In my dream last night, while biking across the city, I found out that Transformers had been fan-rebooted as a new animation with alternate continuum. I watched a snippet on my phone and it was insanely good. But the broadcast was spatially limited and I had to keep riding around to see subsequent pieces. Soon there were hundreds of us all walking, riding bikes, and buses around town so we could watch more Transformers (for some reason you could not see it if you were driving or in a car).
@brook What a fun and impractical idea that I kinda would like to experience for real! If your brain came up with that, you might enjoy Kelly Link's short story Magic for Beginners, which is about a TV show that's also hard to catch, but not quite to that extreme. http://web.archive.org/web/20060111060529/http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/fiction/kl01.htm
@jernone I’ll check it out.
I think locally hosted content available via discrete WiFi hubs is fun weird idea. I’m sure it would all get copied and end up all in one place eventually.
What if it was story, game, or a set of stories, where the act of moving around to get the different chapters was part of and integral to the experience?
I feel like this would be so easy and cheap with pi zeroes; all you need is someone sympathetic and willing to plug them in and leave them running...
@jernone Some kind of game, where you can only interact with it when you’re on the WiFi lan of one of the nodes... That forces you to travel from place to place. But the nodes are not all the same, or rather you can’t do all the same thing from every node; they’re not just access points to some central game: You can only do some things or get part of the story from each one, you have to traverse them all to get everything.
@jernone or a music album, where each song is streamed from a different node, and each song is designed to be listened to in the place where the broadcasting node is.
Sure, you can just listen to the whole thing in band camp or youtube or whatever, but to experience it as it is meant to heard, you have to go to the places
@brook I love all those ideas! I think I've heard of people doing some pieces of that before, like a solar-powered file server that was only accessible if you were next to it that may or may not have been connected to geocaching?
Speaking of GPS, that seems like a totally viable way to try it out. Looks like some artists in Minneapolis attempted it in 2014, but I can't find evidence that they completed it. http://www.citypages.com/music/leav-a-gps-based-app-for-twin-cities-music-and-art-explorers-6636537