Category: Bumper Stickers

Idea:  


(Unless you work hard)
You will lose your Children
To Apathy


Disown Materialism


Food is just a good reason
To be with people


There is nothing so grand
As honest encouragement


Think Big
Act Small


Less is Usually More


I’m a work in Progress


Community Binds,
Yet Community also Strengthens


Better Dumb,
Than Smart and Evil


Live Tomorrow? / Live Tomorrow?
    (sarcasm)


       STEADY
    CONSTANT
         LOVE
(Nothing Beats It)


Little Things > Big Things  /  Little Things > Big Things
               (In Life)


Pity Attractive Girls


Forgiveness is the Grand Solution


T-Shirt:   Front-  May we all...     Back-  Turn from darkness, however we label it


I don’t understand you,
But I don’t hate you
(what a great thing)


In Love,
Action trumps Thought


Be Loved in Action


Love Yourself in Action


Love Thyself


Delay is the Great Lord of Inaction
-(Optional image of a lord or king sitting on a throne-like chair)


Feed Hope                 
                  Fight Despair


Listening to Popular News is a form of Masochism


Time is Irrelevant
-(The seemingly brilliant glimmer of our past - The Renaissance, Einstein, Martin   
  Luther King Jr, Archimedes)


Work not for comfort
Work for growth


Ordinary,  
Is usually not the best way to be


Leisure need not be shunned,
Leisure should be loved,
when it goes hand-in-hand with work.
-(Inspired by a quip from Benjamin Franklin (“A life of leisure and a life of laziness
  are two things.  …”)


Only through true difficulty
Can true growth be achieved


Perceptions of self are at most loosely connected with reality


Wisdom of the trees is to be found at colleges
         Wisdom of the forest is to be found by living


Both great evil and great good can be had in the long term by taking small steps, and not putting too much stress on “the big picture”

Category: Art, Paint Series

Description:  Illustrations of human emotions and emotional states



Idea:  


A paint series illustrating human emotions/emotional states with the use of a small white figure made of White-Out*, and around it ambiguous flowing colors.

-Each painting is based on an emotion or emotional state.

-The figure is the “seed” of each painting.  Whether directly or indirectly, each
 painting is focused on the seed.  The surrounding painting is born from the figure,
 and is of the figure (not literally- no material blending).

-For each e/e.s., different colors and imagery to express the e/e.s., and figure has a
 different pose.



*Or something with a similar effect- separation between figure and the surrounding painting (i.e., no material blending of the two).



Example(s):  


Sadness -  Pinks; purple; figure with hands to face.


Success -  Figure with arms raised;  represented as moving towards something.


Shame -  Figure in fetal position.  A small grey globe around it.  Blackness filling the
                 entire rest of the painting.  Some thin bright yellow lightning in the
                 blackness directed at the figure.

Hate -  Blacks, reds, and yellow.  The figure is feeding the hate; the hate is controlling
             the figure.  The figure is crouched into itself.


(New Addition:  Love -   light shining from the figure.  A blown-up version of the
                                           figure is shown in the surrounded painting.)



Additional Comment(s):  


Better conceptual understanding of the ways of being human.

Category: Movie, Science Fiction

Description:  Movie following the change from an outer-space robotic war to an
                               innovative revolution of peace



Idea:  


Fundamentals of story(s):


Movie #1

Two human civilizations are at brutal war with each other within a galaxy.  The front line of this war is on distant planets.  They are warring for resources.  The entire battle forces of the civilizations are “robotic”, “mechanical”.  The robots have senses, and can process thoughts on their own, but in the beginning of the movie, they can’t quite “think for themselves” per “what is right and wrong” / individuality / values.  In the beginning of the movie they are seen as only operating under protocol/instructions/orders.

-The robots do not look like humans- they are boxy, mechanical, but in time they are
  shown to have anthropomorphic features and characters.

-Only the robots can traverse the distance from the home planet to the war-zone.


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The opening scene of the movie is a battle unfolding.  Massive action and robotic carnage.

The first quarter of the movies involves the warring and setting of “plot” of the movie.

An increased awareness of the realities of the warring is developing within the robots; they begin to see the destruction of themselves, the destruction of the “enemy”, the destruction of the worlds they are fighting on.

The revolution occurs slowly; from individuals to groups; from the ground up, but with sympathies in the higher levels (of the robotic war machine).  Initially individuals are deemed to be malfunctioning and are destroyed; this affects “those” around the destroyed.  Then groups are deemed to be malfunctioning and are destroyed; this affects an exponentially larger group (larger as in higher up in the robot hierarchy or a greater number of robots) .  In time the higher levels pretty easily get on-board.

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One planet simply stops fighting-  the robots are destroyed and replaced (from orders directly from humans).

The final solution is to give the appearance of an on-going war to the distant humans, while not actually fighting.  The robots give misinformation to their human masters.

After much trouble the robots are able to affect this “subterfuge peace”.  They designate the borders, and continue to supply the human civilizations with misinformation.  The borders change over time to realistically represent the fictional war.  New sentient robots that come from the civilizations are disarmed and “taught”.  As the populations swell, the robots populate other worlds.  They start building their own civilization(s).

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Movie # 2


After many years the subterfuge is discovered.  The human civilizations prepare to
destroy the robots.  The robots begin a true defensive war against the humans.  

Within the human civilizations sympathizers for the robots’ way-of-being emerge.

Revolutions occur in the human populations

In time the humans get unseated from their “throne of power” in the galaxy.  They
start formal communications with the robots as a recognized civilization.


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Movie # 3


“Common Enemies”

Digital Virus unleashed on robots by radical human group(s), because they hate
them due to fundamental differences.

Foreign aggressive species threatens all civilizations.


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Confidence:  4


If pop Hollywood got a hold of this, production would probably strip most of the depth of the story and turn this idea into, basically,  an action-oriented sci-fi movie.*

The movie would require heavy investment and a significant production time.  It would be almost entirely C.G.I. (Computer-Generated Imagery).


*Hollywood is a business that seeks to maximize profits.  In being that it tries to maximize productivity at minimal cost, and with highest returns possible.  In the process of production the subtlety of deep meaning is usually shed.




Additional Comment(s):  



Movie #1

The story is of robots being more human than the humans of the movie are represented as being, and of the front-line, the “tools” of a war, which are assumed to be mindless, waking up and putting an end to a war.

Movie #2

A story of thinking outside of one’s “tribe”/group/species to have sympathy and empathy for others.  A story of victory of love (communication, compassion, acceptance) over hate (distancing, aggression, refusal of acceptance).

Movie #3

Radically different groups working together to defeat common enemies.

Communication, cooperation and acceptance vs hate.

Category: Art, Video, Cynical, Spoof

Description:  Spoof infomercial commenting on over-consumption in the West,
                          alongside the malnourishment of people of other countries.



Idea:  


“             NEW!  FANTASTIC!

Lose Weight AND Feed Those In Need!”

-A device which is a box that straps to the side of a person, with a tube that goes  
 inside of the person (through their abdomen) and attaches to their stomach.  
 The tube creates a second exit hole from the stomach.

-For all the food a person with the device puts into their stomach, 50% goes into their
 intestines, and 50% goes into the box through the tube.  

-Each box comes addressed to a third world country.  The person slaps a stamp on it  
 and puts it in their mail box.

-Each device comes with many boxes

-Visual- a poor malnurished child happily eating the sludge of food.  Maybe a
 parially blended sub sandwich.


“I lost 100 lbs in 10 months!”

“Eat as much as you normally do, while knowing you’re doing your part to feed the world’s hungry!”

“100% consumption, 50% digestion!”

Category: Video / Instructional book (like AC books) / Other

Description:  Illumination of the dynamics of male attention given to females, how
                           females act regarding it as they age, and the consequences of their  
                           actions.


Idea:  


Through whatever media tell this story:

Girl gets attention when young for having a pretty outfit from older males and older females.  She wants this attention when older.  To follow is two possible paths:

   1.  -Female Dresses seductively.  Gets maximum amount of attention.
        -Personified Attention from males:  “I give you attention and use you for  
                physical desires.  I begin by seeing you very much as a sexual object.
        -Path most likely to have shallow, sexually-based relationships


   2.  -Female dresses in simple, pretty but humble, attire.  She is very attractive, but
                                                                                                         in a less superficial way.
        -Path most likely to have deeper, more meaningful relationships, whether
          intimate or otherwise.  Intimate relationships likely to be more caring.



Additional Comment(s):  

By spreading a real-world conceptual understanding of what we do, and how it affects us, and those around us, we can help make a world where people act more responsibly- responsible to not only society, but to themselves.

Category: Business, Online Business, Product

Description:  A company that sells the seeds of trees, to be planted on an    
                           individual’s grave.



Idea:  


Online business that sells individually packaged seeds.

-A seed of tree that thrives in your area, packaged in a quaint but nice box/other,
 particularly a solid-wood box, to be kept by owner or loved ones and planted on
 owner’s grave.

-Buyers order seed type and packaging, business supplies both.

-Seeds shrink-wrapped, or with other type of storage, that helps ensure seed viability.

-Potentially add a fertilizer/other with product to aid in growth of seed.

-Disclaimer stating seed(s) are not guaranteed to grow into a seedling/sapling/tree.



Example(s):  

Bob wants to have the knowledge that he will join with the cycle of life in a beautiful way.  He orders a chestnut tree seed, and keeps the small attractive box on one of the shelves in his home.  At his death the seed is planted on his grave site.

Confidence:  8 (Provisional*)


Low overhead.  Low inventory.  Relatively low start-up costs.

Problem - Unknown success rate of individual seeds.  The rate may be significantly
                   low.

Solution - Each purchase comes with multiple seeds, not just one.


*Unknown whether tree seeds can be held, packaged or otherwise, for long-term,  
 with no refrigeration, before being successfully planted.



Additional Comment(s):  


This can assist in finding peace with the cycle of life and death.