open24hours posted:

Teaser ftfa posted:

Some of the first customers purchased T-shirts with a recommended retail price of about $700. The goods were quickly sold to others further down in the queue for $1400. A red and white hoodie jumper emblazoned with the LV monogram and bold "Supreme" logo cost $1400 inside. Outside it fetched $2800. Yohei Takamura and his friend, an artist called Sheta, saw the news of the pop-up store on Thursday and caught a flight to Sydney from Tokyo. They arrived in the queue straight from the airport on Friday morning before doors to the pop-up shop opened at 10am.

ABC posted:

Aquaman movie given permission to film at Hastings Point, despite locals' anger

It was more akin to a country soap opera than the bright lights of Hollywood, with a mayor in tears and claims the environment was being forgotten.

But despite significant community opposition, movie giant Warner Bros was cleared to film its blockbuster Aquaman at the Hastings Point Headland, on the New South Wales far north coast.

It took an emergency meeting of the Tweed Shire Council to rubber-stamp the proposal for the $160 million project after furious ratepayers complained they were not consulted about plans to block off the site for at least two months.

The council granted a temporary licence to film at Hastings Point, with regular checks to be conducted.

Aquaman, which stars silver screen royalty Amber Heard, Nicole Kidman, Jason Momoa and Willem Dafoe, is based on an American comic book character.

Duncan Jones, Warner Bros' location manager, said he had spent a lot of time talking to locals but conceded "a few had slipped through the cracks".

"This is a really exciting project, we do make films everywhere, this is not the only location for this production," he said.

"We embrace every community that we go to. We like to think we make movies, but we give back to everywhere we go.
"We give back in a positive way, not just in terms of jobs and money, but we give that Hollywood wow-factor.

"This is the magic of Hollywood coming to the Tweed Shire."

Environmentalists bemused by decision

This is not the first time the area has been used to film a major movie.

Many local residents claim native grasses at the rocky foreshore were damaged during the filming of Pirates of the Caribbean last year and fear history will repeat.

Greens Mayor Katie Milne broke down in the meeting while delivering an emotional speech about how the town must not forget the environment for the "bright lights" of Hollywood.

Gary Thorpe, president of Progress Association of Hastings Point, could not understand the decision.

He claimed local residents were not properly consulted.

"I think there needs to be some sort of limitations given," Mr Thorpe said.

"Otherwise we'll have one film crew queuing up after the next with no regulation in place."
Tweed Deputy Mayor Chris Cheery, also a Green, said council had tried to address ratepayers concerns, but conceded they had learnt from the spat.

"We need to do our consultation for this sort project that is going to have a high community impact, quite a bit earlier," she said.

"We need to be clearer to the film producers what we expect."

Filming will start next week.

starkebn posted:

this place is hosed

TF2 HAT MINING RIG posted:

Aren't these job seeking places the type of totally legit business that has to rebrand every six months or even shutdown and reopen under a new name?

Bogan King posted:

I'm starting to move away from eat the rich and into just kill them. Even if they don't feed the poor it is still the right thing to do [SMH]

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 in excess of 6700. 

Instead of camping out he now pays people, usually the homeless between $50 to $300, to wait in lines like this overnight.

"You pay them to eat, you pay for their food, pay for them to have a chair and stuff. They're happy to sit there. They are usually grateful," he said, his gold front tooth glimmering in the harsh morning sun beaming down on Bondi - one of Australia's most expensive postcodes

QUACKTASTIC posted:

white lives matter march in Newtown

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Will one of you lazy bludgers make the July thread before I report you to your JSA?

HookShot posted:

DIBS

JBP posted:

Lol get closer

QUACKTASTIC posted:

Not my pic; the rally didn't last long enough to request a bigger one unfortunately

HookShot posted:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3825507