Today is a little experiment! I used my generator to give me a random topic and will try to come up with art ideas around it.

1. A movie/game where the main character is really hungry - he sees a fruit hanging high up on a tree and makes several (humorous) attempts to get it, until a girl suddenly appears and takes the fruit in a swift motion. He chases after her and a play between them two ensues. Then the girl introduces him to her world.
2. The witches garden - a game/installation where your task is to "babysit" the plants of the witch .. which have a life of their own (see "Pepper and Carrot" for style of narration)
3. An old lady in a shop sells the main character a special plant .. she is really nice and the main character likes her. Then she dies and the character is left with the plant. Soon they discover it has a life on it's own ..
4. The player meets a dyrad (a ghost connected to it's tree). Soon they discover the tree is about to be lumberjacked. (from here on player could either try to stop it or the tree gets cut down and a new sapling comes .. and he kinda has to watch over it, care for it.)
5. Art installation where plants are projected (with lightbeamer) into little glass jars - if possible: react on touch or other sensory input
6. A botanist's apartment that is filled with botanical illustrations come to life
7. There is a special flower that only blooms at midnight .. the main character is trying to get it, as it's a way to cure someone dear .. but next to the flower they meet another person, who appears to be ill themself .. who will they help? Someone dear to them or a stranger right in front of them? -> movie/game about moral dilemma
8. The player is a spirit that has the ability to inhabit plants and make them grow - game about moving around in the city, from green spot to green spot, with little city scenes, how people live, how they react on things growing
9. In a gray city, you enter a secret garden trough a back alley door. It's growing wild and is a bit dried out - the player finds out that the former gardner is gone and that he used to spread the plants around the city to bring people joy. - game about spreading seeds and plants in the city without getting caught -> player will see people smile and "blossom" themselves; nature as symbol for freedom, individualism, expression
10. A forest monster that forms out of plants, needles, etc.

I really liked this experiment! Was a really fun way of brainstorming, it just kept the ideas coming ^^

10 ideas about using so-called "neural networks" to improve one's (creative) workflow

I'm not deep into neural networks (yet). I trained a neural network on text based works (Jules Verne) the last days (used https://github.com/karpathy/char-rnn).

1. Assist in writing - trained NN suggests sentences in the style of e.g. a certain author
2. Create dialogue, names, graphics, sounds for game and other digital media
3. Use as creative writing prompt - create summary to base text on/ or rewrite generated text
4. Use NN to exploit or close bugs in games and other software
5. Train NN on own coding style - suggest fitting code
6. Use well-trained NN to assist in decision-finding
7. Use NN to suggest related art for a given keyword as inspiration - trained on the things the user "favorites"
8. Train NN on pieces of artwork with desired style -> recreate similar artwork for personal projects
9. NN trained on artwork can also be used to input random inspiration, e.g. stuck with painting, NN adds something to it
10. If need to create a big, similar set of assets by hand, can train NN to do it for you

I hope this makes sense .. a very interesting topic. I don't get it completely yet, but I think it'll increase in use and influence in near future.
I attached my first test of training a RNN on 4 books of Jules Verne for a day. It would need a bit more time and data, but it already yields pretty interesting results.

Day 7! I usually have too many ideas in my head to implement, so feel free to steal some.
My theme for today is a better society.

How can me improve on the European (German) society, so it's fair for everyone.

1. if you defend your fundamental rights as a citizen in front of the court, the state should pay for lawyers (right now you have few power as citizen against a business with much money and institutes of the state itself)
2. people who do volunteer work should get financial support by the state - those contribute much to make our society a better place
3. a fixed percentage of a city district is used to build parks and forests - those filter the air & provide relaxation. A recent study of the British government showed that forests help to live longer and work more productively (shortened lives trough air pollution is sadly a thing)
4. a city of colors, a city where citizen fill the facades of their houses with art - this can contribute to a more lively, positive environment
5. implement the concept of "Liquid Democracy" to give the citizen power in decision making processes again
6. declutter the laws, make them understandable by everyone - in Germany exists a huge amount of laws - even lawyers are unable to look trough and understand all of them
7. stop managing educational and sanitary institutions as businesses
8. pay less money for wars, pay more for the society
9. decrease the hurdles for small businesses, for a flourishing economy
10. stop valuing the worth of the country by it's GDP and start valuing it by the Social Progress Index - an international standard for rating the quality of society, the quality of living

HOW YOU CAN IMPROVE THE SOCIETY: donate every month to organisations helping to make the world a better place, e.g. the red cross

every little donation helps! Be nice, offer your help without expecting anything in return, fight for the rights of others.

I would love to hear your thoughts on this!

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Day 6! I usually have too many ideas in my head to implement, so feel free to steal some.
My theme for today is apartment.

1. create table gardens by putting several plants in a larger container
2. grow herbs right in your kitchen for tastier and healthier meals
3. with green being the most relaxing color for the eye, hang greenery images as point of rest
4. put clothes sorted as complete outfit in the cupboard to save time
5. create a "timetravel" box, where you put in photos, etc. of emotional value
6. use warm, moody lightening to comfort yourself (this helps being more creative, too)
7. collect the water of the sink to water your plants
8. idea box: write your ideas down on notes and drop them into a paper box - when coming up with new ideas look for inspiration there
9. create a tea brewing spot consisting of a water boiler, with cups and tea in a cupboard above, bonus: grow plants next to it, e.g. mint
10. create a rest spot with soft pillows, moody lightening and green or brown colors (=balance, rest)

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Day 4! I usually have too many ideas in my head to implement, so feel free to steal some.
My theme for today is blogging.

1. have a blog format where you answer questions with little doodles
2. create a bot blogging procedural diary entries from a fictional planet
3. create a blog where you as writer take the role of a cat, mix in stereotypes
4. create a blog where you post 10 ideas a day (so meta)
5. help make the world a better place and blog about local charities
6. post the faces you find in daily objects (e.g. houses, clouds)
7. make a blog where you curate sounds and pictures of nature
8. make a blog where you paint cute faces on tiny objects you photographed
9. curate images of cozy campfires from around the web
10. make a webcomic series about tiny, fluffy monsters

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Day 3! I usually have too many ideas in my head to implement, so feel free to steal some.
My theme for today is forest.

1. make a game where you are a forest ghost protecting the woods from human destruction
2. hollow out a log and put speakers inside playing nature sounds
3. create a guerilla initiative for keeping the woods clean of rubbish
4. a project where you buy ruins in cities, demolish them and turn the area into a city forest (alternatively do this the guerilla way)
5. create a free game which emotionally connects citizen back to forests
6. paint street lanterns, so they look like birch trees
7. build a watch tower in the woods, which looks like a hollow tree
8. decrease meat consumption, so less area is used to grow food (especially for pigs are large areas needed to grow them food) - turn the areas free again into forests
9. paint on a dead tree with bioluminiscent paint
10. plant domestic saplings at places currently turning back into a forest / in commercial forests

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Let's do this! I usually have too many ideas in my head to implement, so feel free to steal some.

My theme for today is moss.

1. make a game with the graphics consisiting out of macro photos
2. make a living picture frame filled with moss
3. make a Twitter bot retweeting moss pictures
4. create a miniature landscape using moss
5. establish moss gardens in Europe (common practice in Asia)
6. create a room where every piece of the wall is moss as art installation (2x2x2m)
7. use moss for product photography
8. make a "floating" moss sphere, hanging on a nylon rope
9. make a book cover out of moss
10. create a photography where it seems the models finger grows full of moss once she touches it

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