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San Francisco, June 2007
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11-JUN-2007

Still Communicating
San Francisco, June 2007

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Phil Douglis27-Jun-2007 17:11
A defunct pay phone kiosk changed into a public bulletin board filled with coded grafitti. I would call this an example of "functional incongruity." It speaks of the changing times -- everyone in Chinatown now has a phone in their own pocket, leaving this old kiosk as a place for symbolic communication only.