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Travel Guide
CALIFORNIA 101 - Channel Islands National Park
Release: 2018 from Visit California
Who’s from Ojai?
Produced and shot by Nicholas Weissman of VACATIONLAND
Graphics: Amun Levy of Altarbeast
The California 101 series covers over 50 exceptional California adventures. Road Trip! Read more about hiking Channel Islands on VORTEX.
OJAI STUDIO ARTIST VISIT: GRETA LOVINA
Ongoing Series produced by Ojai Studio Artists — SUBSCRIBE TO THEIR YOUTUBE CHANNEL!
Fabric artist, dress designer Greta Lovina talks about how her dislike of colorful clothing in Soviet Armenia grew to a passion for color.
The annual Ojai Studio Artist tour is back and this year it is FREE! Reserve your ticket here.
Music
VETIVER “SWAYING” (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
Release: 2020 from Mama Bird Recording Co.
Who’s from Ojai?
Director of Photography Keren Nedivi of Hand Eye Pictures
The official music video for Vetiver's "Swaying", off 'album Up On High', out now. Directed by Danielle Rubi, Edited by Eric J. Loeffler Director of Photography: Keren Nedivi, Camera Assistant: Brandon Goodwin, Production Assistant: Micah Faoro Actors: Raymond Douglas & Roxanne Rosensteel.
MUSIC FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE ZINES: A PLAYLIST FROM LUJO ZINE
illustration by jules weissman
Who’s from Ojai?
Jocelyn Aucoin put together this perfect summer playlist to accompany the release of the first issue of Lujo Zine which includes local artists Francine Gealer and Jules Weissman.
You can order a copy of Lujo Zine here.
Podcast
OJAI: TALK OF THE TOWN
Who’s from Ojai?
HOST: Bret Bradigan | Karen K. Lewis
From Ojai: Talk of the Town:
December 8, 1941 came like a storm as the Japanese aircraft began bombing and strafing Manila and other American outposts in the Phillippines Island, at that time an American colony. For Karen Lewis, the daughter of an American accountant for a gold mining company, it started out as an adventure - leaving the mining camp at Baguio to head for safety in Manila. It quickly became much more harrowing — three years of confinement in Santo Tomas, a Catholic University just across the Pasig River from the city proper, along with 3,000 other mostly American and English detainees.
Karen was 9 years old at the time and witnessed the resilience and determination of the adults to organize a highly functioning and organized community, with school, dining halls, sanitation, and entertainment under the watchful eye of their Japanese civilian commandant. But when he left after a year and was replaced with a military commander, things took a darker turn, and discipline often proved brutal and rations dwindled down to starvation portions. News was hard to come by but filtered through hidden transistor radios as the Allied offensive pushed the Japanese back through the South Pacific to the gates of Santo Tomas, shortly after MacArthur's prophesied return.
She and Bret talk about her daily life in the camp, how it was organized and how it functioned, as well as the odd coincidences and humanity from detainees and guards alike. Lewis gathered up her story along with three other women for "Interrupted Lives: Four Women's Stories of Internment During WWII." The well-known painter and stalwart of the Ojai Studio Artists has lived in Ojai for 30+ years and stays active with gatherings of Santo Tomas survivors.
Documentary
A WONDERFUL KINGDOM
From Vacationland:
In Portugal the wine harvest in the Douro Valley, the oldest demarcated wine region in the world, celebrates triumph in tradition.“A Wonderful Kingdom” is a feature documentary that captures this beautiful and remote region that comes alive once a year, and the local characters who instill its spirit through their hands.
Produced by VACATIONLAND and directed by Carlos Carneiro
Cover: A Wonderful Kingdom