(This article is cross-published as part of a series on civic crowdfunding with the Civic Paths research group.) Raising money is one objective for crowdfunding, but not the only one. Every crowdfunding attempt also performs a story. How does crowdfunding …
Join us from 2:30-3:30pm on May 25th 2013 for a salon about our Leimert Phone Company! See below for the description (and retweet!). Our project will be featured at the Vision Theatre as one of the Sankofa Salons to “highlight the essence of …
People say they love our logo, but ask: “what is the story behind it?”. The Leimert Phone Company logo is a mashup of three elements, each of which played an important part in our project The basic graphic …
Communicatinng with the payphones: We are installing the very old software used by the phone company to program these phones (see our wiki on Protel via Expressnet). We had to find an old PC with a 3.5″ floppy drive, running …
We are excited to have a panel accepted for the 2013 Allied Media Conference. We’re on Saturday June 22nd from 11am-12:30pm. More details will be added to this page soon. For now, here’s our official panel description: Title: Phone Booths …
Presenting at Allied Media Conference (Detroit, June 2013) Read more »
Today we stabilized the payphone enclosures, experimenting with metal and wood. Our guide was Shane Reilly from Reilly Works. Janet works on an old base, preparing for welding: Francois can’t resist either: Here is a plywood base — just with …
“Dial-A-Track” Group (Details on group wiki) “Transmedia Storytelling” Group (Details on group wiki ) “smART Phone” Group (Details on group wiki)
Andrew figured out how to use the raspberry pi to play videos in the phones! More highlights of the event.
Bananas came out to the payphone to get some extra inspiration.