Sunday, September 10, 2006

Past and Present...Why Not FUTURE?

So, compiling ideas has been a lot of fun the last few days. Tonight, I went to late night in the Union and finally got a good caricature of myself (with the labyrinth worm and all - in the past i have been a fat man with a hamburger and sharon stone, so this was amazing), thinking about all the events that happened there, and how I had been waiting a few days for it to come, it gave me some ideas for "HomeQuest" (i am changing that within a week, it's starting to annoy the hell out of me)

Basically, there would be a subsection or however the layout/posting/maps will finally be set up. Since there will be layers of history of maps, there can be future trends of maps in two ways.

A.) Events that you know are coming up. Concerts that happened, ROCK ON. Concerts that WILL happen, ROCK ON x's 2! If you know of something coming up soon, or even 1,000 years for now, mark it (with tags and systematic color coding which has not yet been panned out). If you have a grave site somewhere that could be marked as "event waiting to happen" or some sort of pending (though something as a gravesite is kind of dismal and dark)



B.) Predictions? If there is enough layers of history that you could make a prediction about a given place and time put it in the "future box". Maybe your stories will come true, but maybe in 20 years someone will see what your prediction for that year was, and laugh because it was the exact same, or something completely opposite.


These are a few ideas floating around. I want this project to be serious and have homage to memories (fluffy dying, megan's first kiss), but also have an aspect of community and fun, functionality for everyone from parents to professionals, so hopefully there will be main components to the site, where the storytelling and such goes on, but also side things like, timelines, "future box", tags, etc.

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