Objects and Distant Voices

Jun 29, 2009

Urban infrastructure common to Los Angeles - an apartment buzzer that connects the caller to the resident's phone. Or not - in apartment blocks with a high turn over residents, and increasingly apartments without a fixed line phone the buzzer connects to a mystery phone.

The act of pressing a button, speaking to a remote person is part of our urban literacy.

Related buzzers from Ho Chi Minh City and London here.

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