Everyone knows Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine where you can go back in time and see snapshots of what websites used to be.
Someone should make a Wayfront Machine where you can go back to the future and see what site’s will be. Comedic interpretations of what sites will be.
I continually come up with new ideas. Always. Thinking. That’s not a problem. The problem is always the execution. And that problem shape-shifts into multiple more problems that have little problematic baby problems. Anyway, an idea is a dime a dozen. Following through with that idea is what separates what is to be from dreams and wishes.
Now, it’s only right that my solution to this problem is yet another idea. But after years of thinking around this problem, I think I’ve finally stumbled on what I actually want to build: a way to connect the creators with the consumers. Consumers has such a bad connotation…I don’t want to sound like this is a CRM that connects content creators to possible revenue streams. This is literally connecting an audience to their artist.
With technology, the barriers between almost anything are dropping. In this analogy, we’re talking about the content creators and those who consume said content. Yes, you can talk to your favorite artist via twitter, fb, instagram, tumblr, their blog, or what have you. Each person has their own way of interacting or stalking or whatever they choose to you. But I think we’re just scratching the surface. Kickstarter is a perfect example of this. Now, that site is connecting potential creators with potential consumers and supplies the financial backing the project may need. Many sites have popped up doing the same exact thing.
But then what? What happens after you cash the check? Many of these projects promise interaction and updates throughout the concepts fruition. But is there a good avenue for this? I say not.
There needs to be a system to broadcast, incite, solicit, volley, etc. etc.
Instant Brainstorm:
Well that ended quickly. Maybe it isn’t quite complicated. But there needs to be more freedom than a time-based mashup of text. (or * in the case of tumblr). It needs to be more inclusive than back and forth.
Imagine writing a story, filming a movie, constructing a song/video, inventing a product. I would (and I assume others would) love to talk to a mass of dear followers (real followers) and bounce ideas off of them. Or on a much larger scale, display the behind the scenes build up/hype of the current project to gushing fans. Obviously this will spout out to the traditional social media outlets but the origin will be more like a home to the creative group(s).
I’m sure variations of this exists out there in the interwebs but so did a bunch of the crap we use today. There was nobody stopping you from tweeting to geocities. You could have asked for funding on your myspace page if you wanted. But the platform (read: distribution) adds so much power to these tales. If all works in progress lived in a time capsule of artist/user participation, wouldn’t that be rad? Like…how did they come up with x,y,z…instead of a commentary, just look back at their work in progress page and see that Jimmy from Ohio suggested something similar or 20,000 people voted for the actress to go left at the fork of the road.
Where does inspiration come from? Where did these decisions come from before? Probably by the creatures an artists thanks in the acknowledgements. Let’s acknowledge that we can do better. That was cheesy. But this is what I’ve wanted for myself for a while now. From the websites I create to the stories that I write. I want something/someone there to bounce ideas off of 24 hours a day.
This movie is going to inspire a lot of youngins to get into robotics. I’m not a robotics guy myself (though I have a great interest in Human Computer Interaction) but I totally want to be Fred sitting in and making crazy suggestions. It’s almost enough to make me want to go back to school (and I hate what school has become in America). Big Hero 6 was a fun ride. Though it differed greatly from the source material, I enjoyed it. The beginning, mostly. After a while, you realized you were definitely in a Disney movie and not a Marvel production.
Girl Up. The movie has a great cast of characters that should help improve the huge gaps of various demographics in Science and Tech. The film missed the opportunity to nail the point that if these minorities aren’t in the industry to build what their peoples/cultures need, then no one’s going to build it for them. That’s the point I always make to people…think about the apps you use and then think about the people who build those apps. If you want something built, get to it. Make your world.
San Fransokyo was so f*ing cool. They even got the baylights in! Basically, they made San Francisco with a bunch of Japanese aspects. I love watching films at locations where I’ve been. It gives you an even greater emotional connection and wonderment. Even in animation. Maybe even more, actually.
I’ve been wanting to make a movie calendar for a while now. Basically I want to make a clean/interactive ui for this:
We’re in a time where we’re about to get hit by not one, not two, not three, but numerous (I’m not even sure how many) cinematic universes. From Star Wars to Marvel to DC to Harry Potter. It’s going to get wild. I would love a site where I can slice and dice release dates and filter based on universe and/or genre and/or lots of stuffs.
It would also be interesting to see the gaps in time between each movie for each of these filters as well as the movie time inbetween them. But now I’m getting ahead of myself and way out of scope.
I don’t ever want to stop learning about the world. Everything fascinates me and I want to know how it all works. Systems entertain me the most. The intricate workings of a complex idea can keep me wondering for hours at a time. Hours spent wandering from somewhere to elsewhere. I love exploring while collecting experiences – new and old.
I love to make things. The first thing I ever did when I got my hands on a computer was learn to make a webpage. I’ve been doing it ever since and have since become a Front End Web Developer. I work in the heart of it all and my heart is in the future of the world. I work in the clean tech energy space. On the side I work on my many side projects focused around my numerous passions: Film. Music. Travel. Festivals.
Time is a constant relative and a distant one at that. From the beginnings of Gilgamesh, we have been searching for more time. We’ve construed ways to be immortable but have never fully understood the past, present, or future. We percieve time through change: we see things as they move, adapt, and evolve. Therefore, as to our knowledge, the only way to collect time…to live as long as possible…is to incite as much change as possible. Change the World. Live Forever. Or atleast relatively longer…