{"id":1537,"date":"2012-09-27T06:54:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T10:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2019-04-12T10:52:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:52:52","slug":"cell-phones-find-life-innovative-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/cell-phones-find-life-innovative-sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"Used cell phones find new life in innovative sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/green-recycle.gif\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1538\" title=\"green-recycle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/green-recycle.gif\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1538 lazyload\" title=\"green-recycle\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20180%20120%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/green-recycle.gif\"><\/a>Few people would doubt at this point that cell phones are fully integrated into modern society, but if there was any doubt on that point, a new art exhibit in New Mexico should put paid to it.&nbsp; Termed \u2018Escape\u2019 by its creators, Anthony Goh and Neil Mendoza, the artwork is a sculpture primarily made up of pieces of recycled cell phones.&nbsp; The pieces are ingeniously cobbled together to resemble birds, and even have faces made from the screens of cell phones, each one portraying a bird&#8217;s face.<\/p>\n<p>The artists responsible for the piece hail from the UK and they actually intended the sculpture to be amazingly interactive.&nbsp; When connected to a European cell phone operator, the birds are 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