Alt idea: Measures of Happiness

I really like the idea of measuring happiness across countries in an attempt to spark interest in using the emotion as metric for public policy. Here's an article about NYU's graduate student who set about baking the happy Index into cupcakes:

What i don't like is the medium chosen as it doesn't accurately reflect the country's data.

A better way to conduct the experiment would be to use a special app that would allow people to rate their daily moods using their mobile phones, i.e. sliding a bar between "plus" and "minus".

The ratings then would be automatically uploaded to a special website where the data is analysed and displayed in a personal timeline (a graph). Also, people could enter tags and upload pics. When online they can easily access any day of their life by simply clicking on the graph.

The app should be freely available in every country of the world.

The future of advertising: Undercover

Coincidence or not?

This idea apparently has won Bronze Lion @ Cannes this year. It was submitted by DDB BRASIL São Paulo. What's curious is that I have posted an identical idea 2 years ago here on my blog.

 And here's a screenshot from my Google Analytics page that shows viewing traffic of my blog from  São Paulo:

 

Coincidence or not, you can make up your mind.

Concept: Postcards as magick talismans

There are 7 cards. Each card is designed as a planetary talisman corresponding to a particular day of a week. Each talismanic card focuses on a particular spiritual force that, when ‘activated’, can help in achieving personal dreams and goals.

Concept of mandala design:

A sacred name of planetary intelligence is spun around with a precise number of divisions to create a dynamic ‘vortex’ with a centre. (example above: Moon mandala with 81 divisions.) A word placed in the centre of this vortex automatically acquires its dynamic properties.

Graphics of the talisman include:

1. Name and glyph of the planet.
2. Glyph of the intelligence.
3. Mandala of the intelligence’s glyph with corresponding number of divisions.
4. Sacred numbers corresponding to the planet.
5. Planetary seal.
6. Space inside the mandala to write your wish.

How to use talismanic cards:

1. Make a wish.
2. Choose a card with talismanic properties related to your wish. For example, Venus properties are helpful in matters of the heart; Mars is useful when you need aggressive energy boost; Mercury helps in matters of communication and business, and so on. (see the full list below)
3. Print the card and write a wish in the centre of mandala. 
4. Put the card in an envelope, write down your own postal address on it and post it to yourself on the day of the week corresponding to the card. For example, Moon is for Monday, Mars is for Tuesday, etc. (If your post office is not open on Sunday, just drop it in the letter box.) 
5. Once you receive your post card back, the talisman would be officially ‘activated’ on the date indicated on the post office stamp. 


Talismanic properties of the planets: 


1. Sunday. Ruled by intelligence of the Sun: Michael 
Helps in matters of: Intelligence, Healing, Motion, Loftiness, Fortune, Public reputation, Authority over the masses, Fatherhood, Friendship, Honors, Wisdom, Happiness and Purification. 


2. Monday. Ruled by intelligence of the Moon: Gabriel Helps in matters of: Instincts, Conception, Emotions, Marriage, Nurture, Motherhood, Dreams, Psychic Powers and Intuition. 


3. Tuesday. Ruled by intelligence of Mars: Camael Helps in matters of: Forcefulness, Vitality, Endurance, Aggression, Self-Defense, Power, Strength and Courage. 


4. Wednesday. Ruled by intelligence of Mercury: Raphael 
Helps in matters of: Intelligence, Communication, Business, Judgment, Travel, Skills, Memory, Transportation, Education and Arts. 


5. Thursday. Ruled by intelligence of Jupiter: Sachiel 
Helps in matters of: Expansiveness, Abundance, Luck, Wealth, Health, Honor, Wisdom, High Position and Authority. 


6. Friday. Ruled by intelligence of Venus: Anael 
Helps in matters of: Love, Pleasure, Beauty, Growth, Social Graces, Harmony, Emotions, Inspiration, Art and Friendship. 


7. Saturday. Ruled by intelligence of Saturn: Cassiel 
Helps in matters of: Responsibility, Patience, Steadfastness, Fate, Time, Limitations, Self-Control and Work.


The full set of cards here.

Concept: Magick Maps

1. Map of inner alchemical magick, acrylics on canvas, 86 x 86 cm
Vis: Fire (instinctive nature) burns Water (emotional) to activate Air (mental) to manifest desire (expressed in the sigils)



2. Map of Sacred Union, acrylics on canvas, 86 x 86 cm
Vis: Sun and Moon, representing dualistic forces of nature, united to produce Life. The Sun stands for male, active, light, mental, electric. The moon stands for female, passive, water, emotions, magnetic.



3. Map of inner human cosmoses, acrylics on canvas, 86 x 86 cm
Vis: Cosmoses within a human body: Fire (cellular plane, red), Water (molecular plane, blue), Air (electronic plane, yellow), inside a physical body - Earth element (shape, black) and animated by the Spirit element (quantum plane, white). The visual is surrounded by corresponding Holy Names for each element.



4. Map of voodoo healing ritual, acrylics on canvas, 86 x 86 cm
Vis:  Shaman uses a voodoo doll representing a patient and is aided by a spiritual being, on his body is drawn the process and the desired outcome of the operation.



5. Map of contacting Holy Guardian Angel, acrylics on canvas, 112 x 86 cm
Vis: Magus in gnosis (trance) stands inside a magick circle and communicates with his HGA. In the circle we see his message to HGA written in magick alphabet.



6. Map of Mars and Venus, acrylics on canvas, 80 x 50 cm
Vis: Magus playing with the planetary spirits, with corresponding  planetary magick squares (cameas) and seals.

Original canvases and high quality prints available to buy at http://www.saatchionline.com/profiles/portfolio/id/310784

Idea: Alternative football game

From Nobel to Flamel

A headline I'd like to see in the near future:

In an effort to promote unselfish human gene, a secret society of alchemists openly admits its possession of Life Elixir - a substance with  mystical powers to induce immortality.

The society firmly states that Elixir of Life will never be offered for sale,  but instead given for free to the most unselfish people of the world,  for example, to publicly nominated candidates at a special annual Unselfish Gene Flamel Prize event, named after the acclaimed medieval alchemist Nicolas Flamel.

Flamel Prize. 
Unselfish people deserve to live longer.

Random fish experiment

What would happen if we take 3 common types of fish, put them in 3 different aquariums interconnected by tubes and introduce a border control?

 

Sigils

Artwork empowered by personal magick

tal·is·man/ˈtalismən/

Noun:

An object, typically an inscribed ring or stone, thought to have magic powers and to bring good luck.

Why not have a special painting (at home or office) that would work just like a talisman? 

How?

Buy one of my paintings I have designed as talismanic template and inscribe on it your own sigil. 

Why?
Because adding your energy to the painting would make it truly personal as well as atone it to your more specific needs.

A talismanic template consists of a main theme image, supporting symbols and a special area for the customer’s personal sigil to be added to the painting after the purchase:

Template's title: Shaman instructing spirit. (acrylics on canvas, unframed)
Qualities: Earth and planet Saturn.

See more templates as well as already 'sigilised' examples here

If you are interested to buy one for yourself or have any questions, drop me a line.

theory of light + sigils

Idea: Soft drink gives magic tips

video example:

Concept: Future drugs

A selection of pills that change personal perception of reality and allows to see oneself from other person's point of view, i.e.:

Post Modern Banking

At the moment banks make profit from playing with customer’s savings as well as charging them with different sorts of fees related to the accounts.
Thus bankers make a double-kill: they ‘milk’ people and the people’s money. This might be acceptable in the past but is increasingly seen as unethical and greedy. Especially in the light of Occupy Wall Street movement which sends a clear message: Greed is bad for business!

I’d like to see a bank with honest strategy: PEOPLE BEFORE PROFIT. 

1. The bankers should realize that when customers give their money/savings to a bank, it’s the bank’s privilege and not the customer’s.

2. Practically it means that a bank should treat its private account holders as equal partners and make all their accounts activity absolutely FREE (no annual fees for credit cards, any money transactions or any other hidden or unhidden costs.)

3. The bank makes money only from outside business investments!

Idea: mob app Soundville

Here's an idea for mobile app that can be called “Soundville”.

When you look at any object through the screen of a smart phone, these objects would start producing unique music. Each object is assigned an individual music note, i.e. a tree plays # Do, a house # C, a person # Sol Major or Minor), etc.
If you are looking at a picture that contains say 15 objects, they together will produce a self-harmonizing tune consisting of 15 individual sounds.
On the other hand if you point the camera on a single object, you will hear only one tune. Also, for instance, when you point at a tree and then quickly sweep across to a pond with a duck, you’ll hear the tree, the pond with a duck and everything else that was captured in between.

Concept: Skin patches to produce mouth flavour

A skin patch that produces taste in the mouth, i.e.: mint, lemon, barbeque, etc.

Use: wear the patch during meals to add flavour or between meals for refreshment.

Concept: Skin Gardens

In the future people will be growing food on their bodies.
The seeds of nano-food would be ‘planted’ by oral ingestion and following the natural cycles the harvest would grow on a chosen part of the human skin. The food would be consumed by simply scraping it off the skin and digesting it.

Alchemy of magick ritual

God of X

tarot & psychokinesis

Ephranius Records: Intuitive dice game.

The aim of the game is to cast dice cubes of the same number, as many single number spreads as possible and without making 3 mistakes in a raw.

The first throw of the dice lets you choose the number to follow. For example, you cast three dice cubes and the result is 5, 5, 3. In this case it is easy – you choose number 5.
On the other hand if you get 5, 4, 3 (or any other combination with no repeating numbers), you have to pick a random number from you first cast, in this case either 5, 4 or 3.
Say, you have chosen 5. Your task now is to cast the two remaining dice to make a full spread of 5s: 5 -5 -5. So you pick up the other two dices (4 and 3) leaving the original 5 where it is.

Now you have 3 chances to cast number 5 with the rest of the two dices. If you make a mistake 3 times in a raw – you have lost the game. On the other hand, if you make one or two mistakes (no single 5s) but on the 3rd time you get a compound 5 (that is the sum of 2 dice equals number 5, i.e. 2 and 3, or 1 and 4) – it is not considered as a mistake and you automatically get 3 new chances.

Here are some examples:
1. you cast 1,2,3.
2. you choose 3.
3. you cast 1,4 - (1st mistake)
4. you cast 6,2 - (2nd mistake)
5. you cast 2,4 - (3rd mistake) - the end.

1. you cast 1,2,3.
2. you choose 3
3. you cast 1,5 - (1st mistake)
4. you cast 2,4 - (2nd mistake)
5. you cast 2,3 - (no mistake, you get 3 chances again)
6. you cast (now with a single dice!) 6 - (1st mistake)
7. you cast 3 – you won!

When you win the first spread, you write down your record on a piece of paper, i.e.: 333, and continue to play and add new successful spreads. The longer is your column, the better you are in the game.

Remember: each column of numbers is valid only if you never had 3 mistakes in a raw! The more you play the game, the better you become in influencing the dice with your will.

Once you become really good at it, you can use the successful spreads (recorded energy) to empower your mgckl ops.)