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Polly: So Sue, you were involved in Social Media before the Amanda Palmer incident happened,
but how much did you think it would actually end up like it has?
Sue: Well for me it was actually the biggest lesson in how big this sort of thing can get.
It was such a surprise, that’s the guts of it. When she posted the photo that she
had taken outside the city hall wearing the skirt and nothing else umm…
Polly: Exhibit A
Sue: She, without the stars
Polly: We’ll take them off later
Sue: She posted that on Facebook first and then there was this enormous conversation
that happened over that evening and night, umm and there were hundreds and hundreds of
posts commenting on either the umm the bare chest, or the skirt itself or the armpits
actually got quite a run too, they, they became part of the discussion. But being part of
that as the third you know angle was actually really exciting so that by the morning Facebook
had withdrawn it because it was rude and that was better and better, so then the Mercury
came to visit me and it just got silly really. So I’m still sending skirts overseas and
all around Australia and even a young girl from New York called Kendalle Fiasco, she’s
an artist – I looked her up, she’s real – she came to visit my shop on her way to
MONA and I thought that was really cool, to get one of these skirts, so that was kind
of, was just crazy, I just, it’s quite a surprising thing for me.�