In December of 2008, it was estimated that there were 4,100,000,000 cell phones in the world. For the peeps over at Vodafone New Zealand, this was (literally) music to their ears. Here is what they did with 1,000 of them.
Oh yes, it is indeed Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. And this is how they made it:
Yowza. 1000 cell phones, ringtones for single instruments, and a built system to send text messages to them in the correct order, to get them to perform a portion. That’s insane! I can only imagine the hours of work that went into creating that one minute video.
The Vodafone ad (and those menacing cell phone stats) got me thinking: I am 21 years old and I’ve had 4 cell phones (maybe five, I can’t even really remember)…where are they? My most recent one is in a pair of pants, but as far as the rest, I can honestly say I have no idea. I can assume this is a dilemma one might find themselves in quite often: “What do we do with old cell phones?”
The Guardian came up with a clever list that answers just that!
1. Get creative: Donate your phone to Rob Pettit, who creates his art work with recycled phones, or Joe McKay who makes high-tech sculptural pieces with old and damaged mobiles
2. Hold on to it. Keep it and share your retention joy with others at Kept
3. Donate your phone to charity via Greensource or the Woodland Trust who’ll turn your phone into forest
4. Give it to someone who’ll make use of it – see Lifeline for Africa
So there you have it. To the folks at Vodafone New Zealand: I’m not sure if your ad’s intentions were for us to reflect on our crazy cellular phone consumption…or to reflect on consumption in general. But I thank you for the reminder, nevertheless.
Love to all.
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