Letters to the void.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Invention Ideas (2)

Glow in the dark paint...
I know I didn't invent this idea, but think of the many unexplored applications of glow in the dark paint as an eco-friendly energy saver. What if you painted the inside of your house with glow in the dark paint? Think of the money you'd save on electric bills and lightbulbs. What if downtown buildings were painted with incandescent paint? The government could save money on streetlights. If cars were painted with glow-in-the-dark paint, there might be less accidents and serious attention drawn to some people's hot-rods as well.
There are many other applications regarding safety and energy savings for this idea. I'm sure there are more I haven't thought of.

Invention Ideas

I love inventions. I've come up with a few.

One of my best invention ideas is the guitar-case chair. It's pretty much just a hard-shell acoustic guitar case with legs that fold out to turn it into a chair to sit on as you play. The case would have four fold-out legs arranged in a rectangle on the body-section of the guitar case. There would be an additional fifth fold-out leg by the head-stock of the guitar case. All these legs would be attached on the back of the guitar-case.

Over the neck part of the case, a fold up canvass seat back could come up -- kind of like a beach-chair recliner. The fifth leg by the headstock of the case would allow the case-chair to fold down into a beach-style recliner. You could also arrange the chair-back upright for a regular chair playing position.

At festivals, a guitar play could wander into a jam with guitar-case-chair in hand and then easily have a place to sit to play with friends. If traveling alone, a street musician could quickly set up a place to sit and play anywhere he would want.

One potential problem is the hinges. I have sat on guitar cases before, and the hinges often break. In order for the guitar-case-chair to work, you would have to come up with some sort of hinge that wouldn't break under the body weight of a guitar player sitting on it.

I have some other invention ideas I'll post later.

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Thanks

Our wedding last weekend was awesome. It was so fun. And being married is also really fun.

I wanted to make sure that all the musicians that played were thanked and recognized. Below is a list of all the musicians that played at our wedding. Look them up and check out their music. (There were also many brilliant musicians who came to our wedding who didn't play... and we thank them too).

Regan Kane
Keynes Chen
Andrea McGowan
Andy Straus
Greg Travis
Bobby Krech
Rob Gonzales
Jack Shaw
Chris Fuller
M'hamed El Menjra
Gabe Mervine
Charlie Mertens
Eric Moon
Justin Donovan
Elana James
Whit Smith
Jake Erwin

Thank you all so much.