art/craft ideas

i'm not sure exactly how feasible, interesting, original, or creepy these ideas are, but...

- using spam messages as inspiration to create a form of art to make a statement about technology / communication / business marketing ...

- collecting hair from each of your own haircuts and sorting by date, then making a timeline of haircolor/changes to make a statement about waste / time

- filming time lapses of people creating art to make a statement about what is the true work of art (art created within film vs actual film itself)

- taking a memorable quote, line of dialogue, lyrics, statement, etc and using a series of pictures / shots to depict each word in succession ...

- somehow documenting humans' interaction with current technology from an outsider's perspective (possibly a much older generation that is unfamiliar with current technology) to try to capture how complex and "advanced" young people's lives have become ... also possibly trying to show how we as young people will eventually be surpassed by our youth in terms of technology and a much different culture. btw, when do we as people become "outdated"? is it when we begin to doubt new inventions and hold onto our soon-to-be-technologically-defunct way of life?

- is there a means to display / discuss visually our current way of life? how have we as people changed with the invention of the internet, the online community, the online rating system, the online purchasing system, etc, etc, etc? I can barely remember life without the internet, without computers. There was a significant portion of my life in which I didn't know what email was. The same goes for all of you. It's much different for those growing up now. How will they as people eventually surpass us technologically? Do they have some sort of edge with living with computers, the internet, etc for their entire lives? Which was of life is necessarily "better" and will we as people continue this path towards greater reliance on technology for our day-to-day lives, our jobs, our education ? I remember the days in elementary school when we had to use floppy drives to save our documents. I remember playing Oregon Trail and that Alice in Wonderland game during our computer class and being completely amazed at how good the graphics were. I don't ever want to get disillusioned with the latest technology, but I'm terrified that there will be a point in my life when I'll simply give up on what's new and trendy and stick with my older "outdated" way of life. And eventually, hopefully long down the road of my life, all of the young kids will live life in strange new ways that I cannot even comprehend right now, and we old folks might still have an Ipod touch instead of the next latest technological wonder, and we'll slowly become more and more technologically defunct. My parents don't really understand/trust wireless internet. My grandparents still had a rotary phone up until a few years ago. These inventions, they were once as innovative and top of the line as the Ipod touch, but now they're archaic relics from an outdated and almost incomprehensible way of life (ie "how could people even EXIST without... i don't know... any major invention?") This road to being outdated in a world of younger, more technologically savvy generations is perhaps my biggest fear. Bottom line -- Never stop learning.

Well I don't know how I got here, but the stream of consciousness is ending. Thinking about these things for too long makes me feel insane, and I need to go edit my movie.