Restaurant/Club - The End of the World
Summary
Name: The End of the World: [Location Name] (first part of name taken from Terra Letum and .hX, the second part of the name would need to be a unique name relevant to the location)
Facility Type: Restaurant/Club
Amenities: Music, relaxation (comfortable seating), computer/gaming stations, iPod/laptop docking, dancing, "energy lounge"
Target Demographic: Gamers, Geeks, Ravers, Dancers, Socially awkward intellectuals
Management: SEA-Experimental Action Management System (opposed to POS, of which most adhere to the popular meaning of their acronym), on-site manager skilled with computer system and paid highly adequately
Music: Varies per time session, live artists/DJs, popular and retro dance/metal/house
Theme: Ambient colors, LED and laser lighting, blue by default (almost everybody likes blue), possibility of experimental lighting sources
Funding: Sponsors, mostly from energy drinks. Opportunities for ambient glowing signs and non-obtrusive themed advertisements!
Enforcement: CCTV grid, doorman enforces zero-alcohol, zero-smoking, zero-drugs... KILLER ROBOT???
Network: Membership access levels depend on patronage. Internet access to exclusive content available with membership as well. Membership grants discounts and other benefits, such as access to live events. Partnerships with suppliers would work well also (eg: You get a 5% discount when ordering a case of BAWLS thanks to your standing with us), (eg: Free album for attending concert, download to storage device at docks). Members can also vote and suggest music selections, with priority placed on turnout.
Location: Since the members of the club would be determining many of the features, it would be ideal to place these types of places near large cities with underground cultures that meet the target demographic. As some places may become biased with the local preference of music, allowing each location's "culture" to grow would be ideal for establishing communities of loyal employees and customers.
Details
Jitters, Rudeboy, Adam, and I were talking about a bar--among many other things--that wasn't really a bar, but a restaurant/club location that would not serve alcohol, but a variety of plain and mixed energy drinks containing all the legal chemical stimulants in the rainbow. Rudeboy and I went into much more detail on this later. Now that I'm sleep deprived and tripping balls on caffeine, I've decided to deliver the coup de grace.
The motivation behind creating this concept was that alcohol is a gigantic staple in human culture that has been repeated countless trillions of times (to the point that even some 80+ population communities only have a pawn shop, gas station, liquor store, and bar). Energy drinks have really taken off in this past decade. As alcohol is commonly used as a downer used to numb the pain of our miserable existence (don't deny it), ravers, dancers, and some clubbers have found ways to "amplify" their existences using illicit drugs.
The objective here is to compromise and create an assortment of legal chemicals and drinks for all of those computer geeks and adrenaline junkies that like to reach a higher state of consciousness from the compulsive consumption of caffeine and artificial energy. This would be ideal for the many estranged and disorganized social groups of gamers, larpers, ravers, whatever.
It's also a good environment to kick anyone's ass at competitive video gaming on state-of-the-art thin client gaming and computer consoles that use self-updating firmware. Even yesterday I was able to play my Halo 3 character in two completely different cities simply by recovering my Xbox Live gamertag on a console I was a guest on. When you sign in to our club, you are signed into our music system, gaming system, and usual Internet/RSS/Blogging/Social Networking systems. When you're in the zone with good company with the added bonus of your favorite energy cocktail, you may also have better results power leveling your Knight, programming in Ruby, or blogging about completely random ideas like how to create an all-energy drink restaurant/club.
Please add any other ideas/comments to this post, which I may incorporate into this one later with due credit.
Alcohol + robots
It's probably going to be too difficult to enforce a zero-alcohol policy. People will still act disruptive even while sober, so we should shift our focus onto reprogramming military androids into bouncers. Creating some sort of crisis center would also be a good investment for containing unruly guests and providing a medical infirmary for people waiting for police officers or ambulances. Especially due to what Adam said: mixing alcohol with caffeine is a great way to end up hospitalized.
I like this pic
disco-design-online.com
It reminds me of something out of Second Life
Lots of bubbly thingies
The ambiance is great. It reminds me a lot of space ship decks and laser tag at Funtasia. The chairs, tube pillars, and wall orbs give me that bubbly, 90's sci-fi feeling.
An Ambient Intelligence Dance Space
So in wondering what the hell you meant by "ambient colours" (which it turns out is entirely reliant on what type of atmosphere or environment you're trying to produce) I ran across this currently undeveloped technology:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/11093/35437/01681819.pdf?tp=&isnumber=&a...
Sensors worn on dancers measure arousal state through skin conductance and body temperature. Pressure sensors on the floor collect dancers’ positions and movements.An Intelligent system computes the data collected from sensors and adjusts the lighting/3-D image projection accordingly to reflect the arousal level.
How you interpret the word "arousal" is up to you.
I also found a group that is studying the effects of different colours on arousal, but I don't speak japanese.
Arousal?
Hahaha!
I'm not sure I'm entirely following. Are you saying that "...stage lighting and lighting in projected imagery within a dance performance to portray dancer's arousal state" is merely a lighting system that paints the most aroused individual(s) on the dance floor?
Hypothetically speaking, if there was a scantily clad girl grinding a pole and a bunch of drunk males swooning over her, the system would illuminate... the aroused male observers! It could get complicated once the homosexual males notice the fully illuminated heterosexual male swooners, etc.
In actuality I'm hypothesizing it would be some sort of social engineering experiment that would help researchers track social interactions among individuals on the dance floor. For what sinister purpose this research may serve only time will tell.
good point
Although, that would help the whole "be gay" theory.
EotW Update
06/09/08 Nightowl Update
It's bubble tea 2.0. Bubble tea in many zany flavors, all of it packing a punch. The more you drink the higher the score you will get on your video games. Time itself will slow down and all thought will cease except: "Did I really just put tiny balls in my mouth?" Tapioca balls could be caffeinated.
From my dream: Flexible LCD paneling covers walls, ceiling, counters, floor (below glass cover). The building interior is going to be expensive as hell since this technology is barely developed at the writing of this post. Anyway, the entire room will go through massive "trips" as though people were flying in a plane on a sunny day over the crystal blue ocean. The entire room display HD quality images that are dynamically shown on the flexible LCD surfaces.
"Visualizations"
- Flight over ocean/islands
- Flight over cities
- Flight over Earth
- Crazy vortex tunnels
- Standard chromatic laser lights
For those of you who have taken illicit substances, this may sound familiar. Remember this is for people like me to as a real alternative to throwing away brain cells, limited supply endocrine and spinal fluid on little pills.
This semi-coherent message brought to you by a 4-pack of Red Bull one hour before dawn.
Also, mixing alcohol with
Also, mixing alcohol with massive amounts of caffeine is a good way to get yourself thrown in the hospital. Mixing it with massive amounts of sugar is also a good way to wake up with a hangover that feels like a thousand angry men trying to punch their way out of your skull.
Inhabitat: Lunar cabinet
Inhabitat: Lunar cabinet glows in the dark with eco-paint
While our ultimate objective is to be environmentally friendly, the reason the design on this cabinet is so important is because it looks freaking awesome. Glowing blue lights are a plus, but environmentally friendly paints that look awesome could be used to decorate walls and make little girls' dreams come true. I suppose that paint reacts to a black light.
Luminescent wallpapers
Here's some actual developments on luminescent wallpapers. It's costly, as anticipated! Using fiber optic lights we could come up with some pretty incredible designs, as well as dynamically change the lighting colors. It's a lot more practical than aforementioned flexible LED technology.
Pictured: Eris' retro look on Vanity Fair
Source: Inhabitat » Luminescent Fiber Optic Wallpaper by Camilla Diedrich
Yes
I didnt know that there wouldNT be alcohol i just assumed its main attraction would be the energy drinks. I think we may need to discuss me buying you out in 3-4 yrs. We all know that while you might be the brains behind this I will indeed be the one that makes fun of the brains on the daily basis, ultimately giving me complete control over the operation and turning it into the hottest nightclub in town in 3 weeks flat. Listen close because I choose my words carelessly... I will be the End for you. Which ironically ties into our sweet name for this bar we are thinking of making that basically is like this energy drink... wait a minute ive been FOOLED by myself... THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME YOU MAKE A FOOL OF ME BRAIN THE LAST TIME I SAY!
Barnes & Noble w/Robots & Ninjas
Alcohol is a downer, a depressant, and a poisonous mess while projectile vomited across a room! If you want alcohol you should be able to go next door to the country club (god knows, they exist everywhere). We're trying to achieve a higher state of being and we need our brains rapidly misfiring neurons for that to happen.
You don't need alcohol to hook up with grizzly-looking geek chicks; the ambient bioluminescent lighting will take care of that for you.
Even better, holographic images of Anna Pacquin could be precision projected across her girth. Any more ideas ??
PS: The Information Age has created a massive influx of sexy librarians that are going to be describing our place as "Barnes & Noble with robots and ninjas. Awesome."