Brief 2 | First ideas

After defining 'Shi', I started off with the first drafts and generating a few concepts. The major problem here was that there were too many ideas in my head and at this stage already I tried to put them through a filterprocess. I brought these initial ideas to paper and transferred them to flash, here a few examples:
Based on myself as an illustration, the navigation peels of my body and the user can navigate through. The effect is 'new', but the big idea missing. Just another fancy web approach.
Little rectangular shaped navigation menu flying around. Boring.
Points throughout the body representing navigation tabs which peel off. Looks too naked.

3d approach: buttons placed in a circle. rotating around the main object, which is the illustration. Too flat, and boring.

I was not pleased with my first attempt, it all looks too effect based and not with a core idea behind. Still waiting for the big bang.