TV

Here is a still from the first episode of the US remake of Being Human (2011+):

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This one is from Episode 2 of Mayday (2013):

mayday-res

British Virgin Islands

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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/05/offshore-industry-britain

Art and the phone

New York City pay phones to take users back to 1993

The city pay phones are being used to promote a new art exhibit recounting the year 1993 in New York’s history…

Film

Another one from cinema. This still is taken from the horror movie Creep, which is set in the London Underground. Of course it’s horror so the phone doesn’t work…

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Ireland

In 2012 I visited southern Ireland on holiday…

Cobh

Cobh

Cork

Cork

Dublin

Dublin

Galway

Galway

Old phone box style

Old phone box style

Florence

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I returned to Italy recently to finish my textiles analysis course at the Lisio and had another chance to get a phone with a view.

TV

All of a sudden I see loads of phone boxes on the small screen. I guess they are still an integral part of the modern world.

Vegas, (2012) S1 E5:

Vegas': S1 E5.

In the flesh, (2013) E3:

'In the flesh': episode 3

Shetland (2013):

'Shetland'

Another from ‘Shetland’. I like this because it shows clearly why it is unlikely we will ever see the end of the phone box and landline, at least in some parts of the world.

'Shetland'

Payphone design

High-tech payphone concept with free Wi-Fi wins NYC design challenge

The people of New York have spoken. They’ve chosen a spiffy new payphone design with free Wi-Fi access and interactive advertising as the winner of a Reinvent Payphones design challenge…

Film & TV

The phone box plays a part in our culture that is expressed in film and television. With this in mind I thought of recognising moments in phone box screen history. Here are a couple of classic scenes from Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963):

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birds-1

New York today

Snowy NYC

Snowy NYC