Universal Edition 32: Passions & Pursuits

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From The Editor They say that great pursuits always start with small beginnings. Whether it is the first man on the moon, a Hollywood career, moving overseas or something as simple as getting an education, these are all aspirations that began as individual ideas, yet were cultivated with commitment, endurance and tenacity to become something truly spectacular. In this edition of Universal, we explore personal passions and pursuits in a myriad of ways - we’ve got horror movie recommendations to make you scream, memes and puns to ensure you are the king/queen of comedy with your friends and amazing art skills to admire. Learn to play the piano! Draw Manga!

Perhaps poetry will be your new obsession, or even tattoos? Leap outside your comfort zone and see what takes your fancy.

inspiration could be staring you right in the face all this time - from the supermarket shelf. If you’ve ever bought a Thankyou product, whether it be water, food, or even soap, here’s the chance to know the incredible impact that one purchase has on the lives of people in developing countries, as well as reading about the many obstacles the young founders encountered before obtaining nationwide success.

Sometimes, finding your passion at such a young age can be difficult, and often seems limited. Expectations aside,

Alayna Hansen

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Emma Nahal Photograph

Jack Crowe The Key to Playing the Piano

Design Sammar Bassal

Design Fiona Sanderson

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Motion Picture Madness 2017

Minh Tri Tran Road to Mastery

Jack Crowe Punny Puns

Emma Nahal Tattoos

Design Joh D’Costa

Design Sammar Bassal

Design Maggie Zhou

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Sammar Bassal Manga

Picture This 2017 Top 3 Finalists

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Design Freya Carlson

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Alayna Hansen Homeward Bound

Radhika-Ayla Hansen The Girl & The Wave Design Sammar Bassal

Arshia Chaudhry Memes

Jack Crowe Frightening Friday Screamathons

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Alayna Hansen Thanks A Million

Design Fiona Sanderson

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Zheirraly Bondad Pasions To Share

Ink About It 2017

Design Maggie Zhou

Design Joh D’Costa

Design Jessica Watts

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Photograph Photography: Emma Nahal Poems: Beau Taplin

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One day, whether you are 14, 28, or 65 you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die.

However, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find — is they are not always with whom we spend our lives.

— Beau Taplin T H E AW F U L T R U T H

Mixtape sharing is a tradition that I hope never dies. Even if it is something as simple as a playlist on Youtube or Spotify, carefully curate a collection of your favourite songs and share them with someone you love.

Nothing says more about who you are than all the songs that got you there.

— Beau Taplin M I X TA P E

Dear outsiders, even the most beautiful of wildflowers are considered weeds in the wrong gardens — what another thinks of you does not dictate your value.

— Beau Taplin WILDFLOWERS

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Listen to me, your body is not a temple.

Temples can be destroyed and desecrated.

Your body is a forest. Thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.

— Beau Taplin TEMPLES

But people are oceans, she shrugs.

You cannot know them by their surface.

— Beau Taplin T H E WAT E R D E P T H S

Remember, you are the composer of your own life and happiness. If you don’t like the music, change the arrangement.

— Beau Taplin TUNE SMITHS

Never be sorry for who you are.

Your personality should never be shrouded in what society expects of you.

Be shamelessly, unapologetically you.

You will find the world rallies behind those who carve their own roads.

— Beau Taplin THE ROAD

Draw your power where you can. Whether it comes from a place of self-confidence, a broken heart, or even a burning need to prove your critics wrong. It won’t matter what drove you to conquer the mountain when you are standing in triumph on the roof of the world.

— Beau Taplin TUNE SMITHS

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Written by Jack Crowe

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Step 1: Locate middle C, which is the white piece of wood (key) in the middle of the piano. When playing songs with your right hand, you play on the right side of middle C, which has a higher tone than the left side, where the left hand mostly plays. Do take note that the piano consists of seven notes; A,B,C,D,E,F,G, but there are 88 keys on an upright piano. This means that these keys are repeated on the piano. Once a group of all the keys (an octave) are found, the next notes are repeated in a new octave.

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Step 2: Label your fingers. On your right hand, your thumb is known as your first finger, and by ascending on your fingers, you’ll find that your pinkie is the fifth finger.

The same applies to your left hand - the thumb on your left hand is your first finger, and your pinkie is your fifth. Knowing the numbers of your fingers is essential if you’re playing a complex song, as you need to decide which finger you may use to make it easier for you. On simple songs, the numbers that are associated with certain notes correspond with the hand that you play with.

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On the sheet music, use the corresponding line or space to interpret the notes. It can be easier, to print out the sheet music and write the notes on it. You’ll also find that there are two sections, a top section, and a bottom section. The top section, indicated by the swirl with the line going through it (the treble clef), means that you will be playing those notes with your right hand. The bottom section with the smaller swirl and two dots (the bass clef) means that you will be playing those notes with your left hand.

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Road to Mastery Minh Tri Tran, 21, MintBreak

This piece symbolises my road of past experiences and inspirations, channelling them into one present illustration. I started from nothing but one character and added more as I went; I had no plan and let my mind wander.

Surrounding yourself with motivated people will drive you forward. I tend to draw inspiration from my artistic friends rather than famous artists, but I do have a few I look up to such as Artgerm and Kim Jung Gi.

When I was 6, I would copy cartoons after school.

I haven’t drawn Spiderman in 15 years but if you asked me to draw him now, I think I could make a decent rendition. During my scribbles on paper I would lose track of time because I was so absorbed in my own world. Not much has changed since then, although I have accumulated more ideas about what to do with this skill. Instead of copying things, I now strive to create cool characters, vast landscapes and even mundane objects like tables and chairs.

ALWAYS search for new inspirations.

SET GOALS. DREAM BIG.

In the past I did not take formal education for art.

Any improvement was a result of my online peers’ advice. I only started to understand art and its industry a year ago. I was truly naïve. I’m sure you know that to be great in anything, you need to make sacrifices.

Well, I talked less to friends and family, I studied less just to have more time to draw. I like my friends; I hope they know that. It’s a shame I have no time to hang out with them. But while I’ve put relationships on hold, I’ve surrounded myself with like-minded folks, people who have the same goal - becoming a great artist.

My goals for 2017 are setting up a booth at a convention, completing a personal project, learning 3D modelling and completing my portfolio. I don’t think about failing to reach these goals, I just stay focused on working towards them.

I can definitely say that this is only the beginning of my journey and I am nowhere near my goal of being a great artist. It will probably take my whole life to achieve it but I will never stop, no matter the cost.

As long as I have paper and a pen, I will keep on scribbling.

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Road to Mastery Minh Tri Tran, 21, MintBreak

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PUNNY THERE IS NOTHING THAT SATISFIES ME MORE THAN WHEN MY FRIENDS OR FAMILY CRINGE AT ONE OF MY HILARIOUS PUNS

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When someone thinks it’s raining even though it may be slightly spitting, you can say, “Water you talking about?”

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Puns about kitchens are so not cleaver. How are you going so far sour cats? Have I been knife to you? Okay, okay, I’ll keep dishing out these puns. The spooner, the better.

If you play the piano, you may have been shushed for playing ‘too loud’. I like to respond with “PiaNO!” If you don’t fancy that, try “NOte.” The key is to really exaggerate the pun within the word, if that strikes a chord with you.

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If you are ever presenting a project on bears, or just talking about them in general, say “Bear with me people.”

To those pun haters out there, sometimes you just need to make like a tree and leaf us alone!

If someone needs to use a hammer for some DIY handiwork, make them feel good about themselves by informing them that they “Nailed it.”

Many of us love our memes, in fact, they are quite MEMEingful to us.

Sew, don’t you just love it when people make clothes puns?

They are never meshy, and are always cottON point!

PUNS

Jack Crowe

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Each time a pun is made, I have found that most people either laugh with me and give me an epic high five, or shake their heads like they heard a dad joke. And yes, I do laugh at my own puns. Every single time.

To the fellow punmasters out there, we all know that a pun is never too old nor too used to be funny, so I encourage you to keep making your intelligent puns, for I fear there is a shortage. Our job is to make the most sour-faced people laugh, no matter what it takes. Therefore, I bring you my best 15 puns to use anywhere, anytime. Be prepared to laugh all you despicable pun-deniers who read this, because this will be too punny for you.

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If you have the habit of tying and untying your tie at work or school, tell yourself, “Do knot do that!”

If someone ever asks you if you are competent at using the Microsoft Microsoft Office office the programs, reply with, “I Excel at it.”

IfIf you’re on the the you’re ever on beach ask andsomeone you ask beach, someone “what’s the “What’s the weather weather for forecast forforecast tomorrow?” tomorrow?” they When theywhen answer, answer, replyreply withwith “Are you shore?”

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Alternatively, if they say it’s supposed to be raining, reply with, “Oh man. I can’t sand the rain!”

If they question that you just made a pun, based on a computer program, respond with, “Word.”

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If someone gets a new lamp or light, let them know that you like it, by saying “It’s lit.”

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If someone says that they were born in July, and you don’t believe them, say that “Julying.”

Illustrations: Maggie Zhou Image inspiration sourced from: https://au.pinterest.com/explore/puns/

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TATTOOS

BY EMMA NAHAL

A tattoo is a form of body modification, where a design is made by inserting ink, dyes and pigments, either indelible or temporary, into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment.

As tattoos are slowly becoming more accepted as a modern art form, the techniques and styles are ever branching out.

Here are just some of the many that are around today:

Rose and Dagger done at Vintique Studios, Mordialloc, Victoria.

Instagram: vintiquetattoostudio

Traditional Traditional is the oldest form of tattooing. This style is based on bold, clean black outlines and a minimal, well saturated colour palette consisting mainly of primary colours. Popular traditional imagery includes roses, hearts, skulls, daggers and women’s heads.

Design done by Nic O’Ryan at Capricorn Body Art, Melbourne.

Instagram: nicholasoryan666

Geometric Intricate designs made of shapes that might use symmetry and repetition to create a large design.

Happiness done by Cheyenne Trapp, Melbourne, Victoria.

Instagram: cheytrapptattoos

Script / Lettering Lettering or script ranges from simple tattoos of letters and words in standard fonts to highly stylised custom pieces that are usually free handed on and look both like an aesthetically pleasing design as well as legible letters or numbers.

Tattoo Aftercare Tips: • Remove the bandage from your tattoo after 2-3 hours • Use Bepanthen antiseptic cream for healing • Do not swim in chlorinated or salt water until healed

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• Do not rub, pick or scratch at a new tattoo as this will slow healing time and may lead to secondary infections • Do not sunbathe, use tanning beds or apply fake tan while tattoo is healing

Clouds done by Alchemy Tattoo Studio, Melbourne, Victoria.

Instagram: alchemytattoomelbourne

Watercolour Currently very popular, watercolour tattoos mimic an experimental artistic process - using splashes and streaks of colour to give the impression of paint being used on canvas or paper.

Lion done at Voodoo Ink in St.Kilda, Victoria.

Instagram: voodooink

Realism Realism is a style that tries to recreate images as they would appear in real life. Realism typically lacks the bold outlines found in more traditional forms of tattooing and instead uses shading and color contrasts to render the image.

Roses done by Matej Bacic, Adelaide, SA. Instagram: matejbacic

Dotwork Intricate designs that use lots of tiny dots in areas where you might normally shade or use block colour.

Tattoo Events in Melbourne Australian International Tattoo Expo The Australian International Tattoo Expo proudly represents the culture of body ink.

Rites Of Passage Tattoo Festival Experience the unity of tattoo industry and the public through a celebration of diversity, culture and body art.

Website http://www.tattooexpo.com.au/

Website http://ritesofpassagefestival.com/

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THANKS A MILLION

Alayna Hansen Photography by Emma Nahal

900 million as a figure alone strikes a resounding impact on the human conscience. Most of the time, its multitude is relayed to large populations or quantifications of data, but in the instance that Daniel Flynn saw the number flashing on his computer screen in 2008, it meant 900 million people in developing countries didn’t have access to clean drinking water on a daily basis. Alarmed by this statistic, his succeeding research led to an even more concerning discovery - 4,500 children in these underprivileged areas were dying every year from contracting water-borne diseases such as cholera, dysentery and botulism. This was enough to spark an idea for a corporation that would ultimately generate almost $6 million in total funding since its inception - Thankyou was born.

The Passion and Pursuit Flynn was only 19 and completing a university degree when he realised that something needed to be done. Gathering the support and expertise of friends Jarryd Burns and Justine Flynn, the trio honed in on an industry that was wide-reaching, profitable and an essential in everyday life - bottled water. At the time, Australians were spending an estimated $600 million on bottled water each year yet in the small villages of Africa and Asia, children were walking up to 10km per day just to collect water from a local river that could be teeming with contamination or be so dehydrated that they were too weak to stand.

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While established companies were keeping their financial gains to themselves, the start-up business wanted a product that could make a difference and alleviate the effects of global poverty, starting with water. It was decided that 100 per cent of profits would be donated to provide filtration systems and water pumps to isolated communities, ensuring basic survival needs would also be met.

But where to start? Flynn knew that research and insider knowledge was the key to getting their theories to become a reality. They visited water companies, spoke to business experts and organised meetings to attain information and the skills needed to have the company registered, trademarked and

fully operational. There were doubts in comparing their qualities and quantities to the competition, but their determination and volunteering of 30-40 hours a week proved to be worthwhile with a first order of 50,000 bottles.

The Potential Although now a highly successful organisation, starting up certainly had its pitfalls. In 2009, after retaining the support of a packaging company to produce that first order, 15,000 bottles had labels that had been scrunched in processing and their name was illegible. Another batch finally reached supermarket shelves in 2011, only to be recalled because tiny black flakes from the lid were found in the water. The future started to look a little bleak - funds were being exhausted, a new distributor went into voluntary administration and out of an initial 350 invested small retail stockists, 300 backed out of their proposals.

new product in their history.

By the 3-year mark, 5,000 people in developing countries were receiving aid in water from Thankyou’s profits, but they knew they could do more. In 2013, Flynn and his team hired helicopters to fly massive banners around the corporate headquarters of Coles and Woolworths in Sydney, with the aim to impress these supermarket giants enough to agree to become the company’s biggest retail stockists. A creative ploy that worked a treat - in just 5 years from the start of their business, 5,000 became 56,000 people that could access safe drinking water and a better quality of life.

The Product Water was just the beginning. When profits stabilised and then increased, Thankyou created a new range of body care products to generate funding for hygiene and sanitation services in remote areas, eventuating in 17 countries and 545,360 people assisted by February this year.

The next step was another essential for survival - food.

In 2015, the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation estimated that 795 million people were going hungry every day. Focusing on Sudan, Kenya, Cambodia and Australia, each food pack bought from Thankyou’s extensive range means that immediate and long-term food security, as well as adequate nutrition, are ensured through various training programs and agricultural investments. Thankyou once again changed the lives of 132, 664 people in underprivileged communities.

This would normally be the point where young entrepreneurs pursue other fields of interest, but these hurdles were not insurmountable - there just had to be another way to overcome them.

Here’s where the joys of social media come in.

With a platform that can reach up to 2000 people in seconds, the team knew they could generate enough brand awareness and highlight their message on a smaller budget and larger scale that could rival the other bottled water companies.

Asking supporters to post a message on the 7-Eleven Facebook page showing their enthusiasm and promotion of the Thankyou brand, the campaign skyrocketed with 400 posts in one day - and their meeting with the corporate members wasn’t scheduled for another two weeks. The beginning of commercial success didn’t stop there, with Channel 10’s The Project, MX newspaper and Nova Radio each publishing features and encouraging the young entrepreneurs to dream big. It wasn’t long before 7-Eleven agreed to Thankyou water becoming the fastest processed and promoted

Every 103 seconds a mother will die during pregnancy or in childbirth, and in developing countries where maternal care is limited by a lack of professional medical facilities, 2 million babies don’t make it to their first month of life. This is a heartbreaking statistic that needs to change.

In 2016, Thankyou thus launched a baby care range that was sustainable and cost effective, with the proceeds going towards immunisation programs and medical supplies in Zimbabwe and Nepal; in just the first eight months, the lives of 77,314 mothers and their children were ultimately improved and prolonged with this life-saving treatment.

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FAST FUNDING FACTS AS OF 2017 The Pride There’s no denying that the Thankyou team take pride in what they do. Selfless and intuitive, their commitment to assisting and empowering remote communities is limitless, with current corporate partners Unicef, Oxfam and World Vision donating to fund incredible projects and implement solutions to local issues. But it is essentially the consumer that contributes the most - through the Track Your Impact campaign, each unique code on a product enables a direct connection with the project that the purchase has funded.

This dedication to strengthening a consumer’s awareness of their individual charitable impact is unique to Thankyou’s core values and ultimately a vital asset in ensuring change in the developing world.

$4, 135, 861 for water and hygiene services = 545, 360 people have access to safe drinking water near their villages

Thankyou’s initiative just goes to show that one small idea between friends can transform into a global possibility with the right support and people behind it. While gratuity may be at the forefront of their identity, it is truly their compassion, critical thinking and ongoing enthusiasm to improve the lives of others less fortunate that ensures the continuity and success of such an amazing, passionate pursuit.

REFERENCES: https://thankyou.co/application/themes/thankyou2014/files/ Thankyou-Food-Impact-Factsheet-May17.pdf https://thankyou.co/application/themes/thankyou2014/files/ Thankyou-MCH-Impact-Factsheet-May17.pdf https://thankyou.co/application/themes/thankyou2014/files/ Thankyou-WASH-Impact-Factsheet-May17.pdf

$1, 072, 738 for food for the present and future = 132, 664 people have adequate nutrition and long-term food security.

This totals almost 29 million days of food aid

https://thankyou.co/impact/about-track-your-impact

$300, 000 for child and maternal health = 77, 314 women and children are provided with sufficient post-birth care and medical facilities

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MANGA

To my teachers they were mere picture books.

To my parents, a waste of my time. But to me they were little portals of joy and adventure encapsulated in about two hundred pages. I’m not talking about any book though; I am specifically referring to Manga.

To say I’m infatuated with Manga is an EPIC understatement. They have been my go-to reading material since I first picked one up at my local library, at about the age of six.

Of course, only being six years old, I didn’t think much about the effort that went into creating the books that I enjoyed so much, just that their stories were as captivating as any other storybook that I could have been reading at that age. As I grew up, I started paying more attention to the detail in the illustrations and eventually the research that would have gone into bringing the stories I read to life.

Like any good book or movie, the background had to be set and it was the small details within that setting that made the alternate world a lot more believable and entrancing.

Looking at the big picture, Manga has had a huge influence on my life. I was inspired to start drawing from the Manga I read, or at least they were wonderful tracings that I ‘created’. But nonetheless that beginning step as a mock illustrator led me to develop a great love for drawing which eventually snowballed into a much later discovered passion for design.

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As a design student I hated research, found citing annoying and struggled to differentiate between information that was credible and information that was untrustworthy. Manga artists strive for perfection in their stories and hunt down even the smallest of details to make their sagas as realistic as possible.

Monster wouldn’t have been as believable if the surgical information and the depictions of professionals in the police/detective workforce weren’t accurate, or as entertaining without its plot twists. Additionally, my sister wouldn’t have known so much about basketball (enough to eventually play) if Takehiko Inoue didn’t accurately describe the rules, jargon and positions of players in basketball within his Manga, Slam Dunk.

It wouldn’t surprise me if Manga has inspired countless people to become artists and illustrators due to the diversity of art styles that cover not only the illustration of people but buildings, backgrounds, animals and other technologies as well. Rumiko Takahashi, creator of stories such as Inu yasha, Ranma ½ and Rin ne has an art style that shows her beginning as a Mangaka (one who creates Manga) in the ‘80s and has a much simpler art style that stays true to the stereotype of characters with big eyes and small noses. The illustrator behind such works as Ral Grad, Bakuman and more famously Death Note is more renowned for the amazing detail in his character and background design. The spectrum of Mangaka in the field

means that those taking inspiration from them don’t have to feel pressured to live up to the standard of a typically amazing illustration but can include enough detail based on their abilities to still convey a meaningful message.

general procrastinating. It is an art form that has inspired me from my past days as an amateur artist to the present ones as a designer, and will continue to inspire me for many years to come.

One of the more significant things that Manga has inspired me to do is typography. This was something I picked up more recently; a Manga book is essentially a little book of design. Whether a piece of work is a good or bad example of design is subjective but nonetheless it’s a form that I learn from. Manga, originally being Japanese, has almost every aspect of it translated into English (although some keep the sound effects in the Hiragana/ Katakana). Fonts are searched to replace the Kanji and other alphabets from the title, the conversations within the book and the names of the author and illustrator. While they may not seem like a big thing to most people, as a designer you pick up small things such as how the text is laid out, how different fonts are used to convey different emotions or represent the supernatural, how awkward it is to read some of the speech bubbles because of the translations and so on. There is so much to think about!

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Manga has been more than merely a form of entertainment throughout my extended childhood (I will not accept I am an adult yet!); it has been my number one inspiration for stories, ideas and

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PICTURE THIS 2017 Top 3 Finalists

#1 SISWI This photograph was taken in Kalimantan, Indonesia in January 2015. It features Siswi, the exiled dominant female orangutan, who comes to the jetty each day to try and take fruit from the passing boats.

Moment captured by PJ Pantelis

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#2 MOONRISE Long exposure taken at Safety Beach, Dromana.

Moment captured by Joshua Ratten

#3 DREAM OF THE SEA This photograph was taken in Osaka, Japan. It tells of a story, the story that a small boat floating on the lake, wishes to be on the big seas.

Moment captured by Nicole Zhu

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HOMEWARD BOUND Alayna Hansen Leading modern women to the world’s ‘Final Frontier’ and back again There’s no denying that for more than a century, exploring Antarctica’s wide, desolate expanses, has been a male-dominated occupation. The Heroic Age of the Antarctic Expedition saw the likes of Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton trekking across frozen ice lakes, braving abyssal depths of crevasses and pains of starvation to map unknown territory for the Empire. These missions are legendary.

But it begs to be considered, what about the women whose fundamental work faded into the background behind the research of their male counterparts? In the winter of 1946, Jackie Ronne and Jennie Darlington became the first women to be working members of an Antarctic exhibition, accompanying their husbands as recorders and historians to Stonington Island. Writing news releases for the North American Newspaper Alliance over 15 months, they hid in the shadows; humbled yet determined. Although many research bases banned or indirectly excluded women from conducting scientific studies due to a distinct gender bias, female exploration was at a definite

peak between 1980 and 2000, with Ann Bancroft as the first woman to complete both Arctic and Antarctic expeditions by 1993 and Diana Patterson as the first female station leader in 1989.

Last year, a fresh-faced, all-female team of experts set sail on a voyage of discovery, education and ambition; aiming to enhance the influence of women’s participation in science and leadership roles. In a world first, a global amalgamation of 78 women formed the Homeward Bound Project, an initiative that is progressing in leaps and bounds to ensure the sustainability of our glorious planet.

As the brainchild of Fabian Dattner and Dr Jess Melbourne-Thomas, scientists studying everything from astronomy, physics, geology and engineering to veterinary, medical and social sciences embarked on a 20 day trip from Argentina to Antarctica; mentored by an Australian and international faculty of professionals in leadership, strategic planning and science education.

Led by Greg Mortimer (one of the first two Australians to successfully climb Mount Everest), the team is also supported by notable experts such as Dr Jane Goodall (primatologist), Dr Robert Kaplan (Emeritus Professor at Harvard Business School) and Dr Sylvia Earle (marine biologist and explorer). While 2016 was its breakthrough year, the program aims to assemble 1000 women with a scientific background over a decade to create a cohesive, diverse and educated network.

With more than 15 years as a founder of regarded management consultation firm Dattner Grant, Ms Dattner’s achievements as one of Australia’s best-known female entrepreneurs, speakers and leadership commentators are a credibility to her work in developing the foundational ideas behind the voyage.

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In October 2014, I was running one of our women’s programs called Compass in Hobart, under the auspice of the Australian Antarctic Division, and we also had scientists from the University of Tasmania and Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies.

We were talking about our work, and joy, curiosity, intelligence and achievement started to morph into irritation, anger and sadness; almost a sense of powerlessness when this wonderful group of clever and capable women expressed all of their frustrations with [the lack of recognition of women’s participation in] science and the leadership sector.

That night, I dreamed Homeward Bound into a reality – it was as clear as the day is long, and every element included. We were on a ship to Antarctica, there were initially 45 female scientists and we were getting state-of-the-art leadership, strategy and execution development along the way; so they could return more able to influence policy and decisionmaking, and inform us about the future of our world.

The decision to highlight women’s participation in the program was unanimous. On a global scale, under-representation in areas of political and social leadership is a constant concern in striving for gender equality.

UN Women records state that only 22.8 percent of all national parliamentarians were female as of June 2016, and as of August, eleven women were serving as Head of State and ten as Head of Government.

While the percentage of women in politics has nearly doubled from 1995-2015, this only translates to 22 percent in global parliaments today.

In Australia alone, there are little differences in the corporate sector. According to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, women hold 14.2% of chair positions and represent 15.4% of CEOs in reporting organisations. Accounting for only one in five board members across Australia at 19%, this is quite low compared to a relatively high participation rate in the workforce at 70.5%. Even with prominent movements for representation in caucus and campaigns for women’s rights, statistics still show wide variations in the average percentages of females in positions of leadership.

Highlighting participation in science, the most recent UNESCO Science Report determined that women form only 28% of researchers across the world, yet as reported by Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE), make up more than half of science PhD graduates and early career researchers.

For such a significant proportion, this equates to just 17% of senior academics in Australian universities and research institutes over the long-term.

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Homeward Bound isBound primarily a “leadership expedition While Homeward is primarily a “leadership with a framework of science”, a collaboration expedition with a framework of science”, of a scientific capabilities with a focus on climate, biological collaboration of scientific capabilities with a focus and Earth system research raise awareness on climate, biological and aims Earthtosystem research of climate change and its impact upon the fragile aims to raise awareness of climate change and icy its environment. impact upon the fragile icy environment.

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Opting to lead this preliminary mission from home, Dr Melbourne-Thomas’ dedication to studies of marine biology and polar science, particularly her notable work as a research scientist for the Australian Antarctic Division and project leader for the Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre, are attributed to her early love of native marine life and natural curiosity. As cofounder of the Women in Polar Science network, her memories of exploring vivid underwater environments provided the foundation for a PhD in Quantitative Marine Science and integration within Homeward Bound’s science department.

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Tasmania is a pretty amazing place in terms of the access that we have to marine environments.

So I grew up snorkelling and scuba diving with my family here, and I was just really fascinated in marine biology from as early as I can remember – those were quite formative years for me.

My involvement with Homeward Bound is therefore through the strategies of science, and we’re not doing research on the boat per se, but we’re learning and discussing the science behind global and climate change - Antarctica is an important model for representing that. We’ll be translating science into leadership possibilities and drawing in expertise from a range of global experts on climate change and Antarctic marine systems.

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But why do we still have such high attrition rates?

Try as we may to eliminate gender stereotypes at a rapid rate, women are still considered to be the primary care-givers and therefore the prioritisation of motherhood over the continuation of research often seems an easier concession. Financial concerns, especially for single mothers, factor in alongside an absence of close mentoring between experienced and younger female scientists, leaving many with goals that seem unattainable with no direction. As identified in a new study by the University of Washington, a masculine culture likewise permeates through stereotypes of ability and research fields incompatible with gender expectations. Nonetheless, researchers resolved that a more inclusive culture across major branches of science was the most operative way to retain continuous female contributions.

Looking to the future, Dattner remains confident that Homeward Bound will thrive. “It’s currently estimated that 150 million people have heard about it. We’ve featured in the New York Times, Forbes, and various Australian newspapers– it’s an incomprehensible scale.

But we’ve been prepared for so long, that I know all you have to do is take the next step and the next step and this will emerge as it was meant to do. My primary job is to keep everyone focused on the core mission and strategy, and then to give tremendous autonomy to execute it.

I’ve come to believe that any mistake is simply an opportunity to learn. I’m not afraid of the scale of it, I’m not afraid of the boldness or the courage that’s needed. I believe in the women that know we are a strong collective. We feel it’s the right time, for the right reasons, with the right audience and the right outcome. We’re ready to go.”

Antarctica holds a goldmine of natural beauty.

Scattered regions of emerald lichen cling to a patchwork of granite flatlands, waves break upon the shores of an Adélie penguin colony surrounded by crystalline glacial peaks and jagged outcrops, the crack of an iceberg cuts through the silence of a gentle ice flow –wonders that so many long to observe first-hand. In just the first three weeks of the initiative, more than 180 expressions of interest were received from hopeful participants across the world, yet Melbourne-Thomas notes that diversity of nationality was limited by their intake.

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Homeward Bound set sail on December 2nd and returned December 21st 2016. A documentary titled “Leading us Home” was made by production house Bunya Productions, featuring interviews with academic leaders, participants and a clear focus on inspiring resolute, intelligent women to lead science and the world into a bright future.

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We tried our best in this first round to get as diverse representation of women as we could, from South Africa, Costa Rica, Finland and Canada to name a few, but inevitably we could only take so many. We even had applicants from China, the United Arab Emirates and smaller island nations. In our 10-year initiative, we’ll be creating scholarship opportunities for women as the momentum of our project increases, and figuring out how we can make the program more accessible for women in developing countries.

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The Girl & The Wave Radhika-Ayla Hansen

As a young artist I have struggled with whether to draw for myself or for others. It seems simple enough but when taking into account how easily you can lose yourself trying to please others I began to lose interest in art as I realised I wasn’t doing what I wanted to do. I was constantly using art to please others and not myself and the creation process of the drawings became uninteresting and not something I would associate with pleasure. This began to change when I started at a new high school that offers creative encouragement and freedom. As I was encouraged to explore my mind it lead me to new places I didn’t think I was able to reach.

I’ve become more confident in myself as an artist and the work I produce and I hope this will lead me to some success as a grown woman.

opposites and are merely models for attraction.

The real meaning lies with every stroke of lead.

The drawing is messy but has sharp lines, it is rough but smooth. All depending on where your eyes are drawn to. The drawing also can appear unfinished or as if something is missing. This is not because of lack of time or inspiration, the drawing was left like this because not only am I happy with it the way it is but it also represents my current period as an artist. I am young and I have so much room to develop and grow, so for me to leave a drawing subjectively ‘unfinished’, I am tracking my development as an artist. Maybe one day I will produce something that can be labelled as ‘finished’ but I hope I never do because that would mean to me that my journey as an artist has reached an end.

This piece in particular holds a special spot in my heart. Ideally, you will not see any meaning or relation between the girl and the wave. They are

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Memes

Arshia Chaudhry As the youth of today, we all love our daily dose of memes. We have all been rick rolled, we all remember the overly attached girlfriend and we all have made rage comics in the past. In the present, we all still can’t get over the evil Kermit memes and we all still drool over our favorite salt bae. Memes are a great way for people to express their opinions about situations.

As they say we were born too late to explore the world, born too soon to explore the galaxies but born just in time to browse and make memes. But hey, we know how to turn even the worst situations into memes as a coping mechanism e.g. Joebama memes. Memes are also very informative and educational as they teach you about the top trending news worldwide e.g.

The United Airlines controversy which spread everywhere through memes.

What are memes? Origins?

Memes are basically trends and inside jokes that are spread all over the internet usually because they are funny and/or relatable.

The word meme was used by Richard

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Dawkins in 1986 in his book The Selfish Gene; what if ideas were like organisms, where they could breed and mutate?

This book discussed the idea that from an evolutionary perspective, some behaviours seemed to make no sense but were found to be very common (people displayed the same behaviours) in human societies.

Dawkins called it meme abbreviated from the Greek word mimeme which means imitated things.

When do memes die?

Many say that a meme is dead once it is used anywhere on the TV or by mainstream celebrities; others believe it has a short life span of a week before it gets annoying or simply passes into the meme afterlife. Some believe that memes die and lose all hilarity as soon as the whole world starts using them.

So go on, use your time wisely. Jump online, create a reddit account and get in on the action before the memes die for good.

Here are some memes made by me that will most certainly make you laugh:

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Frightening Friday Screamathons

By Jack Crowe

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here is nothing better than curling up on the couch one Friday evening to watch a funny, entertaining movie with the rest of the family. Or is there? My idea of a great Friday evening to wrap up a busy week, is to watch a chilling horror movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Although it does not seem ideal to watch a horror movie before you sleep, if you are a person who laughs at the jump scares instead of screams, like myself, you should have no problem sleeping at all!

The thing that amuses me the most about frightening Friday screamathons is watching my friends’ reactions to the movie. Under the loud, repetitive screams of the faint-hearted, you can quietly hear me in the background, chuckling like a malevolent demon.

It is a rare event for myself to be scared by a horror movie, but that’s where the challenge lies.

Will this film make me cry for my mother and hide under the bed, quaking in my boots? Or can I pick the murderer before the second scene? So far, I have been lucky to escape the embarrassment of screaming in a full cinema, but here are some movies that came close.

Here are five categories with some great horror movies that you should watch. Just make sure you are prepared for the jump-scares since you may need something to cover your eyes!

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“It is a rare event for myself to be scared by a horror movie, but that’s where the challenge lies. Will this film make me cry for my mother and hide under the bed, quaking in my boots?” there is something wrong with the children, for they act just too good - or so it seems. This film is one of the most original I have ever watched. Virtual reality glasses have never been explored as much as aliens and monsters, which makes it all the more interesting. Once the subjects of the experiment take off their glasses, all they see is darkness, which, once I saw this in the trailer, drew me to the film. I would highly suggest watching it, for the suspense is so taunting.

Originality: Let’s Be Evil

I was surprised about the reviews of this film on Rotten Tomatoes, only receiving 22 percent on a Fresh rating.

A group of gifted children are educated in a private, underground facility, however instead of being taught by teachers, they are taught by solving puzzles displayed through virtual reality glasses.

Even more interesting, no adults are down there with them for assistance, until three volunteers join the experiment, which is entitled ‘The Prosperity Project’. Elizabeth Morris portrays the main character, who begins to realise that

Best Novel Adaptation: IT

by Stephen King Stephen King’s 1,376 page novel couldn’t be ignored by the horror film community. In 1990, two movies were released,

following the story of seven friends - who call themselves ‘The Losers Club’ -encountering an evil, metamorphic clown (played by Tim Curry) that begins to haunt them and their town. While children go missing, The Losers Club attempt to hunt him down, seek his weakness and kill him. In the second film, the story continues into their adulthood, where they reunite to defeat It again after a failed attempt when they were younger. Although there are slight differences in the novel and the 1990 film, both will leave you fearing clowns for the rest of your life. A remake is scheduled for release in September, yet the story is already so well-known that the trailer broke the 24-hour views record on Youtube! The first adaption was scary enough, and the 2017 adaptation looks twice as frightening, so if you’re up for It, definitely book a ticket in advance.

paranormal activity has taken place. At first it’s an opening and closing window, but soon after, the crew wish they never even went near the place. There are currently two films in the series, with a rumoured third film beginning production.

“The first film is the only horror movie that has left me sleepless for several nights, and the second film is even scarier” The first film is the only horror movie that has left me sleepless for several nights, and the second film is even scarier.

Although this movie is filmed in the GoPro-style, the scarefactor truly overrules it. This movie is just event after event, which makes it so entertaining.

Best Twist: Orphan

Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and starring The Conjuring’s Vera Farmiga, this 2009 film has been known for its haunting suspense, plot twist and thrilling finale. The film is about a couple who lose a child at birth, so instead adopt an orphan. The orphan, Esther, has many anger issues and trouble fitting in with not only children her age at school, but her siblings too. She then creates a scheme involving her deaf sibling to cover up her big secret, which is revealed towards the end of the film.

Orphan certainly leaves you with goosebumps.

Scare Factor: The Grave Encounters Series

Jump-scares always make someone scream or hide their face behind a couch cushion.

Grave Encounters does exactly that. A group of ghost hunters decide to lock themselves in an abandoned mental asylum overnight, where a lot of

inflicted upon the family, we see the issues that have developed in the Warren family due to their investigations. This is how a well-known possessed doll was adapted into the second titular movie - the infamous Annabelle.

Best Film Series: The Conjuring Universe

The Conjuring, directed by James Wan, is a supernatural horror film based on the cases of Ed and Lorraine Warren, who are past paranormal investigators.

The first film was centred on a house that had a dark curse placed upon it by a witch. Ed and Lorraine needed to help the family being tortured by the spirits and completed an exorcism in the process. As well as observing the trauma

After this prequel, a sequel to The Conjuring was made in 2016, based on the Enfield poltergeist case. The sequel is about a family who are tormented by a ghost until it possesses one of the children.

The case was much different to the last movie, as Ed and Lorraine Warren were hesitant to help the family because no evidence had been shown of a possession. The end of the film also contains a big plot twist, which is why I find this series so entertaining.

The success of the Annabelle not only inspired The Conjuring 2, but the future film set to be released this year, Annabelle: Creation.

The Conjuring Universe just keeps expanding, which makes it great to watch as a marathon. The Conjuring 2 has now inspired another movie in the universe, The Nun, which is rumoured to be in production. James Wan said that The Conjuring 3 is another possibility, and if it goes to production, will be based on a case about werewolves! Every single movie in The Conjuring universe is thrilling - they either amaze those of us who are used to horror, or frighten the faint-hearted.

These films are all my favourites and absolutely perfect for a Fright Night.

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PASSIONS TO SHARE Zheirraly Bondad

My passion is to write, stories or songs Use words and letters, to create a new world Maybe a journey to follow, or adventure to explore But this is my passion, which I love and adore To capture the moment, is my passion to share A landscape, a portrait, or a second to dwell A moment of movement, for a remembrance forever It’s my passion to show, which I love and treasure I hear a melody, powerful yet sweet Passion made by another, and my pleasure to hear Emotions are revealed, by instruments and sounds My passion to listen, which I love to have found I see colourful hues, from a perishing light Where mysteries are held, by the universe above It’s my hope to learn, to discover and hold dear Indeed it’s my passion, which I love and revere Truths or half-truths, told by legends or books So I read the history, as it fascinates me too Of fallen kings and empires, from ancient times till late My passion to remember, which I love and praise As time flies by, my passions still remain There are more to uncover, of that I’m assured So I’ll travel to new places, or visit the days of yore To unravel new passions, which I’ll love forever more.

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Kingston Youth Services & Kingston Libraries present

ink about it WRITING COMPETITION

ENTER NOW! ENTRIES CLOSE 14 OCTOBER 2017 Heaps

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WR SHOR ITE A TS OR P TORY OEM !

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Winners published in Universal Magazine & on the Kingston Libraries’ Website --Write a G-rated short story or poem.

1000 word limit. Works must be original and inspired by the photograph above

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