Love instead of Hate perhaps?

Below are images of The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. It consists of a 19,000 square metres (4.7 acres) site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field.
Building began on April 1, 2003 and was finished on December 15, 2004.

The memorial graveyard is situated right in the center of Berlin with a purpose to constantly remind the general public of the evil done to the jews during the war.

From architectural point of view the place is rather dull. Personally, I have nothing against jews, but I don't think it is good idea at all to have a graveyard right in the center of the city (even a symbolic one!). Moreover, I believe that it is detrimental to the city's health, both from spiritual view and a practical one, to have a negative 19,000 square spot in its heart. Nor do I believe that its place and purpose is justifiable in 2011.








Wouldn't it be healthier to use this space to build something that would promote Peace &Love instead of Fear & Hate?

Idea: More inspiring toilet art

A public toilet is usually a canvas for profanity:



Here's a more inspiring alternative to adorn the space with Dogon mysteries of Sirius:

2 suggestions to SAMSUNG

I use Samsung HD video camera and quite happily. But there are too things that annoy me:

1. The 'PLAY' buttons in the editing software (that comes with the camera) are just too huge which makes difficult to identify each individual clip in the library. You can see from the screenshot below that it covers almost the entire image. I suggest to make it at least3 times smaller and position it in the bottom right corner of the thumb rather than in the center:



2. The Mode button (to switch between 'record' and 'play') is positioned quite inconveniently - it is too easy to press it accidentally, especially when you film from the hand and in a hurry.
It is placed right in front of the Zoom button, see image below. For this particular camera I suggest to swap the positions - first Zoom, then Mode:



Apart from these 2 little problems the camera and its editing application are very good.

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the reply from Samsung next day:

Thus spoke Trismegistus

Idea: New Holy logo

Why not produce a catalog of material goods (most popular brands, for example) in a classical bible book format?

Headline I like:

Archeologists dug out 16 thousand years old vessel with DNA bank of extinct creatures!

Crowd Wisdom doesn't work here. Why?

'Crowd wisdom' always tends to gravitate towards mediocre and safe. And this is by nature. Majority voting might be good for politics or solving communal issues, but it is quite useless when it comes to judging creativity and innovation.

Henry Ford once said about the value of marketing research: if I were to ask my future clients what they really wanted, they would have answered - faster horses!

In my opinion, 'creative' ideas that get the majority vote on 'public creativity' websites (such as Jovoto, My Pitch, Idea Bounty, etc.) are mostly dull and utterly conventional.

(Even public product innovation sites such as Kickstarter or Quirky fail to produce anything original or substantial, beyond ideas for new pen holders or mobile phone covers.)

Why? Good question.

Is it because the majority (by default!) consists of 'amateur creatives' who seek approval by faithfully imitating the 'professionals'? (And we know that the professional conventional advertising is mostly crap.)

Or is it because where there's a big crowd, there always comes element of politics into play?

Or maybe because these platforms aren't about innovation & creative ideas, but just another marketing 'public participation' tools to create 'followers'?

Black Swan says less is more

I believe that the current 'global crisis'(Black Swan) is caused by a sudden radical shift in values.
New perceptions create new needs. The next model of society is likely to hold values polar opposite to the current ones. As rules of the game change, so some conventional business practices will transcend or simply perish.

Below is a list of business sectors that in my opinion are going to substantially shrink, transform or die in the near future:

ADVERTISING (less consumption)

BANKING (less debt)

INSURANCE (less fear)

MILITARY (less wars)

POLICE (less crime)

LAWYERS (less crime)

DOCTORS (less diseases)

9 Goa sunsets

agonda beach

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Ring concecration

Magick ritual video

A ritual I designed to launch thought forms. It consists of 3 steps: gnosis through spinning, affirmation of intent and alignment with spiritual forces.

a composite magick ritual, launching sigils

Idea: iPhone Cloudbusting app

Point-and-shoot cloudbusting app. that works as a remote control to operate a stationary cloudbusting gun at home while lying on a beach a few miles away.

Mystic arts

some of my drawings based on mystic teachings and personal magick alphabet:

Magick RayBans

random ramble

In a society that prospers on constant fabrication of artificial needs, free choice increasingly becomes an illusion.

My Friend's Place

Idea: American Idol 2 (the unretarded version)

this guy is my recommendation as a candidate for a (future) brand new series of American Idol

Talismanic Travel Shoes

on the beach

near Auroville, South East India