Ideas hit me sometimes like lightning!

Don't know where they come from?

I think there are little bubbles pregnant with ideas that float around and land on certain people. Some people like me just enjoy them, without acting on them.

Others roll up their sleeves and take action and make something out of them. Many ideas become tools. Some become books, paintings, movies and or political movements.

An idea for a wonderful toy may land on you, but if you don't care for toys your mind goes on to some other interest. Later, you may find yourself looking for a toy as a gift for someone and see that very toy you thought you thought of.

How many times have you proclaimed you were "ripped off" when you see a movie with an idea you had?

Ever see a friend with a hot girl you had noticed before? "Damnit! It was my idea to bang that chick before that guy!"

Still reading the so far fantastic, "The Whole Equation" by David Thompson, and he mentions Edward Hopper after I was just looking at his work before I picked up the book. There is a great chapter about Hopper's "New York Movie" and how we as viewers of this painting wonder what the beautiful usherette is thinking?

Thompson imagines, she is listening to the soundtrack, or maybe something about the film reminds her of her own situation with a lover, or simple she is bored with the film and has her own troubles. Hopper is such a genius, I believe he knows which "story" we SHOULD be interested in, and I doubt it's the movie that's playing.

I also believe, Hopper foresaw a technology and it's annoying use in theaters when the idea occurred to him, and even though this painting is from 1939, she is in fact on a cellphone.