“Yesterday’s tomorrow, today.”. Modern Mechanix: what modern was. Enlightening.

Above: Era Magnetic Drum Storage Systems, advertisement, detail.
(Scientific American, 1953)
See under advertisements and computers.

“All Over Coffee strips are time bombs, moments that on the surface appear meaningless or random, but later, while going about your day, trigger connections.”.

“These settings of absent streets offer a space where, seemingly, no one exists. Like the conversations where we must imagine the speakers, we must also project them into these spaces. At first, the emptiness of these scenes appear normal, but then the absence of life draws us in. Without people or cars, there is room for us. There is a dream-like safety, and quietness for our imaginations.”. (Paul Madonna)

“For current and archived strips, go to SFGate.com.”.

Right: a Paul Madonna’s drawing for the All Over Coffee.com layout.

If you want the truth then we better start lying
If you want to feel then we better start touching
If you want air then we better start breathing
If you want to die then we better start living

I guess you’re proud to be different

Tom Vek: If You Want. (from We Have Sound, 2005)

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A song by (The Real) Tuesday Weld.
Animation by Aleksey Budovsky (Figli-Migli Productions).

“This film* is based on Stephen Coates’ song from the album When Psyche meets Cupid.

The animation tells a story of a prisoner who works in a prison’s gramophone factory and while assembling gramophones thinks of his girlfriend.”.

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The Nonverbal Dictionary Of Gestures, Signs & Body Language Cues by David B. Givens:

“Items in this Dictionary have been researched by anthropologists, archaeologists, biologists, linguists, psychiatrists, psychologists, semioticians, and others who have studied human communication from a scientific point of view.”.

From Proxemics:

“I have learned to depend more on what people do than what they say in response to a direct question, to pay close attention to that which cannot be consciously manipulated, and to look for patterns rather than content.”.
(Edward T. Hall, 1968)