UFM Feature Artist

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Blythe Pistole is a writer, actor, and dancer currently living at large. Blythe has a Master of Art in English degree with a concentration in Irish Mythology from Boston College (2007). Blythe and I have formed a general partnership called, “The Blessed Isles Partnership”. We are a writing team focusing on feature screenplays. Our research and writing process has taken us to India and New Zealand. We plan to collaborate on smaller writing, musical, and film projects to be presented through UFM.

Click for Blythe’s Acting Resume

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Featured Artist

Lily Storelli, a graduate of SCI-Arc, is a practicing architect in Switzerland. Lily has graciously allowed UFM to present her Rip • A • Zine photos. ©lilypenelope. All rights reserved.

“Sometimes I wish I was a writer living in Paris, or a photographer in NYC! I graduated from SCI-Arc (Los Angeles) and moved back to this tiny medieval town close to the alps…I take pictures of the everyday and I write. I wish I was still in Paris or NYC!”

You can find her online work here:

• Lily Penelope Blog

The following set of images comes from a brilliant designer and photographer, Lily Storelli, and is titled, “Rip • a • Zine”. The photos are wonderfully abstract, with beautiful color compositions and a skillful use of a very shallow depth of field.

“There is always something else hidden behind a surface… behind a mask, a painting, a mountain or an image/photograph… Metaphorically and literally… You never stop learning. Even by turning a page, by reading beyond exterior features, by scraping the ground to look at what’s beneath it. Then, I start shooting pictures right away. Pages of magazines I previously trashed (during my clean up week!!) turned out to be showing something else… behind, below, and beneath… New forms/shapes… new content that quickly detaches from its original meaning— from its original physical layout.” – Lily Storelli

The full set is viewable here: Rip • A • Zine

The images in this series are a collection of mobile uploads from Seena Hassouna. The uploads were commissioned by UFM for the purpose of a visual conversation. Centered around a loose theme of “unintended urban spaces,” it was hoped that the meaning of the images would be revealed when understood as a collection.

Seena courageously composed images of the weathered, the un-used, the in-between, the un-intended in an uncompromising celebratory way that reflects the french concept of “the gilding of decay.” However, the images are cleverly layered when considering the natural theme- a comparison/contrast of how nature utilizes interstitial spaces and disregards her own materials.

As well, the images provide evidence that we tend to use spaces in ways that were “un-intended.” How can designers design for the unintended?

UFM Featured Artist

Seena Hassouna is a practicing architect and photographer currently residing in Los Angeles, CA. You can find his online work here:

• Designzx.com

• Seenha.com

The Latent Didactics series was an original collaboration between Seena + UFM and began with the Latent Didactics: Mobile Uploads project. He also collaborated on the Latent Didactics within Urban Edges video. ©seenahassouna. All rights reserved.

• Latent Didactics: Mobile Uploads

• Latent Didactics within Urban Edges

This brief video is a collaboration between Seena Hassouna and myself. We used a Lumix GH1 right out of the box with the kit lens. The footage is from a waterway located in Highland Park, CA. We began our dialogue by understanding that urban sprawl eventually ripples back on itself and creates new pockets of urban edges along the built and natural environments. We used a dolly to take 8 ft. video samples to discover the latent didactics of these hybrid spaces.