Two big piece of news out of our friends the Hollywood Fringe Festival this week. The first is the arrival of the Hollywood Fringe Festival mobile app in the Apple and Google Play stores.
I've always regretted that I never truly learned how to draw. The closest I got was being able to render images from comic books with a fair amount of fidelity.
Still, I'd look at the great illustrators or to the Old Masters and knew it was a fruitless pursuit: I'd never be good enough.
Turns out the Old Masters had a lot of help, in the form of a tool known as the Camera Lucida, a device that makes it possible to, essentially, trace a live subject.
Now a pair of art professors are looking to resurrect this lost art tool. Naturally they turned to Kickstarter, and they've already blown through their planned allotment of NeoLucidas. So what do you do when demand outstrips planned supply and you don't want to get into the manufacturing business?
While we can’t be everywhere at once you can always count on us to be in Hollywood each June for the Hollywood Fringe Festival. If you were thinking about pulling together a show for this year’s festival you need to act fast.
The registration deadline is 11:59 PM PST on Monday, April 1st if you want your project included in the program guide. Those who are having difficulty securing a venue space are encouraged to contact the Fringe.
After 30 years as one of San Francisco’s standout ethnic film festivals, the CAAM Fest returns not only with a new name, but with significantly expanded scope and ambition.
Put on by the Center for Asian American media, the event formerly known as the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival grew its music-driven programming last year, with events like its Groove Salon, said Music Program Director Marky Enriquez. “In the past few years, we’ve seen the programming go beyond film, and start getting into very different types of programs from music events to more interactive events. Last year we did several Ted Talk-style panels, and pitch panels.” This year, he said, the evolution of the festival became official with the name CAAM Fest.
This year’s program brings back the Ready, Set, Pitch! event in which Asian American creatives are moved up through a pitch competition, first by YouTube voters, and culminating at a live judging where their project is eligible for $5,000 in seed money. (more…)
Los Angeles is the film capital of the world, no doubt about it, and the city treats it’s biggest cultural export with the all the respect, pomp and circumstance that a cultural capital can muster.
LA’s biggest art institution, the LACMA, is no exception to that rule. Saturday night will be the 12th annual Young Directors Night, an event put on by the museum’s Muse division that celebrates rising directors by screening their short films. From the press release:
As one of LACMA Muse’s most popular annual events, Young Directors Night is dedicated to cultivating and celebrating the best in local film. Join LACMA Muse as it presents the Art of Film Award to the best in show. Following the award presentation, guests are invited to celebrate with the filmmakers at a wine reception where LACMA’s special exhibition, Stanley Kubrick will be open for exclusive access.
Seven short films will be presented during the program, which starts at 8PM and is followed by a Q & A session with the directors and hosts. The award presentation and a reception– which includes late night access to the museum’s Stanley Kubrick exhibit follows the Q & A and runs till midnight.
The logistical details after the jump… (more…)
A sneak peak at what we’re looking forward to…
Last year Sundance’s slate of documentaries was ridiculously good. Among that set was We’re Not Broke, a doc about the Swiss Cheese regulation we call the U.S. Tax Code. While it didn’t have the narrative power of a Searching for Sugarman or The House I Live In, the facts that documentarians Karin Hayes and Victoria Bruce brought to bear were spine-tingling enough.
Starting tomorrow the film will be streaming FREE on Hulu. There’s even a Facebook invite to help spread the word.
More coming attractions after the jump. (more…)
The momentum has continued to grow around the online and on-the-ground campaigns of immigration activist groups like Puente and Presente.org. (more…)
Cheoregraphed and performed by dancers Matt Luck and Emma Portner, this piece to an acoustic cover of the Springsteen classic “Dancing in the Dark” is a thrilling piece of precision body work. Filmed by Christian Beasley at the LiveArts LA space, the video is extremely simple, but don’t let that fool you. Capturing this kind of hyper-articulate dance is no easy thing.
I’m not often jealous of New York or New Yorkers, maybe it’s the Bostonian ancestry, but as a theatre rat I do occasionally feel the pangs. The pangs this week have become epic- I’m talking Ulster* level- with word that Fleur Elise Noble’s 2 Dimensional Life of Her will be at this year’s Under The Radar festival.
You might remember how much I loved this piece at Radar LA back in 2010. So if you are in New York City between the 10th and the 20th and you are interested in immersive theatre , or really just having your mind blown in general, you need to see this.
*Bonus nerd points if you know what I’m talking about.
It’s worth noting today that Youth Radio, the organization that produces Turnstyle News, is being honored with a National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award for the work the organization has done over the years. Which includes the arts coverage here at Turnstyle.
The ceremony will be live-streamed by the White House at 2:30PM Eastern today.
