In a city where glamour and fame often capture the media spotlight, it can be easy to forget that modern rocketry first took root in a dusty stretch of dry riverbed in Pasadena, and eventually bloomed into the most ambitious efforts of humankind to date. Last week, in Downtown Los Angeles, the industry leaders and feisty upstarts who continue to carry that proverbial torch gathered to show-off the current capabilities and bold plans for the future at the Spacecraft Technology Expo.
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This weekend at the Downtown Independent, adherents to the waning effort of music videos congregated to celebrate a medium that has gone from moneyed MTV mainstay to forgotten format. There is, however, a silver lining to this cloud. As the business of producing music video has evaporated, the artistry of those music videos has ramped up significantly. Below are the more prominent winners from the 2012 Los Angeles Music Video Festival.
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Encircling this century-old living room in Highland Park sit thirty or so well-dressed young people; an abundance of ragged beards, tattoo ink, high waisted skirts, horizontal stripes, and well-worn plaid. Its standing room only around the fringes of the room, with most people seated on armchairs or atop the hardwood floor, legs crossed at the ankles, beers or something stronger in laps.
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Maybe I’m a jerk. Maybe I’m an anti-social, freeway-phobic, tone deaf, cheap skate. Or maybe, just maybe, the prospect of driving to the ends of Greater Los Angeles, to crowd together with the same rabble I’m consistently inundated by via social media everyday, to be fleeced by outrageous ticket prices, bathroom queues that resemble Russian bread lines, pricey, watered-down beer, to hear acts that sound better in-studio than live just does not appeal to me.
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On April 12th, 1961, pilot Yuri Gagarin made two orbits around the Earth in a tiny capsule, welcoming boldly a new domain for human achievement. Last Thursday, at the W Hotel in Hollywood, more than 700 space professionals and enthusiasts got together to celebrate that achievement.
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