This is just a post to dump ideas. If any idea becomes big enough, it gets a post of its own.
Garden House Mystery
Beacon Arts (www.beacon-arts.org) accepts project proposals for arts and community projects in Beacon Hill. One of the spaces they might be able to provide access to is the garden house. I wonder if I can produce a mystery/horror/thriller show for the month of October. It could be a clue-like mystery performed like one of those audience-in-space theater things. Or it could be like a puzzle room, except there is no puzzle but a mystery to solve and different rooms/spaces with characters and clues. People would come, tour the thing, watch a movie before they leave where they see the solution, and then leave a donation. I’d need a few actors (friends? community?), to make a movie, and to figure things out in the space.
Another option would be to follow “Trek in the Park”‘s model and put together something people already know or recognize.
Book for Colombia
I plan to write a book for the Colombian audience and for it to prominently feature pirates. Some random reference points:
• 1715-1725: golden age of piracy
• Pirate ships has a significant number of blacks aboard, they were still salves, treated as a commodity, to serve or to sell. This even if the pirates themselves were from all over the world
• Parrots were indeed common, also something to export as Europeans were interested in purchasinag them
• Missing limbs were also common since there were many dangers and little medical assistance
Sell Short Stories on Amazon
This is a must-try: I just need some time to write a few short stories and try to sell them.
• Erotica is a big thing and people pay for it.
• Sci-fy is another niche
• I already have a domain: fieryfiction!
• I could write a first story and publish it, see how it works, rinse and repeat
• I could write the first three stories in a series, see how it goes, continue or drop
• I could write three stories in different genres (sci-fy, erotica, romance) and see which works better
• If kinky (e.g. erotica) When do I tell Arwen? Would Arwen collaborate?
Mental health Check-In App
What if Vanessa has an app that allowed her to monitor her emotional state and:
• At worse require her to manually log status updates; at best sense behind the scenes what is going on
• Use ML to predict state
• Share annonimized data to train model
• Helped her understand where she’s at
• Maybe provided support resources adapted to current state
• Maybe notified others (family, doctor, etc.) when certain states were reached
Many challenges:
• This vs. paranoia
• This vs. privacy and surveillance
• What sensors?
• Opt-in vs. opt-out
• Configurable only while state is stable
• Offline
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