2003年11月19日 水曜日

Lost In Translation: The Bill Phone

by Justin Hall

Art

On a recent mobile research trip to Korea, I had the chance to skin my mobile phone with any digital image. The choice was obvious.

bill phone

I got a picture of Bill Murray, with his sardonic puppydog gaze, hairdried onto my old J-Phone. I'd admired Bill Murray for years, because of Groundhog Day, because of his appearances on Saturday Night Live. Now the poor fellow adorns my Japanese phone. It too is Lost in Translation!

me and my bill
I also screened fried chicken on to my Game Boy Advance, but that's another story.

Posted by Justin Hall at 2003年11月19日 00:41



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