Ideas

Things worth building or filming.

Malleable film

What if you could treat film like clay? Shoot a rough clip, watch it, and say: move that this way, give it a smoother corner there, remove the ridges, make her car green. Iterate on the rough version until it's right, then go film it for real across multiple shoots. Like the woodshop: if I do it wrong, I start over and do it right with specific experience. You reduce the planning so the product is as real as possible.

LOGIC

A game of definitions. It asks "what is Denny's?" You answer "a restaurant." It asks "what is a restaurant?" and so on, but your answer can't be a synonym of the word in the question. Fewer errors, better score. A second game, Why, takes any statement and asks why, forever. I built a version of both.

The sabbath button

One button in the house that starts a timer and sets the lights, blinds, temperature, and electricity for the sabbath.

An AI movie companion

While you watch anything, an AI tells you who's in the scene, what song is playing, when it was made, by analyzing the content itself plus what's online. This grew into mov.

Origin

A device you set on your desk in class that captures the lecture, plus an app that knows everything in your courses and teaches each concept from its origin: who invented it, what problem it solved, and why it's worth learning now.

secan

Type a Bible verse, get the best commentary and quotes on it, with control over which sources are included.

A marketplace for church musicians

Churches need musicians and production volunteers for services, camps, and conferences, and finding them is mostly texting around. A place to find, book, and pay them.

Study sets from anything

A single-user Quizlet: drop in text or files, get study sets with all the study modes, none of the social stuff.

A math tool

Math concepts are free. The only thing you're really paying for is organization.

A Bloomberg Terminal for time

See the essay.

Film: Propaganda

A 1950s housewife panics over ruined shirts the night before her husband's big interview, until she cracks: why is everyone acting like this is normal? Cut to a kid eating cereal in front of a TV: "Pardon the interruption, we'll be back shortly." Credits roll to Artie Shaw's "Begin the Beguine" over a silhouette of a couple dancing.

Film: the man who chose to be known

The desire, the choice between obscurity and global recognition, the development, the performance, the new creation, the exhaustion, the remembrance, the desire again, and then a new choice: consistency or authority.