Fishwick Papers: The "Kitchen Sink" Edition

GREETINGS FRIENDS!Thank you for indulging me in a break last week. I had a delightful extended weekend up near the Gold Coast for my friend Steph's wedding. The amazing thing about the Gold Coast airport is that it's maybe a three minute drive from the beach, which means that you can, as we did, be at the beach less than an hour before your flight leaves. That was great fun. But, as promised, it does mean that this week's edition will be twice as long to make up for the absence last week.At work recently I had reason to look into artworks that deal with surveillance. As we're preparing our new major exhibition about everything in film/tv/games/digitalculture/art, we knew we wanted to say something about surveillance culture, but with the view of interpreting it through art, not just explanatory text. And I found some nifty things! I've included a couple of them here - I'll save a few of them for future weeks.The other big news is that I'm on secondment at ACMI for three months. I'm moving sideways to another team that puts on exhibitions (but isn't focused on the renewal project I was working on before). I'll be working on lots of small things so I get a better feel for how ACMI runs. The first thing I'll be doing is updating our Games Lab, which means I'm currently researching and testing video games. Life is hard.

Surveillance Art

• Jill Magid asks a surveillance camera operator to guide her through town

• brbxoxo shows live sexcams, but only once the performer's offscreen

• Seen is a typeface that eliminates words the NSA and GCHQ track

Reel to Real

• Reimagining Dunkirk as a silent film

• The psychology of why we like sad movies

• The opportunities and risks of immersive video

• VR has to fail to succeed: here's how that can happen

Pretending to be Ourselves

• The Palace offered young women a place to experiment with their identity

• Post-authenticity and the ironic truths of meme culture

• Why people on Youtube are all pulling the same face

• Youtube Vlogs and the hyperreal

The British

• The Confessions of the Biscuit Tin Sex Sinner

• Absolute Units, Twitter, and the Museum of Rural Life

• A brief return of David Tennant as The Doctor, for a friend's send-off

• The legacy of Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech, fifty years later

Music Songs to Listen

• I love the Sweetback Sisters, and I love their version of Boozefighters

• Shooter by clipping. contains many good rapping of lyrics

• A Postcard to Nina is incredibly sweet and dorky

Don't Trust The Internet

• Why Zuckerberg's 15-year apology tour hasn't fixed Facebook

• $6.4 Million Judgment in Revenge Porn Case Is Among Largest Ever

• An essential article on the relationship between algorithms and fashion

What's with militarism

• Mike Rugnetta dissects what it means for items to be 'tactical'

• How to play Call of Duty without shooting anybody

• Unravelling the Confederate flag

Loŋgweej

• Emoji are in your real life already, if you want them

• Every line of Washington Crosses the Delaware is an anagram

• A linguist explains the rules of garbling Benedict Cumberbatch's name

R.I.P. Vine of the Week

• here's my impression of a "well-adjusted adult" or whatever

Also R.I.P. Vine of Last Week

• I don't wanna do the work today

Well that's it for the first bumper edition. How did you find it? Too much? A goodly amount? Let me know! You can reply to this email to send me any feedback (or suggestions). You can send your friends here to sign up (and please do!), and you can find an archive of previous emails there too.Have a great weekend, and I'll see you soon.With all my heart,Jim Fishwick xoxoPS. If you're in Melbourne, I'll be performing in Wild Card on Saturday. Come along!