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Sesame Street, Style & Semiotics

nobody@vox.com(erikadalya) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:59:25 -0800

The fashion set has named this sea green clutch “Oscar the Grouch”. How apropos! Too much fun to see a few of my favorite things—Christian Louboutin and vintage Sesame Street—converge in faddism. Anyone who recalls the classic Sesame Street segme...

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Kashmere Stage Band

nobody@vox.com(erikadalya) — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:30:32 -0800

Arguably the best high school musicians and composers of their time, the Kashmere Stage Band, from the mid 1960s through the 70s, set the bar for student music groups across the country. Kashmere High School is located in Kashmere Gardens, a pr...

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Film Review: Helvetica

nobody@vox.com(erikadalya) — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:55:02 -0800

helvetica noun 1. a typeface in which characters have no serifs [syn: sans serif] For me, Ray Gun magazine (1992-2000) was an addiction. Through its experimentation with typographic design, this alternative music publication wasn’t always read...

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THE FINE ART OF VJing – PART TWO (microambience)

nobody@vox.com(erikadalya) — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:06:35 -0800

Emerging trends in visual ambience have always intrigued me. As a child I was titillated by light and sound shows that were the mainstay of any planetarium experience. Experimental in their technique and narrative, music and light immersions con...

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CHINA: Sustainable Development

nobody@vox.com(erikadalya) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:59:37 -0800

My current civic work involves the planning and design of a multimedia center devoted to the urban arts whose programmatic curriculum focuses on new technologies, workforce development, and social entrepreneurship. Hence, I am seriously invested...

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Backstage @ Oscar de la Renta, Spring 2008

nobody@vox.com(erikadalya) — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:23:08 -0700

The backstage scene during fashion week is a remarkably dynamic experience. Preparations for the spectacle of a designer as revered as de la Renta requires the succinct organization and the work of hundreds of people including design assistants,...

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THE FINE ART OF VJing – PART ONE

nobody@vox.com(erikadalya) — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:46:16 -0700

Art Jones I met Art Jones back when I was a baby curator in the mid-90s and he was part of the progressive video collective Not Channel Zero. It might serve to mention that the essay I penned on this collective of guerilla documentarians of the...

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GLAMOUR Magazine's Top 10 College Women in America

nobody@vox.com(erikadalya) — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:54:29 -0700

In 1993, Erika became a Glamour Magazine Top 10 College Women honoree. This year Glamour celebrated the 50th anniversary of the college women competition with a luncheon presented by L’ORÈAL PARIS. As a distinguished alum, Erika was featured in a ...

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JAPAN JOURNAL #7

nobody@vox.com(erikadalya) — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:32:23 -0700

Roppongi Hills With Roppongi Hills, architect Jon Jerde created a phenomenon of East-meets-West, ancient-meets-future and stark beauty-meets-crass-commercialism. The dream of real-estate tycoon Minoru Mori, the centerpiece of the Roppongi comp...

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RICO GATSON

nobody@vox.com(erikadalya) — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:31:47 -0700

Rico Gatson aggressively generates cultural memory through the exploration of conceptual symbolism culled from the popular collective to create theories that deal with identity and racial intolerance in mass culture. Working in painting, sculptur...

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