+++ Here are some ideas I’ve had over the years. I occasionally update it. enjoy.

Drive across the entire US with your feet hanging out the window. Start your journey wearing a pair of fresh, clean, white socks. What will they look like when the trip is over?

Run in place in a wind tunnel in really over-sized clothing.

Take a series of photos of you sneezing milk on someone else.

Make a photo series of you yelling at inanimate objects.

Run for the CEO of a company you select – pass out buttons and propaganda, really attempt to become the CEO.

Water ski entirely wrapped in bacon to experience just that.

Attempt to make a painting in the back of a pickup truck as it is going up a really rough road or on a journey across town.

Try to eat a five-course meal hanging up side down at a restaurant.

Make wooden car rims for your car.

Make a rotating restaurant out of bullet proof glass and put it in the middle of a gun range. Get shot out while you eat, and never get hurt.

Make a reality TV show with three sniper roommates.

Actually carry out the making of The DIY Helicopter

Take photos of people’s keychains and make a book of it

Hire a stenographer to follow you around for a day, documenting everything you say in a 24 hour period – make and publish a book of it

Do a documentary on the process of making fake silk plants

Make Fortune Cookie Cereal. Print different words on each cookie so you could make your own fortunes. See if you can sell a grocery store on stocking a few boxes.

The Home Museum:
Turn someone’s home into a temporary museum. Have them leave their house just the way it is, clean or not. Then, remove all of the doors and cover all of their doorways with plexiglass. Create signage for each room pointing out several banal details. For example, in the bedroom, put a sign near the clothes on the floor pointing out that “This t-shirt was worn by homeowner on March 23, 2005 and lies here unwashed. It is his/her favorite t-shirt and was purchased from a flea market in Western Arizona several years ago.” In the kitchen, there could be a sign reading,”This kitchen was remodeled in 1984, and since then has been cleaned at least once a week.”

You could give guided tours or offer an audio guide. Here is an example room, though it is not as messy as I’d like it to be.

Hire a stunt car driver for a day to do your errands with you.

Move your office permanently into your vehicle. Make your vehicle green at the same time by installing some sod (if you have a truck).

Get hired by Walgreens to do their catalogue photography and see what happens.

Move to Antartica during it’s dark phase.

Wear a fake rock on your head for a day.

Encase a 1969 Camaro SS in a block of lucite and display it as a public sculpture.

Music for Football:
I would like to make a musical composition using two opposing football teams. I would outfit each player, 11 per team, with with bright pink dots, one on each of their shoulder pads and the other on top of their helmet. Each dot would represent a musical note, middle C would be on the center’s helmet and the other note placements would be determined from there.

I would have a film camera directly above the line of scrimmage, and I would film several downs. Later I would look at each freeze frame and determine when each of the pink dots where “hit.” Every “hit” would signify a “hit” of that note on an instrument, most likely a piano. I would compile all of the “hits” and their corresponding notes on a timeline. I would then create a score for each down, and play it.

Depending on the down, the piece could last 4 seconds or 20 seconds. It would most likely sound cacophonous in the beginning that get more sparce and minimal as the down continues.

Take a month-long cross country trip inside of a modular home that would travel from LA to the NYC. Once the house arrives at it’s destination, turn it into a community “warming hut.”

Information Cube:
Create a 4′ x 4′ yellow cube with a talk box and red button. Sit inside the cube. People would be prompted to press the red button and ask questions about anything. Offer your advice, good or bad.

Biothermal Powered concerts, cars, coffee?:
Pack a room full of people so tight that it heats up a great deal , enough to where all of this body heat could be converted into electricity via “biothermal batteries” or “thermoelectric batteries”; this energy could power the charge on an electric vehicle, run a coffee maker, power a movie show, power a concert… This could serve as a small model for subway systems and buses, where body heat from the passengers could actually go toward the powering of the vehicle. Possible…sure, why not?

For more info on “biothermal batteries”, see the BBC News clip.

Re-organize the Art Institute of Chicago’s art collection alphabetically:
Propose to the Art Institute of Chicago a re-organization of their collection. A web-based portrayal of this would work as well. Start at one end of the museum with A (using artists last names, origin or titles as a reference system) and end at the other end with Z. You’d have early conceptual work right up against textiles and medieval armor. It would make for a very interesting showcase of history revisited.

The Receipt Machine:
This is an invention that would automatically scan your receipt at the point of purchase and send the image/ information to a personal online receipt account. You could keep track of all of your purchases and if you ever needed to return something you would always have your receipt. This could all be done through a magnetic receipt card (like a credit card).

Play sports on the small plots of grass around the city.

Fill a rental car with packing peanuts.

Document all of the things you open in a day.

Compile a video of hundreds of people sniffing their own hands.

Run a full marathon in your home or office.

Design a lottery for a Billboard. People would have the chance to put up any image they wanted on a highly visible billboard.

Organize a Cruise Strip in your neighborhood.

Stage a Fictitious Mayorial Campaign and His/ Her Assassination.

Have a TV dinner party.

Make the “Hunt for your Own Food Grocery Store”
You’re given either a crossbow, rifle, shotgun, knife, or handgun to go and hunt for your own food. Some is prepackaged, some is not.

Do a “Prefabricated Love Letter Service Center” in your neighborhood
It is a place where folks can go to get a love letter tailored to their needs. Maybe make a CD with a love song on it that must be played when the letter is read.

Take a traffic cop to lunch.