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‘The Milkmaid’
Coffee Kiss
Beautiful sculpture created by Tsang Cheung Shing from Hong Kong.
Yuanyang II sculpture was named after a popular beverage made from a mixture of coffee and Hong Kong-style milk tea. The name, which refers to Mandarin Duck, is a symbol of conjugal love in Chinese culture.
Runaway Train
Soul Asylum – Runaway Train
Few people pay attention to public service announcements, but back in 1992, lots of people watched music videos on MTV. For Soul Asylum’s “Runaway Train,” director Tony Kaye made a video featuring missing children, hoping to find them… and it worked!
The video located so many runaways that they made six different versions (US, UK, Australia, and Germany). After the video, in an ending also not regularly shown, Pirner says in front of the camera, “If you’ve seen one of these kids, or you are one of them, please call this number,” with the following screen showing a number one could contact.
The problem was, when missing children turn up, the results aren’t always pretty. Some were found dead. Several others were forced to return home to horrible situations.
In 2006, Soul Asylum guitarist Dan Murphy reflected on the consequences: “There’s a reason that young kids run away, mostly because of abuse,“ he told the Pasadena Weekly. “There were some happy results from, but you have to resolve the situation that caused an 11- or 13-year-old to think the harsh world is better than their home.”
Resolved cases
According to Kaye, 26 missing children were found after being featured in the video. In 2006, guitarist Dan Murphy stated in an interview with Pasadena Weekly that some of the cases featured in the video had ended in tragedy: “Some weren’t the best scenarios.
I met a fireman on the East Coast whose daughter was in the end of the video, and he’d been in a bitter custody battle with his wife over her”, Murphy said. “It turned out the girl hadn’t run away, but was killed and buried in her backyard by her mother. Then on tour, another girl told us laughingly ‘You ruined my life’ because she saw herself on the video at her boyfriend’s house and it led her being forced back into a bad home situation.”
The UK version of the video featured Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol, who each went missing in 1991. Their remains were found in 2007 at a house in Margate.
The version shown in Australia showed a number of young backpacking tourists whose families were looking for them. Many of those shown in the Australian version were confirmed victims of serial killer Ivan Milat, who was arrested in 1994 not long after the Australian film clip was released
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