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1-LETTER FROM THE EDITOR ·HEY,HI, HELLO 2-AGENDA ·WHAT'S GOOD? ·WINDOW DRESSING ·FUTURE OF FASHION 3-SWAG ·WHAT'S NEW 4-THE KING OF THE STREETS ·NYJAH HUSTON 5-THE LAST ·THE IRON PRESS

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WHAT'S GOOD? Written by: Mandi Ehman

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ven the staunchest real-food advocates among us have probably experienced it at one time or another… the glare ,virtual or in person, of someone who disagrees with an “inferior” choice we’re making.

The current food culture in our country – as so many of us push back against the standard American diet (SAD) and discover how processed foods and inferior ingredients affect our bodies - is a really good thing, but it can also manifest itself in a rigid and judgmental attitude toward other people who aren’t making the same decisions as us.

As someone who is taking baby steps toward a whole foods diet (through reading labels, cooking more from scratch and avoiding processed sugar), I’ve often felt this judgment from other people. (Some of that has certainly been based only on my

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perception and not reality, but we all know that the judgment really does exist.) As our family is taking bigger steps now, I’m determined that no one will feel that same judgment from me.

I recently read this quote, which has quickly become one of my favorites: “A culture that redefines food choices as moral issues will demonize the people who don’t share the tastes of the priest class. A culture that elevates eating to some holistic act of ethical self-definition – localvore, low-carbon-impact food, fair trade, artisanal cheese – will find the casual carefree choices of the lessenlightened as an affront to their belief system. Leave it to

JUICY JUICE

Juicing proponents believe that your digestive system can function more efficiently when drinking raw vegetables.

Although you lose the benefits of consuming fiber when drinking your produce, it takes less energy to digest food in liquid form. Heating and cooking vegetables also reduces or destroys some of their enzyme content, which some say can impede digestion. With juicing, it’s believed that these food enzymes are not only preserved, but your digestive system also gets a “rest.”·

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5 HEALTHY EATING TIPS:

1- Base your meals on starchy foods

Starchy foods should make up around one third of the foods you eat. People think starchy foods are fattening, but gram for gram they contain fewer than half the calories of fat.

2- Eat lots of fruit and vegetables

It’s recommended that we eat at least five portions of different types of fruit and veg a day. It’s easier than it sounds.

3- Eat more fish

Fish is a good source of protein and contains many vitamins and minerals. Aim to eat at least two portions a week.

4- Cut down on saturated fat and sugar

We all need some fat in our diet. But its important to pay attention to the amount and type of fat we’re eating.

Too much saturated fat can increase the amount of cholesterol in the blood, which increases your risk of developing heart disease.

5-Eat less salt

Een if you don’t add salt to your food, you may still be eating too much. About three-quarters of the salt we eat is already in the food we buy, such as breakfast cereals, soups, breads and sauces.

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A Soujourn

WINDOW dressing By: Dagmar Winston

Themed windows make brilliant vignettes on FIDM’s 5th floor.

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ach semester at fashion school, FIDM, located in downtown Los Angeles, the 5th floor is host to a variety of window displays created by the Visual Communication students. Each semester they are given a theme and told to run with it. The results, quite often, are spectacular. This semester’s theme is nature and instructor Katherine LoPresti instructed students to build their window displays with “as much organic materials as possible.”

The students work as teams to build everything from the dresses to creating the typography for the windows. The group effort pays off as the nine windows are often the center of attention for visiting parents and prospective students·

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The Future of Fashion: KRISTIN santiago For Kristin Santiago fashion is an art form that should be comfortable and beautiful. She started at the young age of ten when her mother taught her how hand stitch and use a basic sewing machine to fix the family tears and missing buttons.

She took an immediate interest to forming garments and began experimenting by taking old clothes apart and redesigning them for school clothes. Her first project was a French terry cropped sweater that included a rib knit trim and a zipper down center front. After receiving so many compliments at school she knew she could do more with the design and moved on to starting from scratch. She made a skirt later that same month from a yard of fabric. This was her calling. Still learning through trial and error she had her first break in high school through a Fashion ROP class.

During her sophomore year she used her school’s annual fashion show as an outlet to display her first collection.

From organizing models to choosing the music section, her show was a success and she was able to gain meaningful feedback to then connect her to the next step. She met with the Palm Springs Fashion counsel where she went on to design and create three more fashion shows during her high school career. She is now enrolled at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising where she is adding to her industry knowledge to better prepare her for the rest of her design career. After graduating in June of 2014, Kristin plans to explore the possibilities of using eco-friendly textiles and dyes for her future creations. She wants to continue the innovation of active sportswear. Her new focus will be on expanding the men’s wear industry since males are now exploring new trends and not sticking to the regular bread and butter styles of the past. Her goal is to design comfortable, affordable and eco-friendly active wear for all.

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Check out the top 10 must have gadgets of 2013.

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MAKERBOT Replicator 2 The fourth generation machine isn’t just our best, it’s the best desktop 3D printer on the market. With a resolution capability of 100 microns and a massive 410 cubic inch build volume, the MakerBot Replicator™ 2 Desktop 3D Printer is the easiest, fastest, and most affordable tool for making professional quality models

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OLLOCLIP The olloclip is a quick-connect lens solution for the iPhone that includes fisheye, wide-angle and macro lenses in one small, convenient package that easily fits in your pocket. Nestled in the palm of your hand, the olloclip connects to the iPhone within seconds so you’ll be sure to capture the image you want…if you don’t see the picture you’re looking for just flip it over to switch lenses.

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It has an 11MP image sensor, improved low-light capability and records at up to 120 frames per second.[10] It was sold with three different accessory packages: Outdoor Edition, Motorsports Edition, and Surf Edition.

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The new Mac Pro is a fraction of the size of the previous model and housed in a radically redesigned tower. It will come equipped with Intel Xeon E5 processors with up to 12 cores, dual workstation AMD FirePro GPUs, and new PCIe flash storage.

Gnomio Smart Watch: Windows Phone The device will be based on Windows Embedded Compact 7 and will allow external developers to write app for it. You can fund the project and reserve your device. Buying in cost $81.

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5 SONY Playstation The PlayStation®4 system is the best place to play with dynamic, connected gaming, powerful graphics and speed, intelligent personalization, deeply integrated social capabilities, and innovative secondscreen features. Combining unparalleled content, immersive gaming experiences, all of your favorite digital entertainment apps, & PlayStation® exclusives, the PS4™ system focuses on the gamers.

BEATS BY DRE Pill A lightweight, portable speaker that brings the party with you. The Beats Pill is wireless and Bluetooth enabled, so that you can play music from your device or take calls. Small enough to fit in your hand, the Beats Pill surprises with its powerful signature sound.

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ORIGINAL GRAIN Watches Original Grain watches started as an idea on kickstarter. With the intention of creating durable, lightweight watches . That are both modern and Organic.

APPLE iPad 3 Even though Apple is losing their grip when it comes to being the leader in phones, they still have a definite spot in the tablet leader boards. The iPad is the easiest, most user friendly device on the market. With the greatest app selection there is, you can not go wrong with a new one of these.

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This top of the line phone has many apple users doubting their brand loyalty. Samsung has recently been the strongerest competitor with apple in terms of mobil phones. Between the two, Samsung has clearly proven who is on top.

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uston first garnered attention when he signed a sponsorship deal with the Element company and joined the skateboard team. During his debut era with the company, Huston appeared in numerous Element video productions, such as both volumes of the Elementality series, and competed in high-profile contests, such as the Dew tour and the Vans Downtown Showdown.

However, Huston eventually launched his own skateboard deck company "I&I" in 2009 after he parted ways with Element in 2008; Huston was an amateur skateboarder at the time of his departure.

I&I was a short-lived company and operated for approximately two years with a team that consisted of Huston, Richard Jefferson, and Anthony Williams. During the period of the company's existence, a number of magazine advertisements were published and an online promotional video that featured the three team members was released. The primary aesthetic influence of the brand was Rastafarinism and the I&I logo incorporated the pan-African colors of red, yellow, and green.

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Following the closure of I&I, Huston returned to Element and released a solo video production entitled Rise & Shine in 2011—the video was available for purchase on the iTuneswebsite and later received the "Best Video Part" award from the Transworld SKATEboarding magazine. During this stage of Huston's career, the skateboarder also joined the DC Shoes company as a team rider, following a significant period of time without a shoe sponsor—an unusual occurrence for a professional skateboarder with the degree of exposure that Huston had attracted. In response to the DC Shoes announcement, Huston explained that "I think it was all a build up of things over the past year. DC has always been my top choice for a shoe sponsor but I think it took this past year for them to see what I've accomplished and how I did in the contests and my video part and all that for it to finally come through."

Following Huston's decision to skateboard for DC Shoes, other DC team riders expressed their perspectives in online promotional material produced by the shoe company. Long-term DC team rider Josh Kalis stated in the introductory video for Huston (also featuring Mike Mo Capaldi), "And then there's this other dude out there, literally buying shoes from a skate shop.

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He could get shoes from anybody that he wanted, but he was buying DCs." Capaldi expressed his opinion on Huston in the same video, stating his belief that Huston is "probably the best skateboarder that I've ever seen—he does everything in like two tries."

After Huston's gold medal victory at the 2013 X Games Street League contest in Barcelona, Spain in mid-May, Transworld SKATEboarding magazine announced that no other skateboarder has won a greater amount of prize money. On the final night of May 2013, the DC Shoes Co. held a launch event for the first signature model skate shoe of Huston's career at the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California, U.S., with Pete Rock in the role of DJ. The model is named the "Nyjah Huston Signature Shoe" and the promotional advertisement features Huston executing a trick at set of stairs at Hollywood High School in Los Angeles, U.S. An announcement on June 25, 2013 revealed that due to a rib injury, Huston was unable to compete in the Street League contest at the Munich X Games in late June 2013. Huston’s mother Kelle Huston reported that her son "bruised and scraped the right side of his torso" in a skateboarding accident, but an article from the Street League website stated that Huston would be fit to compete in the next contest round in July 2013 in Portland, Oregon, U.S. ·

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Photographs by Julius Schulman

A Sense of Space the photograps of Julius Schulman

By Peter Gossell

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.

Even 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.

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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 & Architecture magazine between 1945 and 1967, resulted in a series of lyrical tableaux that invested the 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

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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 brandname 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.”

“I realized that I was embarking on another chapter of my life,” Shulman says, the pleasure evident in his time-softened voice. “We’ve done many assignments”—Nogai puts the number at around 70—“and they all came out beautifully. People are always very cooperative,” he adds. “They spend days knowing I’m coming. Everything is clean and fresh. I don’t have to raise a finger.” As regards the division of labor, the 54-year-old Nogai says tactfully, “The more active is me because of the age. Julius is finding the perspectives, and I’m setting up the lights, and fine-tuning the image in the camera.”

While Shulman acknowledges their equal partnership, and declares Nogai’s lighting

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abilities to be unequaled, his assessment is more succinct: “I make the compositions. There’s only one Shulman.”

“The subject is the power of photography,” Shulman explains. “I have thousands of slides, and Juergen and I have assembled them into almost 20 different lectures. And not just about architecture—I have pictures of cats and dogs, fashion pictures, flower photographs. I use them to do a lot of preaching to the students, to give them something to do with their lives, and keep them from dropping out of school.”

It all adds up to a very full schedule, which Shulman handles largely by himself—“My daughter comes once a week from Santa Barbara and takes care of my business affairs, and does my shopping”—and with remarkable ease for a near-centenarian.

Picking up the oversized calendar on which he records his appointments, Shulman walks me through a typical seven days: “Thom Mayne—we had lunch with him. Long Beach, AIA meeting. People were here for a meeting about my photography at the Getty [which houses his archive]. High school students, a lecture. Silver Lake, the Neutra house, they’re opening part of the lake frontage, I’m going to see that. USC, a lecture. Then an assignment, the Griffith Observatory—we’ve already started that one.”

Yet rather than seeming overtaxed, Shulman fairly exudes well-being. Like many elderly people with nothing left to prove, and who remain in demand both for their talents

and as figures of veneration (think of George Burns), Shulman takes things very easy: He knows what his employers and admirers want, is happy to provide it, and accepts the resulting reaffirmation of his legend with a mix of playfully rampant immodesty and heartfelt gratitude. As the man himself puts it, “The world’s my onion.”

Given the fun Shulman’s having being Shulman, one might expect the work to suffer. But his passion for picture-making remains undiminished. “I was surprised at how engaged Julius was,” admits the Chicago auctionhouse mogul Richard Wright, who hired Shulman to photograph Pierre Koenig’s Case Study House #21 prior to selling it last year. “He did 12 shots in two days, which is a lot. And he really nailed them.” Of this famous precision, says the writer Howard Rodman, whose John Lautner–designed home Shulman photographed in 2002: “There’s a story about Steve McQueen, where a producer was trying to get him to sign on to a movie. The producer said, ‘Look how much you change from the beginning to the end.’ And McQueen said, ‘I don’t want to be the guy who learns. I want to be the guy who knows.’ And Shulman struck me as the guy who knows.”

This becomes evident as, picking up the transparencies from his two most recent assignments, he delivers an impromptu master class. “We relate to the position of the sun every

minute of the day,” Shulman begins, holding an exterior of a 1910 Craftsman-style house in Oakland, by Bernard Maybeck, to the lamp atop his desk. “So when the sun moves around, we’re ready for our picture. I have to be as specific as a sports photographer—even a little faster,” he says, nodding at the image, in which light spills through a latticework overhang and patterns a façade. “This is early afternoon, when the sun is just hitting the west side of the building. If I’m not ready for that moment, I lose the day.” He does not, however, need to observe the light prior to photographing: “I was a Boy Scout—I know where the sun is every month of the year. And I never use a meter.”

Shulman is equally proud of his own lighting abilities. “I’ll show you something fascinating,” he says, holding up two exteriors of a new modernist home, designed for a family named Abidi, by architect James Tyler. In the first, the inside of the house is dark, resulting in a handsome, somewhat lifeless image. In the second, it’s been lit in a way that seems a natural balance of indoor and outdoor illumination, yet expresses the structure’s relationship to its site and showcases the architecture’s transparency. “The house is transfigured,” Shulman explains.

“I’ll show you something fascinating”

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The Last: Place you need to know

By LEAH HOLLAR

Whether its dinner, lunch or breakfast, The Iron Press serves dishes so delicious, Your first time will not be your last!

The Iron Press, the latest culinary addition to the South Coast Collection, has quickly become a hot topic among foodies, locals and Yelpers. The waffle and beer restaurant has already amassed more than 100 reviews on the popular user review website.

The idea of owners Leonard Chan and Jerry Saenz, The Iron Press serves up freshly pressed waffles in "scrumptious," or savory options and "toothsome," or sweet varieties. What sets them apart from other waffle eateries in Orange County is their nearly 30 local beers on tap. Diners and drinkers can pick from a number of Orange County breweries including Bootleggers, Bayhawk and The Bruery.

Sandwich options are priced at $8 for everything from the classic-with-a-twist fried chicken (which comes with jalapeno maple syrup for dipping) to the

grilled panko tilapia. Add waffle-cut fries or tater tots to make it a complete meal. To quell a sweet tooth, opt for a s'more or Nutella-slathered waffle with seasonal fruit.

The decor is all about community. In building the restaurant, most of the materials used came from recycled sources, from the concrete bar to the repurposed wood seen throughout. An open layout which consists of mostly bar seating makes striking up a conversation with the person next to you nearly inevitable. Local artists are responsible for the art on the walls, and most of the employees and owners are locals, as well. One of the restaurant's partners, Costa Mesa resident Bradley Tran, is one of two partners who is also a practicing physician. His business card reads, "Waffle Sandwich Doctor."

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