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Iphone app

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:23:34 -0400

an ap that loves you back. The more you do on your phone, texting, talking, browsing, the more it will give you pets telling you it loves you and you’re great and that it missed your touch. Like a reverse yamaguchi.

Craigslist Event

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:00:50 -0400

Put on an event where you book all of your acts/guests by looking through Craigslist and finding the most interesting/crazy stuff you can find. Have a variety show which reflects the whole diversity of Craigslist and puts each crazy thing next to an equally interesting and yet very different person. The final ingredient it is to get the audience involved as much as possible. You should be trying to give the Craigslist advertisers what they were looking for when they posted. So, for example, if it is a band who needs a drummer, their performance should basically be them auditioning different random drummers taken from the audience.

Sports drink

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:41:31 -0400

a wholesome sports drink paste that you add to water. It is mostly honey in a tube like a toothpaste tube but it has some salt and electrolytes added (for fast absorbtion). Also the capped end is big and flat so that it sits flat on a surface as it is the bottom, and the tapered end isn’t straight like a toothpaste tube, instead it turns into a spoon which you use to stir the paste into the water to which you add it.

Bike Suit

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:37:33 -0400

Make a men’s suit for bike riding with pinstripes of reflective material and nice buttons in the cuffs.

Umbrella kite

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:58:09 -0400

make a kite that looks like an umbrella on a string.

Book

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:20:38 -0400

a book of interviews called ‘what is it like to be sick?’

Books

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:22:31 -0400

Take each book on a bookshelf and replace 5 page sections with handmade replicas of those pages.

video

Wed, 20 May 2009 14:16:54 -0400

shoot a commercial for yes cigarettes in Benin. “Do you smoke?” “Yes!”

world change + global warming

Thu, 07 May 2009 18:16:04 -0400

getting people to change their lifestyle decisions affecting global warming will not happen by their hearing songs about it on the radio. Instead when people are facing a decision with environmental consequences there must be a real stress which is triggered. Even though it is not an immediate threat, it must feel psyiologically like the person is being chased by a lion.

Chandelier

Thu, 07 May 2009 13:27:34 -0400

wrap a crystal chandelier in wax paper or dress lining.

Preference

Thu, 07 May 2009 13:26:10 -0400

we prefer confusions to conclusions

Electronics

Thu, 07 May 2009 01:43:31 -0400

if circutboards were flexible it would open up a lot of possibilities. Electronics could be built into the skin of gadgets.

Exercise

Thu, 07 May 2009 01:39:01 -0400

exercise is easier in the form of a sport than pure workout. Is there a way to make pilates into a sport so I can strengthen my core without the drugery of working out?

Seeming oposites paired

Wed, 06 May 2009 20:33:31 -0400

brakes and speed- since I fixed my breaks, I can ride my bike faster. Bad drivers and car afficionados- who are the people who put rubber pads on their cars’ bumper

Open mic

Wed, 06 May 2009 20:10:38 -0400

go to an open mic and for your act do whatever the previous act did.

Frames

Wed, 06 May 2009 18:29:01 -0400

have a show of cheap obejects beautified by very beautiful expensive frames.

Sit down

Tue, 05 May 2009 09:31:31 -0400

A simple way to rearrange a situation is to walk into any room and sit in an obviously inappropriate place, for example you can sit on the counter or behind the counter of a store, or on the floor in a doorway, etc. It might be good for a friend to record this with one of the new flip recorders.

direct democracy

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:18:01 -0400

Use the process described in this article for using digital crowd sourcing to direct our political decisions rather than to direct a submarine (http://www.kk.org/newrules/blog/2009/02/complete-surrender-to-the-bott.php). With our current digital capabilities we should be able to let the populous as a whole make even small decisions for the state in real time.

little books - individual servings

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:04:00 -0400

tear a book into chapters and then recover each chapter as a book. Make the covers seem like individual serving versions of the original.

paper towels

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:02:35 -0400

Make paper towel scrolls. Perhaps sew together the sheets so that it wont rip. Make one scroll with each sheet painted a different color. Mae one scroll that is “the story of unwise decisions” with unwanted home depot paints. Make three ‘paper towels’ by indenting the (bounty) pattern into fancy watercolor paper (arches or somesuch). Maybe do this by making a mold of the paper towel and then pressing it into the fancy paper. Who designed paper towels’ dot pattern?