Mike Brinker

Mobile Blogging: Ghosts...

During my Senior year at Truman State University, I took a course during the winter interim called Hypnosis and Para-psychology. I was absolutely rivited by the information about the paranormal and fascinated by the guest speakers (some of you would call these people "quacks") stories and information. I learned everything there was to know about Aura's, chakras, spirits, poltergeists, hypnosis and even somthing called "Remote Deposession" (some of you would call this "insanity"). Despite the fact that many people would go into the class a naysayer and come out a believer is irrelevant. I was just plain fascinated, so my inspiration for one of my documentary films last semester was ghosts. And boy is there a lot of material to be covered about that here in LA! I have visited at least 4 places here in the greater Los Angeles area that claim to have spirits roaming around at their own free will. I visited a few, and was quite impressed by the amount of sitings and stories that everyone gave me. So I want to do somthing with the material, and my first inclination was a website. Well, someone really has me covered there, and thats this site. However, they are not an active blogging site, which I find to be an interesting mode of communication and sharing these days. Now what I want to do is create a mobile blogging system that allows people to select their location (CA--> LA-->, LACMA--> expierence) and post information about it! This allows the user to be there and to post their expierence almost in real time. I think it's sort of a problem to have to go home and recreate the expierence all over again and then write it down. Why not go mobile with it? I did some searchs on google, can't come up with anything yet. You all let me know if you find anything. Hopefully this project will get under way sometime starting this summer. Maybe sooner.