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ARCHIVE BOY 3+3 image+text

noreply@blogger.com (brandsusan) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:57:00 +0000

A young boy sits on the edge of the archives conference

Distracted temporarily by archivists letting their hair down on the dancefloor

But ultimately content with his Nintendo screen

3+3 is a brandsusan curatorial project

'A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end...

but not necessarily in that order' JLG

photos by Angela McGing & her son Owen Roberts

taken at Australian Society of Archivists conference, Brisbane, 2009

reproduced with permission

Remembering Emil Goh: a night & a day in Seoul 2007

noreply@blogger.com (brandsusan) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:44:00 +0000

Emil Goh & The Lesson of the Lunch, Seoul 9 September 2007

I just checked my passport to see exactly when it was that I spent one very strange evening and an unforgettable day in Seoul, courtesy of the dearly departed Emil Goh. I see that it was Saturday 8 September 2007 that I watched a live Australian Rules football final between the Sydney Swans and Collingwood, screening outside a Seoul street cafe that Emil hunted down specially for me. And it was the following Sunday 9 that he took me on a 5 hour guided tour of one of his favourite Seoul neighbourhoods.

I didn't know Emil very well, and that's precisely the point. He fully inhabited his own passions and welcomed you into his world. He also respected your idiosyncratic preoccupations and created opportunities for them to be realised too. He just loved to engage with people, places and things — all the while capturing the exchanges that unfolded between them with his incredible eye and effusive commentary.

It's still possible to get a taste of walking through the streets of Seoul (and other cities) with Emil through the beautiful monument of his Superlocal flickr project. There are many heartfelt messages under the last image he uploaded from those who knew him in person or only through his photographs. Typically it was a photo of something tasty — a strawberry & green tea icecream of Eiffel Tower proportions with the comment: 'tis tall soft serve season in Myeongdong!they used to be nearly twice as tall a few years back but with the recession and all, instead of raising prices, they made them shorter, sigh.' As many people have observed, Emil really loved food and there are more entries about that subject than any other in his photostream (893 pics). So it's only fitting that I include video footage of him teaching me how to eat the meal we shared that Sunday in September.

Emil was our South Korea correspondent. His observations did not trade in exotica but valorised the superlocal. He had a heart full of Seoul.

EMIL SPEAKS

The MyCy Project of Emil Goh

Seoul is For Design Lovers

REMEMBRANCES OF EMIL

In Memory of Emil Goh by Poketo

Go Go Emil Goh by Ric Harvey

R.I.P. Emil Goh, 1966-2009 by Jason Lewis

Things I learned about life from Emil Goh (1966-2009) by Annamatic

Man of the World by Beverly Yong

Remembering Emil Goh by Nandemo

Emil Goh 1966 to 2009 is Too Friggin Short by Vanessa Bates

Chronicler of the Asian-Australian experience by Benjamin Gennochio & Melissa Chui

Always Had A Weak Spot For Mariah Carey

noreply@blogger.com (brandsusan) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:15:00 +0000

Featuring Trey Lorenz @ his best

If Mariah & Trey were Taiwanese

Mariah, cover up girl!

this time a Mariah/Michael Jackson mash-up

On My Way to/from Work: Commodification of Public Space #2

noreply@blogger.com (brandsusan) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:55:00 +0000

Security guarding installation of iPhone's The Happy Place

The Happy Place, beside the Museum of Contemporary Art

iPhone's The Happy Place

First Fleet Park, Circular Quay, 19 June 2009

'Having once been voted the sexiest woman in Australia, model Emily Scott knows how to push men's buttons.Yesterday she was chosen as one of the first Australians to press go on Apple's new model iPhone. Scott, a favourite poster girl in men's magazines, was chosen as the global face of the new phone, which launches in Australia on Friday. As iPhone ambassador, Canberra-born Scott, 25, will host two public demonstrations of the new phone's features this week at The Rocks, where Apple has built a temporary store, "The Happy Place". The phone has many new features, including undoing the last action by shaking ... '

The Sun-Herald, 21 June 2009, p14

On My Way to/from Work: Commodification of Public Space #1

noreply@blogger.com (brandsusan) — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:19:00 +0000

Kleenex Silk Touch Tissue Tree

First Fleet Park, Circular Quay, Sydney,19 May 2009

Informed by 'sampling staff' that the Kleenex Silk Touch Tissue Tree

is an 'art installation in memory of Christo'

by 'street artists Perso & Detch', or possibly 'Perso & Sketch'

see www.mrpersoanddetch.com

also their commercial graffiti campaign to promote launch of Green Day album

'Welcome to the Kleenex Soft Touch Tissue Tree

Swathed in hundreds of metres of luxurious silks, the tree is covered with blossoms that dispense the new Kleenex Soft Touch tissues. Exceptionally soft and silky, we invite you to feel the difference yourself by taking a Kleenex Silk Touch tissue from the low hanging blossoms.

Kleenex Silk Touch Tissue

Softer, Smoother, Gentler

Feel the Difference

Kleenex'

ILLUMINATIONS 3+3 image+text

noreply@blogger.com (brandsusan) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:18:00 +0000

The city was illuminated

Even underground

And it was almost impossible to completely turn off

3+3 is a brandsusan curatorial project

'A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end ...
but not necessarily in that order' JLG

photographs from State Records NSW; series NRS 17420 & NRS 12685

I Search Myself, I Want You To Find Me

noreply@blogger.com (brandsusan) — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:32:00 +0000

Australian new media artist Linda Wallace has contributed to a YouTube curatorial project for Pulse art fair in New York. She joins a group of artists invited by curator Marina Fokidis to create playlists from YouTube videos. Linda Wallace has selected 10 videos of people singing 'I Touch Myself' by the Australian band the Divinyls from 1991.

brandsusan unhesitatingly recommends version 2 by aestheticdevistation

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PULSE PLAY>Random Rules: A Chanel of Artists’ selections from YouTube
Curated by Marina Fokidis
Many believe that since the launch of YouTube in 2005, the history of the moving image has diverted from its canonical route. The website, which makes it possible for anyone who can use a computer to post a video, reaches millions of people daily. Like no other time before, it is now possible for amateur videos, music videos, film footage, commercials and news segments as well as (in some cases) artists’ videos to be mingled together in a random way, free of any preconceived hierarchy or system. According to Fokidis, the active use of YouTube is a form of curating and "Different people’s 'playlists' are transformed into exhibitions and 'tagging' becomes a process of random archiving."

For PULSE PLAY>Random Rules, Fokidis has invited several emerging and established artists to create their very own playlists thereby presenting these artists not only as artists, but as curators and as collectors as well. Artists include Andrea Angelidakis, Aids 3D, AVAF, Pablo Leon de la Barra, Erick Beltran, Keren Cyter, Jeremy Deller, Cerith Wyn Evans, Dominique Gonzalez Foerster, Dora Garcia, Rodney Graham, Annika Larsson, Matthieu Laurette, Ingo Niermann, Miltos Manetas, Ahmet Ogut, Angelo Plessas, Lisi Raskin, Linda Wallace. The selections will be available simultaneously in the video lounge at the fair and online as a YouTube Channel.

Pisces Time

noreply@blogger.com (brandsusan) — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:57:00 +0000

Sometimes the sun rising in the morning sky is burning orange against the steel blue-grey of the ocean — just like the goldfish swimming in the black & white of Rumblefish

Gluten free

noreply@blogger.com (brandsusan) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:43:00 +0000

You know you love it too, but once the gluten-free bread has arrived in your suburb, you sense you can kiss the neighbourhood goodbye

Another new shop has opened up on Clovelly Road; is it ...

Brat: yet another kid’s clothing shop selling Andy Warhol rompers
Brot: a bakery that smells like Paris with staff speaking in French accents
Brit: a trashy t-shirt gallery frequented by teenage girls in school uniform
Brut: a boutique selling sex toys for gay men

Answer: go to 219 Clovelly Road

Meanwhile pass me another slice of the gluten free, slathered with quince paste & mascapone

on Mickey Rourke

noreply@blogger.com (brandsusan) — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:32:00 +0000

The Wrestler not only resuscitates Mickey Rourke’s career, it resuscitates the memory of what cinema is and can be.

From beginning to end, it’s pure motion and emotion.

Mickey Rourke’s presence/performance is raw, wounded and scarred; excruciating, heart sickening and unhinged; tender, sentimental and full of grace.

He’s Heath Ledger in Monster’s Ball, Linda Manz in Out of the Blue, Temuera Morrison in Once Were Warriors, Gena Rowlands in Under the Influence, Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris, Sibel Kikelli and Birol Unel in Fatih Akin’s film Head On.

The fight scenes alone are worth the ticket, but it’s the vulnerable masculine moments and gestures that make you go and see it twice in one week.

The way he dies a little everytime someone calls him Robin instead of Randy or Ram.

The long hair he flicks when it’s hanging down, or ties in a chignon with loose strands that follow his jaw line when its’ up.

The act of shaving under his arms and colouring his hair for the ring; then putting on a hair net to go out and work behind the meat counter.

The back-up present for his daughter in case she hates the one he really wants to give her.

The earpiece he removes and rests beside his bed when he sleeps; the glasses he needs when he looks closely at something important.

The little white socks and tighty whiteys in the tanning salon; the cute grey cotton gear for the gym.

The crease of his bare arse at the back of his hospital gown.

The bare-chested bear hugs for his brothers-in-arms from the ring.

The last look in the men’s room mirror before bracing himself to go out into the club and try and win over the woman he wants to be with.

The admission that he’s not ready for her to do another lap dance, because his heart’s not ready to take it.

I still can’t decide whether his dancing scenes are embarrassing because they’re good or because they’re really bad.

The ghost of Sam Fuller haunts every scene of this movie, with his declaration from Godard’s Pierrot le Fou: ‘Film is a battleground. Love, hate, violence, action, death ... in a word, emotion.’

Obama

noreply@blogger.com (brandsusan) — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:32:00 +0000

Obama

You have us in the palm of your hands

Don't dash our hopes to the ground

Chinese New Year

noreply@blogger.com (brandsusan) — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:41:00 +0000

I have a lot in common with Kim Basinger & Chairman Mao.

We are delicate creatures and weather variations can effect our nerves. Without empty mental spaces in which to float free, our drowsy minds have no room to evolve their reveries into plans and action. We should avoid bladder irritants, such as spinach, asparagus, sorel, vinegar, unripe fruits, spices, alcohol and tobacco, but cranberry juice can be tried as a substitute for citrus products. Because we are cold-blooded, we require warmth, the sun, affection, security and cozy, luscious, sexy love.

We are of course Water Snakes

Greta Garbo is a Wood Snake
Joseph Conrad is a Fire Snake
Yasser Arafat is an Earth Snake
Aretha Franklin is a Metal Snake

And what of this new Year of the Ox? Oxen prefer the presence of wise, sane creatures like Snakes rather than a lot of nit-witted, fly-by-nights they don't respect. The Ox smiles on those who pitch in willingly and don't complain.

quotes from The New Chinese Astrology by Suzanne White