Great Ideas from Germany
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Project ideas from my recent trip to Berlin/Heidelberg…
Imaginary Video Games (in 8-bit 80s style)
- Welcome to Neverland (living with Michael Jackson simulator)
- Welcome to Neukölln (hipster simulator, occasional Palestiner protest, falafel)
- Where in the World is Jeffrey Epstein? (in the style of Carmen Sandiego)
- MoNapoli: Garbage strikes and Pizza (but otherwise like a Monopoly game)
Music (When in Berlin…Techno is king…)
- What is the theory of techno music making? (Beginner’s guide, basic ideas, rhythm/timbre variations). There are some videos about this…
- Baby’s First Techno Kit (simplified beat box)
- Techno Tarot Deck: cards with QR codes that generate particular kick/high-hat choices, scales for progressions (as read into an app)
- 1920s style jazz
- get back into saxaphone
- finally build a drum machine…
- Imaginary Syllabi: Major in Techno
- Michael Sterns-style space music, but as a Gamebody cartridge
Art
- Victor Vasarely designs in marble and gold
- Imaginary Cinema: Mad Max, but with Kangaroos
- Convert Caspar David Friedrich landscapes into Rothko-style color-field paintings by taking the average color on each line
- Use a style-transfer imagine transfer model to convert pornography into Picasso-style cubistic nudes (“art!”)
- Stable diffusion on Gerhard Richter schmear paitings…whats’s the underlying pattern or structure
- Augmented reality baroque overlay (especially fun if you make this site-specific for a place like the Bauahaus museum)
- Making Baroque era arhcitectural drawings into photorealistic CAD
Fashion
- Backstage pass- style micromosaic/leather jewerly
- Leather “festival” bracelets: Could have a special RFID clasp that breaks when unlocked.
- Hawaiian shirts in the style of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Home projects
- Clean up the router/music nook to make more room for synthesizers
- Novels: Hollebeq’s Submission, African Sci Fi (Apocalypse Now Now, Zoo City)