Phone Book Art
Artist Stephen Wischer has found a use for all those Yellow Pages phonebooks that still get delivered to people, even though they've long been rendered pointless on account of the Internet. (The Yellow Pages are still periodically dumped at my front door and go straight from there into the recycling bin.) Wischer has stacked up 3000 of them in a display at the Plains Art Museum titled "In Crypt: On New Worlds Re-Ordered."
Says Amy Richardson of the museum: "When people come into the museum and this is right in our entrance area they stop and they're astonished, because at first they think it's a huge wall of bricks or wood and then they realize it's phone books." [wdaz.com, plainsart.org]
Says Amy Richardson of the museum: "When people come into the museum and this is right in our entrance area they stop and they're astonished, because at first they think it's a huge wall of bricks or wood and then they realize it's phone books." [wdaz.com, plainsart.org]
Comments
Just think of how many people would be out of a job if we didn't get our yellow pages (yes... even over here).
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 01/03/15 at 12:39 PM
These are driven by companies who sell ads in the "Yellow page" section. They are no longer produced or even subsidized by the telephone companies.
Posted by BrokeDad in Midwest US on 01/03/15 at 12:57 PM
Its a big waste of ad money considering no one uses them anymore.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 01/03/15 at 02:46 PM
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