Fishwick Papers: The "50% Skeleton, 50% Robot, 100% Cop" Edition

Good evening!It's me! Two weeks in a row! The last few weeks have been fairly hectic with deadlines in work and out, BUT it's all been useful because now I get to feel on top of things again. At work, I've been working with a layout designer to make sure that everything will fit in the cases (no small feat!) and receiving some exciting images and things from studios. Outside of work, I've been to Sydney to guest on a podcast (coming out in October), I've been assistant directing an improvised soap opera (Sold out!), I'm delivering a walking tour for Science Gallery Melbourne (Nearly Sold Out!), catching up on my taxes and organising a plumber for my leaky sink. Par-ty-cen-tral-dot-gov-dot-auFinally, I interviewed Australian game designer Dan Vogt about his latest game Skyward Journey for the ACMI website. He's a very thoughtful guy, and I'm really quite pleased with how the piece turned out. Read it here!Thank you for subscribing and for letting me know which pieces you liked, and for telling your friends to subscribe here. I LOVE YOUBYEEEEEjim xoxox 

Being Online

• Why teens airdrop you memes at concerts

• Fanfic writers are better at organising data than silicon valley

• The man behind the Absolute Unit Sheep Meme describes his process

• Game designer Leighton Gray talks about writing online, not being embarrassing

Pretty Data Art

• Artist Jason Shulman condenses whole films into a single frame and it's gorgeous

• Generated.Space: Beautiful artworks created by a neural network

• Your phone is a brush. The world is your canvas.

Blasts From Pasts

• The kiss that changed The Sims, and Videogames

• Exactly what do sea monkeys have to do with neo-nazis?

• Track the Apollo 11 mission 50 years ago, in real time (currently on their way back)

Definitely Necessary And Ethical Science

• A comprehensive history of Disney's plans to build a nuclear reactor

• We put worm brains in lego and turned the lego into worms

• Would you confess your crimes to a robot skeleton?

I-remembered-this-McSweeneys-article-and-wanted-to-tell-you-about-it of the week

• Email addresses it would be really annoying to give out over the phone