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Museradio for Dossier

Museradio, created by Lilly Ladjevardi, a BBC world music researcher and Olivia Koerfer, a tech expert, is an online music platform with specially created playlists that you can stream straight to your computer or download from ITunes. I was introduced to Museradio this summer (music geek I am not) and was able to go online, [...]

BYOC to the Silver Lake Jubilee

On paper, the Silver Lake Jubilee looks rad. Forgiving the fact that neither Warpaint nor Local Natives will be there, there are more than 20 local bands in the lineup. There will be art and literary installations by local curators. It’s kid-friendly (children’s village), gardener/hippie-friendly (eco-village with a temporary xeriscape garden) and lush-friendly (two micro [...]

DIY: Zero Film Festival 2009

My friends and I made a film once. It was a short film, and by short I mean under five minutes in length. We shot for ten hours and we ran out of money, even though nobody got paid and the set was mostly duct tape. And we never finished it. And it sucked. The [...]

Tracking the Elusive Engine

As film projection systems come, the Engine is weird. A spindly, menacing apparatus of oxidized steel, it could easily have doubled as a prop in David Lynch’s Dune if not for the 17-by-10-foot movie screen it supports. The product of 4,000 hours of labor by Silver Lake-based filmmaker Burke Roberts and his Bizzurke Army collective, [...]