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dvice.com - 1/30/2009

Phone booth transformed into soothing, arty aquarium

— dvice.com — As phone booths continue down their inexorable path to extinction, artists think of other, more aesthetically pleasing... ways to use the endangered glass cubicles. "Why not just install a soothing, blood-pressure-lowering aquarium inside that ugly old ... (more) Phone booth transformed into soothing, arty aquarium

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technabob.com - 2/5/2009

aquarium phone booth: fish gotta make calls too

— technabob.com — Spotted on the streets of Lyon, France, artists Benoit Deseille and Benedetto Bufalino transformed an old phone... booth into an aquarium. Unfortunately, all of the calls just sound like blurble-blurble-blurble . [via DesignZen ] (more) aquarium phone booth: fish gotta make calls too

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Phone booth transformed into soothing, arty aquarium
DVICE Atom Feed — ... idea. There's something soothing about an aquarium, with its fish lazily and aimlessly floating around. And maybe this art installation will enhance the sullied rep of phone booths, which cell phones have almost completely supplanted. Poor phone booths, mostly used for bomb threats and other fishy conversations by those who'd rather not be speaking through a traceable form of communication. This is a whole lot more useful. Via The Pirata

Aquarium In A Phone Booth, Exotic Fishes Making Calls
Technology - Channel Feed — Have you ever wondered if the under-utilized phone booth (everyone is carrying a cell phone now) can serve anything other than a phone booth, a changing room for Superman or a white elephant? How about having a Phone Booth Aquarium with exotic fishes swimming happily to their hearts’ content? Sounds good to me. Where To Gawk: The Pirata {The Aquarium Phone Booth} Image: The Pirata