Fishwick Papers: The "What Am This" Edition

Hi there!Thank you very very much for signing up to... this. I've started a new job as an assistant curator at ACMI - the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, and while it's been a bit of a whirlwind start, I have also discovered (and rediscovered) some real nifty things in the last few weeks. These are some of them. They'll skew a bit towards tech-focused things, but if that's not your speed there'll still be some things in there that you like.

Youtube Watchings

• Big Shaq's dadaist rap Man's Not Hot is taking over the internet

• Gotye watched all those Somebody I Used To Know covers, then covered them

• The Academic recorded a loop version of their song Bear Claws with Facebook Live

Word Readlings

• The technical architecture behind Netflix is really quite complex

• How Neopets inspired a legion of girls to be coding entrepeneurs

• Jon Bois' 17776: Football! Satellites! The future!

Who wants to play video games?

• In MiniMetro you design train lines. It's soothing, addictive, infuriating

• As the robots come for our jobs, "It's as if you were doing work" will satisfy your employment nostalgia

Listen - Musick

• Sampa the Great - Blue Boss (A hip-hop artist from Zambia now living in Sydney)

• St Vincent - Savior (I'm obsessed with the new St Vincent album. Go get it)

• Annette Hanshaw - Would You Like To Take A Walk (All the way from 1931)

Listen - Podcats

• Within The Wires uses audio guides from a fictional post-socialist-uprising art world to tell story. It's neat. (Start with Season 2, Cassette #1)

• Witch, Please - a scholarly reading of the Potter universe. 'Chamber of Spoilers' is a particular highlight for me so far

R.I.P. Vine of the Week

• Helium Balloons

Aaaaand that'll do for now! Feel free to get in touch - I'd love to hear which of these you enjoyed. Feel free to send me things you like that I could include, and please let me know what you think of this. Does it need more/fewer words? More/fewer links? How often would you want to receive this? What else? TELL ME.Much love,Jim xoxoPS. In Sydney? You should absolutely check out the latest Jetpack show Ghosts of Glebe.PPS. In Australia? Please call your MP/PM and tell them to evacuate Manus Island now.