SLA Media

SLAMedia is a publication of the news for the Science Leadership Academy community. Writers come from the student body in 10th, 11th, and 12th grades. We work in unison to create a functioning paper with biweekly postings on a variety of events.

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Hallway Fashion: Harrison Freed

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Ella Donesky
Staff Writer

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Where do you usually shop?
I rarely shop. Well, I mean, I have this distant memory of having gone to Khol’s. I have nothing to prove it ever happened, no photo, no video, I didn’t journal about it, I just think I went there.

Who inspire your outfits?
Well, basically whoever I take the clothes from. It’s a pretty direct inspiration for what I wear.

What’s your favorite article of clothing and why?
I think my favorite article of clothing has to be my trusty North Face jacket, because it doesn’t keep me warm, but it doesn’t really keep me cool.

Hallway Fashion: Eva Karlen

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Ella Donesky
Staff Writer

Where do you usually shop?
A lot of clothes of mine are hand-me-downs. Otherwise, Urban Outfitters, American Apparel, and H&M when I’m feeling lame. A lot of my clothes are from my cousin, who’s around the same size as me and my mom.

Who inspires your outfits?
David Bowie. Pretty much any psychedelic rock star from 64-75, Lou Reed’s eye makeup, all of the girls from Almost Famous, and Jimi Henrix. When I’m feeling lame and sleazy, probably Courtney Love. Musicians, that’s the short answer.

What’s your favorite article of clothing and why?
I have a ring, it’s actually broken now, I need to get it fixed, it’s a two-headed snake, and the band of the snake’s body wraps around and the middle of it is a frog. I loved it when I got it when I was four. I love it and it’s great.

Hallway Fashion: Zoe Anderrson

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Ella Donesky
Staff Writer

Where do you usually shop?
“I shop at a lot of different stores. I really like Brandy Melville and Urban Outfitters, too. And actually, recently I’ve been going to a lot of thrift stores. I like a lot of vintage stuff.”

Who inspires your outfits?
“I don’t really have one person that inspires my clothes…a lot of what I wear is influenced by a lot of my friends. I look up to celebrities and what they wear. I like Kylie Jenner’s style–I like her old style, when she was a little younger [laughs]. I kind of just…go with the flow.”

What’s your favorite article of clothing and why?
“Oh that’s hard. I really like my new shirt, actually. I just got it from Urban. It’s a black t-shirt with the adidas logo. It’s super simple, but I like that sort of sporty style, even though I’m the least sporty person ever. It’s really cute. I like big t-shirts.”

Fans Reaction To Celebs Growing Up

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   Staff writer, Corinthia Bell  

 

         Remember your fave childhood Celebrity? There’s quite a number of them who have been famously known and the one’s who have been forgotten. They either have been in your childhood tv shows or movies that you’ve watched, but Today they seem different. From watching them from the start till now, the reaction of fans have seem shocking, of their transformation from playing roles as a child to roles when they’re older. When the Fans actually prefer they stay who they when young, instead of changing when they grow up.

        The actress being most focused upon this month is Georgie Henley, who played the role Lucy from The Chronicles of Narnia, and who just finished starring in a movie called Perfect Sisters, where two teenage daughters drown their mother because of bad cycling habits she exposed to the family. In The Chronicles of Narnia, she seems “childish like”, having a acting spirit of courage, brightness and joy displayed throughout the movie while in Perfect Sisters, she seems “grown-up like”, where she displays her character as sorrowful, goth and naughty. She also uses bad language to play her role. Where as when Fans saw her transformation, it resulted in a not so good way where the majority were shocked and the others were quite pleased.

       Recently, she stated in an interview discussing her experience of dramatic changing character roles in her movies , “It was really cool, I mean I definitely wanted to do something very different from Narnia because there was a massive part of my life with an amazing experience, but I also feel like as an actor is that you should keep challenging yourself and growing and it couldn’t be any bigger than Narnia, so I had to go smaller”.

       From the interview, with her experience of acting completely different in a movie she was in as a child, she seems happy experimenting with the difference and gaining new style and knowledge in drama of acting.

      But from that interview a fan commented and there reaction wasn’t as happy as Georgie’s. A fan states, “ I don’t like her now, she’s a brat and she totally changed”.

      From the fan’s view of Georgie’s change in acting style, the fan seems quite unhappy and surprised from her difference in roles, because the fan misses the old character they’ve seen when they were younger. Which is common of fans to feel that way for an example Hannah Montana to Miley Cyrus today, but to the life of the actor they feel change is wonderful no matter what ways they express themselves.

 

 

 

 

“aa” App Review

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Darius Purnellaa

Staff Writer

Who likes to play connect the dots? Well this isn’t your typitcal connect the dots. Recently I came across an interesting game called “aa”.

“aa” is simple yet complicated game. You start off with a big circle in the middle of the screen with the level number on it. Below that big circle is a single line of  tiny circles with numbers in them in order of a count down. When you touch or flick the screen, a dot shoots at the big circle and connects to it with a line. The big circle begins to spin like a wheel at a moderate speed, with the connected dot orbiting it like a moon on a string. You continue shooting the dots in order to connect them to the big one until you reach 0. When you get all the dots connecting to the circle, the screen turns green and you unlocked the next level. If the orbiting dots touch each other, though,  then it’s instant game over/ The screen turns red and you have to restart with all the dots. As you continue on the levels have different number of dots that you have to shoot in. Some levels have dots already connected. There are some levels where the speed switches making it more difficult.

What I mainly like about the game is that like I said, its simple but complicated. The game aa can become a rage game where it makes you frustrated but not enough that makes you give up, instead it motivates you more. This makes the game addicting.

The game is on android and iPhone. On the android you can change the color scheme unlike on the iphone. Generally however, the game isn’t flashy where it’s extra colorful and lights flicker, so it is an easy on the eyes kind of game.