Daniel Barron
Los Angeles
Formerly: Founder/EIC of Yay! LA Magazine. Upcoming: Console Canon podcast. Doggie daddy to #LunaTheChorgi. Horror hound. Latinx. He/Him. Art by Jeff Bennett.
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Bakersville volunteers clean up Creek Walk
On a rainy Saturday morning, nearly 30 volunteers gathered in the town of Bakersville to clean debris, plant flowers, and continue restoring the Bakersville Creek Walk to its beauty and purpose. Built in the aftermath of another catastrophic flood, much of the Bakersville Creek Walk was destroyed by Hurricane Helene. For more than 30 years, the Creek Walk has served as a centerpiece for recreation, community events, and nature in downtown Bakersville.
Letter to the editor: Let’s make Israel a state
Since the beginning of the Gaza war, there have been more than 75,000 Palestinians killed, mostly women and children. And Palestinians’ homes, places of worship and businesses have been destroyed. The Palestinians held their last elections in May 2005, so no, Hamas does not represent the Palestinians. Hamas leaders live in Qatar in luxury. These airstrikes have also wounded thousands of Palestinians; now they have the most prosthetic children and survivors in the world.
Sobre Thomas Bernhard
Leer a Thomas Bernhard es una empresa que sólo podemos llevar a cabo una vez cada dos o tres años. La mayoría de los lectores —incluyendo los críticos— conjeturan que su mayor dificultad radica en sus rasgos estilísticos: sus obras discurren en largos párrafos de oraciones subordinadas que se convierten en páginas enteras, que a su vez alcanzan la dimensión de capítulos, y con frecuencia se convierten en el libro entero.
Sobre emboscarse
En el orden estamental de Ernst Jünger destacan las figuras del Trabajador, el Soldado Desconocido y el Emboscado. Resulta difícil en un espacio tan breve hablar de esta trinidad de fuerza, honor y libertad. Y sin afán de descartar su importancia de un plumazo, cosa imposible cuando se trata de las ideas jungerianas, es posible señalar que las dos primeras figuras han perdido cierto lustre debido al auge de la automatización, la gran bête noire del maestro alemán.
Sobre los dioses cautivos
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún describió un edificio en el Templo Mayor llamado Coacalco, era una sala enrejada como cárcel; en ella tenían encerrados a todos dioses de los pueblos que habían tomado por guerra; teníanlos allí como cautivos.
Sobre la danza
De origen náhuatl, el historiador Domingo Chimalpahin, narra que en el año 13-Caña (1479) vinieron a México, a cantar por primera vez, los de Amecameca y los chalcas tlalmanalcas para el señor Axayácatl. Comenzaron a tocar y a bailar, pero un “noble de Tlalmanalco tocaba la música con mucha torpeza”.
New Executive Orders Mandate Sweeping Changes to US Energy Policy | JD Supra
President Donald Trump recently issued three executive orders and a memorandum focused on the energy sector: Unleashing American Energy (EO 14154), Declaring a National Energy Emergency (EO 14159), Unleashing Alaska's Extraordinary Resource Potential (EO 14162), and Temporary Withdrawal of All Areas on the Outer Continental Shelf from Offshore Wind Leasing and Review of the Federal Government's Leasing and Permitting Practices for Wind Projects (memorandum) (the Offshore Wind Memo).
Sobre los personajes en Ernst Jünger
Sobre los acantilados de mármol es una metáfora del asedio, caída y acaso resurrección de todas las civilizaciones.
Sobre un personaje secundario
Los personajes secundarios tienen un encanto en el que no siempre reparamos. El personaje protagónico roba nuestra atención, pero los grandes maestros recurren a los secundarios para mostrar un camino menos transitado, discreto, que, sin embargo, suele representar sus ideas más estimadas. Así aparece la relación entre Emil Sinclair y Pistorius en Demian de Hermann Hesse.
Lección de tinieblas
Comisión de sombras es una columna dedicada al recuento de curiosidades culturales; cada entrega irá conformando una Wunderkammer, no aquella del coleccionista adinerado, sino la del zanate que recoge ramitas, listones y hojas para trenzar su nido. Mi entusiasmo se empareja con la urraca que roba objetos brillantes y los guarda en troncos huecos como un tesoro.
89. Shared Disruptions in Neural Circuits of Eye Gaze Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Schizophrenia
Impairment in social cognition, particularly eye gaze processing, is a shared feature common to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia. However, it is unclear if a convergent neural mechanism also underlies gaze dysfunction in these conditions. The present study examined whether this shared eye gaze phenotype is reflected in a profile of convergent neurobiological dysfunction in ASD and schizophrenia.
Brain–phenotype models fail for individuals who defy sample stereotypes - Nature
Abstract Individual differences in brain functional organization track a range of traits, symptoms and behaviours1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12. So far, work modelling linear brain–phenotype relationships has assumed that a single such relationship generalizes across all individuals, but models do not work equally well in all participants13,14. A better understanding of in whom models fail and why is crucial to revealing robust, useful and unbiased brain–phenotype relationships.
Letter to the editor: Civil disobedience vs. protesting
As an American I will always support anyone's rights to protest. It's one of the five parts of our First Amendment. I may not always agree with your protest but I’ll always support your rights to protest peacefully. These five guarantees make the people of the United States the freest people in the world. And we should push back against any government elected officials who suggest taking away those freedoms.
Letter to the editor: Don't deny First Amendment rights Original
I noticed on the top of the opinion page you have the First Amendment in print for us to see. We had a government elected official (Donald Trump) condemn a private citizen in front of our entire country for exercising his First Amendment rights.
Daniel Barron’s profile • Letterboxd
Founder/Editor-in-Chief of Yay!LA Magazine. Producer-ish. Proud doggie daddy to Luna The Chorgi. Horror hound. Latinx. He/Him.
Psychiatry Is Still Stuck in Freud's Era. Big Data Can Revolutionize How We Care for Patients
I have a problem. I am a psychiatrist in the 21st century and yet I still evaluate patients the way Freud did a century ago: I sit with a patient and, by carefully observing how and what they say, I expect them to tell me what’s wrong. The problem isn’t that I speak with and listen to my patients. Every doctor of every speciality does that. Rather, my problem is that I never measure the data I think are most important to my treatment of psychiatric diseases.
Commentary: the ethical challenges of machine learning in psychiatry: a focus on data, diagnosis, and treatment
The clinical interview is the psychiatrist's data gathering procedure. However, the clinical interview is not a defined entity in the way that ‘vitals’ are defined as measurements of blood pressure, heart rate, respiration rate, temperature, and oxygen saturation. There are as many ways to approach a clinical interview as there are psychiatrists; and trainees can learn as many ways of performing and formulating the clinical interview as there are instructors (Nestler, 1990).
The Rise of Big Data Psychiatry
As a physician, I need to figure out three things when a new patient walks into my office: what their life is typically like, what has changed that made them seek treatment and what I can do to help them. It’s a complex problem, and most fields of medicine approach it by taking measurements. If I were a cardiologist evaluating a patient’s chest pain, for instance, I would speak with the patient, but then I would listen to their heart and measure their pulse and blood pressure.
Reading Our Minds: The Rise of Big Data Psychiatry|Paperback
English 1734420782 What is Psychiatry and How Can we Improve It? In the last hundred years, most of the medical sciences have progressed in immense and unforeseeable ways-except for psychiatry, which has somehow remained immune to this progress. Daniel Barron, a psychiatrist who trained at the Yale School of Medicine, asks an important question: What's holding psychiatry back?
Reading Our Minds ebook by Daniel Barron - Rakuten Kobo
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Science et al on Apple Podcasts
9 episodes Science et al, a podcast hosted by Daniel Barron, features him in conversation with scientists, science writers, academics, and thinkers. Together they examine ideas and questions that are of interest to the medical and broader scientific community. Science et al, a podcast hosted by Daniel Barron, features him in conversation with scientists, science writers, academics, and thinkers.
Music Video Premiere: Sylvia Bosco Embraces The Now in the Romantic Boardwalk Tour "RIDE" - Yay! LA
by Daniel Antonio Barron | Sep 23, 2020 | MUSIC | Yay! LA presents the first official music video from Pasadena-raised pop indie-pop singer-songwriter Sylvia Bosco. In February, Yay! LA debuted the relationship epitaph “Don’t,” from Pasadena-raised singer-songwriter Sylvia Bosco. The pulsing dance-pop track formed a diptych with her prior release, “RIDE,” which swelled with the inebriated optimism of those first sips of love.
Artist Rich Pellegrino Makes Pop Figures POP!
The MA-based painter discusses working for Wes Anderson and how mental health affects one’s art. [Note: This article originally ran on Yay! LA in August of 2015 and has been revised from its original form.] Rich Pellegrino is an artist based out of Weymouth, who graduated from The Rhode Island School of Design and has been exhibiting nationally since 2006.
Enter The Realm of Iris Compiet's "Faeries of The Faultlines"
The Netherlands-born illustrator skyrocketed to international acclaim in 2016 when she began crafting an enchanting world of her own. [Note: This article originally ran in 2017 and has since been revised.] Iris Compiet is a professional painter, concept artist, and storybook illustrator from the Netherlands who first came to my attention when she volunteered to be a part of Yay! LA‘s Summer 2016 sci-fi/fantasy art series known as Yay! Legends Every Day. Iris was a natural fit for the project.
Lynchian "What's The Frequency?" Is The Audiodrama Mystery You Desire
James Oliva’s ambitious psychonoir treads the line between tones and realities. Just as collector culture has applied a new coat of varnish to antiquated formats like the cassette tape, the ease and ubiquity of podcasts have revived that old-timey format of the radio drama. Modern technology, a wider embrace of genre fiction, and post-streaming binge culture have allowed a wealth of programs such as Limetown or Homecoming to achieve popular success, some even attracting mainstream talent.
A Simple Act- "The Bravery Tapes"- Yay! LA Magazine
As a print and radio journalist, Jens Erik Gould has seen it all. He spent three years in Venezuela covering President Hugo Chávez as a contributor to The New York Times and NPR. For three more years, he was Bloomberg’s political and economy correspondent in Mexico City, reporting on the drug war.
Edwin Ushiro: Island of Dreams
Raised on Maui, Edwin Ushiro’s paintings revisit the people, places, and stories that illuminated his childhood imagination. So the story goes: On the night of his birth, Edwin Ushiro’s mother was greeted by spirits from beyond. This was 1977, on the island of Maui, as she was staying with a relative while her newborn son clung to life at a hospital on Oahu. The doctors placed his chances of survival at less than one-percent. She needed a miracle.
Artist Spotlight: Harumi Hironaka
Harumi Hironaka is a Japanese-Peruvian painter based in São Paulo who spent her teenage years in Japan, where she acquired an early interest in manga and dreamed of becoming a manga artist. Hironaka instead went on to become an interpreter and translator but furthered her love of illustration by consulting YouTube tutorials on oil painting. Less than a year later she was exhibiting her work and today her prints are in-demand all over the world.
Artist Spotlight: Jessica Perner
Artist Spotlight on the twisted beauty of illustrator Jessica Perner Horror and beauty become powerfully intertwined in the stark graphite renderings of Austria-based artist Jessica Perner. As the daughter of a military family, Perner has grown up around the globe. She was born in Guam and eventually received her Bachelor’s and Master’s in Fine Art in Michigan before relocating to LA to make it in the art world.
Artist Spotlight: Jeff Faerber
Artist Jeff Faerber writes in his bio that he was raised in a religious environment that he rejected. Now based out of Brooklyn, the graduate of NYC’s School of Visual Arts explores through his work concepts of faith and often frank expressions of eroticism. I often use narratives (or implied narratives) to set a mood, to immerse myself in a feeling. My work reflects my attempt to find a balance between outward- and inward-directed energy, between the individual and the larger world.
Artist Spotlight: Jeff McMillan
Jeff McMillan is a Long Beach-based painter, commercial illustrator, and muralist. His solo exhibitions have spanned Los Angeles, NYC, San Francisco, and Melbourne while past clients have included Nike, Microsoft, Amazon, and Disney. He is also one half of the muralist duo The Draculas, alongside Gary Musgrave. For two years, the pair have participated in the POW! WOW! Long Beach arts festival alongside fellow luminaries of the public art world.
Artist Spotlight: Leticia Maldonado
Leticia Maldonado is an LA-based sculptor who works in the medium of neon art. For the past four years, she has mentored under Michael Flechtner, a who she connected with while cold calling prominent figures in the neon art scene. Maldonado is particularly known for her fluorescent floral pieces, whose delicate arrangements burn with a seductive allure.
Artist Spotlight: Stephen Bode
ART, ARTIST SPOTLIGHT Artist Spotlight: Stephen Bode 0 Comments 03 March 2018 Artist Spotlight on North Carolina-based illustrator Stephen Bode. by Daniel Barron Stephen Bode, aka Spex, is an illustrator and sculptor based out of North Carolina who favors clean ink lines and ghoulish, yet kinda cuddly, creatures of the night. For Yay! LA‘s October 2015 Yay! Horror Movie A Day series he interpreted What We Do In The Shadows and the videogame Dead Space.
Artist Spotlight: Cihan Sesen
ART, ARTIST SPOTLIGHT Artist Spotlight: Cihan Sesen 0 Comments 03 March 2018 Artist Spotlight on Turkish-born illustrator and comic book author Cihan Sesen. by Daniel Barron Cihan Sesen is an illustrator and comic book creator originally from Istanbul, currently based in Northern California. He is the author of four graphic novels, including the webcomic SPINE, and the ongoing series Carny Trash.
Jennifer Korsen's "Heartopia" Puts The Art in Artery
Santa Clarita-based interactive installation and fundraiser marks the culmination of five years of public works and community engagement. Don’t call Jennifer Korsen the Queen of Hearts. Well, okay, she does, but a self-conscious wink is definitely applied. The Los Angeles-based muralist, mixed media artist, and activist derives the title from her signature image, an abstract rendering of a human heart. Perhaps you have seen it around town.
Eye of Amato- Temple of Art
Nine years ago, New Orleans resident Allan Amato was making a comfortable living working in the advertising industry. Then everything changed once Hurricane Katrina struck.
The Fantastic Beasts of Emi Slade
Michigan-based sculptor and taxidermist Emi Slade talks her affinity for all manner of strange beasts. If it snarls or slithers, if it creeps or crawls, if it has scales or is slathered in slime, chances are it falls within the fixations of Michigan’s Emi Slade. Practiced in the field of sculpture, taxidermy, and 3D collectibles, her unconventional skillset is linked by a consistent appreciation for Mother Nature’s creatures, the more wild and outlandish the better.
Music Video: Pipe Dreams, "In My Head"
DIY and NSFW music video for the track “In My Head” by LA punk princesses Pipe Dreams. They play hard and fast, they wear tiaras, and they DGAF. They call themselves Pipe Dreams and a year after these punk princesses crashed onto the scene at Echo Park Rising they’ve dropped this DIY and NSFW music video for their track “In My Head” from their upcoming LP.
Music Video: Ramonda Hammer, "Destroyers"
Music video for Ramonda Hammer’s title track off of their new EP, “Destroyers.” LA grunge band Ramonda Hammer might be having their best month ever. Their newest release, the Destroyers EP, dropped at the beginning of the month from New Professor, garnering effusive acclaim from a little mag called Rolling Stone.
Echo Park Rising '17 Recap
Photos from the Saturday acts at Echo Park Rising ’17. Last weekend, bands, artists, and vendors assembled in celebration of LA’s creativity and diversity for the Echo Park Rising shindig. Headlining acts for 2017 included The Buttertones, Dungen, Meatbodies, and Laetitia Sadlier. Our resident music documentarian Chris Camargo and I both had too many bands we wanted to see, and as is the case with any music festival, brutal sacrifices were made.
Echo Park Rising '17 Recap
Photos from the final day of Echo Park Rising 2017. Chris and I finished the weekend by checking out some of our friends at the Wild Riot x The Pretty Cult stage, among them Flames of Durga, Night Talks, and Holy Wars. We also stopped by Play Like A Girl’s showcase, whose lineup included Iress, Spare Parts For Broken Hearts, and Emily Gold’s recently-debuted band, Velvet. And how else to finish the festival but with a predictably bombastic set from Ever So Android?
Music Video: Anabot, "Mongrel"
Music video for Anabot’s title track, “Mongrel,” off of their forthcoming full-length debut. A collaboration with OMG Cameras Everywhere. Singer-songwriter Analise Nelson has a major sweet tooth for pop music. She co-hosts the show Popular Music: The Podcast with former Yay! LA contributor Steven Ray Morris, in which the pair wax on everything from Britney Spears and Daft Punk to TLC and Lesley Gore.
Artists Get Their Feet Wet with #MerMay
Artists go undah dah sea with their visual takes on aquatic nymphs. Throughout global folklore, there often exists a form of the legendary aquatic creatures popularly known as mermaids. Sometimes they are believed to be symbols of portent, signaling floods, storms, or shipwrecks. In other interpretations, they are benevolent nymphs that exist to woo and enchant us. Christopher Columbus even has accounts of mermaid sightings, though it is thought that they were just manatees.
Trax: TV Heads, "Devotional"
Trax highlights the songs that need to be in your rotation. Last year, TV Heads’ made their emergence with the EP Total Fucker, available via Bay Area label OIM Records. That release was an exuberant four-song expression of the foursome’s optimism regarding their move to Los Angeles. But the City of Angeles is not the place for those with small plans, and as such the group has been hard at work on their latest statement, a full-length produced by Jon Nunez (Torche).
Music Video: Vylet, "Lightning"/"All That Glitters"
Music video for baroque pop artist Vylet’s track “Lightning” and lyric video for her latest single “All That Glitters.” Today, Yay! LA brings you another sonic twofer with a pair of music videos courtesy of baroque pop singer Vylet. The solo artist is classically trained in violin and piano and found inspiration in Romantic composers such as Chopin and Rachmaninoff, an affinity she acquired at a age young age, when her grandfather would hand her cassette mixes of his favorite compositions.
Music Video: Santa Barbara, "Reptile Lover"
Music video for the single “Reptile Lover” by New Zealand transplants Santa Barbara. What happens when three kiwis with a love of ’60s rock migrate to Los Angeles? The result of that chemical reaction occurred in late 2014, when guitarist/vocalist Cassie Gaffaney joined with bassist Geoff Maddock and drummer Nick Gaffaney to form the surf rock-infused group Santa Barbara.
Music Video: Broken Baby, "Bullets or Bummer"
The far-out first music video from singer-songwriter Alex Dezen’s new music project with Amber Marie Bollinger, Broken Baby. Alex Dezen is a veteran singer-songwriter, known for alt-country group The Damnwells and his solo career, of which he has released four EPs and two full-lengths.
Fantastic Fascinations: The Art of Iris Compiet
Netherlands-born illustrator Iris Compiet discusses her fascinations with folklore and her upcoming art book Faeries of the Faultlines. Iris Compiet is a professional painter, concept artist, and storybook illustrator from the Netherlands who first came to my attention when she volunteered to be a part of last Summer’s fantasy and science fiction-themed Yay! Legends Every Day Original Art Series. Compiet was a natural fit for the project.
Music Video: The Fontaines, "Two Bodies"
Music video for the single “Two Bodies” by The Fontaines. New wave rock band The Fontaines are the creation of Texas-bred siblings Charlotte (vocals) and Hank (guitar), who are joined in live performances by drummer Chrystian Kaplan and bassist Daniel Zuker. Their eclectic mix of doo-wop harmonies and synth textures were well-received when the group made their debut with a self-titled EP in 2015, buzz which grew more electric following the output of their follow-up EP, ii, in early 2016.
Classic Yay! LA: Fantastic Flights
A compilation of the best Yay! LA pieces featuring artists who dabble in mythic themes and otherworldly realms. This coming week the revamped Yay! LA will begin the rollout of its first new issue, “Myth.” I’m very excited about the coverage and hope we can set a strong precedent for forthcoming editions. This site has always been a labor of love and I think that care and attention will be reflective in what’s coming up.
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