Let You Entertain Me

I was completely and utterly bored the other day, something that doesn’t actually happen too often (there’s usually something to worry about, at least), so sent out an e-mail to a couple of dozen friends demanding entertainment. In response, I received a very beautiful short film by Lizzie Hughes composed of still images of jet ’plane trails, the suggestion that I watch some videos on YouTube (something that’s always foxed me up to now, for technical reasons), from Kysa Johnson, and some news from Scotland from Dan Howard-Birt. "Big" Mike Patterson in Australia suggested that I follow a link to http://www.b3ta.com, and Jonathan Van Dyke sent me a connection to his own newly-minted site. Giles Round in London wrote: "When I’m bored I amuse myself with two things: architectural porn (introduced to me by Liam Gillick): and design porn, on a genius auction site stocked with endless staged photographs of twentieth-century design. The back catalogue seems endless." Priya Bhatnagar sent me some amazing photographs from her recent trip to Japan and Jo Sheffield e-mailed me two ultrasound images with the teasing caption "Figure this out. " Jo, I think I have. Finally (so far, at least), Rebecca Shatwell sent me an MP3 of a song by Jeffrey Lewis, “Don’t Let the Record Label Take You Out to Lunch, " from the recent Rough Trade Shops Singer Songwriter 1 compilation. And now I’m not bored any more, thanks.