Gendy Alimurung

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Serena Brooke's Surf Stronger Fitness Video Gets to the Core

Gendy Alimurung
In the universe defined by Roxy board shorts and Dakine flip-flops, surfers are the ultimate paradigm of fitness. They have the acrobatic skills of gymnasts, the physical endurance of long-distance swimmers, the fluidity of dancers — and they do things on water that only Jesus should be able to. Olympic......
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Those Olympic Swimsuits, a.k.a. Drugs on a Hanger?

Gendy Alimurung
Now that Michael Phelps finally crushed the 400-meter this past weekend, how about those Olympic swimsuits? You know, those controversial Speedo LZR Racer bodysuits that look like a pair of Spanx pantyhose mated with a scuba suit. The ones that caused tons of world records to be broken? People got......
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Making Fiends: Amy Winfrey's Animated Vendetta

Gendy Alimurung
The city of Clamburg is overrun with fiends. In the world of Amy Winfrey’s Web series Making Fiends, the titular fiends are diabolical creatures with a taste for havoc. There are fiends in the school classrooms and on the playgrounds. There is even a giant red-cat fiend that terrorizes the citizens,......
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The Chumby Diaries: A Partial-Attention Love-Hate Story

Gendy Alimurung
Day 1“What the hell is it?” “It’s a Chumby.” “A what?” My co-worker watches as I unpack the weird device. It looks like a clock radio in a beanbag. It has a video screen, it’s padded in rubber and leather, and it’s soft and squashy. It’s the most recent in......
Dye it green: Roza Adjory gets to the roots of a customer’s hair; Credit: Kristin Burns

Greenwashed and Dyed: Nori's Eco Salon

Gendy Alimurung
Though it’s surely not a record to be held for long, Nori’s Eco Salon in Encino is the only full-service green beauty salon in Los Angeles. As the push toward greater ecological sustainability continues, now even your hair — the stuff you put in it, the place you get it......
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At L.A.'s E3 Summit: The Business of Beautiful Killing Games

Gendy Alimurung
Bloodlust is everywhere at the E3 gaming-business summit — bloodlust and nerds. Over in the Los Angeles Convention Center’s Showcase Pavilion arcade, the nerds watch the girls (all five of them) cluster around the Capcom booth, playing a sheep-abduction game called Flock. Cute little cotton-ball puffs of sheep bop around......
Well-stuffed: Sarah Jo Marks’ plush-filled refrigerator; Credit: Jessica Miller

The Plush Life of Food: A Collector's Story

Gendy Alimurung
The doughnuts were first. A dozen of them appeared on Sarah Jo Marks’ dining room table one afternoon. They stared at her. They had eyes. “Honey, what did you do?” Marks asked. “I just bought you a crapload of fake doughnuts, that’s what,” said her husband, Dov. The doughnuts, stitched......
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Bees, Bees, Llamas & Squirrel Dioramas

Gendy Alimurung
Artist Kyle Ng's exhibit "We Hear It All" is ongoing at FLUX in Venice until July 18. He's done up the space into a "pop-up natural history museum" with taxidermy dioramas, animal sculptures, bee artifacts, fake snow, a baby llama, honeycombs, a telescope, a mouse fetus and squirrels. This is......
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Zen and the Art of Cougar Hunting

Gendy Alimurung
They practice picking up young men at the grocery store, these older women who have never been married, or whose husbands have left them for younger stock, or whose soul mates have died of heart attacks or in car accidents. On a balmy Thursday at a hotel in Pasadena, life......