Good ideas are hard to come by. My ever expanding whatif-to do list...

Ideas

May 13, 2008 make a painting that says rendering with the timeline icon with an old man sitting at the sea in the background.
May 9, 2009 make a jesus fountain that has wine on tap that is shot out of it's stigmata marks.
May 8, 2008 print a cake within a cake within a cake using Rapid Prototyping, following the russian doll technique.
May 7, 2008 throw candle wax on doors to preserve the tags in hopes that others will tag over the wax and establish a past, present, and future plane for the door.
May 6, 2009 make secondlife Greek Gods using real celebrities names, images, etc.
May 4, 2009 put padlocks on all the pumps at gas stations then sell the keys for afore-mentioned locks on ebay. who wants to hold the power?
May 3, 2008 print Candalism, the book and have a print on demand version.
April 29, 2008 work with Elizabeth Devlin on the temple door project. oh my god that would be awesome!!
April 27, 2008 use google maps api to send information to cyclists about safe bicycle routes.
April 27, 2008 start making recycled messenger bags out of the flour, sugar, and sesame seed bags that the bakery down the street through out.
April 19, 2008 bless defaced doors by reciting defaced biblical versus in honor of the names at that door.
April 18, 2008 make one of those claw toys that grabs stuffed animals into an instrument so that when it grabs a stuffed animal it represents a sample. From the point it grabs the stuffend animal and navigates its way back to drop the animal becomes the length of that sample. As soon as the stuffed animal hits the ground that sample will begin looping at the interval of time previously determined. This continues for as long as there are stuffed animals to grab creating a multi-layered soundtrack for the game.
April 16, 2008 stencil huge lock on edge between things like buildings, doors, sleeping people (not bums, oh no).
April 15, 2008 cut new stencil for candalism combining an open envelope and the free mason symbol.
April 14, 2008 give others basic instructional to make map of their own design.
April 13, 2008 write code for vibrators to play various pop songs.
April 11, 2008 start b.o.b.y (buy our back yard) website and sell off pieces of an authentic brooklyn backyard in small fragments. make sure to include real tidbits such as garbage, cat poo, syringes, worms, cigarette butts. use the money to pay rent.
April 9, 2008 interview gaia about wheatpasting through wheatpasting.
April 7, 2008 create mini cubist environments at larger environments.
April 3, 2008 carry tools with me to take apart abandoned bikes around town to build new bikes.
Mar 30, 2008 draw keychaines on carabeaner things and wheatpaste on hooks, loops, and holes of buildings to show the gentrification of neighborhoods.
Mar 28, 2008 use tubing of bike to hold paint and make a drip system out base of down tube before the bottom bracket. then get slick rear tire and carve into the rubber as you would a lino or wood block. top it all off by inserting the paint, opening the floodgate, and printing via the bicycle all over the street.
Mar 26, 2008 paint or paste bottom corner of buildings to look like dog-eared pages from a book. underneath the page place a hint of what could be happening behind the wall. place at strategic places to allow for transparency of social, political, and consumer unjustices. or just show cool stuff. yeah people like seeing cool stuff. quit making them think too hard. yeah. cool.
Mar 25, 2008 plasma cut stencil of "is it art or candalism". Use candal wax to drip through stencil and onto ground.
Mar 24, 2008 make map of my personal triangle and track a day of derive withing. look for correlations and migrational patterns. where is my happiness? where in the triangle is serendipity?
Mar 23, 2008 wheatpaste photos of doors back on doors.
Mar 21, 2008 collection of spraycans with photos of crushed doors pasted to them. research fuda's more and try to make correlation of role call on nyc doors to asian migratinal temples. door as literal representation of a metaphysical concept.
Mar 18, 2008 make a book and have the cover just say judge me
Mar 09, 2008 make inflatable graffiti that fills entire vacant spaces between buildings.
Mar 08, 2008 use waffle iron to singe fabric making illsane t-shirts.
Mar 06, 2008 thread video camera into extensh and video tape rolling a wall. use video to embed in mural using QR codes. sketch here.
Mar 05, 2008 i think it would be an awesome idea to join a cult of some sort. or perhaps pioneer one. it could be called "dudes in hats with glasses" and it will be sweet. or chouette. that is french. which i have recently learned.
Mar 04, 2008 create public "stencil" diary, encapsulating every idea ever but create all the stencils to be written along the lines of cheesy 80s power ballads. from the time of my youth. -alia - note i am referring to erik's youth. not my own.
Mar 02, 2008 what the pluck? make video of playing pigeon spikes so that it sounds like the song 'hit the road jack'.
Feb 27, 2008 make a swingset of four swings. each swing is designated a function such as play, pause, rewing, and fforward. use motion tracking to have them effect a video that is played in front of the swingset.
Feb 25, 2008 make a S-I-Y site that teaches people how to steal it yourself.
Feb 24, 2008 wheatpaste a story on a wall. in the footer give directions to the next bit of the story. have story bring into account racing the viewer to the end of the story and how the reader is actually trying to catch the writer, which inadvertently kills the ending from happening.
Feb 23, 2008 fill bike tube with paint to run down and out near the bottom bracket. the tire will have a stencil design in the rubber to stamp over the wet paint and roll onto the ground
Feb 22, 2008 circle potholes with fluorescent paint
Feb 21, 2008 make brochure for cruise about political hacks where you can visit micronations. check that shit right here, here, and here
Feb 19, 2008 repaint whole sections of buildings with misstinted paint. maybe make a general shape that only lines up from a certain vantage point.
Feb 17, 2008 make ransom notes. duh...
Feb 16, 2008 hack legs off barricade and put back in the street with hacked legs in pool of paint.
Feb 14, 2008 add saloon doors to abandoned phone booths.
Feb 11, 2008 film running rgb shirts on a clothelines back and forth.
Feb 09, 2008 sol lewitt bookshelf. make shelfing unit that folds similar to the octa-book that has one center cut to make the transformations into various shaps. sketch right huur
Feb 03, 2008 take on multiple identities and start using them in correspondance
Feb 02, 2008 print different versions of the bible on toilet paper. print george bushes' face on t.p. or the u.s. constitution.
Feb 1, 2008 embed a wall with tons of shotcodes that attach to notes or colors. when scrolling across the wall sounds or colors are emitted from a linked website
Jan 31, 2008 film 2 movies at the same time. overlay them and show the 1st and 3rd person central in a composite video.
Jan. 28, 2008 make a digital soup can telephone with BenTedore.
Jan 27, 2008 interview James' workers and neighborhood passerbys. make video. use imagery in mural on the location. embed QL's into the wall that link to the videos, process footage, etc.
Jan 26, 2008 find huge wall that is primarily greyish. paint red design with extinguisher. track the color and use the x, y, coordinates to output bitmap images for a sweater my gramma will knit. play a video of each side by side over a teeter tooter built on a couch with a t.v. and remote control in the middle. put my dad on the middle of the teeter totter
Jan 25, 2008 go into shitty corporate restaurant dressed up as a waiter. take as many orders as possible and then leave.
Jan 24, 2008 film biking from overhead and project directly down on the ground. i don't know why? might look cool, geez...gimme a break.
Jan 24, 2008 use thyroid sonagram to make music. since thyroid cancer runs in my family and i am going to get a sonogram of my throat i want to use ultra sounds in max to create sound. especially since the throat is synonomous with sound, singing, and voice it will be interesting to use an illustration of thyroid cancer which debilitates the throat to create music which one would equate with a healthy person.
Jan 23, 2008 use temperature to altar the colors of a house. maybe in the sheila johnson design center i can use temperature to create max generated projections on the walls. that way a visual environment matches a sensation in a way creating nostalgia and realization of specific moments through a shared experience. try in ones house as well. one could program there favorite color to be their most comfortable temperature so when the hue is not right one knows to turn the heat up or down. this could also be used oppositely.
Jan 22, 2008 make modern day russian orthodox reliquaries out of the metals found in computers. sketch right huuuuur
Jan. 19, 2008 project pieces from Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper onto moving subway cars and have their speed dictated by the speed of the train so it seems affixed to the train.
Jan. 18, 2008 buy a fire extinguisher and fill it with champagne. spray it at an orange tree around noon on a sunday. Mimosa's for everyone!
Jan 17, 2008 make gold basketball nets to put on courts throughout brooklyn.
Jan. 5, 2008 mad lib mural. paint large wall with fillin the blanks. place console far away but in view of where people can type in the fill'ins. project into spaces allotted and have the words slowly dissolve away after several minutes.
Dec. 29, 2007 place a stuffed dog around a paint roller so i can paint the ground as it looks like i am walking my dog. use this prop to paint curbs red to eliminate parking and congest streets. "Paint the town Red"
Dec. 19, 2007outdue the listing capabilites of Harrell Fletcher
Dec. 18,2007 drive a huge nail through my temple
Nov. 19, 2007 paint Max patch on wall that is literally built and effected by the painting process.
Nov. 15, 2007 place white surrender flags in the hands of statues and monuments.
Nov. 10, 2007 start mailing the US Embassy in Iraq with 'i'm sorry...' postcards from citizens of America.
Nov. 07, 2007 place a mailbox on a deserted building and mail letters to names of illegal immigrants in order to give them legal living status via the governement.
Nov. 05, 2007 ellaborate the frame of a shopping cart to resemble historical buildings from antiquity. use the mesh similiarly to columns in the corinthian, doric, or ionic style.
Nov. 04, 2007 make detachable component for cartcycle similiar to Peter Messerschmidt's Rollifiets that was designed in W. Germany some two decades ago.
Nov. 03, 2007 play sounds from the destruction of baghdad throughout central park via the GRL trike.
Nov. 01, 2007 make a painting and then write the code in MAX or processing to duplicate the process. also write a code and make a painting following those same rules.
Oct. 30, 2007 run led xmas lights using processing or max that are affected by snowfall, eggnog intake, or present unwrapping.
Oct. 2, 2007 Pareidolia. real-time powerpoint presentation with David Elliot using 6 images at random selected by the other person and sent one minute before presentation
Oct. 29, 2007 make cellphone program that records the movement of your phone and converts it into an image.
Oct 27, 2007 (i)Use power drill with MSP so certain frequencies send bangs of various frames of an animation so the drill controls the speed of the movie.
Oct. 26, 2007 (n)Place bizarre items with a phone number written on them in back seat of taxi cab. Record the messages that people leave on the phone reporting the lost item. Embed these messages in the item.
Oct. 25, 2007 start freedombcycle.com, a website based off of stealing bicycles and leaving notes at the scene of the crime that have the web address to find out what happened to their bike. In most cases their bicycle will be given to a young kid who the victem will then have to make a valid argument as to why they deserve their bike which seemed to have been abandoned for some time.
Oct. 21, 2007 make my own wacky wally thing and put on a heater vent.
Oct. 20, 2007 attach wireless speakers to my tragis earrings
Oct. 19, 2007 learn how to build a freakin website
Oct. 18, 2007 make che wearing a che shirt
Oct. 22, 2007 change mount rushmore to have teepees on the presidents heads resembling party hats. send to local paper to start controversy about native american rights.
Oct. 17, 2007 use QL to create stencils that can be affixed to murals that thenn link to a podcast showing an animation with information about that particular space. Apply this in other space specific ways.
Oct. 14, 2007 weld a bicycle to a shopping cart
Oct. 12, 2007 bring back the soup-can telephone
Oct. 6, 2007 use hinges and a snake-like shape to create a fold-out bed similar to how an ironing board works
Oct. 11, 2007 bake cookies and eat them all
Oct. 10, 2007 make etching for Julia's show in Minneapolis
Oct. 09, 2007 create podcasts that are all bicycle oriented and call it 'This American Bike' ripping off the technique used by Ira Glass on 'This American Life'.
Oct. 08, 2007 afix sculptures next to light sources to cast shadows depicting imagery
Oct. 07, 2007 flatten every frame of movies like 'Gone With the Wind' and "Casablanca' into one image. Do the same with 'Ghostbusters', 'Matrix', 'Kindergarten Cop'. Are there any similarities
Oct. 05, 2007 make poster that reads: civil civilians villainized over the iraqi flag
Oct. 05, 2007 interview the recyclers on Meserole st. with an interpreter
Sept. 29, 2007 spray Condon't across a condo being built as a protest against gentrification (you know, like protesting myself...)
Sept. 28, 2007 graffiti preservation, treat it scientific, get interns, take samples in petri dishes, etc...
Sept. 27, 2007 cyber-vandalism...photoshop the Hollywood sign to say 'like hollywood'. make facke newsclippings and try to circulate them amongst adbustery type people till it really does make the news.
Sept. 26, 2007 make the 'urban voice' using a pylon cone and a handle
Sept. 25, 2007 go panhandle in the financial district for one hour using a cast-iron pan Sept. 24, 2007 interview homeless on the street and make them a t-shirt that has their resume printed on the front of it to use in job interviews.
Sept. 23, 2007 make a cardboard picket fence
Sept. 20, 2007 use your audience, Victor Alimpiev
Sept. 19, 2007 shopleave...leave garbage, porn, bibles, etc. in stores
Sept. 17, 2007 reinvent history by painting pieces in an oldschool style and dating them from the 80's.
Sept. 15, 2007 use reamweaver for Turban Outfitters website 'jihad needs to look good too'
Sept. 14, 2007 open pho restaurrant called Pho Sho'
Sept. 13, 2007 centipede/strian
Sept. 11, 2007 Holevertisement, remember the chinese artist that cuts...
Sept. 10, 2007 Illuminate the invisible. Matta Clark
Sept. 8, 2007 graffitification of the commodity...program that adds dropshadow and forcefield to any logo
Sept. 6, 2007 use vernacular objects as material
Sept. 4, 2007 treat a relationship as a collaboratvie project
Sept. 2, 2007 txt blanket via thrift stores for homeless Parsons, The New School for Design