Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Idea: Thai National Reconciliation Tee

Just returned from Bangkok. The country is divided between the poor north (red shirts) and bourgeois south (yellow shirts). The stand off is longer then 7 weeks.

http://www.thaizer.com/politics/who-are-the-yellow-shirts-and-red-shirts/

It would be cool if tourists, in support for Thai national reconciliation, start wearing red-yello t-shirts!

Idea: Free Love carriage

Deutsche Bahn sets up a carriage that is called Free Love where passengers during their journey can try free product samples offered by different brands (tryvertising).

Idea: Ask.com iPhone app

Ask.com develops mobile app that allows users to ask questions speaking directly into microphone and receive vocal answers (from Jeeves).

The app would convert audio questions into text, send the query online, the best text results would be converted back to voice spoken by animated Jeeves figure.



The convenience of this idea was inspired when I was lying on a beach trying to find Osiris constellation in the night sky. Sometimes it's easier to use your voice rather than typing- reading when looking for answers.

The search engine would scan wiki, blogs and other online portals to find the best possible answer. After answering the question Jeeves would ask if the user is happy with the first answer. If not, Jeeves gives another one.

Jeeves is multilingual and is capable to learn the user's habits.
The app can also function as a mobile browser.

TV ad shows curious kids and lazy dad. He gives them his phone with Jeeves who now plays substitute dad. Other examples may include digital Jeeves playing a scientist, teacher or even a politician.

Promo: competition between 2 teams both using the app - who finds the first right answer gets a prize.

Idea: Shampoo

Monday, April 26, 2010

Flo White - Chemtrails

A new video of the Cleveland based musician Flo White for his song "Chemtrails". The video is highly influenced by John Carpenter's classic "They Live" in which construction worker Nada played by "Rowdy" Roddy Piper discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to see the world as it really is: aliens have taken over the Earth and people are being bombarded by media and government with subliminal messages like "OBEY", "MARRY AND REPRODUCE" and "STAY ASLEEP". The video also features my favorite truth seeker Freeman of The Freeman Perspective (he's that long haired guy with the white shirt).

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Get high on the facts

Marijuana Is Safer

i'd give it one year max until a full decriminalization of ganja in EU and North America starts.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Rant: Why bother to pay for news?

i am subscribed to creativity online free (not spam free!) newsletter. they send me headlines of the news and if i want to read more, i click on the link that takes me to creativity online page... where i am greeted with a message that tells me that i have to pay to proceed further!

i.e. today in their newsletter they mentioned about a new mob app called Starling but wouldnt let me read about it on their page.
so i googled Starling and got tons of info on it: reviews, pics, videos, etc.
(in fact, i have to do this routine all the time!)

my point is:

Why bother with all this subscription paywall at all when it drives its potential readers to other (often better!) sources?

ok, i understand it might work with some sort of exclusive or special content ... but news in general can't be exclusive! And Creativity Online is just all about general news from ad and marketing industry and very little else. anything they report can be easily obtained for free elsewhere online.

... and then all these "only members can leave comments or rate" signs... that alone is so daft!

which brings me to a conclusion:

In the future the news would pay us to read their news!

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Good question

A Case For Better Ideas and Less Worry About Executions

original article from Creativity online

look what reading it made me do:

click on the pic to enlarge.



my original comment (in case creativity decides not to publish it):

a case for better ideas and fretting less over the executions would do a better job in keeping up with the zeitgeist
which is more about the content and less about the looks, i.e. the message makes the medium viral and not the other way round.
To argue for "fewer ideas" might sell the book to accountants, but i seriously doubt that putting a lid on creativity would make advertising more exciting!

p.s. its ok to have lots half-baked ideas. the more the better. it keeps creative minds sharper.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Idea: How to please fat cats

a restaurant offers refunds based on the customers weight (before and after).
click on the pic to enlarge:

Friday, April 09, 2010

Idea: New Age Nokia

In the future Nokia develops technology to connect inner selves.
Here's a concept for a future ad:

Monday, March 29, 2010

Idea: Glue brand called LOVE

the stuff that holds everything together and environmentally friendly:




Saturday, March 27, 2010

Kaos Magick vrmx

ian brown | this is my everything. my video remix:



This is how it works:

Music video is a way to practice kaos magick. In this video each glyph is a coded personal desire (text to picture). On a subjective level it works like this: The glyphs are flashing to the beat to bypass the mind sensor and to directtly access the subconscious in order to activate the process of manifistation. If you combine this effect to the soundtrack that you love - the magick begins.

Friday, March 26, 2010

Idea: MOVIES PRODUCT PLACEMENT 3.0

Its quite common nowadays to see user generated ads for brands on social media.

Why not make product placement marketing in movies also interactive and open-source?


Imagine a movie website that offers premium movies for free online viewing in exchange for user created content that promotes a certain brand and placed in the movie as a bubble-thought or a bubble-speech.




Some censorship rules might apply to prevent abuse and to encourage "bubbles" that are most creative, original and funny

ALternatively, bubbles could be set as a default canvas for Google AdWords, etc. :



Bubbls are interactive layers on top of the movie that function as mini webs and are capable of streaming rich multimedia.

The last Advertising Agency on Earth

a viral from Saatchi & Saatchi accuses the industry of clinging to its old ways and methods, particular its reliance on TV advertising, "even when clients begged for new, non traditional ideas".

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Idea: Cell phone kaos magick



casting a sigil using samsung in a glass.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Casting spells as copyright protection

Magick is the science and art of causing change using subtle forces of nature.
It is the most advanced and ancient form of Right Brain Technology known to man.
(Left Brain Technology deals with dense matter that relates to binary sequence , whereas Right Brain Tech relates to Fibonacci sequence and deals with subtle matter).

Why not use magick spells as means for copyright protection?
Below is an example of one I created for my website.

Friday, March 19, 2010

Idea: Puppies bags for dog moms

Idea: Magickal Console

Below are specially designed temporary tattoos for performing magick. Click on the pic to enlarge.



The console is loosely based on principles used in modern NLP (which borrowed most of its ideas from ancient hermetic teachings btw!):

1. Choose a desired state of consciousness.
2. Anchor it to the button
3. Recall that state of consciousness by pressing the button.

I have chosen 6 main desired states and programmed them into glyphs (buttons):

1. Mental power and concentration
2. Physical power and endurance

3. Invisibility state (achieved by reducing your light body/aura into a dot)
4. Astral travel and remote viewing

5. Protection shield (looping up energy)
6. Gnosis (alpha brain waves) for magickal visualisations

The button in the middle of the metatron grid (6 pointed star shape) acts as the console's on/off switch.

The four glyphs near the wrist are thought forms designed to aid the process.

The choice of buttons can vary. Some people might want to create different buttons (states) depending on their current personal needs, i.e. buttons against insomnia, buttons to evoke a state of tipsiness (great money saver!), buttons for courage, and etc.

Nota bene: There's a special magickal technique how to program desired states of being into glyphs just in 21 days which I will write more about in the future.

MAGICKAL PRICE FOR MAGICK SERVICE

"Of what use, then, is the divination performed by one who has not spiritual discernment? And can one expect to find spiritual discernment in the hack occultist who gives so much for half-a-crown, and so much more for ten shillings? Spiritual things are not done in this way." Dion Fortune

Following the idea about combining magick (right brain technology) and marketing (left brain technology) here's

what we think would be the most appropriate way to charge for such service:

In our magickal works we don’t offer a tariff based pricing as we believe it will be detrimental to the outcome. In order for magick to work a genuine “sacrifice” has to be made. The value of “sacrifice” is personal for each individual and has therefore to be determined by each individual client.


Let me explain what I mean by “sacrifice”. And here we aren’t talking necessarily about pagan blood letting or sacrificing virgins!


What we mean is: in order to achieve our desired (magickal) outcome the client has to cement his belief by offering something that is very dear to him in exchange, in a similar way to the ancient civilizations did when they were asking their gods for miracles. Very important, the sacrifice has to be very genuine otherwise it won’t work. Imagine the Egyptians trying to fob off their gods by sacrificing their sickly calf instead of their prized bull! They wouldn’t have done this because they knew it just wouldn’t have worked.


So in modern terms, a client has to personally determine his value of the outcome by asking this question:


How important is the success of the outcome for me?


When he can honestly answer this question it is for him to determine the monetary value of the service. So it can’t be emphasized enough that the importance of honest evaluation is paramount to obtaining positive results.




Using conventional pricing methods in magick doesn’t often yield the desired results. For two simple reasons:


1. Many people are excluded from benefiting from these types of treatments simply because the fixed prices are out of their reach.

2. Those who can simply afford it are unlikely to feel that they are making any kind of personal sacrifice because it is well within their price range and therefore undervalued (from their perspective).


Of course there will be a group in the middle whose personal evaluation would match the given price of the service but this definitely won’t be the majority.


This “personal sacrifice” price system (or magickal price) not only solves the so common problem of mistrust (profit above all!) but also promotes principles of personal responsibility and higher consciousness, both for practitioners and their clients.


Technically it would work in 2 simple steps:


1. A client reads and signs a copy of the contract that explains how to make a conscious personal “magickal” price.

2. When the “sacrifice” is submitted, the work begins.


Magickal price system is also suited for products and services that deal with spiritual healing, alternative therapies… or any other areas that require the client’s active psychic participation and a use of right brain technologies.