Tag Archives: Welt am Draht

Looking for the Mark III

By Mark | August 19, 2018

I rarely share them here, but I’m known to go off on wild goose chases every now and then, trying my best to track down useless historical facts and obscure items that, for whatever reason, I’ve become obsessed by. A few years back, as you may recall, I decided that I needed to know what […]

Posted in Art and Culture, History, Pop Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1973, 1976, adult films, Alan Frybach, Andrea Marie Truden, Andrea True, Art 1 and 2, computer game, disco, Don Knotts, dongs, Edith Massey, film history, Germany, Henry Ford Museum, Hot Channels, Illinois, International Hot Channels Symposium on Virtual Reality and Popular Culture, Johnny Mnemonic, Mark III, Mark's obsessions, More More More, North Washington Street, Orson Welles, Paul Williams, porn, pubic hair, R.G. Benjamin, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Serial Mom, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Museum of American History, technology, The Hearts of Age, The Lawnmower Man, The Matrix, virtual reality, Virtuosity, VR, Woodstock, World on a Wire | 13 Comments

Ypsilanti’s Art 1&2, and the archeology of porn

By Mark | August 15, 2018

A while back, I saw that someone online had shared this old photo of Washington Street, and, thinking that someday I’d have the time to look at it more closely, I tucked it away in a file. Well, this evening, as I was just looking through my files for a photo of former CIA director […]

Posted in Art and Culture, History, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged adult film advertising, Angel Above - The Devil Below, Art 1&2, curiosity, Darby Lloyd Rains, Davy Jones, Deja Vu, flabbergasted, Frankie and Johnny were Lovers, fur coats, Hot Channels, I swanny, International Hot Channels Symposium on Virtual Reality and Popular Culture, James Comey, Kikko, Lordy, Martha Washington Theater, Mimi Gladys, Necronomican, North Washington Street, photo enhancement, Pleasure Masters, porn, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rene Bond, Ric Lutze, Satanism, Spaghetti Bender, talking vaginas, technology, virtual reality, Washington Street | 26 Comments

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