With mobile phone models becoming obsolete very quickly and their replacements ever more expensive I thought that, this week, we might return to a slower paced age. So I've modelled an old "candlestick" phone, textured it in Adobe Substance Painter, and rendered two views. This weekend's challenge is to put it in a scene or make something else with it. Will you take us to a bygone age, find a new use for the phone, or ignore the brief entirely and go off at a tangent? 🙂 The “rules”: Anything goes, as long as it meets the forum rules on decency, copyright etc. Anyone, and everyone, is welcome to have a go, whether you are a complete beginner or a Photoshop expert. There are no prizes apart from the chance to practice, show off, or bring a bit of humour and fun. Don't be shy, join in and have a go! To download either image at 2000 x 3000 pixels, with an embedded ICC colour profile (sRGB), hover over the image and click on the circle with the arrows at the top right. Then, when the image opens in its own window, right click and choose “Save Image As/Save Target As” (or similar depending on your browser). When posting back your image – please use the Blue reply button in this first post. If posting a comment on someone else’s entry then please use the grey reply button next to their image post. Have fun. Dave

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Something for the weekend - Part 116 - Hello, hello!

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With mobile phone models becoming obsolete very quickly and their replacements ever more expensive I thought that, this week, we might return to a slower paced age. So I've modelled an old "candlestick" phone, textured it in Adobe Substance Painter, and rendered two views.

This weekend's challenge is to put it in a scene or make something else with it. Will you take us to a bygone age, find a new use for the phone, or ignore the brief entirely and go off at a tangent? 🙂

The “rules”:

Anything goes, as long as it meets the forum rules on decency, copyright etc.
Anyone, and everyone, is welcome to have a go, whether you are a complete beginner or a Photoshop expert.
There are no prizes apart from the chance to practice, show off, or bring a bit of humour and fun. Don't be shy, join in and have a go!

To download either image at 2000 x 3000 pixels, with an embedded ICC colour profile (sRGB), hover over the image and click on the circle with the arrows at the top right. Then, when the image opens in its own window, right click and choose “Save Image As/Save Target As” (or similar depending on your browser).

When posting back your image – please use the Blue reply button in this first post. If posting a comment on someone else’s entry then please use the grey reply button next to their image post.

Have fun.

Dave

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Jacob Bugge

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davescm

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I like it Jacob. Another one that brings it to life 🙂

Dave

Rafael Aviles

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Come to meeee....(in the voice of Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther movie)

davescm

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Haha - you've brought it to life Rafael 🙂

Dave

chanaart

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Went to the pumkin patch. Decided to instagram a story.......called my friends with the new phone...

davescm

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Very topical Chana 🙂

Dave

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DeanUtian

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Another phone joke
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Norman Sanders

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Nostalgia time: When I was a kid we lived in the Bronx, a place named for Jonas Bronck. (People would visit “the Broncks.”) Our neigborhood consisted of some two family homes but, for the most part, the streets were lined with apartment houses and some of the families who occupied them couldn’t a afford a phone.

Lining many streets were the usual: a shoemaker, a tailor, a pharmacy and a candy store…always a candy store… where people would buy a cigarette for a penny, and kids could buy “two cents plain” a glass of ice cold seltzer.

It also had a phone booth, a potential gold mine.

We’d hang out there, put a finger in the phone’s return slot now and then hoping for a nickel. (I never was that lucky.) But once in a while a call would come in and we would have the opportunity to take down the address information called in and race to the specified address and apartment to announce that the family had a call "at the candy store."

That earned you a tip. The tip was rarely money. It was a “deposit bottle” that you returned to the grocer for two or three cents. As you can see, in the Bronx, a phone booth was a gold mine.

davescm

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A great story and insight into a bit of social history Norman. I love SFTW for what we learn as well as the images.

Dave

jane-e

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@DeanUtian , your "Grandma" joke triggered a very early memory for me. I might have been 5 or 6 years old, and was visiting my grandmother in what was then a very small town in Missouri, and she had a phone that looked like this on her wall. It still worked, and I remember her showing us how to make calls with it. As soon as you picked up the receiver, the operator would answer and ask who you wanted to talk to, then she would connect you. Did I mention there were party lines? So other folks might potentially pick up their phones and listen.

And in a town that small where everyone knew each other, my grandmother and the operator would start the call by greeting each other.

~ Jane

Jacob Bugge

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Jane, I heard from an aunt about her asking the operator to talk to [a friend], and then she (the operator) told her: "She is just gone over to [another friend] so I will connect you there".

Both her friends were living on farms, and the operator had a wide view over the area.