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Chris Pine Wins Summer With Pristine Shirt, Shoes & Rolex Combination
Chris Pine Wins Summer With Pristine Shirt, Shoes & Rolex Combination

American Hollywood heartthrob Chris Pine is an underrated fashion icon.Actors like Jeff Goldblum, Michael B. Jordan, Johnny Depp and Jake Gyllenhaal are constantly touted as sartorial savants – and we reckon Pine ought to be in contention too. The 39-year-old star, best known for playing Captain Kirk in the most recent Star Trek films and Steve Trevor in 2017’s Wonder Woman, consistently displays amazing fashion sense.He’s not afraid to experiment, either: whether it’s making mustard suits look cool, dressing like a bottle of fine Italian wine or effortless 90s throwbacks, the man is basically the dictionary definition of ‘debonair’. We reckon you could throw a burlap sack over the lad and he’d still make it work somehow.His latest ensemble reiterates why he’s so worth paying attention to. Pine was spotted yesterday grabbing a coffee in Los Angeles wearing a summery leopard-print rayon short-sleeve shirt, tight black pants, a classic Panama hat, white Birkenstock sandals, accessorising with a gold chain, silver bracelet and a gold Rolex Datejust worth 27,000 USD (~37,640 AUD).

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Pine’s nailed the whole ‘trying but not trying too hard’ aesthetic. Sunnies, a hat and PPE show that he’s being responsible and he hasn’t just thrown the first thing on the back of his chair on to go grab his flat white, but the Birks and loosely buttoned shirt scream ‘I’m on holiday and I don’t care’.The pops of gold from his Rolex and chain, combined with the leopard print shirt and classy Panama hat are delightfully 70s and channels some serious Hunter S. Thompson vibes.With winter still barreling on here in the Southern Hemisphere, we’re living vicariously through Pine’s summery staunch. On the bright side, it’s given us plenty of style inspiration for when lockdown lifts and we can get back to the beach.

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‘Job Description From Hell’ Provides Damning Insight Into LA Influencer Culture
‘Job Description From Hell’ Provides Damning Insight Into LA Influencer Culture

Los Angeles can be unfairly maligned. But it’s not just a cesspit of egos – there’s a shimmering pool of broken dreams too.Jokes aside, some of the most cinematic renderings of the human experience of the last 50 years have come out of Hollywood and Los Angeles.Los Angeles is also home to a micro-influencer scene which, as Vanity Fair so cuttingly pointed out last year, “if you don’t know, is a thing.”Whether we’re talking Youtube, TikTok or Instagram, LA’s influencer lifestyle showcases the best and worst of humanity.How so? We’d sum it up as a guy wearing Calvin Klein undies and ripped jeans backflipping into an oasis of bikini-clad friends (expertly curated from every angle by an army of drones and smartphones).Cliche but engaging.Also; lucrative.On that note: an LA influencer recently posted what many are calling a ‘job description from hell’ on Entertainment Careers, which Taylor Lorenz, a journalist for The New York Times, posted on Twitter.

“Minimal days off.”

After critics labelled it, as B&T reports, “disgusting,” the ad was removed from the online job board.The screenshots remain, however, providing a juicy insight into the expectations of the LA influencer scene.This gig has always been a topic of interest. But now more than ever it’s raising voyeurs’ hackles, after YouTubers like Jake Paul have been allegedly caught hosting lavish parties where guests have ignored social distancing (and disrespecting much coveted sneakers).The job description is essentially Devil Wears Prada on steroids, with all the new age ~yikes~ you might expect from an influencer.RELATED: Are Travel Influencers Deliberately Provoking The Media to Gain Followers?Some of the most outrageous demands have been lambasted by Twitter users underneath Lorenz’ post. The main problems being with the outrageous amount of work asked for, at such a pittance.“This person wants a mom at minimal wage,” one user wrote. To which another said: “A good mom wouldn’t put up with this.”“Quite literally 5+ jobs in one,” commented another. “My favorite parts: ‘You must keep all emotion/private life matters completely away from this world; actual work hours will be flexible, but generally expect to be with the client all the time [and] you can not… be/seem driven by fame.'”

“Wake the client each day with schedule, coffee…”“Part-time job but on call 24/7 mmmmm nope.”

The general sentiment was shock that the poster of the ad seemed to expect “a 24/7 on-call butler, maid, cook, cleaner, secretary, counselor, and driver… for $20/hour in central LA?”“Part time is less than 32 hours. That’s equivalent to working 4 days at 8 hours per day yet this influencer wants someone 24/7. I have a feeling the person will also be violating labor laws on breaks & lunch hours,” one Twitter user pointed out.

“Speaking of lunch… must be willing to lick mayonnaise off sandwich if the deli gets the order wrong, before throwing the sandwich away and fetching the correct order.”

The post also lifts the lid a little on some of the dangers of the oh-so-glamourised LA influencer culture.

Maybe the next American Psycho won’t be set in New York?

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Former Drug Lab’s Auction Success Further Proof Of Sydney’s Property Market Insanity
Former Drug Lab’s Auction Success Further Proof Of Sydney’s Property Market Insanity

There are three constants in life: death, taxes, and the Sydney property marketing being laughably unaffordable.In the same way that the American stock market is completely out of touch with reality, the Sydney property market has been aggressively overvalued for years. Sydney’s never been a particularly cheap place to buy up in – add negative gearing, low occupancy rates thanks to foreign investment and vicious stamp duty – and you’ve got a recipe for particularly crazy house prices.Case in point: even this burnt-down former drug lab in Sydney’s Inner West was able to sell for over $1.4 million – almost $500,000 over its reserve price.

A shadow of its former self. Image: realestate.com.au
Number 4 The Parade in Enfield was previously a nice little piece of Inner West real estate before it was allegedly turned into a marijuana grow house.“Soccer ball-sized ventilation holes were scattered throughout the house which were understood to have been used for the cultivation of the marijuana,” The Daily Telegraph reports.The property has sat abandoned for almost four years after it burned down under suspicious circumstances (which might have delighted the neighbours depending on how productive the grow house was, all things considered).Since then it’s been broken into by vandals and become infamous in the Enfield area.
One hell of a property inspection. Image: realestate.com.au
The property takes ‘open plan living’ or ‘renovator’s delight’ to a whole other level, the front of the house completely without a roof and the rest of the joint in complete disarray.Explicitly advertised as needing to be knocked down or rebuilt, this house nevertheless attracted a lot of interested parties, despite its condition and insalubrious history.Indeed, many of the bidders on the day were builders in their high-vis, no doubt looking to transform the figuratively blank canvas.
What it looked like before the fire. Image: realestate.com.au
It just goes to show how relevant the old adage ‘location, location, location’ still is: Sydney’s Inner West, close to the CBD with plenty of cultural amenities and charm, is one of the most in-vogue areas of the Harbour City. Even a literal husk of a house like this one in Enfield is worth a pretty penny thanks to it being situated on the outer edge of the Inner West.As of December 2019, the median house price in Sydney is/was $1,142,212 – the nation’s most expensive market as well as one of the most expensive globally. With that in mind, 4 The Parade Enfield’s auction success doesn’t seem like too much of a stretch.Whether things might get even more unaffordable as The Pandemic rages on (as some experts predict) or whether we see a market crash (as others claim), you’d better start saving for that deposit.

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Australia’s Next Sporting Champion Could Be Predicted This Sneaky Scientific Way
Australia’s Next Sporting Champion Could Be Predicted This Sneaky Scientific Way

Australia prides itself as a sporting nation, and we’ve certainly birthed some spectacular athletes over the years: Elyse Perry, Ben Simmons, Daniel Ricciardo, Cathy Freeman, Ash Barty, Mick Fanning…

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics being canceled thanks to The Bat Kiss was devastating to many, but it might just have a silver lining for the Australian Olympic Team: it might give us some time to find some more talent to improve our chances at the rescheduled games next year.

But we might not need that much time at all – 35 seconds, as a matter of fact. This blisteringly fast technological innovation in sports science might just be the key to discovering more athletes, a paper written by an Australian academic reveals.


University of South Australia sports scientist Professor Grant Tomkinson analysed how a $7,500 3D portable whole-body scanner can identify sporting talent for particular codes and monitor body changes in athletes to ensure they are performing at their peak.

 

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“3D scanning is less invasive than manual tests, and because it is fast, large samples can be easily measured, there is no need for physical contact, it doesn’t require a lot of expertise and it can measure body surface areas and volumes,” Prof Tomkinson says.

“And, unlike x-rays, it doesn’t emit any potentially harmful radiation.”

Prof Tomkinson and a team from the University of North Dakota scanned 49 athletes (30 women and 19 men), subjecting them to a series of 35-second scans, extracting millions of measurements within 2 mm accuracy. It’s a far more accurate method than the old-school technique of using x-rays, MRIs or manual tests with tapes and calipers.

“3D scans measure both cross-sectional areas and volumes and surface areas so they are generally better predictors of sporting success than manual tests,” Prof Tomkinson relates.


In a few seconds, these 3D body scan measure the lengths of arms and legs, circumferences of thighs or body girth, as well as detect any asymmetries, such as scoliosis, or different leg lengths, which can affect the body’s musculature.

 

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One of the main ways to select athletes for specific sports is to compare their body size and shape with the general population. For example, marathon runners have a very defined physique – they are shorter, lighter, have longer legs relative to their torso and are leaner than the average person.

Some of Australia’s most successful athletes have similarly unique physiques. Olympic swimming legend Ian Thorpe wears size 17 shoes (bringing a new definition to the term ‘flippers’) and 2011 Tour de France winner Cadel Evans is known as ‘The Lung’ because of his unusually high lung volume and unique physiological ability to absorb more oxygen from each breath than 99.9 per cent of the population.

Imagine if instead of doing the beep test at school to see if you had a career as a sprinter ahead of you, you just went and got a quick 3D scan which told you near instantly.

Genetic predisposition might be one thing but nothing beats hard work and training – so don’t go putting down those dumbbells just yet.

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Man Issues Genius ‘Culinary Challenge’ To Fellow Victorians As Lockdown Returns
Man Issues Genius ‘Culinary Challenge’ To Fellow Victorians As Lockdown Returns

Melbourne is a global culinary capital. But as Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews tightens the screws on the state’s lockdown, supermarkets have – as panic buying resumes in some areas – become quite sparse.

Far from Melbournians nuking beans on toast, this has led to a low key culinary revolution. While Sydney heathens (read: us) might be tempted to take the instant noodles way out, one hilarious tweet from Victorian @puckhump suggests those down south are still trying to eat with a bit of class.

Melbourne resident Ellen Vac responded to the @puckhump’s tweet with: “I love playing whatever’s left at the supermarket is for dinner. So glad it’s back.”

@puckhump then admitted, “Some hidden gems in the pre marinated variety tbh.”

A bunch of other (apparently) Melbourne residents jumped on the bandwagon too, explaining (ironically or not) they were now considering everything from chicken necks to pigeon soup for dinner.

Other Victorians have noticed the sparse shelves too.

As DMARGE reported in May, this comes in a context where lockdown has brought out the best and worst in everyone.

Some days you might be ready to bake loaves of soughdough and cook up a feast, others you might do little more than order Uber Eats from the comfort of your sofa.

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It has also sparked a renewed interest in ‘Masterchef’ style (think: inventive) home cooking, with the more down to earth among us revelling in End Of Days Bolognese recipes, and the more ‘Matt Preston wannabes’ turning to The Australian food critic John Lethlean’s more upmarket dish tutorials.

Only time (and Victorian tastebuds) will tell where the trend goes next.

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Spectacular Video Shows What Really Goes Into Painting An Airbus A380
Spectacular Video Shows What Really Goes Into Painting An Airbus A380

Watching paint dry is perhaps the most unfairly maligned activity of the last century. But while it may be boring to watch a wall wilt, being there in the flesh as an Airbus A380 receives a six-digit face lift is a sight to behold. Unfortunately, it’s also not a view many of us are privy to.

Enter: the above video. Courtesy of CNN Travel, the clip, reposted to Youtube by Moto Lewinski shows why it costs $100,000 to paint a plane – specifically, a Nippon Airways A380, for which “large decals designed earlier using 3D modelling” are being used to depict “giant turtles.”

The video is set in a dedicated airbus painting facility in Hamburg, Germany, and shows a number of more standard elements to this process too. One being: most airplanes come off the assembly line with a green or beige coating.


They are then are painted using sprayers and gigantic stencils. After that, like walls, they get an eco-friendly, chrome-free primer and background colour. The thickness of each additional design layer is critical (the more weight, the more fuel will later be needed to propel the jet) and measured accordingly, then a final clear coat of varnish seals everything in and protects the plane against erosion and UV rays.

“All planes get painted several times before they’re retired,” CNN Travel adds.

The process takes approximately two weeks and, depending on size, can cost “anywhere between $50,000 and $300,000,” CNN Travel reports.

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Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s ‘Misunderstood’ Quality May Drive All The World’s Top Athletes
Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s ‘Misunderstood’ Quality May Drive All The World’s Top Athletes

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi may grab the headlines as to who is the greatest of all time, but there’s another soccer player who has consistently proven to be one of the game’s greatest players, and he’s not afraid to tell you it: Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

The Swedish soccer sensation has been at the top of his game ever since he signed for Ajax in 2001. In the years since he has played for some of the biggest clubs in world football, and currently plays as a striker for Italian Serie A club, A.C. Milan. He has a number of titles to his name, including four consecutive Ligue 1 titles with Paris St. Germain, and has enjoyed a 15-year stint playing for the Swedish national team, with whom he scored that goal against England.

But, at nearly 40 years old, he’s certainly one of the oldest players not only to still be playing soccer professionally but to be performing at a world-class level.


So what’s his secret?

Other than an outrageous rig that really does prove age is just a number (and no doubt helps him tear up the pitch for 90 minutes), Zlatan’s rather inflamed ego could be the driving force behind his monumental success and his continued desire to excel.

His latest Instagram post, consciously or not, reveals this…

 

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A 2015 LinkedIn post by Paul Kaye, VP, Product and Talent Development for Canadian radio company Rogers Communications, talks about ego and how it can be crucial for success. He cites a quote,

“To have a large ego does not imply arrogance, but demonstrates pride in our past and a confidence in our ability and our self-worth.”

Does this relate to our man Zlatan? We most certainly think so.

Paul goes on to say that even if we possess the outright talent to perform at such a high-level, without the self-confidence and the genuine belief in one’s own abilities, it will be put to waste.


Zlatan himself admits that the great Mohammad Ali is one of his role models in sport, saying, “He was talking, but what he said he did. He had a big mouth, but he demonstrated also in the ring” [sic]

“…he believed in his [principles] and he never gave them up.”

 

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Ali himself often claimed he was “the greatest”, something the Swede is all too happy to emulate, but Zlatan also says he isn’t in the same league as his boxing idol. In a 2011 interview, he says “I know the way I am, by my mentality, of course, I believe in myself. Where I come from, it is important to believe in yourself.”

“Arrogance comes by itself, you don’t choose to be it, you either are a leader or you’re not.”

“I think what is important, for me on the football field, if I do nothing there, then everybody will look like a clown, walking around trying to be something you’re not. If you demonstrate it on the field, then it’s the perfect match.” [sic]

You can clearly see ego being a driving force behind success in other star players such as Ronaldo, Michael Jordan and Floyd Mayweather. All proclaim they are the greatest in their field, and indeed, they have the stats and records to back up those claims.

However, these are all in the context of sport. When we talk about ego in other fields – salespeople, CEOs, bankers, not to mention, dating and relationships – ego can certainly attract a bad reputation.

Yet, as Zlatan proves, as long as you believe in your own abilities and can talk the talk and walk the walk, you’re going to have a successful life.

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Jay-Z Revives The Italian Sportswear Brand That Refuses To Die
Jay-Z Revives The Italian Sportswear Brand That Refuses To Die

Jay-Z is like fine wine: he only gets better with age. The now 50-year-old rapper, business mogul and cultural icon is indomitable – indeed, the only musician that has more of a cultural impact than him may be his wife Beyoncé. Which is why Jay-Z (real name Shawn Carter) choosing to rock an obscure Italian sportswear brand has got streetwear fans so intrigued.

Endlessly innovative, anything ‘The Carters’ touches turns to gold, whether it’s fashion collaborations like Beyoncé’s ‘Ivy Park’ collection with Adidas, or streaming services like Jay’s Tidal. Artists, brands and movements champ at the bit for a co-sign from the pair, and the two are widely considered a barometer for what’s cool.

On July 31st, Beyoncé released her much-anticipated visual album Black Is King, an 85-minute musical art film designed to complement her 2019 soundtrack album for The Lion King remake named The Lion King: The Gift. The film itself is almost like a B-side of The Lion King remake: featuring humans instead of CGI animals, and a Beyoncé-curated soundtrack instead of a Hans Zimmer one, Black Is King is a landmark moment for African music and film.


The film is jam-packed with celebrity cameos including Kelly Rowland, Pharrell Williams, Lupita Nyong’o and Naomi Campbell just to name a few. Of course, Jay-Z appears too – wearing a fetching red suit contrasted with a Sergio Tacchini polo and headband.

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Sergio Tacchini was an Italian tennis player active in the 50s and 60s that branched out into athletic apparel, founding and later naming a sportswear brand after himself. Focused on making tennis gear first and foremost, the brand eventually branched out into ski, fitness, golf and sailing gear. The mid-80s saw Sergio Tacchini issue perhaps their most iconic product, the sharp Dallas tracksuit – a Mediterranean rival to Adidas’ Beckenbauer tracksuit.

Huge in the 70s and 80s, Sergio Tacchini alongside fellow Italian brand Fila led the tennis world in terms of sponsorship. Names like John McEnroe, Pat Cash, Pete Sampras and most recently Novak Djokovic wore the brand. Outside of tennis, even F1 legend Ayrton Senna sported the classic ‘ST’ logo.

The brand went bankrupt in 2007 and despite being bought out has had been financially shaky for many years. They’ve enjoyed brief moments in the spotlight through collaborations with Russian avant-guard fashion designer Gosha Rubchinskiy and cult West Coast streetwear brand Stampd, but the brand has a fairly low profile in the minds of fashionistas. Sergio Tacchini hasn’t died just yet, however – as demonstrated by Jay-Z picking it up.

Big 80s hair, big 80s style: American tennis legend John McEnroe in full Sergio Tacchini poses alongside Swedish champ Björn Borg.

Jay-Z clothed in the heritage brand perfectly complements the stylish aesthetic of Black Is King and makes ‘Hov’ look like an absolute don. Just like how anything Jay’s protege Kanye West wears immediately sees a huge spike in sales, we’d be unsurprised if Sergio Tacchini’s quarterly results see a healthy boost thanks to Jay’s co-sign.

Sergio Tacchini is due for a resurgence: they make classy, effortless sportswear that’s easily dressed up or down, as Mr Carter so perfectly demonstrates. Fingers crossed his influence will precipitate a bevy of fine fashion-forward fits.

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Provocative Nat Geo Tweet Sparks Age Old Travel Debate
Provocative Nat Geo Tweet Sparks Age Old Travel Debate

Does travelling lift the cap off your brain? It’s a question many deem obvious. From Mark Twain throwing shade at those who (loosely paraphrased) “vegetate in one patch of the world” to Anthony Bourdain urging everyone of the age of 22 to “sleep on the floor” and “learn… wherever you go” it’s quite easy for travellers to slip into wearing the lazy refrain “travel opens your mind” like a comfy pair of Converse.

A tweet by National Geographic recently challenged this assumption. “Whether seeing the world actually opens travelers’ minds—that it makes travelers more empathetic—is up for debate,” the world leader in geography, cartography and exploration wrote.

The tweet directed followers to an article entitled, “Travel is said to increase cultural understanding. Does it?”. The thrust of the piece? “Researchers say travel does affect the brain’s neural pathways, but true empathy remains an elusive destination.”

This sparked debate among travellers, who were quick to defend their brain boxes. One wrote, “Travel broadens the mind… but narrows your opinions [and] allows you to make an informed and learned perspective and evaluate what you have experienced.”

Another commented, “Open your eye[s], respect their culture and your experience ends up mind blowing when you come back home; you wish you booked for a longer period. It opens the mind as to the beauty of different cultures showing different parts of the world everyone just does things bit differently.”

Another pointed out it can have broader impacts on one’s self-development, too: “In addition to opening up my mind and teaching me to be more empathetic, it made me self-reliant, independent, confident and more knowledgeable about the world. It also had a positive impact on my professional career.”

Others put up the other side of the argument: “It can, but I’ve also seen it make people feel like experts on a culture when they experience only a small part of it, then argue against someone else’s experiences in a different area of that culture.”

“So sometimes it improves empathy, other times it makes you a bigger jerk.”

Others had a gratuitous crack at tourists: “Traveling is definitely one of the most mind widening things in the world. Of course, if you are not just staying in the hotel lying on a beach chair for the whole time.”

The conversation in the comments also saw a discussion of broader topics like media representation of ‘other’ cultures, and of the experiences of minorities in places like America.

“It opened my understanding that our media doesn’t always report accurately on other countries, for political reasons. Went to Budapest and saw sophisticated happy people. Our media not so long ago portrayed them as shuffling babushkas living in poverty,” one wrote.

“It also opens your eyes to foreigners in your own country and the struggles they face.”

What do the experts say? National Geographic presented the two sides in their article.

First, they cited a 2018 Harris Poll of 1,300 business travelers, of which Quartz reports “87 percent said that business trips helped them to be more empathetic to others” and a 2010 Columbia Business School study which found travel “increases awareness of underlying connections and associations” with other cultures.

Then they pointed out that the coronavirus pandemic and the global Black Lives Matter protests have recently forced us all to reconsider how cross culturally aware we really are.

“There’s this false adage that travel opens minds, but that’s not [a built-in] fact about what travel does,” Travis Levius, a Black travel journalist and hospitality consultant based in London and Atlanta told National Geographic. “Travel does not automatically make you a better person,” nor does it clue you into “what’s going on in terms of race relations.”

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