Contempt for Modern Advertisin

America... what a place. In doing some work on honesty I went instinctually to the Axe homepage and screenshot a couple of pages.

Here are my favorites:

the general Axe proclamation:



the specific hype for "Orion":



These ads are clearly aimed at adolescent boys, which includes young men who can't ever seem to get passed high school. I think it is silly to buy into an ad campaign which promises the attainment of dirty porn star sex with hot, blond, catholic school girls based on the odor of their chemical spray alone... this is just ridiculous. How? How could anybody buy into this? Smelling nice is, well, nice, but the last time I checked smelling good and having self confidence are two totally different phenomena. It's ads like these that enslave the maleable minds of the youth and ignorants. It's no wonder why our nation's teens suffer from such intense lack of self-esteem because the big media is teaching them that they must buy commercial products to fit in and to get laid. There is no finesse in Axe's approach; their advertising department must be a man-cave of overgrown fratboys who want to take advantage of as many young and stupid people as they can. Manipulation of the evolution of mind at the hands of commerce and big media? Really? I know, what a shocker right?

aloha,

aloefire

First Altar

So, here are some pictures of my first altar... there's a lot going on here so i'll take the time to explain each piece, or collection of pieces and why they are present.

This one to the left is an overview of the whole altar. The back of the altar faces NW. The bottom right corner is the space representing Fire; the top right corner is that space representing Water; the top left corner is the space representing Earth; the bottom left corner is the space representing Air; and the the top/middle is the space that represents, me, my loved ones, and Spirit. Following are some close-ups.





This close-up is of the Air space: there are bird feathers, a candle oil lamp, a picture of sunset from my hometown and six different essential oils of: Tea Tree Oil, Lavender Oil, Grey Matter Batter Oil, Cedar Oil, Cypress Oil, and Green Tea Oil.







This is a close-up of the Earth space: in the top left is a small Earth Altar that I learned how to make from Llewellyn's 2008 Magickal Almanac, there are white sage bundles, and a set of stones: calcite, malachite, moonstone, labrodorite, garnet, and amythist, as well as a very large smoky quartz; at the bottom middle and right is a bag of sea salt and a mortar and pestle for grinding.











This is a close-up of the Water space: I have a great goblet from my 21st birthday at Medieval Times that I use to hold water in.












This is a close-up of the Fire space: there is a book of matches, a vanilla spice candle, and what was a red candle, along with a rough ruby in the bottom right corner.








This is a close-up of the Spirit space: along the bottom are my seven shaman casting stones; above those are two necklaces: the bottom one used to have the tiger's eye that the one above it now has. There is a picture of my close friend Lisa, a dream catcher and neckalce from my friend Sara, and a picture take of me by Sara, as well as a picture of my eye drawn by my friend Amiel.




There is also a magick wand right in the middle of the whole altar which you can see in the topmost photo. There's also a large mother of pearl half with a white sage bundle for smudging. It's organized, yet at the same time cluttered... perfect for one who follows the way of ChaosBalance.

P.S. (Here's my sweet banner... created by me)