Ideas

One of the guys I work with is a VIZ student (he just signed with Dreamworks and turned down a job at Pixar) and amazingly talented. He and four other VIZ students created this film called Goobees (http://goobeesfilm.com-check it out!!). Anyway it's based on this episode from The Perry Bible Fellowship online comics called Colonel Sweeto. I thought it would be hilarious to turn this into a short story. Combining the ideas behind both and throwing in my own ideas. It also reminds me of the coke commercial they're showing before movies that's kind of like a mini epic or what goes on inside the machine. But it would be really cool to show this "Candyland" in a civil war. Maybe since I'm reading Henry IV right now I could include elements of that. Haha. The War of the Roses but with candy characters. How cool?! I'm definitely going to develop this eventually.

Ok. I've also had some other ideas including something with the circus. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Cirque de Solis. I've seen it 5 times I think although I've seen La Nouba twice. It would be so awesome to have a series even centered around circus people that really were magical/had elements of magic surrounding them. I haven't heard of anything like that before. It would be so easy for them to hide the fact that they really are maybe different creatures or have real magic behind makeup(or the illusion of) or stage tricks. Because the circus has become so theatrical now and its hard to tell what's real and what's stage props. AH! I'm really loving this idea. However neither of these are short story ideas. Boo.

Also I really love watching dance crews (like hip hop dancing) and I love dance in general. But how could I translate that into my fantasy writing? What if they had magic crews? Kids with skills banding together and competing against each other. It would be really cool I think. I dunno that's random but I think I could develop it into something. Kind of a play off of Step Up 2 the Streets maybe? A spoof/satire of it? Where someone from one of the crews has to go to a magic school and then starts their own magic crew? HA! I'm loving it so far. Ghetto magic? What What?! This could possibly be a short story one shot spoof on Step Up and other dance movies that later could turn into a larger work.