next project!

no take-backs, i'm all good. i completely forgot to mention a cute idea i had yesterday, that i've decided i'm going to take on as my next project (as much as possible, owing to the general disarray my life is in)...

a screensaver-type stream that has a queue made up of rss feeds, and other such things, where all data is filtered and mashed together (not into an unintelligable form) based on the incoming data. imagine your screen filled with images and text (with very little overlap, so it seems to be falling into your vision), discoloured / warped / embossed, with your choice of music genre playing in the background.

if there is sound in the queue, the volume of the ambient music is dropped, so that you can hear whatever's playing currently (up to a minute or two of a video clip off a news site, or a new music video, or some kid with a web-cam who feels he has something important to say), filtered according to criteria (news is less warped than that random person; blog feeds or headlines are legible but made all funky, everything has a touch of fake static to give it an authentic "i've hacked into your tv" feel).

i was inspired by a scene near the beginning of strange days, where jeriko one is saying something on the telly, and you can make him out clearly, even though he's embossed, and blue on red. that, and johnny mnemonic where you see and hear the lo-tek's message tunneled through the regular feed. it would take a bit of work (ok, a lot), but i think it would be awesome in terms of personalized news and entertainment.

right, now for the work i'm paid for - learning some php.

EXTREMELY INTERESTING: i always wanted to know about reticulating splines