Video: Aquarium in a telephone booth (Lyon)
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
When we hear the phrase "Festival of Light" in Lyon, we can hardly imagine a telephone booth. Or an aquarium. But these things are directly related to the holiday that is now taking place in the south-east of France.
It was for this festival that a special telephone booth was installed in the city. It would seem, what does it have to do with this festival? And how can an ordinary booth become a reason for universal admiration? Ordinary - no, but this one very much even can. The fact is that there is an aquarium inside this booth. A real aquarium in which several small fish swim and enjoy life. Special water is poured for them, algae are planted - in a word, the most normal conditions have been created, which can be done for an aquarium. It is also interesting that the booth and the aquarium itself are illuminated, so if there is a desire to photograph the fish, this can be done at night.
It is curious that a large number of people constantly come to see the fish, although there is nothing unusual in the aquarium! Ordinary fish swim there, algae are also the most standard ones, but the booth cannot be special at all. Unless there is definitely no door in it … But on the other hand, there is a telephone set! I doubt that it is in working order, and it is unlikely that it will be possible to find out. The idea is certainly funny, since no one has a desire to break it or in any way disturb the inhabitants of the aquarium.
The idea belongs to the artists Benoit Deseille and Benedetto Bufalino.
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