Fishwick Papers: The "Sydney from a 747"

HI FRIENDS!I'm in Nelson, New Zealand, which has amazing images like this online but is also quite rainy at the moment. I'm staying with my good friend Laura for a few nights, and enjoying some downtime (in between being covered in stickers by her four-year-old Ivie). I'll have to be quick, as we're about to watch Muppet Christmas Carol.This'll be the last papers fr the year while I go gallivanting and go-offlining. Thank you for being around and reading, and welcome to the new subscribers! I'll be back first week of January to send you more stuff then. Have a lovely hollydays, and I'll see you soon.Merry Festive,jim xoxo

Representing Art?

• Is Youtube a performance or is it reality? (feat. Pillowman)

• What is lost when we watch 'Netflix' instead of individual shows?

• Should high school productions of musicals have swastikas in them?

• How great is this interview with Australian standup Laura Davis?

Festive videos

• Sydney From A 747 by Paul Kelly

• My favourite Christmas song of all time

• Calming painting with renaissance man Terry Crews

End of the Year Lists

• 52 things I learned in 2018

• The best video essays of the year

• A round-up of 52 immersive things from 2018

• The Literary Review's awards for worst sex writing

• ACMI (including me!) picked videogames of the year

• Lots of dictionaries pick a word of the year, here's how

• The Bulwer-Lytton prize for deliberately bad opening lines

• Finally, my holiday wordplay quiz, full of delightful/terrible puns

R.I.P. Vine of the Week

• Waiting for Santa like