Air Jordan---Just a pair of SHOES? (Terry)

Michael Jordan would never imagine that his shoes will be this kind of popular now days worldwide. There is the 29^th generation of Air Jordan soon will be released this year that means from year of 1984-85 till now, his shoes lasts nearly 30 years even he has already retired from the court. And there are still thousands even millions of people are chasing the movement and consume the shoes as a great honor of collection. I am one of those guys.

Me wearing the Pack

I still remember the first time when I lined up overnight for buying limited editions of Air Jordan outside the Footlocker Store is 18 August 2012. It was extremely cold in August at Australian, and the shoes I lined up for is the “Air Jordan ‘Golden Moments’ Pack” which is absolutely amazing with two colors of black VII and white VI.    

“Air Jordan ‘Golden Moments’ Pack” 

I told myself that I have to get this pack because it’s so beautiful. And I went to the George Street at 9pm on Friday and stood out there for almost 11 hours and waited the store to open at 8am on Saturday. It was crazy and I met many people who love Air Jordan and be willing to spend thousands of dollars for one limited pair of shoes. There is even someone lined up for 2 days for some shoes. People passed us by and said is there a new iPhone released at Footlocker? This is a crazy experience of me by consuming shoes.

And then I heard a song named “Wings” by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, it is based on his own experience of loving Michael Jordan and his shoes since very young and the truth about some of people only consume what the movement told them to consume. And he points out that Air Jordan is just a pair of shoes, but many people would risk everything to get it even for his life just to show off to others, therefore people should aware of that many companies like Nike just sell a brand name and nothing else, we should know how the value or art is from the shoes, not manipulate by them to consume and wear what we're told is cool, because it's not about what we wear, it's about what we do. 

Video by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.

Terry Hao

7th May 2014

Another rainy day - time for another legend - Quentin Tarantino (Sophie)

It’s a Bingo

Inglorious Basterds is war film mostly set at the end of the World War II around Germany and France. It was directed by Quentin Tarantino and stars the likes of Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz and Diane Kruger.

The film can be subdivided into 5 chapters. Chapter one starts ‘once upon a time’ in Nazi-occupied France and introduces Colonel Hans Landa, played by Christoph Waltz, as the most meticulous, successful and feared member of the Waffen-SS, also known as the ‘Jew-Hunter’.  And this is basically what he does in that very first chapter, hunting Jewish people hidden by the French community. He does so in true Quentin Tarentino style – over-the-top – out-there and in-your-face!

Chapter two, which is set in the spring of 1944, introduces the soon to be well renown ‘Inglorious Basterds’ led by Special Forces Lieutenant Also Raine, played by Brad Pitt. According to Ltd Raine, the sole and only mission is ‘killing Nazis’.

 Source: http://giphy.com/gifs/inglorious-bastards-glorystach-killing-nazis-xomH7RJL6xPwY

Chapter three portrays ‘A German Night in Paris’. In German occupied Paris Shosanna is living under different identity and is the proprieter of a cinema. The cine has been chosen to screen a Nazi propaganda movie. This leads Shosanna to decide to burn down the cinema during the screening and killing all people, among them high ranking Nazi Officers, in the cinema.

Operation KINO (German for cinema), an operation with basically the same intention as all previous plots introduced in chapter five, however let by the British is introduced next. This chapter brings one of my favourite scenes, this is when the British agent gets discovered by ordering 3 drinks in tavern using the wrong three fingers. A big shot out between the Basterds, the Brits and the Nazis occurs, again in true Tarantino fashion. There are less survivors then there is blood.

Chapter five holds the grand finale of the movie. Takes the longest, has the most dead people in it and the most actions by far. The inglorious Basterds arrive at the cinema, pretending to be Italians. A cover which is in the end blown from the first minute.

I can’t tell you how the movie ends and who lives and who dies, but when considering that one should keep in mind that this is Tarantino movie and that the outcome is somewhat predictable.

The maestro (Tarantino) himself self has once again shown, that he has a great artistic freedom in what he does and that what he does, appears to turn into gold in an instant. A big credit also has to go to the cast. Up and foremost to Christoph Waltz, who is undoubtedly one of the best actors out there at the moment and has won the 2010 Best Actor in a Supporting role for his part in Inglorious Bastards. All in all – I think all what Tarantino is saying is the following:

Source: http://calitreview.com/25421/the-massive-effect-a-boss-makes/

Melbourne travelling ( Angela)

We all know that there are several beatiful cities in Australia,such as Sydney, Melbourn,Perth, Brisbane, Gold coast etc.I travled in serveral cities of Australia before, however,for me i think Melbourn is a really special one.

For Australia, it is easily to feel the sea because it is surrounded by the sea, so almost whereever you go, the place you have had visted near the sea, such as Gold cost or Great barrier reef, it is famous for reef in Great barrier reef.

  

It is easily to visit the sea in Melbourn, however there are also special thing the Melbourn own. Melbourn is really can showing the Art feeling to vistors, where ever you go, what ever you meet, such as the street in Melbourn as well as the architecture,the people, they all showing the Art feeling, companring with other cities, it is not a really big city, but it can let people relax, it will make people more comfortable when the walking in the street.

Melbourn city

All pictures here are taken bymyself, we may  feel the Melbourn city from all these pictures.The first picture on the left is showing the part of the whole Melbourn city.

It is can also feel the different architectures built by human.

state library

famous central station in Mel

The church

People use dyestuff to make the wall be colouful!

 

 

Showing arts by using nature! They using leaves.

 

 

 Moreover, the one special living beings is the Penguin! The Penguin is living in South Pacific Ocean, people can see them in Philips Island.

The height of Penguin there are average 30 cm, it is really cute and small.

The Penguin there is also the wildlife Penguin, thus it is really good guarding there, there are several lights there, but if you would like to take a photo, please turn off the flashlight.

 The Penguin island!!

Another movie in review - Anchorman 2 - The Legend continues (Sophie)

And they live happily ever after ... ? Well don’t get ahead of yourselves!

In Anchorman 2 – The Legend continues truly. In this sequel to Anchorman – The legend of Ron Burgundy the main story line is pretty much the same as in the first movie. Ron is still confused by females (including his now wife Veronica Corningstone), however this time he gets even more confused when he encounters an African-American female member of the media, who happens to be his boss. Ron and his gang are taking on New York and are taking over the 24 hours news channel by storm. Again in the story line Ron hits rock bottom and hits all the highs and lows. All of the men in the movie are behaving like little boys in cowboy suits.

The take on the sequel comes across as even more sarcastic than then the first one, but from my perspective makes for better memorable punch lines. Movie director Mckay, has managed to keep the core jokes at the expense of male privileges and not reuse the jokes from the first movie but rather build on them. It might be one of the most inspired cinema capable non-sense out there, but also one of the funniest.

Anchorman 2 is also full of celebrity cameo appearance (SPOILER ALERT!!), with the likes of Harrison Ford, Vince Vaughn, Liam Neeson, Jim Carrey and Will Smith. One of the best parts of the movie is the portrayal of Rupert Murdoch as the media mogul, the boss of all bosses, who speaks in this incredibly thick Australian accent, which in return makes Ron put the out there that he “thought Australian speaks the same as us”.

Brick, who is played by Steve Carrell, is also back in the movie as part of Ron’s gong. At the very start of the movie Brick re-enters the scene by attending his own funeral. Brick makes the best lines for this and I would like to share some of those with you.

Brick: Ron, why is it called the Big apple?

Ron: Because every street has an apple tree on it.

Ron: 2am to 5am news shift? That’s the graveyard shift.

Brick: I’m afraid of no ghost!

All up I think this sequel, out of the many sequels to first out there, is one of the better one. They have tried to reinvent themselves, the humour, the laughs and the cast are the same.

Source: http://wednesdaysheroes.com/brus-reviews-frozen-anchorman2/