Saturday, June 05, 2010
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
On popular culture and mental diet
“Observation of an action automatically triggers simulation of that action (in the mind of the observer)… Premotor cortical neurons fire during goal directed actions as well as during observation of similar actions.” Dr. Bruce Lipton, Biology of Perception.
Dr. Lipton is a leading human DNA expert who proves that perception creates reality, and not the other way around as conventional knowledge holds.
If observation of an act leads to internal simulation of it, wouldn’t it be fair to say that 45% of western populace (market share of violent movies) enjoy to abuse or to be abused at least in their minds? If people enjoy watching horror movies, what does it tell about their level of consciousness? Are they emotionally retarded? Are they in need to stimulate their emotionally starved and insipid lives? Why do they voluntarily take pleasure in watching suffering and pain? Are they evil, sick or just dim?
My point is this: many millions of people in the west every day voluntarily tune in to watch other people dying! Mainstream culture makes killing other people look frequent, natural and easy. Oversaturation of death entertainment reduces the sacredness of life to triviality and makes violence as mundane as yogurt.
Terrence McKenna once famously said: “culture is not your friend”. And mainstream culture it seems is only a friend for mentally and emotionally retarded. Why so? Because it is shallow, uninspiring and vain. Here some popular examples:
Eurosong contests (low common denomination type of music), soap (for mentally, emotionally unchallenged), celebs (for audiences with low self worth), big brother and american idol types (for want-to-be-celebs), horror movies (for emotionally starved), fashion (vanity rules), etc.
From this list one can conclude that mainstream culture is not only a breeding nest for mediocrity but also is a miss for human values like compassion, empathy and unselfish love.
Popular culture seems to be similar to junk food. Most of us know about the benefits of food diet and fewer about the importance of mental diet. Which means: Junk culture has an effect on our mind similar to the effect of junk food on our body.
Dr. Lipton is a leading human DNA expert who proves that perception creates reality, and not the other way around as conventional knowledge holds.
If observation of an act leads to internal simulation of it, wouldn’t it be fair to say that 45% of western populace (market share of violent movies) enjoy to abuse or to be abused at least in their minds? If people enjoy watching horror movies, what does it tell about their level of consciousness? Are they emotionally retarded? Are they in need to stimulate their emotionally starved and insipid lives? Why do they voluntarily take pleasure in watching suffering and pain? Are they evil, sick or just dim?
My point is this: many millions of people in the west every day voluntarily tune in to watch other people dying! Mainstream culture makes killing other people look frequent, natural and easy. Oversaturation of death entertainment reduces the sacredness of life to triviality and makes violence as mundane as yogurt.
Terrence McKenna once famously said: “culture is not your friend”. And mainstream culture it seems is only a friend for mentally and emotionally retarded. Why so? Because it is shallow, uninspiring and vain. Here some popular examples:
Eurosong contests (low common denomination type of music), soap (for mentally, emotionally unchallenged), celebs (for audiences with low self worth), big brother and american idol types (for want-to-be-celebs), horror movies (for emotionally starved), fashion (vanity rules), etc.
From this list one can conclude that mainstream culture is not only a breeding nest for mediocrity but also is a miss for human values like compassion, empathy and unselfish love.
Popular culture seems to be similar to junk food. Most of us know about the benefits of food diet and fewer about the importance of mental diet. Which means: Junk culture has an effect on our mind similar to the effect of junk food on our body.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
Playing God with ants
is a book that i will or will not write.
There is an old hermetic axiom: as above, so below. This made me assume our reality as a fractal of a bigger (incomprehensible) world... and this in turn made me think that we people must be subjects to a higher levels of intelligence (Gods)... and this made me imagine how lower consciousness life forms must be "looking up" to us humans - we must be gods for them!
Now here's another twinkle of a thought: if everything is a fractal of an infinite cosmic progression it would be fair to suppose that the way we, as gods, treat our low consciousness brothers (like ants for example) is intimately linked to the way our gods (superior brothers) treat us. As above, so below.
On a practical side, the book might be about how to develop a magickal way of seeing reality to gain more control over (increasingly chaotic) everyday life. That implies chucking away old conventional wisdom we were taught by our outdated educational system and upgrading for the new ones, i.e:
Believing is seeing and not the other way around as we've been programmed.
The truth is a process and not a fixed state (it has expiration dates like memes).
Subjective reality dictates objective reality.
Brain is a hardware, mind is a code that gets regularly re-written by forces of nature.
We can befriend viruses (change agents of life) to gain more control of the desired outcome.
Influencing collective mind of ants is similar to influencing collective mind of people.
In short, the book might be about right brain technology magick.
I quite like this cover:
There is an old hermetic axiom: as above, so below. This made me assume our reality as a fractal of a bigger (incomprehensible) world... and this in turn made me think that we people must be subjects to a higher levels of intelligence (Gods)... and this made me imagine how lower consciousness life forms must be "looking up" to us humans - we must be gods for them!
Now here's another twinkle of a thought: if everything is a fractal of an infinite cosmic progression it would be fair to suppose that the way we, as gods, treat our low consciousness brothers (like ants for example) is intimately linked to the way our gods (superior brothers) treat us. As above, so below.
On a practical side, the book might be about how to develop a magickal way of seeing reality to gain more control over (increasingly chaotic) everyday life. That implies chucking away old conventional wisdom we were taught by our outdated educational system and upgrading for the new ones, i.e:
Believing is seeing and not the other way around as we've been programmed.
The truth is a process and not a fixed state (it has expiration dates like memes).
Subjective reality dictates objective reality.
Brain is a hardware, mind is a code that gets regularly re-written by forces of nature.
We can befriend viruses (change agents of life) to gain more control of the desired outcome.
Influencing collective mind of ants is similar to influencing collective mind of people.
In short, the book might be about right brain technology magick.
I quite like this cover:
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Revue Your Life Every 30 Seconds
just came across this cool gadget from Vicon Revue via information aesthetics.com
that lets users automatically document their life ... every 30 seconds (i guess the timing is programmable). Above is a video with the product demonstration.
Watchtower Shpongle Dreamscape vrmx
work of the day: little animation
boy meets his guardian angel in his astral travel
music Shpongle - Fruit Flute
boy meets his guardian angel in his astral travel
music Shpongle - Fruit Flute
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Idea: VoxBox for social media
How it works:
We let people record a sound with their mouth (just like beatboxing) via their webcams and store it on a special website... it could be a musical note (do,re,me,fa,so,la,si,do), imitation of a music instrument, a drone, whistle, unusual sound, etc.)... and then build an app that can put these sounds in certain musical style templates (dubstep, drum'n'base, hip hop, etc)... so it will be like social beatbox...
Since the sounds come with the visuals the program will also create a video rmx with actual faces making the sound... this will make a perfect viral video for youtube: facebook voxbox competition with different FaceBook friends circles competing for the best vox mix.
Here’s an example of music keyboard interface:
With all the usual sound machine special effects and controls.
Beatboxing is an increasingly popular style of making tunes with a mouth. Here’s a reference link to the current beatboxing champion Birdyman from UK (my favourite)
We let people record a sound with their mouth (just like beatboxing) via their webcams and store it on a special website... it could be a musical note (do,re,me,fa,so,la,si,do), imitation of a music instrument, a drone, whistle, unusual sound, etc.)... and then build an app that can put these sounds in certain musical style templates (dubstep, drum'n'base, hip hop, etc)... so it will be like social beatbox...
Since the sounds come with the visuals the program will also create a video rmx with actual faces making the sound... this will make a perfect viral video for youtube: facebook voxbox competition with different FaceBook friends circles competing for the best vox mix.
Here’s an example of music keyboard interface:
With all the usual sound machine special effects and controls.
Beatboxing is an increasingly popular style of making tunes with a mouth. Here’s a reference link to the current beatboxing champion Birdyman from UK (my favourite)
Idea: Write the future.
A small widget app that FBook users can install. It appears on the screen every few days, displays some random headline and asks if it’s likely to happen in the nearest future or not.
Second option offers to write your own headline and set the time when it’s likely to happen.
Bild-future-headlines.de would display statistical data of people votes as well as the entire archive with user generated headlines.
Users also have an option to vote for the most popular future headline.
Bild Newspaper would offer a reward, for example a bit of cash, to anyone who correctly predicts the future or picks the right headline.
Headlines can also be posted via Twitter.
Second option offers to write your own headline and set the time when it’s likely to happen.
Bild-future-headlines.de would display statistical data of people votes as well as the entire archive with user generated headlines.
Users also have an option to vote for the most popular future headline.
Bild Newspaper would offer a reward, for example a bit of cash, to anyone who correctly predicts the future or picks the right headline.
Headlines can also be posted via Twitter.
The problem with advertising...
... is that old tricks of the trade ain't working anymore!
here's an example that immediately causes a skeptical reaction:
In psychology this old trick is called " deliberate projection of personal need as fact" which means it's a sure sign of lacking thereof.
Why would a brand pay an ad agency to say that it is number one?
Because it is obviously not a number one yet!
obviously nobody knows about it or nobody cares about it.
and by the way, wouldn't it to be more trustworthy for somebody else to say this?
Apparently not every brand (or ad agency) realizes that people are increasingly capable of deconstructing their "old school" selling propositions and "self congratulatory" ads like this only create a wall of skepticism.
here's an example that immediately causes a skeptical reaction:
In psychology this old trick is called " deliberate projection of personal need as fact" which means it's a sure sign of lacking thereof.
Why would a brand pay an ad agency to say that it is number one?
Because it is obviously not a number one yet!
obviously nobody knows about it or nobody cares about it.
and by the way, wouldn't it to be more trustworthy for somebody else to say this?
Apparently not every brand (or ad agency) realizes that people are increasingly capable of deconstructing their "old school" selling propositions and "self congratulatory" ads like this only create a wall of skepticism.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Idea: New Polaroid camera can capture human soul
Polaroid was once very cool. Now, with the advent of digital instant gratification photography it is nothing special.
Here's an idea how to make a comeback:
Design a personal camera that can also capture the images of human soul.
How?
To use an existing technology of Kirilan and Aura photography. At the moment there are some cameras built for this purpose, but they are mainly produced for hospitals and their design is rather industrial and bulky.
I believe it's time for Polaroid to surprise the photography market again and be the first to bring this technology to a mass market in a slick design and affordable price.
Here's an idea how to make a comeback:
Design a personal camera that can also capture the images of human soul.
How?
To use an existing technology of Kirilan and Aura photography. At the moment there are some cameras built for this purpose, but they are mainly produced for hospitals and their design is rather industrial and bulky.
I believe it's time for Polaroid to surprise the photography market again and be the first to bring this technology to a mass market in a slick design and affordable price.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
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