Should probably mention my own site idea

When I looked at the theme of "Movement" I thought of machinery, specifically steam engines. But in a modern way... if that makes sense.

When I looked at the theme of "Identity" I thought of 18th century clothing (Big hats) and... steam engines. But used in a modern context. You know, out of place but still makes some kind of sense.

Basically either way I ended up on the idea of "steampunk". Unfortunately that doesn't really help get me anywhere.

There's the awesome ideas of Tom Banwell in terms of hats/clothing and a few movable type items, but apart from that nothing that comes out as "art on the web", more just a web-based view of art that is based off the web.

But just static images doesn't feel right, even were I to focus on Identity, I would still feel that motion was somehow necessary, so I figure a focus on Motion with a sub-focus on how I identify with it, might be a suitable method of attacking the task at hand.

From a motion-based viewpoint, all I could come up with was the idea of an animation that expanded to show the viewer... _something_. Nothing specific, just "something".

I finally thought, what if the expansion was just to reveal the thing that expanded, not to uncover something else beneath. This idea took the form of some kind of "mechanical tree", as in a tree that grows from the user clicking on parts of it. And mechanical by virtue of being composed of pipes, pistons, puffs of steam, and for some reason some art-deco style sculpture seems to fit perfectly in place (The kind of architectural art style that I believe came out during the end of the great steam-powered ships).

I used to be very interested in the Titanic as a child, that could be a possible influence. I used to wonder what would have happened if the Titanic didn't sink, and the ships kept getting bigger and more frivolous, with no worries about the possibility of it all being lost at sea.

Now I'm more affected by movies - or was that what got me interested in the Titanic? Not sure what came first. I also think a lot of that scene from Pirates of the Caribbean - where Captain Jack looks for a hat - you've got to have a hat (and it's got to be the right hat). However I don't think that will go very far. Can't have hats on machinery, they don't like it.

Anyway, this was my idea proposed last week:


However for that I used shapes to make up the tree, which reminded me of the art deco thing... so who knows what I'll end up with. I think the idea of the tree that grows when you click on it is too good to pass up however.