GetADamnHaircut.com

It's a website with a picture of someone who needs a damn haircut. Every time you reload the page you get a different picture. That is all.

Dynamic desktop backgrounds of baseball stadium scoreboards

I want to be able to have a dynamic desktop background that displays live baseball game scores and looks like the scoreboard from an actual baseball stadium. This could be available for all teams. For example I would be able to select the Citizens Bank Park background and it will display the Phillies game score on the main scoreboard and all other scores would be on the out-of-town scoreboard. Or maybe I would just be able to pick by team, so when the Phillies are at home or if they have no game I get the CBP scoreboard background, and when they are on the road I get the background of ballpark for the team they are playing.

This would be instead of checking Yahoo Sports for score updates.

Gift registry augmented reality app

To make it easier to track down items on a gift registry, there should be a smartphone application that uses augmented reality to point out where in the store the items can be found. Similar to the applications that point out where the nearest subway stations are.

Augmented reality, all the kids are talkin' 'bout it!

Wikitude for airplanes

Wikitude is a smartphone app that acts as a mobile travel guide by pointing out points of interest around you through the camera on your phone. There should be a similar device that you could use in flight while looking out the window of an airplane.

New Motown

Contemporary songs, re-recorded in the style of old Motown records. Maybe you could even take songs that aren't pop, r&b, or soul and Motown-ize them.

Facebook/MySpace/etc partnership with Glamour Shots

There should be a partnership between social networking sites and Glamour Shots. For less than it costs to get regular portraits done, Glamour Shots could take your picture for your social networking profiles and send them to you as digital files. You would get to use the cheesy backgrounds as well.

Augmented reality and my Yo! MTV Raps trading cards

Augmented reality is blowing up now. Topps did a thing where you hold up these special baseball cards to your webcam and through the magic of augmented reality you see a digital representation of the player on your screen, which you can then play games with.

I have a bunch of old Yo! MTV Raps trading cards from the late 80's. I want to be able to hold up those cards to my webcam and display a digital likeness of the rappers performing their songs. Or a digital turntable which would then play the artist's song that I could then "scratch" by moving the card around.

A documentary

...about the guys who write/direct the _____ Movie spoof franchise. Because I'm really curious to see all of the behind the scenes discussions and deals that allow them to keep making those horrible movies.

This idea also applies to Shawn and Marlon Wayans.

Synchronized music

This might be difficult to explain so bear with me. In 1997 The Flaming Lips released an album titled Zaireeka, which consists of four discs. Each disc has eight songs. The songs on each disc correspond with each other in such a way that if you play all four discs simultaneously, the result is a harmonious, synchronized piece of music. You don't have to play all four discs, you can play any combination you want to get different effects.

My idea would involve more than one artist, and it could be a new form of collaboration. Let's say you get two or three or four or more artists together to make a few songs in such a way that each song stands alone on it's own or could be played simultaneously to get a mash-up like effect. It would be even cooler if the artists didn't tell anyone about this then like several months later say "Oh by the way, check out what happens when you play our song at the exact same time as this Radiohead song and this MF Doom track and this Miley Cyrus song." Heads would explode.

A twitter idea

I'm just as sick of hearing about Twitter as everyone else, but I had a Twitter idea, so bear with me. While it's occasionally interesting to see the trending topics of the general Twitter populace, I would like to be able to see trending topics within a specific group of people. Namely my friends and friends of my friends. I think those topics would be more relevant to my interests. Although I still got love for you Oprah.

Make your own Clutch Cargo

Clutch Cargo was a cartoon in the late 50's/60's notable for superimposing real human lips on minimally animated characters. You might be more familiar with this technique as it was used on Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Conan "interviewed" celebrities such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Jackson, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump.

There should be a website where you can make your own Clutch Cargo-style videos. I imagine it would be pretty easy to do with a webcam. There could be different templates to make your own parody videos or music videos. Then you would be able to share these videos or send them as e-cards.

Flickr links

I wish Flickr embedded a link into your picture when you upload to their site. I like to download pictures with a Creative Commons license to use in projects I am working on. Sometimes I forget to write down the source when downloading the pictures, especially if I'm grabbing a bunch at the same time. It would be easier to attribute the pictures to the source if the Flickr URL was included in the information when I right-click and select "Get Info."

Video screen basketball hoop

Gizmodo wrote about Spalding's new basketball hoop with speakers and an mp3 player hook-up. I thought it was a great idea.

But what if they went a step further and made a basketball hoop with an LCD screen backboard. That way you can watch a basketball game while you play. Or maybe the screen can be motion/pressure sensitive and display some type of visualization while you make/miss shots or dunk. Or it can keep score/time like those arcade basketball games.

Root beer/birch beer packaging idea

Two liter mini kegs made of wood for root beer and birch beer. Like the Heineken draughtkeg but for old-timey soft drinks.

Capri Sun packaging idea

Capri Sun voodoo dolls. Stab your enemies and drink their blood (juice). This could also be a vampire-themed Halloween promotion.

An album

Where all the song lyrics are inspired by Missed Connections posts on Craigslist.

Honest Baseball Cards

Baseball cards are too nice. There are a ton of players who are just awful. Baseball cards should tell you things like "This guy hasn't hit anything since he was traded from Atlanta" or "This guy should have retired five years ago" or "This card is worth less than the paper it's printed on because this guy is god-awful." It would be the perfect set of cards for hecklers.

I actually mocked up one of my ideas.

I had an idea to do a word-of-the-day vocab lesson through film clips or music. I did the latter and put together two examples of what I was imagining. It could be a way to improve your vocabulary and discover new music.

Example 1 here.

Example 2 here.

I would make more, but I used Photoshop to make the graphics and my trial version ran out yesterday. Sad face.

Vocab lessons with film/music

Generally the best way to improve one's vocabulary is to constantly read books. But books aren't the only places for big words. Imagine taking clips from movies and songs that use advanced vocabulary and editing them together into audio/video lessons. That would be neat.

Old songs. New videos.

I would like to see music video directors make videos for older songs, especially songs before the music video era. Or maybe re-interpretations of older music videos.