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Donald R. Kubly, a former president of Art Center College of Design who presided over its move from Los Angeles to a custom-built campus in the Pasadena foothills, died of natural causes Thursday at his home near the school. He was 93. His death was confirmed by his son, David. Called "one of Art Center's most influential leaders" by its current president, Lorne M. Buchman, Kubly was associated with the prestigious design school for five decades, beginning as an undergraduate in the late 1930s.

Like a mind-expanding twist on TED Talks served with Burning Man-informed alt-culture, L.A.'s monthly mix of science, art and socializing known as Mindshare has drawn steadily increasing numbers since its inception in 2006. Now, with 50 events since the first gathering, the minds behind Mindshare are throwing a weekend-long celebration at Lot 613 downtown. Whether viewed as a night of mindful debauchery, a cultural salon with sex appeal, or a booze-filled bacchanal that stimulates the cerebral cortex, there's no denying the Mindshare events have made their mark on the city's social scene.

Like a mind-expanding twist on TED Talks served with Burning Man-informed alt-culture, L.A.'s monthly mix of science, art and socializing known as Mindshare has drawn steadily increasing numbers since its inception in 2006. Now, with 50 events since the first gathering, the minds behind Mindshare are throwing a weekend-long celebration at Lot 613 downtown. Whether viewed as a night of mindful debauchery, a cultural salon with sex appeal, or a booze-filled bacchanal that stimulates the cerebral cortex, there's no denying the Mindshare events have made their mark on the city's social scene.

'The History of Space Photography' Where: Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, 1700 Lida St., Pasadena When: Through May 6 Contact: (626) 396.2446, http://www.artcenter.edu/williamson

The gig: Chip Foose is considered by many to be the world's top hot-rod designer. His Huntington Beach company, Foose Design, modifies collector cars and builds custom cars. A hand-built creation can take up to six years and cost more than $1 million. Last year the privately owned firm posted more than $4 million in revenue. Foose, 46, also has designed sunglasses and footwear for Oakley Inc. On screen: Foose has hosted two reality TV shows for the TLC network — "Overhaulin' " and "Rides" — and is currently a judge on the Discovery Channel series "Ultimate Car Build-Off."

In Pasadena, Art Center College of Design celebrates its 75th anniversary with a gala that includes a fashion show, dinner and awards ceremony.

Steven Honma was the kind of neighbor people said they made a point of inviting to social gatherings in their Westlake Village neighborhood, out of concern he would call the police. Honma was among the guests Saturday at a Persian new year's party, a festive gathering of more than 30 friends and relatives, including a Pasadena design instructor and his wife. It was also Honma, Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies said, who grew suddenly enraged at a perceived insult during the party and marched to his home two doors away, returning minutes later with a knife and two guns.

The gig: Frank Saucedo is director of General Motors Co.'s Advanced Design Studio in North Hollywood, one of 10 the automaker has worldwide. The 49-year-old lives in Westlake Village with his wife, Regina, and their two teenage sons. A family thing: Saucedo said his earliest memories are filled with drawing and working on cars. Armed with a pencil, the Alhambra native drew just about anything he saw, usually on the blank side of blue invoices his father would bring home from his job as an industrial tool salesman.

'The History of Space Photography' Where: Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, 1700 Lida St., Pasadena When: Through May 6 Contact: (626) 396.2446, http://www.artcenter.edu/williamson

In a space once reserved only for fiercely practical ideas with clear applications for military technology, pure fiction and whimsy now rule. The Wind Tunnel Gallery , a renovated supersonic aircraft testing facility in Pasadena that houses the Art Center College of Design's graduate media design program, is hung with models, paintings and computer renderings of objects and processes that can't actually exist, or won't work, or confuse the whole...

A cultural moment is passing. The space shuttle Discovery, strapped to the back of a Boeing 747, was recently ferried with great fanfare to its new home at a branch of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Virginia. The California Science Center is building an aircraft hangar for its sister shuttle, Endeavour, which is expected to arrive in Los Angeles in the fall. The remaining shuttle, Atlantis, is in Florida, where it will be displayed at the Kennedy Space Center. Useful artifacts of daily life, however rarefied, are moving into the look-but-don't-touch precinct of museum galleries, like ancient Greek storage vases or Edwardian pantaloons.

In 1992, the acerbic polymath Mike Kelley took a teaching position at Pasadena's Art Center College of Design. With his midcareer retrospective, "Catholic Tastes," set to show at the Whitney the next year, Kelley was a freshly minted art star, embarking on a decade that would see him accomplish some of his most high-profile work, including collaborations with Paul McCarthy, his brethren in the grotesque, and the Educational Complex (1995), a haunting fusion of every school he attended, as well as his childhood home, chillingly rendered as an architectural model.

The fist-sized rocks looked completely pedestrian, like something one might find in the backyard. The only hint that they might be exceptional was their location in a gallery at Pasadena's Art Center College of Design, resting on pedestals inside individual display cases. In fact, the rocks are anything but ordinary - they're borrowed from the UCLA Meteorite Collection. The university had wanted to loan fancier-looking specimens, but curator Stephen Nowlin deliberately chose the least impressive space debris he could find.

Donald R. Kubly, a former president of Art Center College of Design who presided over its move from Los Angeles to a custom-built campus in the Pasadena foothills, died of natural causes Thursday at his home near the school. He was 93. His death was confirmed by his son, David. Called "one of Art Center's most influential leaders" by its current president, Lorne M. Buchman, Kubly was associated with the prestigious design school for five decades, beginning as an undergraduate in the late 1930s.

The gig: Frank Saucedo is director of General Motors Co.'s Advanced Design Studio in North Hollywood, one of 10 the automaker has worldwide. The 49-year-old lives in Westlake Village with his wife, Regina, and their two teenage sons. A family thing: Saucedo said his earliest memories are filled with drawing and working on cars. Armed with a pencil, the Alhambra native drew just about anything he saw, usually on the blank side of blue invoices his father would bring home from his job as an industrial tool salesman.

In a space once reserved only for fiercely practical ideas with clear applications for military technology, pure fiction and whimsy now rule. The Wind Tunnel Gallery , a renovated supersonic aircraft testing facility in Pasadena that houses the Art Center College of Design's graduate media design program, is hung with models, paintings and computer renderings of objects and processes that can't actually exist, or won't work, or confuse the whole...

Shirley C. Burden, 80, a producer in the early days of Hollywood who later became known for his still photographs in several national magazines and in such museums as the Museum of Modern Art in New York. After working as an assistant producer on "The Silent Enemy" and "She" in the late 1920s and early '30s, he produced training films for the military during World War II and after the war did photographic essays on American subjects including Ellis Island. Burden was former president of the old Memorial Medical Center of California and more recently served on the governing board of trustees of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

As Harrison McIntosh tells his story, he had to be an artist. The diminutive, soft-spoken ceramist who's celebrating his 95th birthday with a retrospective exhibition at Pomona's American Museum of Ceramic Art is a virtuoso of pure, gracefully handmade form whose work represents the classical vein of Southern California's postwar crafts movement in museum collections around the world. He was born in Vallejo and raised in Stockton, not exactly the center of the art universe, but he watched with fascination as the Haggin Museum took shape and opened its doors in 1931 in a park near his school.

The Dettifoss waterfall in northeastern Iceland, the largest waterfall in Europe, is accessible only by a traveling a rough road with no facilities and a view hindered by the fall's powerful spray. Los Angeles-based artist Rebeca Méndez made this dangerous trek twice to capture the water's mighty display of energy. Her resulting video art installation, "At Any Given Moment, Fall 1," is one striking example of natural and man-made energy sources on display at "Energy" at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

The gig: Chip Foose is considered by many to be the world's top hot-rod designer. His Huntington Beach company, Foose Design, modifies collector cars and builds custom cars. A hand-built creation can take up to six years and cost more than $1 million. Last year the privately owned firm posted more than $4 million in revenue. Foose, 46, also has designed sunglasses and footwear for Oakley Inc. On screen: Foose has hosted two reality TV shows for the TLC network — "Overhaulin' " and "Rides" — and is currently a judge on the Discovery Channel series "Ultimate Car Build-Off."