THOUGHT LOG:
1. Shape of the Thing: Ambition and Intent
2. A Musing Muse, Short Story of an idea that willed itself into existence.
3. Appreciating Elements + Emergence
> Hiroki Azuma | Otaku: Database Animals
>> Kingdom Hearts: East of West at the Dawn of the Age of the Franchise
> A Comic Act | Inmates Running the Asylum
> Impact of the comic book industry on the properties of its medium; a perfect intersection of commerce, consumption, community, and creation.
> Favorite Things
4. Origin Story + Idea Origami
5. An Interview with The Author (MM_DD_YYYY)
6. Memetic Movement in Modernity
> Sanrio: Fast-Tracking IP with Appealing Characters Equipped to Survive, Sans Story
> Appealing Characters, Believable Worlds, Stories that Move... And a powerful thread to bind them.
> Taming the Ouroboros.
> The Same Story: Different Forms (?)
> The Role of 'IP': Communmity in Consumption
> Open Source Worlds, Democratic Canon
> Icons in the Age of Oversaturation; Across Artists and Art
>> 'Death' of the Icon
>> Recipe for Post-Iconic Icons
> Consistency: A Curse or a Courteousy
ASSUMPTIONS:
This is all speculative; but the intention is to explore the potential dynamics of a world in which users are able to engage with technology in such a way that all barriers to creatvie expression are eroded. Forces will still shape the choreography of communication, but they're bound to be endlessly more complicated than the machinitations of the systems that exist today; traditional legacy media and output of the creator economy.
Content is able to slide the gradient of each; independent works have carved out a space in the world of traditional media, and larger traditional players have embraced digital platforms - as either second screen experiences, tie-ins to their main body of output, or
Assuming this day arrives, the maestro will be the one to tame the ouroboros. As the rules of this new world are figured out, those proactive enough to think deeply about the strangeness of emergeance yet humble enough to remain nimble will have an immense advantage.
7. Wish List: Tools & Technologies
> P2P Agent Project Pools
>> Decentralized Self Improvement
> Decentralized Democratic Canon: Convergence of Consumption, Creation, Community
>> 'LoRAs' (or, an equivalent functionality or framework that achieves the cocneptual goal); defined bounds (based off of a curated dataset, ideally multimodal,
> Image, Audio, Video Generation
> The Ideal Interface for Ideas
>> Memory :: Not only as a technical challenge, but a UX one. Not only an aid in transparency, but essential to fully realize the potential of collaboration with generative agentic tools. Being able to view, interact with, manipulate, provide feedback on, reject, and prioritize
>> Creating works will almost be like an intense, extended, personal, conversational fine-tuning session. And once the work is realeased, you can always 'publish' and 'revise' by engaging in additional sessions (now with the benefit of audience engagement metrics)