Miniature Postal Service In San Francisco Miniature Postal Service In San Francisco Posted on 30 March 2011 Crni In San Francisco you can find the World’s Smallest Postal Service which actually is up and going. It only cost $8 dollars to use their service, and it’s worth it, because why not receive a tiny tiny letter in the mail than the ordinary boring ones. Some of the letters are so small that they can get lost because no one pays attention to them, but that’s something that the traditional mail can worry about.
Just the fax Most of us associate the word “fax” with that big machine that sits — largely unused — in the corner of the office. A device for sending documents over a phone line, it seems to belong to an era when cell phones were the size of walkie-talkies. Indeed, the machine’s mechanical and chemical antecedents go all the way back to 1843, and the first wireless transmission of a photo facsimile was sent from New York to London in 1924. (A picture of President Calvin Coolidge.) Now there is a very modern twist to an old technology: “FAX,” a traveling art exhibit on view through April 10 at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. The fax was a foreshadowing of Twitter and YouTube, said Joao Ribas, creator and curator of the original “FAX” exhibit in New York, and it represents the beginning of when artists got the tools to create communication networks. The work, beamed to a fax machine in the gallery, is posted on the walls. As Ribas spoke, someone was just getting over the hiccups.
Skeleton Keys to New York's Secrets, Free While Supplies Last This summer hundreds of New Yorkers will be seen hastily undoing padlocks, ducking through creaky gates, and rifling through strange P.O. boxes. Do not be alarmed! The city-wide security breach is part of the public art project Key to the City. Anyone can simply retrieve free keys at a kiosk in Times Square (pictured above), and those keys unlock 24 locations across the city's five boroughs, which are listed on the Key to the City website. Since it launched last Thursday, hundreds of New Yorkers have already participated in the large-scale scavenger hunt, which borrows its name from the symbolic welcoming gesture relegated to visiting dignitaries and heads of state. The piece was conceived by Honduran-born artist Paul Ramírez Jonas, who has worked with keys before, to symbolize ownership and civic pride. Key-masters are busy documenting their experience on Flickr, and here are a few of the quirkier locations that are being unlocked as we speak.