The recent Pink Floyd exhibition held at the V&A used the iconic British phone box through-out:





The recent Pink Floyd exhibition held at the V&A used the iconic British phone box through-out:





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…


Thanks to Shiraz for this link for the blog:
“The famous phone boxes”: a review of ‘Out of Order by David Mach
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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Evening Standard: 6 December 2016
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:

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.

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

Old City

On the road
New style UK phone box and more
I go to Finsbury Park, in north London, regularly and noticed the phone box shown below had appeared since my last visit:
A few weeks later, just a couple of metres along from this box, appeared a freaky installation which I assume is a communication device. I can’t call it a phone box as there is no box. What is it? If calling someone will you see their image in the long, thin screen? Feels a little Blade Runneresque.
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Tagged UK, urban