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The Los Angeles Times: Mold-A-Rama makes a comeback in L.A.
The waxy scent that drifts up the escalators at the Los Angeles Central Library is immediately familiar to anyone who remembers the Mold-A-Rama.
The novelty vending machines mold souvenir sculptures — a train car, a gorilla, a bust of Abraham Lincoln — in under a minute.
Christina Rice, the senior librarian who oversees the Los Angeles Public Library’s photo collection, made it her personal quest to find and install one in the Central Library.
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CalArts' The Pool: Lyndon Barrois Sr.: Art in Miniature, Life in Full
Lyndon Barrois Sr. has enjoyed a long career in animation. His credits include visual effects for films The Matrix Reloaded, Happy Feet, Sucker Punch, and the 2011 remake of The Thing. For much of this time, his personal art took a back seat to his career.
But when he was 10 years old, growing up in New Orleans, his tiny figures only had one job: to pilot his HotWheels cars.
The gum wrapper became his preferred medium out of convenience and scale. The figures had to fit in the driver’s seat, and gum wrappers were plentiful due to his mother’s constant chewing. -
The Hollywood Reporter: A ‘Saw’ Maestro Takes Theater to “Trippy” Places
It’s hard to find an immersive show that grants its audience more than limited agency. Though often highly interactive, most shows barrel along without significant input from their viewers.
That’s why Theatre Macabre from filmmaker Darren Lynn Bousman is so ambitious. It promises guests a series of choices that morph the narrative as they’re made, using a spiderweb of a script that employs about 40 characters and exceeds 400 pages.
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PBS SoCal: Immersive Audio's Visceral Thrills
You emerge from a warm pool into a bioluminescent cave. A woman suggests you let go of your cumbersome human body and sink into the soil, small and weightless. You’re inside someone’s lungs; they rise and fall, the thud of their heartbeat a comforting metronome.
These are some of the “virtual trips” you can take through “Adventures in the Mind’s Ear,” an audio experience from film and TV composer Rolfe Kent, (Dexter, Sideways).
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LA Weekly: It's Koi Division, a Fishy Joy Division Cover Band
Joy Division rarely lends itself to humor. Their very name is controversial Their lyrics are dark and their history is mired in tragedy.
Koi Division, however, is a much lighter affair. Donning black clothes and plastic fish masks, they wind their way through Joy Division covers with modified lyrics that explore the daily, often baleful, goings-on of the sea in front of a bubble machine. Though it might seem mocking, there is a reverence behind the humor.
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The Hustle: The Strange History of the Ouija Board
The Salem Witch Board Museum’s walls are lined with “talking boards” or “witch boards” — devices that supposedly allow people to communicate with spirits.
You might call them Ouija boards, but Ouija is a brand, like Kleenex or Tupperware.
“Think of Coke and Pepsi. Coke is probably number one, Pepsi is number two. There is no number two for the Ouija board,” the museum’s owner, John Kozik, told The Hustle.