I finally watched the finale of ‘Person of Interest‘. Of course there were a couple of important phone shots that I recorded for posterity. I’m going to miss this show…
Tag Archives: urban
Finale
Contribution
Thanks to Shiraz for this link for the blog:
“The famous phone boxes”: a review of ‘Out of Order by David Mach
TV, film and theatre
TV
American Gods
American Gods
Brokenwood Mysteries (New Zealand)
Legion
Timeless
Timeless
Blacklist: Redemption
Blacklist
Blacklist
Waking the Dead
FILM
Imposter (2012)
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
(The woman above wears a jacket just like one I remember my Mum had.)
Fire Walk With Me
THEATRE
An Inspector Calls (London Playhouse Theatre 2017)
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Tagged cinema, Germany, New Zealand, sci-fi, television, theatre, UK, urban, USA
Phone boxes in the press
Evening Standard: 6 December 2016
New viewing
Adam Curtis has released a new documentary called ‘HyperNormalisation‘. I highly recommend it. Here is a screen shot of a phone box in Russia – not in working order but I love the architecture around it.
New York City, USA
In New York we went to the Intrepid Museum which has a submarine on site. There are loads of phones scattered throughout the sub and they had an example of a sonar phone. So not phone boxes as such but still…
Sonar phone
Growler sub
Growler sub
Other NYC phones:
Frick Collection house phone
New York street
Quebec City, Canada
Old City
On the road
Montreal, Canada
We took a holiday in Canada/USA last month and I have a few photos to post:
Montreal airport
Montreal airport
Shopping centre
Port of Montreal sculpture
Port of Montreal
Angel Islington, London, wander
We took a walk around Angel yesterday. It’s been a while and good to see some things hadn’t changed. I have two phone box photos to share – a classic autumn scene and a wine cabinet specially crafted..
Still very relevant
BT may be removing phone boxes in some parts of the UK but they are installing new ones in others parts. Today, in Bloomsbury, central London, I walked past a very new building belonging to the University of London. It looks like fancy student accommodation. The foyer is bright and shiny and in the centre, standing proud, is a gleaming red phone box:
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Tagged UK, urban