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Letter From The Editor – Currents Magazine Spring 2015

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Dear reader, In your hands is something that has been a dream of mine for five years. These simply bound pages with all their vivid pictures and thoughtful content are a piece of me. I have given all I can to make this award worthy for the school that I love. This magazine is the culmination of my journey as a writer, editor and person. When my seventeen-year-old self first … [Read more...] about Letter From The Editor – Currents Magazine Spring 2015

Shooting On Location: Revisit The Original Film Locations Of These Iconic Movies In Malibu – Currents Magazine Spring 2015

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Photos by Shawn Jones For Malibu natives, the beach is a sort of oasis, an escape from everyday life. It is home to the surfers, oceanside readers and loungers alike. However, Malibu’s sand ‘n’ surf landscape welcomes guests from time to time — one of them being the film industry. The beaches have set the scenes for motion pictures such as “The Notebook,” “The Karate Kid,” … [Read more...] about Shooting On Location: Revisit The Original Film Locations Of These Iconic Movies In Malibu – Currents Magazine Spring 2015

Gaming the Old-Fashioned Way – Currents Magazine Winter 2015

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There are at least four decades worth of people who were practically raised on video games, since video games were popularized in the 1970s. For me, I remember a time when video games were just something that I talked about with friends on the playground. Video games in general were considered more of a childish past time than a serious medium. My parents did at … [Read more...] about Gaming the Old-Fashioned Way – Currents Magazine Winter 2015

It’s OK not to be OK – Currents Magazine Winter 2015

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Photos by: Alexander Hayes We are consumers of stability caught in a rabid evasion of dissonance. We blast party pop on full volume — hands lifted into the air we think we own and the darkness we refuse to fear. We smile and chirp about the shiniest celebrity amid the sunlit orb of our perfect lives, unable to recognize this vital and necessary reality: It is OK to not be … [Read more...] about It’s OK not to be OK – Currents Magazine Winter 2015