PhoneSwarm.com
Title
Phoneswarm 2006.
Description
The original intention of the Payphone Project was to promote random contacts among complete strangers. By listing public payphone numbers throughout America I invited people to pick up the phone and call some random street corner in some random town and talk to whoever answered.
That original purpose is now nearly moot. Virtually all payphones reject incoming calls. Those that accept calls would be programmed otherwise once people start calling them. Other payphones and phone booths sit in outlying areas (where cell phones rarely work) as a public service in case of emergencies. It would be irresponsible to encourage people to monopolize these resources by unnecessarily calling just for laughs.
I was inspired to start this site at least partly by David Letterman, who used to call public phones near the Ed Sullivan Theater and engage whoever answered in a comedy skit. Sometimes Dave would invite that person into the studio and onto the stage. The randomness of these encounters made them almost unbelievable to me. One second a person walks down the street when a curiously ringing telephone gets their attention, next thing they know they're on stage in front of 3,000 people and then on TV before millions.
Address
- PO Box 425889
- Cambridge MA 02142 USA
Contact
- 3Inc
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- Alexa: PhoneSwarm.com
