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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,

“

of Scotland.

“

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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amazing photo opportunities he

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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.

“

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

“

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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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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