger.” As regards
started that one.”
class. “We relate to the position
the division of labor, the 54-year-
of the sun every minute of the
old Nogai says tactfully, “The more
overtaxed, Shulman fairly exudes
day,” Shulman begins, holding an
active is me because of the age. Ju-
well-being. Like many elderly
exterior of a 1910 Craftsman-style
lius is finding the perspectives, and
people with nothing left to prove,
house in Oakland, by Bernard
“I realized that I was
Yet rather than seeming
This becomes evident as,
I’m setting up the lights, and fine-tun-
and who remain in demand both
Maybeck, to the lamp atop his desk.
ing the image in the camera.” While
for their talents and as figures of
“So when the sun moves around,
Shulman acknowledges their equal
veneration (think of George Burns),
we’re ready for our picture. I have
partnership, and declares Nogai’s
Shulman takes things very easy:
to be as specific as a sports photogra-
lighting abilities to be unequaled,
He knows what his employers and
pher—even a little faster,” he says,
his assessment is more succinct:
admirers want, is happy to provide
nodding at the image, in which
“I make the compositions. There’s
it, and accepts the resulting reaf-
light spills through a latticework
only one Shulman.”
firmation of his legend with a mix
overhang and patterns a façade.
“American photographer Julius Shulman’s images of
Californian architecture have burned themselves into the retina of the 21th century.” of playfully rampant immodesty
“This is early afternoon, when the
of photography,” Shulman explains.
and heartfelt gratitude. As the man
sun is just hitting the west side of
“I have thousands of slides, and
himself puts it, “The world’s my
the building. If I’m not ready for
Juergen and I have assembled them
onion.”
that moment, I lose the day.” He
into almost 20 different lectures. And
not just about architecture—I have
having being Shulman, one might
the light prior to photographing: “I
pictures of cats and dogs, fashion
expect the work to suffer. But his
was a Boy Scout—I know where the
pictures, flower photographs. I use
passion for picture-making remains
sun is every month of the year. And
them to do a lot of preaching to the
undiminished. “I was surprised at
I never use a meter.”
students, to give them something to
how engaged Julius was,” ad-
do with their lives, and keep them
mits the Chicago auction-house
of his own lighting abilities. “I’ll
from dropping out of school.”
mogul Richard Wright, who hired
show you something fascinating,”
Shulman to photograph Pierre
he says, holding up two exteriors of
full schedule, which Shulman
Koenig’s Case Study House #21
a new modernist home, designed
handles largely by himself—“My
prior to selling it last year. “He did
for a family named Abidi, by
daughter comes once a week from
12 shots in two days, which is a lot.
architect James Tyler. In the first,
Santa Barbara and takes care of my
And he really nailed them.” Of this
the inside of the house is dark,
business affairs, and does my
famous precision, says the writer
resulting in a handsome, some-
shopping”—and with remarkable
Howard Rodman, whose John
what lifeless image. In the second,
ease for a near-centenarian.
Lautner–designed home Shulman
it’s been lit in a way that seems
Picking up the oversized calendar
photographed in 2002: “There’s a
a natural balance of indoor and
on which he records his appointments,
story about Steve McQueen, where
outdoor illumination, yet expresses
Shulman walks me through a typi-
a producer was trying to get him to
the structure’s relationship to its
“The subject is the power
does not, however, need to observe
Shulman is equally proud
julius schulman
It all adds up to a very
Given the fun Shulman’s
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“I have four Ts. Transcend is,
objects and accessories. “I think
I go beyond what the architect
he was trying to portray the
himself has seen. Transfigure—
lifestyle people might have had
glamorize, dramatize with
if they’d lived in those houses,”
lighting, time of day. Translate—
suggests the Los Angeles–based
there are times, when you’re
architectural photographer Tim
working with a man like Neutra,
Street-Porter. “He was doing—
who wanted everything the way
with a totally positive use of
he wanted it—‘Put the camera
the words—advertising or pro-
here.’ And after he left, I’d put
pagandist photographs for the
it back where I wanted it, and
cause.” This impulse culminated
he wouldn’t know the differ-
in Shulman’s introduction of
ence—I translated. And fourth,
people into his pictures—
I transform the com position
commonplace today, but virtual-
with furniture movement.”
ly unique 50 years ago. “Those
photographs—with young,
To illustrate the latter,
Shulman shows me an interior
attractive people having
of the Abidi house that looks out
breakfast in glass rooms beside
from the living room, through a
carports with two-tone cars—
long glass wall, to the grounds.
were remarkable in the history
“Almost every one of my
of architectural photography,”
photographs has a diagonal
Street-Porter says. “He took that
leading you into the picture,” he
to a wonderfully high level.”
says. Taking a notecard and pen,
he draws a line from the lower
underplays this aspect of his
left corner to the upper right,
oeuvre. The idea, he explains,
then a second perpendicular line
is simply to “induce a feeling of
from the lower right corner to
occupancy. For example, in the
the first line. Circling the
Abidi house, I put some wine-
Surprisingly, Shulman
intersection, he explains,
glasses and bottles on the counter,
“That’s the point of what we call
which would indicate that people
‘dynamic symmetry.’” When
are coming for dinner. Then
he holds up the photo again, I
there are times I’ll select two
see that the line formed by the
or three people—the owner of a
bottom of the glass wall—divid-
house, or the children—and put
ing inside from outside—roughly
them to work. Sometimes it’s
mirrors the diagonal he’s drawn.
called for.”
Shulman then indicates the sec-
ond, perpendicular line created
these photographs?” I ask as he sets
by the furniture arrangement.
them aside. “I’m pleased with all my
“My assistants moved [the coffee
work,” he says cheerfully.
table] there, to complete the
line. When the owner saw the
lectures, ‘If I were modest, I wouldn’t
Polaroid, she said to her husband,
talk about how great I am.’” Yet
‘Why don’t we do that all the time?’”
when I ask how he developed his
eye, Shulman’s expression turns
“I tell people in my
references one of his signature
philosophical. “Sometimes Juergen
gambits: what he calls “dressing
walks ahead of me, and he’ll look
the set,” not only by moving
for a composition. And invariably,
furniture but by adding everyday
he doesn’t see what I see. Architects
julius schulman
Shulman’s remark
`“Are you pleased with
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I suggest a tour of the
flies and lizards would come in;
the terraced hillside, is the one he cited
house, and Shulman moves carefully to
there were strong winds. So I told
himself: the source of his talent.
a rolling walker he calls “the
Soriano I wanted a transition—a
In 1936, Shulman was an amateur
Mercedes” and heads out of the
screened-in enclosure in front of
photographer—gifted, but without
studio and up the front steps.
the living room, kitchen, and bed-
professional ambition—when he
As a plaque beside the entrance
room to make an indoor/outdoor
was invited by an architect friend
indicates, the 3,000-square-foot,
room.” Shulman opens the door
to visit Richard Neutra’s Kun
three-bedroom structure, which
leading to an exterior dining area.
House. Shulman, who’d never seen
Shulman commissioned in 1948
A bird trills loudly. “That’s a wren,”
a modern residence, took a handful
and moved into two years later,
he says, and steps out. “My wife
of snapshots with the Kodak
was landmarked by L.A.’s Cultural
and I had most of our meals out
vest-pocket camera his sister had
Heritage Commission as the only
here,” he recalls. “Beautiful.”
given him, and sent copies to his
steel-frame Soriano house that
friend as a thank-you. When Neutra
remains as built. Today, such
house to Shul man’s beloved
saw the images, he requested a
Case Study–era residences are
garden—he calls it “the jungle”—a
meeting, bought the photos, and
as fetishized (and expensive) as
riot of vegetation that overwhelms
asked the 26-year-old if he’d like
Fabergé eggs. But when Shulman
much of the site, and frames an
more work. Shulman accepted
opens the door onto a wide, cork-lined
almost completely green canyon
and—virtually on a whim—his
hallway leading to rooms that, after
view. “I planted hundreds of trees
career took off.
six decades, remain refreshing in
and shrubs—back there you can see
their clarity of function and com-
my redwoods,” he says, gesturing
what Neutra saw in his images,
munication, use of simple, natural
at the slope rising at the proper-
he answers with a seemingly
materials, and openness to the
ty’s rear. “Seedlings, as big as my
unrelated story. “I was born in
out-of-doors, I’m reminded that
thumb. They’re 85 feet tall now.”
Brooklyn in 1910,” says this child
the movement’s motivation was
He pauses to consider an ominous-
of Russian-Jewish immigrants.
egalitarian, not elitist: to produce
ly large paw print in the path. “It’s
“When I was three, my father went
well-designed, affordable homes
too big for a dog. A bobcat wouldn’t
to the town of Central Village in
for young, middle-class families.
be that big, either. It’s a mystery,”
Connecticut, and was shown this
Shulman decides, pushing the
farmhouse—primitive, but [on] a
houses I photographed didn’t use
Mercedes past a ficus as big as a
big piece of land. After we moved
their sliding doors,” Shulman says,
baobab.
in, he planted corn and potatoes,
crossing the living room toward
his own glass sliders. “Because
myself pondering, as we walk beside
The mystery I find
When I ask Shulman
my mother milked the cows, and we had a farm life.
julius schulman
“Most people whose
We continue past the
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“And for seven years,
furniture,” says Wim de AWit, the
for seven years. Never graduat-
Getty Research Institute curator
of living close to nature. In 1920,
ed, never majored. Just audited
who oversees Shulman’s collection.
when we came here to Los Angeles,
classes. I was driving home from
“He says, ‘I don’t care; when I sit in
I joined the Boy Scouts, and en-
Berkeley”—Shulman hesitates
a chair I want to be comfortable.’
joyed the outdoor-
adramatically—“and I knew I could
He does not think of himself as an
living aspect, hiking and camp-
do anything. I was even thinking of
artist. ‘I was doing a business,’ he
ing. My father opened a clothing
getting a job in the parks depart-
says. But when you look at that
store in Boyle Heights, and my
ment raking leaves, just so I could
overgrown garden, you know—
four brothers and sisters and my
be outside. And within two weeks,
there is some other streak in him.”
mother worked in the store. They
I met Neutra, by chance. March 5,
That streak—the free soul within
were businesspeople.” He flashes a
1936—that day, I became a photog-
the unpretentious, practical product
slightly cocky smile. “I was with the
rapher. Why not?”
of the immigrant experience—pro-
Boy Scouts.”
duced what Nogai calls “a seldom
We arrive at a sitting area, with a
tale, I understand that Shulman
personality”: a Jewish farm boy
small pool of water, a fireplace, and
has answered my question about
who grew up to create internation-
a large sculpture (purchased from
his talent with an explanation of
ally recognized American cultural
one of his daughter’s high school
his nature. What Neutra per-
artifacts—icons that continue
friends) made from Volkswagen
ceived in the young amateur was
to influence our fantasies and
body parts. Shulman lowers him-
an outdoorsman’s independent
self-perceptions.
self onto a bench and absorbs the
spirit and an enthusiasm for life’s
abundant natural pleasures. “When
possibilities, qualities that, as fate
surprised at how well his life has
I bought this land, my brother said,
would have it, merged precisely
turned out. “I tell students, ‘Don’t
‘Why don’t you subdivide? You’ll
with the boundless optimism of the
take life too seriously—don’t plan
make money.’” He looks amused.
American Century—an optimism,
nothing no how,’” he replies. “But I
“Two acres at the top of Laurel
Shulman instinctively recognized,
have always observed and respect-
Canyon, and the studio could be
that was embodied in the modern
ed my destiny. That’s the only way I
converted into a guest house—it
houses that became, as Street-
can describe it. It was meant to be.”
could be sold for millions.”
Porter says, “a muse to him.”
suited you?”
He resumes his story.
“At the end of February 1936, I’d
Hearing this remarkable
“[Shulman] always says
proudly that Soriano hated his
I ask Shulman if he’s
“And it was a destiny that At this, everything rises
julius schulman
been at UCLA, and then Berkeley,
I was imbued with the pleasure
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LOST IN TRANSLATION
Japan
in
a visual story of some of Japan’s landmarks
By: Ashley Branchick Photogrpahed By: Kyoto Yoshi
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Japan is an island nation
located in East Asia. It lies along the Pacific Ocean to the east of China, North Korea, Russia and South Korea, stretching all the way from the Sea of Okhotsk to the East China Sea. Thousands of tourists throng the country every year to experience the rich Japanese culture and savor the beautiful scenery. From its “maid cafes” to Tokyo’s unique fashion lines, you will be amazed by this small country.
It has always been a
dream of mine to experience Japan at least once in my lifetime. It is on my bucket list of places to visit. Although I have not been to this beautiful country, the images inspire me more and more to spontaeoiusly book a one way ticket and experience the Japanese lifestyle firsthand.
There are many beautiful
landmarks Japan has to offer, but we are highlighting the most important (at least in our eyes) ones. The first landmark to highlight is the vibrant Fushimi Inari Shrine located in Japan’s previous capitol of Kyoto, Japan. Kyoto was the capitol of Japan for about 1,000 years. Today, Kyoto is a built up city full of high-rise lush green hills.
Next up is the vibrant
city life of Japan. For as long as I can remember, Japan city life has always been associated with vibrant city lights that can be seen from miles away. After devastating earthquakes and tsunami on March 11, 2011, many stores are turing their infamous lights off in an effort to utilize less energy due to the incredible loss of nuclear power.
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buildings against the backdrop of
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Hanami is the Japanese
traditional custom of viewing the beautfiul cherry blossom trees. From the end of March to early May, cherry blossom trees bloom all over Japan . In early February, on the island of Okinawa, the blossom forecast is announced by the weather bureau. Cherry blossoms typically last a week fo two. Hanami typicaly conists of planning an outdoor party under the cherry blossom trees.Popular amongst the older generations, Hanami is enjoyed under plum trees, whose parties tend to be more calm than those under the cherry blossom trees.
Kotoku-in is a buddhist
temple in Kamakure, Japan. The temple is renowned for its “Great Buddha�. The Buddah is an outdoor bronsze statue of Amida Buddah. This monumental statue dates back to 1252 in the Kamakure records. The statue is approximately 13.35 metres tall, including the base and weighs approximately 93 tons.At one time, there were 32 bronze lotus petals at the base of the statue but only four remain and are no longer in place. The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 destroyed the base the statue sits on, but has since been repaired.
One unusual fact about
the Great Buddah that sets it apart from the others, is that it sits in the open air. Today, 750 years after the construction of the Great Buddah, many buddhists from all over the world to pay their respects.
Japan is filled with
vibrant colors and life, in their designs, architecture, and religion. There are many beautiful places and emotions waiting for you to experience upon your arrival. We suggest to book a ticket now.
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CAMPING HAS ITS SECRET SEASON By: Ashley Branchick Photography By: Yosemite National Park
see in the summer. Last but not
the tomato soup and grilled cheese.
least, cozy is comfortable. Since it is
The first reason being the fire
Food is for lingering. Another
in the middle of the season, cooler
becomes the camp centerpieces.
reason November is the secret season,
temperatures have arrived. Longer
You have the place to yourself since
is there’s more time to enjoy the
nights add up to big sweaters,
most campgrounds have ample
night. Look up at the fall sky
flannel coats, plaid wool blankets,
availablilty. On the go sandwhiches
showcasing stars that you didn’t
and other touches that feel homey.
The best month to take
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become last season and in comes
your weekend getaway is November.
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