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Paris Hilton shares her favourite 2000’s fashion trends

American socialite turned businesswoman Paris Hilton shares her favourite fashion trends from early 2000’s in a video with W Magazine.

I almost forgot about her existence as she has been relatively quiet in recent years. Love her or hate her, the 36-year-old has been a trendsetter regardless. At her peak she’s as famous as any top list stars.

Socialite culture, celebrity lifestyle reality shows, over the top fashion, pets as accessories, selfies, phone obsession, BFF etc. She didn’t create these stuff but she popularised these for sure.

Although she finds success as a businesswoman in recent years, I won’t call her a role model. But when you look at youngsters these days you will find them doing many things which Hilton had “pioneered”.

Those kids probably don’t even know who’s Paris Hilton, but she leaves a legacy in global pop culture.

You may say that she’s good at riding the wave instead, that the trends will become so with or without her. It’s probably true, but she still saw those earlier than most others and made it to her advantage.

Kong: Skull Island (2017) movie trailer

Trailer for upcoming American monster film Kong: Skull Island, directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts. The movie is a reboot of the King Kong franchise, and it’s the second film in Legendary’s MonsterVerse.

The film stars Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, John Goodman, Brie Larson, Jing Tian, Toby Kebbell, John Ortiz, Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Shea Whigham, Thomas Mann, Terry Notary, and John C. Reilly.

I’m never a fan of Kong. The fact that it’s always in love with a “tiny” albeit beautiful human being never makes sense to me. And that alone makes it difficult for me to like its role.

Set that aside Kong in this teaser looks pretty badass. But seems like there’s too much going on… the skull crawlers are fine but there’s giant spiders and killer birds among others.

Chinese actress Jing Tian appears as main cast on movie poster but doesn’t feature in the trailer at all. Guess it’s another unnecessary character to please the Chinese film market.

May still watch it for Loki Tom Hiddleston though, and Brie Larson looks pretty amazing too.

Civilization VI (2016) launch trailer

Trailer for video game Civilization VI, released last week on Microsoft Windows. It’s the latest edition of the Civilization franchise, a series of turn-based strategy video games started in 1991.

Civilization II was one of the first PC games I played and I still like the series a lot. Besides its entertainment value, it’s also an educational game that I recommend to my young nephews and nieces.

Gaming is always a tricky thing in parenthood. However, this is a game that I can safely introduce to parents (for their kids) because the knowledge part outweigh most of the probable negative issues. Good or bad we can’t stop children from playing video games these days, may as well find the right ones instead.

Players can learn about the basics of growing a civilisation, city and nation from the game. And if the player is willing to do some reading from the in-game “civilopedia”, they can learn quite a bit about global history and development at various points from 4000 B.C. to modern days.

I only played until Civilization IV though, didn’t get the fifth edition and no intention to get the new one. Although there are new stuff and improvements, the fundamental gameplay seems about the same.

The trailer is cool regardless, the franchise is also good at making these teasers and opening sequences. Actor Sean Bean provided the narration in the video, his voice will also feature in the game. Music by Christopher Tin who won a Grammy with the Civilization IV theme song in 2011.