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Ypsilanti once again has a payphone… only this time it’s free

By Mark | March 14, 2018

Last summer, I posted an interview here with a fellow in Portland by the name of Karl Anderson. Anderson, as you may recall, had formed an activism/public arts entity by the name of Futel with the goal of democratizing telecommunications through the introduction of free payphones into America’s urban centers. Well, as you may also […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 209 Pearl, Apology Line, Community Action Network, Futel, hacking, Jesse Kranyak, Karl Anderson, Landline Creative Labs, operators, Ozone House, pay phones, payphone, Portland, Shelter Association of Washtenaw County, Social Services, SOS Community Services, suicide, telephony, voicemail, Ypsilanti transit center, zines | 33 Comments

Futel’s campaign to bring back the public telephone, and the possibility that an Ypsilanti phone may be coming soon

By Mark | June 14, 2017

Not too long ago, my friend Dug, knowing that I’d just purchased a former Michigan Bell Telephone building in Ypsilanti, put me in touch with a friend of his in Portland by the name of Karl Anderson. Karl, he told me, was looking for places to install “free payphones.” Well, late this last winter, Karl […]

Posted in 209 Pearl, Art and Culture, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged AT&T, C.H.V.N.K. 666, communications, cyberpunk, diplomacy, Dug Song, Duo Security, Futel, gamer zines, homeless encampments, Karl Anderson, Landline Creative Labs, mail art, Michigan Bell Telephone, mutant bicycles, Party Line, payphone, play-by-mail, Portland, pubic art, samizdat, social service, telecommunications, telephony, Ypsilanti Transit Station, zines | 24 Comments

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