Fishwick Papers: The "Splash Zone" Edition

Goooooooood afternoon paperitinas!Hope this finds you well on a lovely (if slightly too hot) Melbourne Summer day. It's been my first week back at work work at ACMI, and it's been great to put gears in motion for a new year, and tick off some of the to-do list items that had been hanging over me. I'm doing some cool work at the moment that involves contacting some cool game design studios and asking if they want to work with us on the Big New ACMI Exhibition, and they're saying yes and it's a neat way to kick off the year.I've also spent this afternoon working as a visitor services officer (VSO) - one of the front of house people who's in a museum to tell you where things are and have a chat. ACMI has a new policy that every employee does a half-day working as a VSO in the actual exhibitions. I won't get too into the weeds of museum organisational politics, but basically: this is great. A lot of museum people (myself included) can spend so much time at desks in offices working on spreadsheets that we forget the day-to-day practicalities and realities of what a museum's actually like for a museum visitor.Anyway, thank you for subscribing and reading. You can send your friends to tinyletter.com/fimjishwick to subscribe, where you'll also find an archive of every past Fishwick Paper.Have a great weekend,Much love to you and yours,jim x

Responding, Reclaiming

• Hundreds attend guerrilla activist tour of British Museum

• Beijing pollution memes counter government disinformation

• Digital decolonisation and Indigenous empowerment through emoji

Culture, Connections

• A buckwild tour of money laundering between Russia, Trump and... Da Vinci?

• Nayuka Gorrie edits a selection of works about the TV series Cleverman

• How we'll forget John Lennon: the role of a collective consciousness

Humanity, Hardware

• How millennials became the burnout generation

• A hella creepy live action version of Wallace and Gromit

• The best of the Portrait of Humanity photography prize entries

• New Kohler smart toilet promises a ‘fully-immersive experience’

Words, Webs

• The 25 most popular passwords of 2018

• A brief history of attention: how likes went bad

• What the use of an ethnic slur can tell us about the NYT crossword

Cold War Era Interrogation Document of the Week

• The US Army's 1951 analysis of Soviet interrogation techniques is finally (FINALLY) online

*the original headline I saw for this article on Slate's homepage was "Not 2 Down With The Times" which I think is SPECTACULAR, and would have put here but I didn't want to falsely claim credit for it.