Notes and links from Fri 10 July

The plants in the garden are really suffering right now. Status: I have found the perfect way to spend less time on my phone. I needed to employ my secondary swimming shorts today and the main ones needed a wash. The elastic on these is not what is was and while they’re fine in a push I can’t have anything heavy in my pockets. So if I carry my phone with me, as I’m wont to do, every step reveals a fraction more arse until I’m borderline indecent. Within the home this isn’t necessarily a problem but I don’t want to inflict this upon any neighbours in their gardens. So my phone stays in its dock while I find myself wondering what to do while I give the rabbits their run and just lean into looking at the trees and letting my mind drift. The only thing I miss is the camera. Might be time to dig out one of the old compacts. Archiving: Assembly Birmingham: from precarity of modern living to the power of righteous fury — Back in 2018 my chum Antonio curated a conference of smaller arts orgs…