Fishwick Papers: The "Operation Luigi" edition

Greetings from Sydney! Surprise!After a wild week working on exhibition conceptual structures (which is kind of like doing a 4000 piece jigsaw puzzle with no box) I'm back in Sydneytown for a few days to avoid Melbourne's flash floods for a show or two! But that doesn't mean the Fishwick Papers stop, oh no. Here are some things you might like:

Reads

• 14 novels summed up with Onion headlines

• Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating

• Mara Wilson writes on the media's treatment of Millie Bobby Brown

• The Art of Monstrous Men (required reading, but many content warnings)

Cool Tech Things

• The State Library of NSW is archiving and displaying social media in real time

• Operation Luigi: how to hack your friends without them noticing

• Dutch start-up uses VR to help people swim with dolphins

• ELASTIC MAN. Play with the face of the man of elastic.

Audios

• SsingSsing's Tiny Desk Concert blends Korean Folk, Drag, and Reggae

• 700 Hobo Names by John Hodgman and Jonathan Coulton

• The Memory Palace tells a sad tale of the MGM Lion's life

Ball Bearings

• All 86 pages of NASA's 1981 history of ball bearings is finally available online

R.I.P. Vine of the Week

• Used Car salesmen be ready to overlook anything

Please get in touch with any feedback on which things you like, or suggestions of things to include, and do send this on to friends you think would like it.Finally, if you have time to read this, you have time to sign this petition in support of Aboriginal Trans youth.Mwah, mwah,jim