“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)

All Over Coffee, by Paul Madonna.
Published every Sunday in the San Francisco Chronicle.

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.”.

*Requires Quick Time Player and broadband. (File size: 26Mb)

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)

“Humanclock.com shows a photograph of the current time,
with the photo changing every minute of the day (all 1,440 occuring minutes on Earth!).”.

The Human Clock – A Clock Photo for Every Minute of the Day. By Daniel Craig Giffen.

“Stephen Barnwell has been an artist and illustrator for over twenty years. His work has appeared in numerous books, magazines, websites, gaming products, films, and plays.”.

“A recognized artist in the moneyart genre.”. See, for example, his Dream-Dollars.

“While many people are convinced that how they read an email is the only way it can be read, the truth is, how we read a text, or view a work of art, often says more about ourselves than it does about the message or the messenger.”.

“All of our communications, online and in real-time, are filled with projections.
We perceive the world through our expectations, needs, desires, fantasies, and feelings, and we project those onto other people.

For example, if we expect people to be critical of us, we perceive other people’s communication as being critical – it sounds critical to us even though it may not be.”.

(Kali Munro. Conflict in Cyberspace: How to Resolve Conflict Online.
From The Psychology of Cyberspace, by John Suler.)

“We All Need Help Sometimes”.

“Millions of thank you’s to you.”.

Above: Hoops & Yoyo, “A Million Thanks”, Flash animation, frame detail. (by Hallmark)

Requires Flash Player

“The Dyane 6 does 70 miles an hour for as long as you want. An oil cooler looks after the life of her engine.”. “No water pump, no head gaskets, no pipes, no distributor. And you never need anti-freeze because she’s air cooled.”. “You keep Dyane outside. You don’t need a garage, and Dyane is ready to go all times in all weather.”. “You won’t find any useless gadgets or switches on Dyane, but you will find all essential controls carefully placed and well within reach.”. “This is no minicar. There’s plenty of room inside. Remember, too, that the Dyane Weekend has a folding sunroof.”. “If you happen to see another Dyane riding over pavé, watch her closely: it’s quite spectacular.”.

Citroen Dyane: the brochures from 1967 to 1984, from citrobe.org by Jose Biesbrouck:
“An homepage about the Citroen 2cv and Mehari cars with a lot of pictures of converted ones, a restoration manual, entirely scanned brochures of the 50′s, 60′s, 70′s and 80′s, …and much more.”.

Above: Dyane come… (Dyane as…), 1978, italian brochure cover, detail.

“It’s called Cross Sums in the USA, Kakuro in the UK, and Kakro in Japan.”.
(from kakuropuzzle.com)

“Works as crosswords, but the givens are substituted with sums.
You can use numbers from 1 to 9.”.
(Vegard Hanssen from menneske.no)

“Kakuro has clues both across and down.
When you put numbers in the vacant squares, the sum must equal the given clues.
Just like a sudoku, you cannot have the same number in a row or column.”.
(from kakuro.cc)