11 Oct '12, 7pm

Japanese Collective Turns Old Phone Booths Into Aquariums

Japanese Collective Turns Old Phone Booths Into Aquariums

Dr. Who's phone booth may function as a futuristic time machine, but such booths, in real life, tend to be relics of the past. What to do with this nostalgic bits of our pre-iPhone past? An artist collaborative known as Kingyobu has arrived at a novel solution by turning Osaka's old booths into giant goldfish aquariums. According to The Atlantic, Kingyobu loosely translates to “goldfish club” in English. Rather than letting Osaka's old phone booths rust and decay -- or worse, get hauled off to the landfill or scrapyard -- the five members of this collective have taken the initiative to seal several of Osaka's phone booths, then fill them with water, bubblers, and yes, goldfish. (Exactly how these fish are fed isn't all that clear. With a ladder, perhaps?) Whimsically enough, the old pay phones within have been left intact, though we imagine they're no longer connected to a...

Full article: http://www.treehugger.com/gadgets/japanese-collective-tur...

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