Epiphany Machine

'Everyone else knows the truth about you, now you can know it, too.' That's the promise of Adam Lyon's epiphany machine, or at least the headline of an original promotional flyer he uses in the 1960s.

At that point, Adam is already hosting regular salon nights in his tiny New York City apartment, where his guests can offer up their forearms to his junky old contraption and receive important, personal revelations in the form of a tattoo.