On My Way to/from Work: Commodification of Public Space #3

 Moove flavoured milk 

sound sculpture (in shape of headphones) & inflatable event stage

First Fleet Park, Circular Quay, 24 February 2012

ARCHIVE BOY 3+3 image+text

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

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

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

Featuring Trey Lorenz at 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

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

Kleenex Silk Touch Tissue Tree

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

'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'

Informed by 'sampling staff' that the Kleenex Silk Touch Tissue Tree is an 'art installation in memory of Christo' by 'street artists Perso & Detch' / see www.mrpersoanddetch.com also their commercial graffiti campaign to promote Green Day album

ILLUMINATIONS 3+3 image+text

The city was illuminated

Even underground

And it was almost impossible to completely turn off

3+3 is a brandsusan curatorial project

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