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Comments about phonesThere are 60 comments about "phones"
Peter: exactly. its due to the slight delay as the image is sensed by the ccd. its starts recording at the top left and scans downward, line by line, til it reaches the bottom right. add...... Rohinton Ghandhi: November 27th, 2008
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I thought your group...... Peter: your photos are really nice... you should consider sending the {payphone} flick to 2600 ([[http://www.2600.com/phones]]).
i like how the photos are scans of prints with nice white borders. its getting harder and harder to find developers...... stan: I live around 116th street. A year ago I found a way in (and while down their noticed a few ways out.) I went down with a friend, a lighter, and two cellphones (which we...... Anon: Anything done in public is public domain, and international law, as a whole, is of this mindset, both legally and socially. It's quite simple, actually. Don't want someone taking photos of it? Then don't do...... Cheyenne : I hope that people start to open their eyes about these things because teens,children,friends,and family die everyday! its so much more serious then people think it is. Texting, and other distractions need to be illiminated...... chiamattt: Payphones are still used in Seoul!... Jamie: It seems inevitable really, which is why I'm surprised by the introduction of the abovepictured booths. I really don't remember the last time i saw someone use a payphone.. and you never see those "British"...... Peter: after almost 130 years of service, ATT announced that it will cease {payphone} service in the 13 states it covers by the end of 2008...
[[http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/03/news/companies/att_payphones/index.htm]]... Jamie: What kind of payphones ##aren't## pays-as-you-use? I like the idea of combining a payphone with a vending machine though. I don't remember where but i've seen some free-standing cash machine/payphone combos here in the uk...... Peter: i suppose it is. my bad for not properly labeling each and every element of the photo. though i must admit, i see many of those sorts of {payphones} around... the {coke machine}, not so...... Jamie: But surely if it were en français then the stupid anglophones wouldn't be able to read it.... CartLegger: To me, its about one's inner relation to the outer environment.
The terms was originally conceived of by the Situationists of 1960's France as an conceptual art activity focusing on one's experience of space.
More recently, American...... elaine: is it really true we have better phones than you? mine, the nokia n80 http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_n80-1347.php fyi, has TWO yes TWO cameras on it! the secondary camera is designed with teenagers in mind i think and...... CartLegger: Great image, crisp lines for a cameraphone--must be one of those 2MP+ fancy Euro Phones.
but I am so curious as to what this is...... Andy: Yeah true, It's actually law for all handphones in Korea now to have a sound when you take a photo. (One that you cannot disable) Stick to our cameras aye?... Frank S. Besner: Not quite. Retard actally means "belated" or the state of being late.
The sign litterally translates to: "Blocking (the metro) doors: illegal belatement"
the employ of the word "retard" and the basic design of the thing obviously...... Peter: i shit you not- i walked past this exact phone two days ago, transferring to the Q to 7th Ave after a stop at the Atlantic Target... and didnt snap a photo of it myself...... CE: I hate cell phones with a passion. My phone was supposed to be hooked up yesterday but as of this morning I still have nothing.... curious: Just wondering but isnt that icicle hanging from a cable?
This wouldn't be the cable added in recent years throughout the bloor line that enables communication throughout the system, would it? Not possible with normal radios...... chiamattt: there is a phone vending machine at work! I have only ever seen a couple of them. I think they must have been popular in the days when delivery drivers didn't have handphones to call...... EvilGentleman: [[img:14331]]
Our old cameras, as taken with my current camera.
Kodak DC280 2MP
$810 in 2000
Used as primary for both me and my wife from August 2000 to July 2003. Sent for repairs. Came back for duty as...... Spooky: haha. jamie mate, if you want to see the best graff in pbro dont go any further away than the train station. jump off the end of the platform going towards spalding if...... EvilGentleman: I find the quote from the landscaper near the lake of, "We can't afford to let this nature go." to be quite hilarious. The **sinkhole** is nature, not the artificial preservation of the lake. But...... aer suzuki: while this is funny and i'm not really the type to ruin a party i gotta wonder about the ethical implications of taking someone's picture without their permission and posting it in a high profile,...... Grange: geshhhhhhhhh , fighting among the irish , some times I think the worlds gone nuts . Maybe ya should just get it over with ,then the scots can have a go settling the land..lol........ sherri: Thanks Elicar. I am of a younger generation and DO stand up for what I believe in. Just this morning, some poor busdriver was beat (again) somewhere here in Canada. I think that society has...... esix group member: sry evilg. i dont no who wrote that but its true. u cant always find a a speaker around nd anyways ppl today r using mp3's more than cd's so they use more earphones than...... phone: They make 5megapixel camera phones in Korea. The world is a marvelous place. ... eSix group : hey well stupid evilgentliman u only use the earphones when ur at skool during recess. where can u find a speaker than? come use ur brain!! nd there not just 6 speaker. when ur by...... anon: We got together with a few of our neighbours and purchased big apartment size blue and grey bins two years ago... no one has stolen them since. We use to replace them every year, at...... jennofavalon: I have to say I was very hesitant to look. And the whole scene is disturbing. The poor animal dead in a block of ice, and the morons of NYC standing around. With all the...... jeeff: actually i did that when i worked at the cn tower. sometimes we had to go stand in the lobby for hours at a time. it was boring and there were payphones nearby....... jeeff: haha that's great. i sometimes do the reverse when i'm bored in a public place. i dial random 1-800 numbers from payphones. you will be amazed at what you find, particularly if...... chiamattt: sorry. no payphones peter. ummm this is on the way home from work.
Some pics from a taxi and some while walking.
I went into the anal surgery clinic during a doctor hopping mission. The doctor...... Peter: i wonder to whom the last call on this {payphone} was placed?
chiam: got pics of {korean} payphones?... EvilGentleman: I think the items the businessmen are holding are cellphones or possibly PDA's... Elicar: Hey Jack...All of the words used were spelled correctly...I used homophones to drive a point. Spell check is a great tool, but when one does not know the real spelling of the word being used,...... EvilGentleman: You guys don't have McPhones?... jack: first-elaine, that word i'm curious about. the astericks, there are 3 of them so it was hard to figure out the word. would the letters have been,'un', if so, it should have had...... jack: 23. people on cell phones not paying attention to driving. ... anon (cache-3.super.net.pk): A guy phones up his Boss, but gets the bosses' wife instead:
"I'm afraid he died last week." she explains.
The next day the man calls again and asks for the boss.
"I told you" the...... Jury Member #3, After Evil Gentleman's Trial: [Toronto Tar Reporter] "Why did you decide to convict in the end? Everyone was sitting on pins and needles, waiting for you and the rest of the jury to come back from its deliberations. Since...... lil john: "popasmuf: 1st Feb 2006 - 22:43 GMT
I can't believe this lady didn't expect some kind of reaction when she did this.
It would be like me going up to her and ripping her headphones off her...... popasmuf: I can't believe this lady didn't expect some kind of reaction when she did this.
It would be like me going up to her and ripping her headphones off her head, because I have a personal...... STEVE: I randomly happened upon your post. I'm not from Newark, but these boxes are telephones that the police used to call for help or report in early in the 20th century. They may...... Catherine Penfold-Waxman: AAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHH!
That's so much scarier than [[2358:giant phones]].... Peter: wow, the payphones look different in canada than they do here.
also: in the above photo of the guy buffing the wall in prep for hool's arrival, i love how the bolts in the right side...... NAG: from my own experience that, the reason for tagging trash cans, pay-phones, newspaper stans, ect. is that The tags stay up longer.... ella lumpkins: This is really amazing...
There is nothing like this where I live (in Louisville KY) althought there are buisnesses that have to get their walls repainted monthly because a lot of people have gotten into street...... hool: the recording is simple. i just used a minidisc recorder and a microphone, recording in full stereo. minidisc recording quality is great. i used a stereo microphone to record all the surrounding...... Peter: jamie, [[97:remember this]]? there is an entry here somewhere of the jamazon/citynoise stickers that got plastered all over nyc busses anad payphones, but i cant find the entry at the moment... also: i used to...... elaine: Less than funnily enough, just post 9/11 I was teaching just next to Canary Wharf in Docklands which was thought to be the natural UK target, and I was extremely concerned about my students...... Marc: Media obsolesence is a huge problem actually- i know everything's sorted on the net now, but imagine the reel to reel tapes and 8 inch floppy disks and even the 5.25 and the 3.25?! from...... elaine: and now you've made this...out of an old sqeezy bottle and some sticky backed plastic - as they would make everything out of in 'blue peter' the UK kids programme, how did you do it?...... elaine: well I'm liking the lomo reference, and saving yourself the trouble joining the lomo set (and the money) but then I also like the idea of lo tec hi tec, which cameraphones kind of are...... jamie: ps. i will indeed post some stuff once i have phone uploads working. can anyone here tell me does their phone allow them to specify the subject line of an email. Do phones allow more...... Peter: I agree. its in the works, as well as some other things, like a portal to post photos directly from picturephones, etc.... hammertime: yea, this is a great piccie. i betcha those wires are for busses or something, maybe trolleys. or i bet they dont bury the wiring for electricals and phones in moscow like they do in...... Peter: recently, the metropolitan museum here in nyc had an exhibit of leonardo da vinci's drawings; i can empathize with your feelings about the van gogh exhibit... there were so many thoughtless people constantly milling around......
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