Calls Waiting
Quick - you have another five weeks from the time of posting to hear the mobiles phones ringing in Melbourne.
Wait, wait - before you start carping - I know we hear a mass of Motorolas bleeping any day of the week - but these phones are very different.
Suspended high on a cement wall, the eight phones commingle their tingles from breakfast till midnight - a groovy installation of artists Martine Corompt and Philip Brophy.
Each squat and stainless phone is cowled in Telstra orange, six metres out of reach. The “music” is a mix of ringtones and phone FX, which cause the less enlightened passersby to dig in their jackets in order to catch their mystery call.
[Well worth a gander, the free-floating phones are glued above Lush Lane, off Flinders Lane, between Swanston and Russell.]