Fishwick Papers: The "Wisdom and/or Madness" edition

Howdy, papier maches!On this cold rainy Melbourne night I reflect on the week that's been. I've sunk my teeth into the Games work that I've been doing (this week: thinking about what the labels will look like, arranging licenses with developers, among other chaos) and I'm really enjoying the challenge, especially working out how to connect games to other media. The hardest thing is probably having to say goodbye to games I love that I just can't make work in the space (if there's interest I can share these games with y'all as well?).

Data Visualisation

• The Wisdom and/or Madness of Crowds

• Seeing Theory: A visual introduction to probability

• Georgia Lupi makes gorgeous drawings of numbers

Advances In AI

• Google Assistant can now make phone calls for you

• Hype Cycle makes shapes from human shapes

​The Sports of Arts of Games

• Ritual of the Moon takes place over one lunar cycle

• An international e-sports tournament landed in Sydney

• Meow Wolf have built my dream palace, inspired by games

Using Other People's Videos

• Do we need memories when we document everything?

• DJ Spooky speaks on appropriate appropriation

• I love David Greenhalgh's remix works

Youtube

• The standout video this week is Childish Gambino's This Is America

• A brief summary of Youtube's demonetization woes

• 24 is the highest number: a sketch from Mr. Show

R.I.P. Vine of the Week

• Happy birthday, Dad!

THAT WILL DO. Have a lovely weekend (I'm going to see No Such Thing As A Fish, which I'm very excited about) and do please send me your feedback and suggestions, or let your friends know about this list if you're picking up what I'm putting down.Much love,Jim xoxo

• https://karastonesite.com/2018/05/07/upcoming-ritual-of-the-moon/