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From The Editor Ever get a whiff of perfume, hear an old song, bite into something delicious or pass an old hangout spot and experience an incredible rush pass over your body? Suddenly, and for a few wonderful seconds, you are reliving what you once thought to be a lost memory. This feeling is called nostalgia. Nostalgia is a sentimental or wistful yearning for the happiness felt in a former place, time or situation. Welcome to Edition 35! In this issue you’ll learn everything you never knew you needed to know about nostalgia. Through an infographic and an article on its historical origins, nostalgia is revealed to be one very complicated emotion. Enjoy all the different interpretations of nostalgia that the Universal team has explored. Each member has reached back into their past and pulled out those
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We hope flipping through the stories, articles and artwork that you get that same special feeling. The feeling we all had while creating it. The feeling of nostalgia. We have taken the memories that spark joy in our hearts and minds, and put it onto the pages you see before you. Take a look at the music and television shows that transport you back in time, learn about retrofuturism, and discover how the past has shaped the world we live in today. We are a magazine run by the young people of Kingston and are always looking for new creatives to join our team and share their work. So if you have any interest in writing, drawing, designing or photography, apply now!
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Did You Know...? Sammar Bassal Illustration
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History Of Nostalgia Tori Baranov
Design Sammar Bassal
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What Does 10 Years Look Like? Sammar Bassal Illustration
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Nostalgic Tv Shows Emma Nahal Design Sammar Bassal
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Retrofuturism Jack Crowe
Design Fiona Sanderson
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Picture This 2018 Top 3
Design Sammar Bassal
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My Life And Music Jayden O’Halloran Design Sammar Bassal
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Nostalgic Beginnings Gemma Arnold Photography
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Wanderlust Jessica Rathana Photography
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Time With The Trees Angharad Neal-Williams Illustration
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35mm. Maggie Zhou Design Maggie Zhou
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Something About Sun Flares Tori Baranov Photography
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First Moments On Social Media Sammar Bassal Design Sammar Bassal
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Tech Free Days Gemma Arnold Illustration
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Sister Kenny Alayna Hansen
Design Mariah Lantouris
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Looper Georgia Coldebella Design Sammar Bassal
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Which roughly translate to ‘Homecoming Pain’.
Nostalgia is seen more positively in the 21st century.
Between the 17th and 19th centuries...
...nostalgia was seen as a disease
Nostalgia can increase your sense of social support! (2008 study)
In her Book, The Future of Nostalgia, Svetlana Boym suggests they’re two kinds of nostalgia... RESTORATIVE
Inspires you to go back and change or recreate your past.
Historic treatments for nostalgia included...
•Bullying •Using leeches •Death •Being buried alive
REFLECTIVE
Allows you to accept your memories for what they are.
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Nostalgic feelings help maintain feelings of self worth. (2013 study)
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HISTORY OF NOSTALGIA
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Nostalgia is best known as the feeling you get when you think back to the past and experience a mix of happiness and loss. It’s the memories that come rushing back to you when you see a toy you had as a child or the feeling of being home when you smell something cooking that your mother once made. A bittersweet longing for a thing, place or person, from the past. It feels warm and comforting, a pleasant experience. The discovery of nostalgia however was fraught with disease and war. Let us travel to the back to the 17th century when the term nostalgia was yet to be used, when a new and fast spreading illness swept through the Swiss mercenaries. It caused them to experience fatigue, insomnia, irregular heartbeats, indigestion and fever. Symptoms were often so severe that soldiers had to be discharged and sent home. The young man who gave nostalgia its name was nineteen-year-old Swiss medical student Johannes Hofer. Nostalgia is derived from the terms ‘nostos’ meaning homecoming and ‘algos’, meaning longing and pain. In its genesis it was considered to be a condition that was specific to the Swiss, due to the constant ringing of cow bells in the Alps that in turn caused trauma to eardrums and brains. It was not a physical ailment, but an intense yearning for their mountain homelands. The Commanders at the time even went so far as to forbid soldiers from singing Swiss folk songs, fearing that it would lead to desertion or suicide. These ideas changed as migration became a worldwide phenomenon and various groups from various lands made their way from their homes, and everything they knew, and settled elsewhere. It became apparent that anyone away from their home for a prolonged period of time was vulnerable to nostalgia. In the early 1900s professionals no longer saw it as a neurological disease but as a mental condition, such as depression. They diagnosed it as a representation of difficulties letting go of childhood or a desire to return to one’s foetal state. Over the 20th century understanding of nostalgia changed in two significant ways. The meaning developed, grew and expanded from homesickness to longing for the past.
It also transformed from being known as an awful disease to being a somewhat pleasant experience, an enjoyable reflection. The best description of nostalgia was offered by Marcel Proust, a French author. He explained how eating a Madeleine cake triggered a cascade of powerful sensory associations and warm memories of childhood. What changed in the scientific community was that psychology shifted away from pure theory to careful and systematic empirical observations. Psychologists realised that many of the negative symptoms were simply correlated with nostalgia and not caused by it. While nostalgia is a complex emotional state that encapsulates feelings of loss and sadness, it does not, as previously assumed, put people in a negative mood. Instead, nostalgia allows people to remember personally significant and special moments. Remembering connections made in the past, and with friends, family and acquaintances, can greatly improve psychological wellbeing. Some studies show that inducing nostalgia can boost self-esteem, social belonging, encourage psychological growth and cause individuals to act in more charitable ways. Nostalgia now exists not as the cause of distress, but as a restorative way of dealing with distress. In times of woe, nostalgia can be a self-calming tool. Today nostalgia is everywhere. Marketing departments in most organisations have taken part in the trend of remembering the past to sell more products. Advertisers know that causing consumers to feel nostalgic about their products increases the chance of them buying it. Examples of this include remaking movies many years after the release of the original, remaking toys from the 80s and 90s, and including fashion from all decades in ‘new’ designs. Nostalgia does not mean you are doomed to dwell on the past, instead it gives those who experience it hope for the future when remembered in times of need, that goodness is inevitable if only we persevere. Information Sourced From: Beck, J 2013, ‘When Nostalgia Was a Disease’, The Atlantic, 14 August Why do we feel nostalgia? - Clay Routledge, Video, TED-Ed
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Retrofuturism The Perceived Today vs Reality
By Jack Crowe I know what you’re thinking. What in the world is retrofuturism? Oxford Dictionary defines it as the use of a style or aesthetic considered futuristic in an earlier era. Basically, it is the way in which people from the past viewed the future which is now the world today. Artist Bruce McCall put it bluntly in his TED talk, stating that people’s initial idea of the future was “hilariously and optimistically wrong”, which is indeed true. Common as a form of art, the most prevalent inventions to be illustrated within our future included flying cars and various types of complex and nostalgic technology. Think of the Jetsons for instance. The Jetsons was an enjoyable kids television show that aired in 1962, that depicted a futuristic world,
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opposite to another popular TV show at the time The Flinstones. The television show featured many types of technology we can still only dream about today, such as flying cars, house-cleaning robots and air-born supermarkets and is the ultimate example of retrofuturism. Whilst we can only imagine the everyday items we will use in the future, these inventions are indeed relevant to the current growing population. There is no doubt that there is currently enough room on the earth to cater for everyone, however capital cities are growing, meaning there is a possibility that vast skyscrapers and high-rise buildings will be a more regular architectural theme in the future. Imagine vertical farms and gardens.
If you look at these two magnificent pieces of art, the concept of vertical landscaping is prominent within them. But what if I told you that one of the images is real? Which would you choose to exist? Maybe making the comparison is simple, but believing the reality of humanity’s advancing technology is much more difficult, and yet fascinating. Image 1 is a garden in Singapore which stands today as a popular tourist destination. The tall structures are meant to represent trees, as they collect water, turn solar energy into electrical energy and have a vertical garden growing alongside them. This garden also includes a 35-metre man-made waterfall, and the world’s largest greenhouse, which, on the inside, is a labyrinth of bridges and paths that take people around the futuristic garden palace.
attachable sleeves and even a headlight for the women to be worn on their heads! The way in which the past relates to the future, is that the envisioned headlight was surprisingly an outstretched lightbulb that’s braided through one’s hair, as opposed to a headlight that sits on the forehead, commonly used for hiking early in the morning or late in the evening. The stereotypes of femininity truly limited and influenced the fashion for the future, whereas now, females and males are both viewed equally. This is how retrofuturism can be related to the past, as past stereotypes, concepts or ideas may now have been adapted to reflect the changes in society.
Walt Disney created a television program called Tomorrowland, to reflect on what the future may hold, which was surprisingly So, why is retrofuturism nostalgic? accurate, even predicting the landing on Nostalgia tends to relate to items of the the moon. Disney and his creative team past rather than the future, however, it also predicted the technology we will is the historic art that connects the past use in order to see beyond Mars. While to a different future than what we may it wasn’t a reality then, now we can see perceive today. In the 1930s, the fashion galaxies and planets several light years of the future was perceived to include away! And now, we are even planning to electric belts to make the body adapt to colonise Mars instead of just predicting it! climate change, clothing that could be altered for the afternoon or evening via The technology that is already present can be met with disbelief and wonder, 11
including inventions such as the drones that can deliver pizzas to people’s houses, the bionic eye which assists the blind, and even flying cars… in a way. Most of this technology may not be in use due to legal limitations, cost, or lack of supply, but the overwhelming fact is that it does exist, and inventions just like flying cars may soon overtake the reality of driverless cars.
become challenges for people to create, and in some cases, illustrations have become realistic. However, there are even more inventions waiting to be developed and created, such as spherical-wheels on cars, two wheeled trains with a propeller and fin, and of course, the hoverboard. Whatever invention you can think of, draw, or explain, may just become the technology of the future. We are currently not restricted by what we believe technology can or cannot do, and we are influenced by whatever our imagination can hold, and that’s what is so fascinating about retrofuturism.
I spoke with some of my relatives, and asked them what they thought about the future when they were younger. Interestingly, they didn’t consider it at all. They stated that their “generation didn’t really think about technology” and that when they were younger, there weren’t even calculators, and televisions were only being introduced to them. When asking them what the future looks like now however, their imagination was unlimited and this was reflected in their responses: “Anything could happen now. They’re talking about driverless cars and everything. Our minds are boggling over technology.” While most of my elder family members believe that technology is making the future unpredictable, one of my relatives said that they’d “always hoped that the future would remain positive” and were sure it would. Maybe it’s not just technology that the future will be majorly influenced by, but also by our maintenance of interpersonal relationships and the safety and peace within our communities. The most interesting part of retrofuturism is that it has inspired the future. All the different ideas and illustrations have 12
Sources http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2157488/Gardens-By-The-Bay-SupertreesSingapore-light-night-sky.html Interviews with John Dowler and Shirley Dowler http: //www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/archived/rnafternoons/insidesingapore27s-futuristic-gardens/6142904 https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/01/11/retrofuturism/ https://www.ted.com/talks/bruce_mccall_s_faux_nostalgia#t-10222 https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/retrofuturism http://www.bbc.com/storyworks/earth/garden-of-wonders/gardens-by-the-bay
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Sister Kenny
an unsung Australian heroine “It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.”— Elizabeth Kenny. The annual commemoration of ANZAC Day will always be an occasion of remembrance. To tell stories of war, share in the mateship of tradition and honour the men and women who have fought for our country. Although her story is largely unknown, Sister Elizabeth Kenny had a resilience and determination that epitomises the eternal spirit of the ANZAC warrior. 22
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Her revolutionary work with children suffering from polio and dedication to patients, despite receiving no formal medical training, left a lasting impression on Australian rural communities and the metropolitan hospitals of America, challenging the patriarchy everywhere she went. Medical miracles in Darling Downs Born in 1880 in New South Wales, Kenny always had a natural interest in biology and
medicine. As a young student, she often volunteered at a small maternity hospital in Guyra, learning by the bedside from various medical professionals.
Country roads are prone to potholes and ditches, especially in wet weather. When the road to the nearest hospital proved to be a bumpy ride, Kenny improvised with the door of her linen cupboard to create a solid, portable stretcher, reducing the shock of transport for her injured patient. In 1927, she patented the ambulance stretcher after the name of her patient, despite its inability to be used for other medical transference.
It was this experience that would mark the beginning of her fascinating career. In her early 30s, Kenny became a self-appointed nurse and worked from the family home on the Darling Downs, a steep farming region in southern Queensland. Riding on horseback, she delivered her services free “The battle must go on” of charge to anyone who Five years later, a called, arriving promptly “I was wholly unprepared relocation to Townsville to administer minor care. and the establishment of
for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that smacked of reform or that ran contrary to approved methods of practice.”
On the advice of Toowoomba surgeon Aeneas McDonnell, she experimented with applying hot, moist cloths to treat early cases of poliomyelitis, diagnosed then as a unique form of infantile paralysis. When many patients seemed to be recovering, Kenny opened a cottage hospital in Clifton to encourage further treatment. A helping hand for her country The commencement of WWI in 1914 provided Kenny with an opportunity to put her medical skills to the test. Although her commitment was delayed due to not being a registered nurse, Kenny enlisted May 30th, 1915 and was appointed staff nurse in the Australian Army Nursing Service.
Working aboard medical ships transporting wounded troops back home, she was promoted to Sister on November 1st, 1917, continuing to use the title long after her service terminated in March 1919.
a backyard clinic signified another new beginning for the practicing nurse.
At this time, the major polio epidemic was severely affecting the lives of Australian children. An infectious disease caused by the poliovirus, its destruction of nerve cells in the spinal cord leads to the deterioration of muscular movement and strength; sufferers rely on walking aids or become completely bedridden. While the general treatment was limited physical activity and the use of splints and confining braces to prevent muscular deformation, Kenny was unaware of these practices and treated long-term poliomyelitis victims and cerebral palsy patients with hot baths, warm medicated lotions and the encouragement of passive but constant movement; many of the patients responded to these treatments.
On returning home, Kenny resumed her nursing practices and became the first president of the Nobby chapter of the Country Women’s Association.
Striking out in a different direction to that of male health professionals was inevitably going to be a source of controversy. Ridiculed and chastised for her discard of normal recommendations, Kenny was alienated by the medical community for her “bizarre” management of polio, in a time where there was no vaccination.
Treating a young girl who had fallen in the path of a plough inspired Kenny’s next medical invention.
“I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that
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smacked of reform or that ran contrary to approved methods of practice.” Despite opposition, parents of young patients and her medical acquaintances pressed the Queensland government into action. In 1934, clinics opened in Townsville and Brisbane to treat long-term polio cases, providing affordable and effective care to numerous sufferers. International efforts Kenny’s outreach was growing fast. In 1937, she published Infantile Paralysis and Cerebral Diplegia, and later two wards at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Surrey, England were named in her honour. Overseas, British doctors also condemned her unorthodox approaches, and upon arriving home, she was further isolated by the scathing report of a Royal Commission of prominent Queensland doctors. 24
To their disapproval, she was given a ward at the Brisbane General Hospital and more patients to care for. Although Kenny was persevering through such negative criticism, external help was needed to truly promote the reach of her methods. Backed by six Queensland doctors, her first government-funded trip to America in 1940, though initially met with more rejection, was the catalyst for wider acceptance. After her applications at the Minneapolis General Hospital, and organising courses for international doctors and physiotherapists on her particular techniques, The Sister Kenny Institute was established in 1942 to medical acclaim. Honour at last The following year, Kenny published her autobiography And They Shall Walk,
received honourary degrees and lectured at various universities and institutions across the world. Though she maintained her intolerance of opposition for many years to come, her story was made for the big screen. Kenny was later praised in 1946 with the film Sister Kenny, a portrayal of her tireless dedication to saving young lives. After her death in 1952, the ‘Kenny Method’ was finally accepted as standard nursing and physiotherapy treatment, remaining popular until the development of a preventative vaccine in 1955. Reflection If at times a little dogmatic, Sister Kenny’s unfailing pursuit of her cause is remarkable. As a WWI veteran, persistent nurse and empathetic trailblazer, her work certainly had a vital impact on polio treatment. Now on ANZAC Days to come, think of the
women you know who personify Sister Kenny’s resolve and integrity, making their own imprints on medical history, and their communities. Bravo Sister Kenny!
Sources: adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kenny-elizabeth-6934 britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-Kenny tr.qld.gov.au/our-region/histor y/notablecharacters/137-sister-elizabeth-kenny-medicalpioneer abc.net.au/btn/v2/australians/ekenny.htm qld.gov.au/about/about-queensland/histor y/ women/assets/elizabeth-kenny-biography.pdf
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NOSTALGIC TV SHOWS Step 1: Race through the front door, kick off your school shoes and drop your bag Step 2: Grab a snack, or three Step 3: Fight with your sibling/s over the remote (optional) Step 4: Turn on the channel of choice to watch any of the following:
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ARTHUR
AMERICAN DRAGON: JAKE LONG
Show Rating: 7/10 Theme Song Rating: 8/10 Release Year: 1996 Synopsis: The adventures of Arthur, an eightyear-old aardvark, and his family and friends as they grow up and learn how to be good neighbours to one another
Show Rating: 10/10 Theme Song Rating: 10/10 Release Year: 2005 Synopsis: A teenage slacker has the ability to turn into the American Dragon and defends all mythical creatures that secretly reside in the human world
DRAGON TALES
THE PROUD FAMILY
Show Rating: 8.5/10 Theme Song Rating: 6.5/10 Release Year: 1999 Synopsis: Two children discover a magical place called Dragon Land and have fun socialising with dragons
Show Rating: 10/10 Theme Song Rating: 9/10 Release Year: 2001 Synopsis: Animated adventures of Penny Proud, a girl growing up with the help of her friends and family
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https://medium.com/@nerdypoc/count-on-me-remembering-disneys-the-proud-family-27c099228d60 https://kidzshowz.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/the-proud-family/ https://www.dm.com.br/cultura/2018/02/kim-possible-ganhara-filme-live-action.html http://kimpossible.wikia.com/wiki/File:STD_-_Shego_and_Drakken_in_Lair.jpg http://nerdreactor.com/2016/08/30/what-danny-phantom-characters-would-look-like-10-years-oldernew-series-in-the-works/ https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bc/f6/ca/bcf6cac56bfbd5669f5fbb9e63cbb53c.jpg http://massivestudio.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Tiny-Planets.jpg https://usercontent2.hubstatic.com/10365288_f520.jpg
KIM POSSIBLE
AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER
Show Rating: 10/10 Theme Song Rating: 10/10 Release Year: 2002 Synopsis: Kim Possible, along with sidekick and best friend Ron Stoppable, fight villains, while dealing with interesting social issues
Show Rating: 10/10 Theme Song Rating: 10/10 Release Year: 2003 Synopsis: In a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfil his destiny as the Avatar and bring peace to the world
DANNY PHANTOM
LITTLE EINSTEINS
Show Rating: 10/10 Theme Song Rating: 10/10 Release Year: 2004 Synopsis: A 14-year-old boy accidentally receives ghost powers and uses them to save the world
Show Rating: 8/10 Theme Song Rating: 10/10 Release Year: 2005 Synopsis: Four friends go on missions with their ever-changing rocket ship. Every mission includes a classic song and a painting
TINY PLANETS
WINX CLUB
Show Rating: 6/10 Theme Song Rating: 7.5/10 Release Year: 2001 Synopsis: Two furry aliens travel to different planets and solve problems along the way
Show Rating: 9/10 Theme Song Rating: 7/10 Release Year: 2004 Synopsis: In a magical universe, witches, warriors and fairies fight in an epic battle of good versus evil! Five teenage girls are selected to learn magic and defend the universe
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MY LIFE AND MUSIC
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My earliest memories of music were watching rage on the ABC and Video Hits on Channel Ten on the weekends. For many years, rage had the chart countdown every Saturday morning and it was a constant companion over breakfasts at home with my mother. Music has always been a part of my life, but it wasn’t as big a part of my life as it is now. Towards the end of my primary school years is when it changed…a lot. One night in late 2007, something changed. I went down the rabbit hole and discovered another world, a world that I would grow to love very quickly. Every weeknight would mean one thing; going to my bedroom, lying on my bed, switching on my clock radio and listening to the back end of the Hot 30 Countdown (and sometimes even slightly beyond) before going to sleep. It became a ritual. And on Sunday nights, I would listen to some of the American Top 40, which for years was an institution for Australian music lovers when it was hosted by the late American DJ Casey Kasem. Not too long afterwards, I started following the Australian music charts in the days when physical singles were still sold. Eleven years on, I still follow them, even though the recent introduction of streaming data into the chart calculations has distorted the charts somewhat. For example, when Ed Sheeran and Post Malone released new albums in the last two years, all of the songs off their albums would appear in the ‘singles’ charts, despite not being actual singles. I have no problem with streaming; I love it, but its role in determining the charts is questionable.
You can tell a lot about a person from what music they listen to. My musical tastes are eccentric and eclectic. My favourite genre has always been rock, but if my playlist is on shuffle, it could be Vance Joy (folk) one moment followed up by Slipknot (metal). I listen to a little bit of everything. Which brings me onto another love of mine, vinyl. Who would have thought ten years ago that it would become popular again in the days of digital downloads and streaming? I was so surprised to see vinyl returning to stores like JB Hi-Fi and it wasn’t just old albums; newer albums were receiving vinyl pressings. In 2014, I got a stereo for Christmas with a turntable, and a vinyl copy of Guns and Roses’s debut album Appetite for Destruction. A few weeks later my collection had grown, including one of my favourite purchases, Jeff Buckley’s only completed studio album Grace. It was so impulsive, but I had heard so much about it being one of the greatest albums of all time I felt compelled to buy it, so I did. And I don’t regret it one bit.
My Dad introduced me to Triple J nearly fifteen to twenty years ago as it was the station the radio in his truck was tuned into constantly. Their annual Hottest 100 countdown became an Australia Day tradition for my Dad. Ten years ago, I started listening to it, and three years later, I took it one step further by casting my votes. I have voted every year since then and listened to the countdown with major interest, even after it moved away from Australia Day this year. It was for a while the only time I listened to Triple J. After I finished high school I started listening to it more often, and it became my favourite radio station, mainly because they play a lot of different music and they champion Australian music.
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Something about sun flares. Something about sun soaked streets and soft golden light flowing down between the leaves of the trees.
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2017. I have a throat infection. It’s bad enough that my glands swell up and water feels like dry toast as it scrapes down my throat. I swallow. Take another mouthful and let it sit there for a moment. Push an antibiotic pill between my lips, brace, then swallow it down. The pill hits the roof of my mouth, the coating of it clinging there and I taste it— chalky, bitter, unmistakably medicinal. It echoes in my breath. The taste fills me and it’s 2009, and I don’t know exactly why I’m sick but there’s the taste of antibiotics through my mouth. There are people downstairs, but I’ve begged sick and snuck out to the family computer room (We’ve recently ditched the yellowed bulky computer monitor for a flat screen, but I’m only 14 and personal laptops would be a ridiculous luxury and how much time do you really need to be spending on the computer anyway, kids? My brother and I fight over who gets to go first after school). I’m 14, and it’s 2009, and the Twilight craze is rapidly approaching its peak. I’ve found a PDF of New Moon on Scribd, and I sit in the dark devouring it. The backlight from the computer screen washes over me, settles into the hollows under my eyes as Edward breaks up with Bella. I blink and I’m back, 22 again, huddled in blankets and watching trash TV on my laptop. I haven’t thought about Twilight in at least five years. Haven’t cared in almost a decade. But my body remembers things better than I do. My iPod is on shuffle—well, not my iPod, because I’ve long since given into iPhones and my meagre collection of music is all on there instead—my music is on shuffle. I’m hardly listening so the tinny, electronic strains of “Mylo Xyloto” catch me off-guard. The song hits me square in the chest, knocks the time out from me and it’s 2011, the evening of my school’s presentation night. I’m waiting for my train into the city, sitting on the edge of one of the cobblestone planters that line the station, and I press play on the new Coldplay album. Fresh off the press, so to speak, it’s been available for maybe a few hours, and I had to rush home from rehearsals to get it loaded onto my iPod in time. As it is, I’ll have just enough time to listen to the album the whole way through. I hear the xylophone intro for the first time, listen to it build and swell until it bursts, launching into poppy synth chords and the first real song of the album. I can’t hold back my grin.
The days are starting to get longer again, and the train station is coated in that hazy late afternoon sunshine. It soaks into the concrete, into the ridiculous ankle-length skirt of my performance blacks. I’m stressed— worried I’ll screw up tonight, anxious about exams, terrified about starting Year 12 in just a few more months, about change, change, change - but just for the moment, there is bright sunlight and music that I’ve been waiting months to hear. I absorb both. In 2018, I know the lyrics by heart. I turn off shuffle and set my phone to play the rest of the album. Thomas Street as it stretches out in front of me is being back in high school, layers and layers of days stacked on top of each other. I slip into them, one after the other. I’m 12 and nervous; 17 and exhausted. 14 and miserable; 16 and proud. I seethe, I yawn, I write novels in my head. My perfume is my birthday and the days after it, playing Animal Crossing in the nest of my doona, the last slope of the year. Finally having nothing due, waking up early just to enjoy the morning. The musk in my lip balm is somewhere specific but undefined, not enough to place but enough that I’m suddenly fuzzy in the middle of the street. “Zombie” by The Cranberries is discovery and heartbreak and rebirth. It’s 2013, and I’m taking a class on the philosophy of time travel. We talk about split timelines, about multiple worlds, about paradoxes. We watch time travel classics - Predestination, Donnie Darko, Looper. We talk about the physics of it all, that time stretches out as you approach the speed of light so that, theoretically, if you went fast enough you’d be able to skip forward into the future. Without somehow folding the fabric of the universe together, though, we haven’t figured out a way you might be able to go back. 2018. It’s not like I think I’ve discovered the secret to time travel. But if I did, I think this would be it. To be able to bottle a moment, the sounds, the smells, that strange something in the air. File all my memories by senses, so that I can pull the past to me instead.
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Outdated nostalgia hides the harsh realities of the Australian landscape. Believing that living off the land is a more authentic way to live your life ignores the fundamental issue of not being able to control the weather. There is nothing romantic about
watching your life, your crops, your animals, your livelihood, be destroyed by Mother Nature. The most nostalgic thing about living on the land is that there is always hope that the next year will be better.
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FIRST MOMENTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA Looking back on the life I’ve lived so far there are many things I didn’t expect to experience and more importantly to me, remember. Out of the many memories that I constantly look back on, the ones that stand out the most are, surprisingly, my beginning days on social media. In my early years I didn’t have internet at home and travelled daily to my local library, which was how I started my social networking adventures. I started off connecting with other library regulars around my age using websites like Bebo, Plurk and Myspace. The websites had common features; customisable profiles, status bars and access to games, music and videos. Additionally, they had their own unique characteristics. Bebo was well remembered for its skins, aesthetics that truly belonged to the early 2000s and its customisability. With other social media profiles you would have the standard widgets to display photos, friends in common and interests but with Bebo you could decorate your profiles with games, gifs, videos and timelines, just to name a few features. This was a social media website introduced to me through my visits to the library.
Myspace was a social media platform introduced to me through school. My friends list consisted of a mix of school friends and library goers and it’s safe to say Myspace was the website everyone was on. The most memorable thing about Myspace was my very first friend, Tom Anderson, who I later found out was the founder of Myspace. Additionally, I discovered that it was a default feature to have him as a friend; you could never say you didn’t have any friends on Myspace because you still had Tom. Plurk would be the most interesting social media platform I remember being on, since no one I knew was on it. All of my friends or ‘fans’ were either from Singapore, Malaysia or South Korea to name a few places. You posted a status on a timeline and instead of the screen scrolling up and down, it moved left and right. It was a nice platform to get in touch with people who had similar interests, mainly in the Japanese culture. petsociety Follow
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In relation to finding other people who shared my interests in Anime and Manga, I think about another social media site that a lot more people would be more familiar with today, and that is Facebook. Growing up it was difficult to find people who knew the Manga I was reading or Anime that I was watching. So as any lonely child would do in the era I was growing up in, I turned to the internet to find friends, and not just any friends, but people who were into the stuff I was. So instead of adding people with normal names I would add people who were playing Anime personas. Now as weird as it sounds, the internet wasn’t as bad as it is today. Not as dangerous either. However, since there was this culture of adding random people there was also this culture around thanking people for either sending or accepting your request. The top phrases being “Thanks for the add” and “Thanks for accepting my request,” which have now died out completely. You would probably seem a bit weird now if you added someone you knew and posted “Thanks for accepting my request” because you most likely know them so there would be no need to thank them for accepting that request.
A memorable aspect of the Facebook Anime and Manga community was the trading of images for a display picture request. If you wanted a cool display picture all you had to do was upload a picture, choose a quote you wanted for it and once the request was completed, submit three pictures you found on Google as ‘payment’. Coincidentally enough I had friends from Plurk who also liked making display pictures for others and would have some customised for my birthday and other events. So I would always make sure I had a dope display picture of an Anime character. People at school never understood why though. These are the weird and peculiar memories of my first beginnings on social media. myspace Follow
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