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…
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Model phones
“Alan Wolfson is a master of the miniature. His urban sculptures are tiny, incredibly detailed views of the mundane city landmarks that urban citizens interact with on a daily basis…”
These models include phone boxes (of course).
Click here for the Weburbanist article Honey I Shrunk The City! Alan Wolfson’s Tiny Streets
Alan Wolfson miniatures (Images via mymodernmet, thelightboxproject, eclectica, livrespensadoras)
Merchandise
“Take this iconic, life-size cabinet home…”
Source: insiderchic.net
Phone box installations
I’m obviously not the only one to see the phone box as an intrical part of social life. I love these art insallations discussed in an article on Weburbanist:
Walky Talky: 12 Concept Mobile Phone Telephone Booths
“These 12 concept mobile phone telephone booths attempt to recapture the personal isolation those old public phones provided while enhancing the experience of conversing in the city.”
Source: Weburbanist
Phone-henge
Freestyle Music Park, South Carolina. Image from CoasterImage.com as seen on the Weburbanist and Clonehenge websites.
“This completely fabulous Stonehenge replica, playfully named Phonehenge, sits in the Freestyle Music Park (formerly the Hard Rock Park) in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It surrounds a large performance space in the British Invasion section of the park and is comprised of lots of red old-style British telephone boxes”. From Weburbanist.
You can also find details of this Park on the blog Clonehenge – a blog about Stonehenge replicas. My kind of people.
Art gallery
Just read about a phone box being turned into a gallery:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8145926.stm
“A group of residents in Settle, North Yorkshire, have turned an old-fashioned phone box into what they claim is one of the world’s smallest art galleries.”