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Snippet of Anna Weatherup performing Tasmin Archer’s Sleeping Satellite, live at The Second Gateway Bridge Opening in Brisbane.

Over 175,000 people attended the opening.

Performed by Anna Weatherup & Band
Visit: AnnaWeatherup.com and http://facebook.com/annaweatherup

Filmed by Christian Bowman

Tonight ICANN the worldwide internet authority revealed the 1930 applicants for a Top Level Domain name or TLD. This is the most significant step made by the organisation to progress the Internet domain structure since it’s conception. Google and Amazon dominated the applicant lists with 101 and 76 applications respectively.

A Top Level Domain refers to the letters after the dot – eg. domain.com (.com is the top level domain)

The “Reveal Day” was the public announcement of all of the applications for a TLD. This is also the time when comments and formal objections can be made to ICANN about the appropriateness of any applicant applying for a TLD.

It was always inevitable that if companies like Google or Amazon were to apply that they would be competing for several names.

In this case, they will be competing  for:

.app, .movie, .music, .play, .shop, .show and .talk

Movie and Music attracted 8 applicants each so it will be interesting to see who takes the crown for this and how much they pay.

There were several domains with multiple applicants, here are the most notable properties being sort:

.app (13)
.home (11)
.inc (11)
.art (10)
.llc (9)
.blog (9)
.book (9)
.hotel (8)
.movie (8)
.music (8)
.love (7)

Of course, a lot of the biggest brands worldwide have participated in the new TLD program including:

Microsoft (11) applying for their key brands .windows .office .bing etc.
Dell for .dell
Apple for .apple
BBC for .bbc
BMW for .bmw

In Australia, there are 41 applicants. With the top banks CBA, ANZ and NAB all applying.

Interestingly, 4 Australian universities have applied which makes them the leader worldwide for applications with MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) the Ivy League university in the USA as the only other higher education institution applying.

The entire Top Level Domain list can be found here or visit ICANN website

Over 100 staff and students from Bond University pulled out some unexpected magic of their own during the trailers of a screening of the final Harry Potter film. Patrons at the Event Cinemas VMax theatre at Robina were tricked into thinking that it was just another night at the movies. However, just after an advertisement advising viewers to put their phone on silent, audience members found themselves turning on their cameras instead.

One patron said “That scared the living daylights out of me!”, when what appeared to be a distressed woman stood up and screamed for a doctor. This lead to a group of dancers in doctor’s coats to stand up and start dancing in front of the sold-out cinema. This was then followed up by dancers dressed up in different outfits taking to the floor with not only dance moves, but acrobatic flips in the air.

Dancers then appeared to “come out of the woodwork” literally as they came out of cinema curtains, hidden doors and from the audience to form a “Flash Mob”.

Audience members were in awe as they not only started to join in on the action, but also provided a thunderous applause at the end of the 2 minute Flash Mob performance.

Bond University has their Open Day on July 24, 2011.

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Ferrari have been under fire over their F1 car branding as being subliminal to the tobacco brand Marlboro. In 2005 tabacco sponsorship of F1 was outlawed but it appears that these recent claims aren’t as “rediculous” Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo comments.

Check out the photo above to make up your own mind as to whether or not they are playing silly buggers with their branding.

To me, its a bit convenient and it’s definitely worth investigating. Visual branding is definitely reliant on proportion, colour and composition and Ferrari “barcode” satisfies all of these criteria.

Would love your comments!

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Christian Bowman is a Design Graduate from the Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia and has over 10 years experience in the are of visual communication, photography and design. For more information or media enquiries email support@christianbowman.com or Phone +61.405157417

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

This review is intended for those who have seen this movie already.

In summary the movie was well considered, and the convergence of the characters was done without any noticeable problem. As the story revealed itself, it produced some powerful scenes and thrilling moments.

The movie touched on just enough uncomfortable activities such as rape, violence, racism and corporate malpractice to make the movie engaging.

However, I believe as the viewer of this film, it would have been MUCH more powerful if we saw a change in Lisbeth’s character. At the end of the movie, its uncomfortable for me to see her being entertained by the same things the entertained the people she investigated.

Lisbeth’s character should have evolved. What lessons have we learned from the film? Did she not learn anything from Mikael? What should have happened in my eyes is that after she let the murderer burn and have Mikael give his thoughts on the matter, there should have been another opportunity for Lisbeth to make a mends as a person.

This would have substantiated her theory of “everyone has the same chance and make their choices in life”. It would have been nice to see her face the same situation between saving someone bad or letting them burn, and to see her make that decision to not be the “punisher” in life.

To have a final scene of her walking away with money as a result of a corporation profiting from third-world drug cartels was a big disappointment and didn’t do her powerful role justice. She did not learn anything, and it leaves us sitting there in discomfort as we being dealt the ridiculous lesson of “If someone does you bad, then you should do the same or worse back”.

I actually think it would have been nice also to have been given more detail as to why she burnt her own father. We know why, but there was so much detail in her subsequent actions in life that we can’t compare it to much about how bad she was treated.

The scene with the mother could have been more powerful, and would have been a great opportunity to flash back to the horrors of abusive husband. The balance wasn’t there, we know more about HER horrific behavior than that of her father. It was too imbalanced.

If this movie ends up having sequels, then a better ending would have been Lisbeth handing over her medical file instead of the corporate file and have Mikael learn about her OR still have her give her investigation of the corporate file but end with the start of Mikael typing on his laptop. We don’t need to be dragged into another story and then they rush through scenes of another investigation.

It so unfortunate that everything else was so good, but the movie failed so horribly in it’s ability to teach us anything good. But, it was definitely an entertaining 2 1/2 hours but its sad I can walk away with hope for myself and others.

8/10

I’ve just put up a quick notice of fashion events happening in March in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. The founders of Refinery29 are guests at events run by Portable. Check out more details about times and tickets here:

http://fashionscene.com.au/events/refinery29-talking-about-fashion-online-in-australia/

Let me know if you’re going!

I’ve just uploaded the Swimwear photos I took from the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival 2009. These were taken on Day 1 at Portside.

Click here to view and download the Swimwear Photos

Some of the photos took a little editing to remove some of the shadowing caused by the harsh sunlight directly above.

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Fill in the form below and I’ll ensure you are the first to get access to them, you will also get regular updates about my new website fashionscene.com.au: