Lady Gaga
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), known as famous American pop singer-songwriter. Gaga was born in New York, Yonkers, parents were Italian. After worked for fellow label as a songwriter, she signed to Akon who appreciate her vocal abilities. In 2008, Gaga released her first debut solo album The Fame, she explained this album as" relevant let everyone can feel how famous."“Gaga is well-recognized for her outré sense of style as a recording artist, in fashion, in performance and in her music videos. ”1）
Quotes:
"Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore."
"You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way
"Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner, you want to be like yourself. I want my fans to know it's okay."
"I'm beautiful in my way, 'cause God makes no mistakes. I'm on the right track, baby. I was Born This Way."
"I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true"
"I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame created me."
Oprah Winfrey
As the first American black lady appears in Forbes' billionaire list, oprah's childhood is not easy as we thought. Oprah was born in a village kosciusko in the southern United States, Mississippi. She started the earliest "Broadcasting career” by reading aloud and reciting children’s books when she lived with her grandma in the countryside till six years old. Then she moved out and lived with her mother in Milwaukee. She escaped from home at thirteen after years of painful sexual harassment and sexual abuse and was sent to live with her father. Oprah has always considered the childhood hard time to be the very important part to contribute to what she is today.
Quotes:
"Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power"
"We are not Human Beings experiencing spiritual lives, we are spiritual beings experiencing human lives."
"Turn your wounds into wisdom."
"One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn."
"I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. "
Jonathan Ive
Jonathan was born in 1967 in British. He is the principal designer of series of Mac production. Jony was brought up by his single father and derived enthusiasm for designing from him. In 1992, “Jonathan moved to the United to pursue his career at Apple Inc. and since then has headed the Industrial Design team responsible for most of the company's significant hardware products.”2). Then the era of fashion design in computer dawned with the advent of first IMac.
Quotes:
"When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical."
Referance:
1)Lady Gaga,From Wikipedia, last modified on 11 June 2011 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Gaga>
MashUp
Power seems to be not only the ability to control something but change the way the world think and refresh the old mindset of people by everyone's own way. Different angles of view produce different effect of power. As we can see that Lady Gaga has become a new powerful force of changing. As a culture icon today, it is hard to judge whether she is right or wrong, or her power of changing and leading is positive or negative. It just can not be denied that she does broke through the traditional fashion acting style, and went out a brand-new path, which shows different angle of how a artist could be. Compared with Gaga, Oprah and Jonathan seems to be mortal. However, power can also be strong if we go a normal way. Oprah is the changing the world using her own voice and Jonathan has done it by his creative mind. Life is unpredictable. When 13-year-old Oprah escaped from her mother's family, she probably had not imagine how big person she will be .When 26 year-old Jonathan started his first design of IMac, he might not know that several decades later he will be the one who start the era of fashion design in electronic products.
