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Hi my name is Sam Sam Brown Jan 10

72 comments Latest by Ara Pehlivanian

about a year ago I did some drawings based on the phrase “in the future”

I have been invited to do more drawings. I will do the drawings based on titles that you submit, but I do not have a theme this time, so feel free to suggest one. or just suggest a title.

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72 comments so far

Matt Pennig 10 Jan 07

Wherever I go… pigeons watching.

Anonymous Coward 10 Jan 07

It tastes like corn.

Steve Akers 10 Jan 07

“He didn’t know he was already famous.”

(A tribute to a good friend of mine… he knows who he is.)

Julius Seizer 10 Jan 07

‘Personal change’.

Because that’s the name of my blog and I’d be really rather bloody thrilled if you drew a picture for it..!

Julius http://www.personalchangeblog.blogspot.com

Nate 10 Jan 07

“Ick, I stepped in poo.”

Joe McGill 10 Jan 07

This year I resolve work on my super-powers.

Me 10 Jan 07

“Oh, sh…”

Paul Robinson 10 Jan 07

Advertising is theft

Payment is applause

Making money is easy, enjoying yourself whilst you do it is hard

Being ‘remarkable’ means you get talked about a lot. That can go two ways.

The people on TV are not real, they do not know you

They’re not really friends if you only ever talk to them on IM

My parents love me. I hurt them with every breath.

Most of us are staring at a piece of furniture for half the time we are not sleeping or working

Everybody reading this will be dead in 100 years time

Television doesn’t give you experiences – it takes them away from you

Apples are not the only fruit

Ryan 10 Jan 07

“Everyone’s a Winner!”

Eloy 10 Jan 07

I want to be faster.

Jamie 10 Jan 07

Go get me some wine coolers and that Kelly Clarkson cd. It’s time to get this party started!

bashon 10 Jan 07

Inverted colloquialisms.

A.B. 10 Jan 07

I used my iPhone to _.

Peter Cooper 10 Jan 07

Yesterday my heart sighed, today it burps.

warren 10 Jan 07

yesterday was dramatic, today is ok

Aesqe 10 Jan 07

“I’ve lost my…”

warren 10 Jan 07

this should provide adequate sustainance for the upcoming Doctor Who marathon

sj 10 Jan 07

A city built on rock&roll would be structurally unsound.

bill 10 Jan 07

Damn!!

Exploding dog guy works with 37s!

I am not in ‘the cool’ internetzz…..

damn.

HeavyLight 10 Jan 07

You want fries with that?

Bill P 10 Jan 07

I am in awe of the beauty around me…

Ben Askins 10 Jan 07

“Love me… please”

Sean Iams 10 Jan 07

around the office

jake 10 Jan 07

I ain’t a monkey but I know what I like

Ren 10 Jan 07

Everybody knows this is nowhere

Josh 10 Jan 07

I dropped all my fingers.

nate 10 Jan 07

Sweet, more explodingdog!

Possible theme/title ideas: “Keep it rolling!” “Get us cool guys some drinks”

Michael 10 Jan 07

“but you moved to Boston, what else was I supposed to do?”

cute puppy.

Aaron Blohowiak 10 Jan 07

These bubbles keep on floating up

Anonymous Coward 10 Jan 07

THE CAT SAT ON THE MAT

daniel 10 Jan 07

Never Again

warren 10 Jan 07

s’more:

to Dear Leader i give my entire comic book collection, hail victory

all my life for his glory, and also my Pokemon cards

but not shooting yourself in the foot doesn’t scale!

fuck art, let’s dance

glorious fighters of the vast french toast conspiracy, unite

iain 10 Jan 07

No theme makes iain a dull boy.

(We need constraints!)

BS&S 10 Jan 07

Never Odd or Even

Anonymous Coward 10 Jan 07

I pee sparks!

Greg 10 Jan 07

Do not eat iPod.

Replace iPod with iPhone, Ruby on Rails, or whatever, as needed.

Kurt 10 Jan 07

User generated entity.

warren 10 Jan 07

AdSense-monetized Ajaxified folksonomy/user-generated content mashup RESTful web service

Anonymous 10 Jan 07

I like it.

Mathew Patterson 11 Jan 07

Mind the Gap

Jake 11 Jan 07

Since the current illustration reminds me of this, how about as a title “Sunrise”.

Or for those critiques, “Sunset”

Nismoto 11 Jan 07

How about:

“This is lame!”

Anonymous Coward 11 Jan 07

“How much is this worth?”

“Robots don’t have souls.”

Justin Reese 11 Jan 07

this is not what i ordered

Regimental 11 Jan 07

“oh shoot”

indi 11 Jan 07

famous/obscure movie quotes, for instance:

“All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I’m fine.” “The dead know only one thing: it is better to be alive.” “Have fun storming the castle!” “Who ever thought a little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?” “My evil self is at the door, and I have no power to stop it.” “I’m not in the business. I am the business.”

richard 11 Jan 07

- the bubbles in my mind float on the wind

- the other side of different

- i thought i was, therefore i am, instead

- later in my earlier life

- tomorrow’s today will be the same as yesterday

- lets make small talk because i can’t understand your lisp

- signaling 37 he switched the rails

- she’s got rubys on the soles of her shoes

- legendary future meet my inadequate past

- little people toddle

- and the sun said… “high time for noon”

Yes they got worse as I went on. Couldn’t help it.

Mark 11 Jan 07

iPhone: Not touchy feely

moca 11 Jan 07

Carnaval in Rio..

Mark Gallagher 11 Jan 07

I must freeze time to save us from change.

Miles 11 Jan 07

Stuck in the Arctic Circle.

street 11 Jan 07

in the past..

Dallas Pool 11 Jan 07

Apple, The New Monopoly… Microsoft, After the Collapse…

FredS 11 Jan 07

- Dr. Claw’s face - Maury Povich’s obsession with obese infants - Bird’s peeing - Tom Calicchio’s belly button - Seth Godin’s planters warts - “Black Knight”

jonathand 11 Jan 07

How about

What is good for you

or

This is good for you

or

It might be good…....to know….to eat…...etc

I look forward to it.

It is good to drink Raw Milk by grass fed beef.

zookeeper 11 Jan 07

Life is a lot larger than what people think

Tatum 11 Jan 07

I’m stepping into blogs..

zod 11 Jan 07

Fly like a hawk !

zod 11 Jan 07

Fly like a hawk !

zod 11 Jan 07

Fly like a hawk !

Paul Thiel 11 Jan 07

Wow … no theme. How are you going to get through all of these, Sam?

Anyway, what about:

“How on earth did that happen?”

Depending on how you read it, you can pull out many different ideas from that phrase. I look forward to seeing the pictures! ;-)

JF 11 Jan 07

There’s just too many.

Josh 11 Jan 07

it’s starting to work

mjl 11 Jan 07

“Sparky, I got it. The key to total world domination. Are you ready?”

Chriztian Steinmeier 11 Jan 07

“Excuse me, is this the right side of the road?”

Bryan Zug 11 Jan 07

just around the corner

karl 11 Jan 07

oh so many stars

Joe 11 Jan 07

For those of you who are old Talking Heads fans, this may seem like a deja vu. David Byrne did a similiar exercise in 1985. IN THE FUTURE (KNEE PLAY 12 )

“In the future everyone will have the same haircut and the same clothes In the future everyone will be very fat from the starchy diet In the future everyone will be very thin from not having enough to eat In the future it will be next to impossible to tell girls from boys, even in bed…:

more at http://www.talking-heads.net/kneeplays.html

sam brown 12 Jan 07

hey Joe this is true, and although i would not be suprised if i ripped off David Byrne or the Talking Heads.

there is a much more famous “in the future” statement from 1968.

“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.”

i think it is more possible i ripped it off from Andy. sam

Melle 12 Jan 07

One more time?

Reuben 12 Jan 07

“that was pretty loud”

Ara Pehlivanian 15 Jan 07

“In the future, the future will be hopeful.”

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