There are a ridiculous number of famous dances that are in movies. Flashdance, Ferris Bueller, Fame and loads more that don't even start with 'F'.
And whilst you are able to learn some of these dances online, there isn't one site where you can go to learn all the dance steps needed to re-create all the dances that appear in these movies.
Well, perhaps there should be. I for one would love to be able to access an online dance school which taught me how to pull the kind of moves that have been so successful for so many characters in films, rather than having to rely on the same old 'Chicken Walk' or two step indie shuffle.
Feasibility Rating: 8
There are certain key elements that one could argue are objectively beautiful. Or that are important elements required in order for someone to be considered beautiful. (And I'm purely talking physical beauty here.) So symmetry in the face is one. Natural quality of skin and hair. Not having three noses.
We now live in an age where beauty is desired by all. And indeed is a reflection on society. In PR terms alone, a nation's perceived beauty can help contribute massively to its economy. Either through enabling companies to set up and trade off that beauty, or in driving tourism etc.
So would it be possible to create a measurement system for a country's beauty? For example, if you took 10,000 people at random (and obviously to ensure you got a representative sample, you would need to pick people from both Aldi supermarket car parks in Darlington, as well as places like fancy London hotel bars and everywhere else in between) and evaluated them against a list of 'beauty' measures, you would be able to arrive at a figure for GNB.
The other element of this of course is that certain elements of beauty are things such as style, and expenditure on the right kind of clothes and products to make you beautiful. It would be interesting to measure how much more collectively ugly a country became during a deep recession because people had to go to Mr. Toppers rather than Toni and Guy. The GNB scale could help give us that vital bit of insight.
Feasibility Rating: 3
The new hotbed of idea generation
Yes, it's time for Guest Idea number 3.
And excitingly, I can now confirm that this blog has an international reach as this idea comes all the way from Sami Basut in Turkey. He is the Creative Director at Publicis Bold.
And his idea is a humdinger. I particularly like the Paris Hilton part.
Anyway, over to Sami:
"I love to travel and explore new cities.
And I enjoy a city most with locals around me.
Hate to be a tourist.
Wouldn’t it be lovely if there was a company which rented party animals who know the best parties in town?
You hire a party animal and he/she takes you to the very intimate party at the hills in a private villa which you would never have the chance to know as a tourist.
So the party animal does not have to work in daytime & only party at nights
and you could enjoy your best time in town. (Sounds great as a job, please hire me if you start a company like that)
You could be comparing party animals on the site of the company.
The one with most recommendation gets to be paid the most & has priviliges like meeting Paris Hilton etc.
It has to be a global network.
You should be able to get this services in
NY, London, Paris, Barcelona & Istanbul. "
Cheers Sami.
Anyone else out there who has an idea burning in their brain, please feel free to drop me a note and I'll stick it up here. Don't be shy now..
Feasibility Rating: 6
Three startingly insightful observations:
1. London is home to a large number of people from a vast multitude of different cultural backgrounds. Not just Australians.
2. Young people from all over the world love to get drunk at New Year.
3. People at key times like New Year's Eve, tend to miss home a wee bit.
Which is why in London, or somewhere near London, someone should set up a global New year party.
The basic deal is that there would be 10 large marquees, each one representing a different country, including the UK, but also places like Australia, USA, Japan, Russia and so on. They would all be interconnected with each other.
Each of these countries/marquees would be set out in the style of a bar from that respective country and would run on the time at home.
So at 1pm UK time, it would be New years Eve in the Australia bar, and they would celebrate accordingly, in the national style. People could then move on to the next country (if they so chose to, or they could stay in their own country) to start their heavy drinking ahead of the next New Year's Eve. It would run from about 10am New Years Eve, until 10am the next day. UK time.
So, in effect, you would get 10 New Years Eve's celebrations in one.
Obviously it would be a ticketed event and you could get a free drink in the country of your choice as part of your ticket. Plus other little money-making things like passports that you got stamped in each bar could be sold.
Feasibility Rating: 7
Marks and Spencer are perfectly placed to capitalise on the trend towards local food (I'm not going to link to the 100 Mile Diet site through personal objections). Dependent on how many distribution centres and factories they have around the country, they should be able to create and develop the M+S Local Range of ready meals, which commits to using ingredients from within 150 mile radius of the store in which it is bought. A 150 mile radius would probably mean that 6-8 factories are needed to cover the entire country (I may have made that last bit up though), but they would be able to charge a decent whack for the food, appealing as it does to the slightly more smug contingent of the middle classes.
Feasibility Rating: 6
Paris Hilton, official mascot of Bluetube, announcing the launch of the new site, yesterday
Youtube has a certain kind of innocent charm to it. You're more likely to find videos of people feeding birds in their garden or old blokes trainspotting than you are likely to find anything even vaguely resembling filth. Or so I'm told.
It does seem though that they are missing out on a trick given the overwhelming popularity of porn on the internet. Now, this may not be for google to do, but I imagine it would be relatively lucrative and popular if a porn version of youtube was created where people could post up their home-made dirty movies.
Feasibility Rating: 7
Right, another drum roll please. This time for Picklin' Paul. (His idea has nothing to do with pickles. Not that that's all he talks about of course, but there you go.)
Anyway, over to Paul to take you through his most excellent idea:
"Swiss Army knives have all sorts of useful gadgets on them yet mobile phone companies just add radios, cameras and wifi, infra-red bluetooth connection thingies. Nokia should create a range of rugged phones with corkscrews, knives and things for taking stones out of horses hooves on them. (I've always thought those Banana shaped Nokia's in The Matrix could be easily converted into bottle openers)
They wouldn't be too useful for air travel but would be great at house parties and picnics when you'd lost the corkscrew."
Feasibility Rating - 6
Lego should sell graffiti stickers or separate graffiti blocks that people can add in to their lego worlds.
Or even miniature stencils that can be sprayed/painted over.
Feasibility Rating: 8
"If you're not fast you're last". It's an irritating saying, but more irritatingly it's also true.
And the truth is that if you have an idea you should do something about it, or let the world know about it as soon as you can.
Because if you don't you get beaten to the punch.
Full respect then to Wired magazine for their Second Life tourist guide. This was an idea I had been toying with for a while, but had held it back. Serves me right.
Still think they could have made more of it, but it seems to have gone down pretty well.
I was only going to to give it a feasibility rating of 7 as well.
Oh, and I appreciate there's absolutely no reason why anyone should believe me on this. You just have to trust me. Once I start having fewer and fewer ideas, I'm probably going to start claiming that I had thought of the iPod but Apple just beat me to it. But for now, I'm telling the truth.
Well, the amazing power of connectivity etc etc that is blogging has swung into full effect.
Yesterday I posted about setting up the Guild of Amorphous Thinkers and made a comment about getting someone who actually had a craft or skillset to design a logo.
Well, someone's only gone and done it. In their lunch hour. And here it is:
It is the handiwork of Marcus Brown who I think deserves a round of applause and public acknowledgment for his effort. As he says, "Amazing what you can do with PowerPoint isn't it?"
Perhaps this could become a new feature of the site - a 'design a logo for GOAT' section. That's one of the more feasible ideas there's ever been on this thing.
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