TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

AmazeVR , a Los Angeles-based virtual concert platform, said Tuesday it has raised a $17 million funding round to create immersive music experiences through virtual reality (VR) concerts. Many music artists had to cancel or push back their live events during the pandemic. Are virtual concerts here to stay?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Proceeds benefit Heal the Bay, a nonprofit dedicated to making the coastal waters and watersheds of Greater Los Angeles safe, healthy, and clean. 12) Heal the Bay :: shop.healthebay.org. 13) Helping Rhinos Shop :: helpingrhinos.org/shop. All purchases help support vital conservation work to save critically endangered rhinos.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

AmazeVR , a virtual reality concert platform that enables users to experience their favorite artists’ VR concerts through content generation tools, announced today it has secured $15 million, which was oversubscribed within three weeks. . Backed by LG, AmazeVR is hoping to resurrect virtual reality’s consumer dreams. this spring.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. They support artist-driven film and new media storytelling projects (documentary films) that explore aspects of inequality, as well as the organizations and networks that support these documentary projects.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

With live, in-person events almost entirely canceled across the globe, artists have been searching for new ways to connect with fans. This youthful audience, combined with Roblox ’s sheer scale — it has an estimated 150 million players — has turned it into an attractive space for artists. Things have started slowly.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

A pitch to offer artists a way to give geo-fenced, live events to fans around the world has brought the new Los Angeles startup Moment House $1.5 The money came from heavy hitters in the Los Angeles entertainment and investment scene including Scooter Braun, Troy Carter, Kygo’s Palm Tree Crew and Jared Leto.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The developer is designing The Music Locker like a venue you might actually attend in real life, located beneath The Diamond in-game casino and resort in its fictionalized version of Los Angeles. The open-world crime series has always secured high-profile artists for its in-game radio stations. Image: Rockstar Games.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

And while some smaller artists embraced shows over Zoom or worked with startups like Oda who created live concert subscriptions, there were few mainstream hits among bigger acts. Meanwhile, startups like Wave raised huge bouts of VC funding to turn real performers into digital avatars in a bid to create more digital-native concerts.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

Take a tip from Facebook with its wall designs from now infamous Los Angeles artist, David Choe. It’s raw and when done well, fits seamlessly into the energy of the company and reverberates the successes of the employees.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images. IATSE sought improved working conditions, including weekend rest periods and higher pay scales on streaming shows for its members, who work in many behind-the-scenes roles in Hollywood, such as broadcast technicians, animators, and makeup artists. Paramount Pictures, and Disney.

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Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. They support artist-driven film and new media storytelling projects (documentary films) that explore aspects of inequality, as well as the organizations and networks that support these documentary projects.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images. IATSE members include people involved with every major behind-the-scenes part of productions, from makeup artists to animators to broadcast technicians. They’re working on productions with extremely high production value,” Loeb told the Los Angeles Times.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

She is a veteran touring artist, songwriter, live sound engineer and music publisher. He also did stints in other markets including Los Angeles, Sacramento and Albuquerque. Additionally, Theresa serves as a Development Specialist for The Wende Museum and sits on the fundraising committee for Girls Inc Los Angeles.

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DataRobot

MARCH 9, 2021

After a postponement due to rising COVID-19 numbers in the Los Angeles area, Sunday, March 14th will mark the 63rd GRAMMY awards. Last year, Billie Eilish was the star of the show sweeping all four major categories (Song of the Year, Record of the Year, Album of the Year, and Best New Artist), an accomplishment only done once before.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2021

An artistic rendering of a satellite in orbit. Amazon paid Facebook an undisclosed sum as part of the acquisition, which saw more than a dozen Los Angeles-based employees switch companies in April to work on Project Kuiper. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2004

In a decision released December 29th , the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco dismissed Mattel's appeal of the summary judgment of the Los Angeles federal district court regarding the creation and sale of photographs of naked Barbie dolls in provocative postures and being attacked by kitchen appliances by artist Tom Forsythe.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The proceeds bring the 13-person, Los Angeles–based company’s total raised to $13 million. The company today announced that it raised $10 million in a Series A round led by Seven Seven Six, the VC firm founded by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, with participation from Shopify co-founder and CEO Tobi Lütke.

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sgEngage

APRIL 6, 2021

Gorman spoke with the poise and self-confidence of an artist who has been performing her whole life, but just a few years ago she was a shy teenager who was apprehensive about sharing her work – a “skinny girl with a speech impediment who needed a mentor,” in her words.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images. The tentative deal reached this week will cover some 20,000 workers on productions in TV and film — including crew, artists, editors, and other behind-the-scenes roles — from 23 local unions across the US. IATSE // #IASolidarity (@IATSE) October 26, 2021.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Paul Farestveit A trained historian with a degree in history from the University of California at Los Angeles, Paul Farestveit has spent the majority of his career working for STA Travel, a global student travel company that operates large businesses in Europe, the United States, and Australia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

The "Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images" exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art manages to both celebrate and betray fair use at the same time. These are canonical fair uses -- an artist who takes from another artist and uses his work to make new work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Green Blogger Convention To Kick Off In Los Angeles Next Month on Eco razzi. LINK LOVE Bay Area folks, join me November 15th for Jennifer Lee's Right-Brain Business Plan Workshop in Oakland. Early registration deadline is Nov. Interesting WorldChanging post, Just Launched: Journal of Participatory Medicine.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 11, 2020

But many creators are more like Atencio, who simply posts videos of solo rides through her home in suburban Los Angeles or her time spent hanging out at skateparks with friends. “I I see a lot more women skateboarding on TikTok than I ever did growing up,” Faeth Perryman, who also posts skate videos to TikTok , told The Verge.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Y ou can see her speak (via streaming video) this Saturday, November 6th at TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch in Los Angeles. I have a couple of friends, artists Richard Lange and Judith Selby Lange, who scour the beach regularly for plastic trash to include in their art projects. Click here to find a watch party near you.

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See3

JUNE 3, 2009

The GATC’s most distinguished project to date is the Genesis World Music Ensemble, or the Saffron Caravan, which brings together music artists from the Middle East, North Africa and the Americas to revisit, reinvent and link musical traditions. The group later travelled to Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C.

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The Verge

MARCH 10, 2022

It’s geared toward directing users to take meaningful actions against climate change in Los Angeles County — and eventually, beyond. Kelner starts her artistic process by choosing a climate-related topic from her running (and ever-growing) list of ideas — most of which were requested by her Twitter followers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2022

The Los Angeles Times reported that “credit cards and digital payment apps such as PayPal offer some distinct advantages over cash, including the ability to recover money paid to scammers. If you use Zelle to pay someone who proves to be a con artist, you have only a slim chance of recovering the money from your bank.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA). It was started in 2003 and is run by Mark Allen and a collective of artists, many of whom have also been applying their talents by performing "interventions" at formal art institutions including LACMA, the Hammer Museum, and the Contemporary Art Museum in St. PieLab (Greensboro, AL).

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Gifts One of the best gifts you can give is the gift of time together , but there are also lots of places to purchase lovely gifts made by artists and artisans. Love Finally, Valentine's Day can feel lonely for a lot of people. Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2009

Last year, I met Mark Allen, the founder of Machine Project , an extremely cool "post-educational" space in Los Angeles that is part art gallery, part workshop space, part mad scientist party central. This is the model that governs most businesses and artistic endeavors. They're made to plod along. Then they start to slide.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

I know I feel that way about the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles; I feel a bit of pride every time I usher a skeptical friend through the non-descript storefront and into a world of strange wonder. As he put it , "I also think people connect with my stuff because it flirts with failure.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2021

Gorman spoke with the poise and self-confidence of an artist who has been performing her whole life, but just a few years ago she was a shy teenager who was apprehensive about sharing her work – a “skinny girl with a speech impediment who needed a mentor,” in her words.

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The Verge

APRIL 15, 2021

The vase that is holding my faux flowers and moisture meter for my plants is a handcrafted piece by an artist who goes by akilspots on Instagram. I picked it up last summer in Brooklyn at the going-away sale that he held before he moved to Los Angeles. And there are also some really nice art objects on your corner bookcase.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2015

Visitors in front of the African Elephant Diorama at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC photo) This guest post was written by Karen Wise, Vice President, Education and Exhibits at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. “I You’ve made it better without changing it.” Those words haunt me.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Michael Johnston is the president and founder of the global fundraising consultancy, Hewitt and Johnston Consultants (hjc), which has offices in Los Angeles, Vancouver, Toronto, and Cordoba. by Michael Johnston, President and Founder, Hewitt and Johnston Consultants (hjc).

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

This week, an interview with Brooklyn Museum 1stfans managers Will Cary (membership) and Shelley Bernstein (technology) and artist An Xiao. So you weren't targeting "Brooklyn artists" or some other demographic group. T he Twitter Art Feed features a new artist every month. How are you selecting and rewarding these artists?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 19, 2015

The Autry National Center of the American West in Los Angeles launched a campaign to raise $66,000 in 60 days for their exhibition on Route 66 (they raised $61,000 – 92% of their goal). A young artist program you hope to get off the ground? More detail here. Autry National Center of the American West.

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