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Sealegs Inner circle The UK, Portsmouth 2596 Posts |
Hi there, I'm trying to wrack my brains to think of what the linking rings could be other than a prop, specifically made for magicians, so they can do a linking ring routine.
Something believable is what I'm looking for. (So elephant's wedding rings wouldn't be much use) I want to find a way of introducing the prop(s) and framing a routine that has some real world feel to it. Can any creative minds out there think of anything? Cheers.
Neal Austin
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DaveGripenwaldt Elite user 487 Posts |
I suppose this doesn't need to be said, but does it have to be prop rings? The obvious solution is to actually use something common, like hangers....
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Lawrens Godon Inner circle France 1108 Posts |
Olympic rings ?
Audi logo manipulation? |
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Sealegs Inner circle The UK, Portsmouth 2596 Posts |
Thanks for posting Dave... I have a couple of different sets of Linking Hangers. I find it hard to create a good routine with them despite coming up with some original and magical looking links. The rings still look better and more magical but they do carry with them the fact that they are for nothing other than doing the linking rings.
Lawrens, thanks for the post... they are good suggestions of a somewhat abstract nature. At an Audi or Olympic event they'd be ideal. Some like this only more actual world based would be great. Thanks for the input. Anymore welcomed.
Neal Austin
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Lawrens Godon Inner circle France 1108 Posts |
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Lawrens Godon Inner circle France 1108 Posts |
An idea which would work for me : in my name there are 2X"O"...
I can imagine on stage a sign with my stage name, with the two "O" being 2 (or more) actual rings. I would simply grab the rings at the right time from the sign and proceed into a ring routine. Unfortunately this work better with the letter "O". But one could easily find a policy esasily including the "O" shape Just randomly thinking here... |
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Sealegs Inner circle The UK, Portsmouth 2596 Posts |
Random thinking is very useful for this kind of excercise.
Neal Austin
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Aus Special user Australia 996 Posts |
Had Idea of Rattan rings in Wing Chung training that are used for practising correct positioning of hands and other body parts in techniques. Then I had the idea of mooring rings used on wharfs for tying a boat or ship to. Maybe you could explain them as being faulty in some way which could provide a premise for the routine.
Magically Aus |
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Sealegs Inner circle The UK, Portsmouth 2596 Posts |
Aus; your mooring ring idea is exactly the sort of thing I'm looking for. That's a real world object of which the rings could be genuine examples.
The more suggestions of this type that anyone can throw the better. Many thanks Aus and anyone else who comes up with any other ideas.
Neal Austin
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friend2cptsolo Elite user Spent all this time on the Cafe' and all I have to show for it is 445 Posts |
A magician friend of mine presented them as the moon, and then talked about the moon's different phases.
But using this concept you could have a routine that talked about the Moon, Sun and Planets all of the galaxy interconnected but yet spaced so far from each other. The pull of gravity, a cosmic mystery. It is a very recognizable prop though; to present them as literally something else might be hard ,but to present them as something else in a figurative sense would be more artistic. So if we go back to the mooring ring idea, it could be approach that magicians of old used to use old mooring rings to perform magic and entertain during long sea voyages and now over the years the rings became more decorative and shinny. It could be the inside structure of something, kind of like ribbing. Best of luck, have fun. |
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Sealegs Inner circle The UK, Portsmouth 2596 Posts |
Thanks friend2cptsolo... Figurative representations of the prop are, unfortunately, what I'm trying to avoid.... it is the idea of literally presenting them as something else that I'm interested in persuing.
Your idea that they could be the internal structural supporting ribbing for something is on the exact lines I'm looking for in fact... I would just have to think of a believable thing that they could be the ribbing for. Thanks again and any other thoughts are still welcome.
Neal Austin
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friend2cptsolo Elite user Spent all this time on the Cafe' and all I have to show for it is 445 Posts |
These rings are used in the manufacturing of an internal air storage tank for the famed trident class submarine, providing the frame work to which an external shell is attached.
?????? These rings are used int the manufacturing of (BLANK) used in a (BLANK).....providing the frame work....blah blah blah The more detail you put into the explanation the more likely someone will believe it. Like if it is a plane you could call it the "A21-B flying fortress" What are round things? We got tanks, storage tanks for air, water, trash, oil, chemicals. Missiles? Ballasts? Pipping/pipe... high pressure oil pipe? Cage/ caging Locking rings....fitted over the top of something to lock it into place. Anyway just a few ideas hope you can use it.... |
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Sealegs Inner circle The UK, Portsmouth 2596 Posts |
I don't think so much it's the degree of detail that's put into an explanation of what they are that's important. The more detail means the more convincing one has to make the explanation of what they are ad the less believable that concept would then be.
It's the idea that the suggestion is instantly recognisable as actually being seen as the thing they are being purported to be. the whole point of this exercise is to stop the rings from being seen as something that's been created for a magician to do a trick with. All your suggestions to this end are very welcomed and thanks for making them. I'm still looking for the one that would make an audience go...oh yeah... that's right... almost as if they might have seen these rings taking on the function that's being attributed to them. Thanks again.
Neal Austin
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Rook Special user I went to the Magic Cafe and all I got were these lousy 834 Posts |
"These are convenient to have around; they help me store my backdrop. Shall I show you something with them?"
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Sealegs Inner circle The UK, Portsmouth 2596 Posts |
Friend2cptsolo. I didn't mention that I think the 'list' approach you suggested is a very useful. Thanks for that.
Thanks Rook. Now I'll just have to get a backdrop. I'm sure you have an image in mind as to how these would work to store a backdrop but I can't picture it. I was hoping there might be some obvious mechanical part of some well known machine that used something that looked like a linking ring. My understanding was that the 'Newman Rings' were in fact such a thing, (but that might have been just hear say rather than fact) Piston rings from a large engine of some kind is as close as I've come to having something believable... but I'm not mechanically minded yet I know no piston rings of any machine would look like a ring from a Linking Ring set. By the way my Linking rings are about 12". Thus is for stage rather than close up. Cheers
Neal Austin
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Lawrens Godon Inner circle France 1108 Posts |
I recall some tv antenna was round shaped...
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Sealegs Inner circle The UK, Portsmouth 2596 Posts |
Good call Lawrens... that's a possibility.
Neal Austin
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magicgeorge Inner circle Belfast 4299 Posts |
I have ignored the believable part because it made it too difficult:
Hula hoops for badgers, robotic angel halos, Pat Butcher's earrings, holding cells for small Kryptonians*, sills for portholes, portable venn diagrams, hat brim strengtheners, juggling apparatus, throwing weapons, percussion instrument (like a triangle but no for obvious reasons), the horizontal parts of a bird cage *https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=superman+2+villains+jail&rlz=1C1EKKP_enGB728GB728&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=950&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi-0tPDxtbRAhVDExoKHdV0C30Q_AUIBigB#imgdii=uf8yhtd6AlFfUM%3A%3Buf8yhtd6AlFfUM%3A%3BwglPdg38FBiVmM%3A&imgrc=uf8yhtd6AlFfUM%3A |
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0pus Inner circle New Jersey 1739 Posts |
Rings to attach the main sail to the mast.
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Sealegs Inner circle The UK, Portsmouth 2596 Posts |
Ha... thanks George, I like your attitude of blatantly choosing to ignore any conditions that are too difficult and ploughing forward regardless. In fact I think I might have lived my whole life like that.
You're suggestions have though, actually sparked another completely different approach for me to look into... It's an approach I tend to use a lot and for some reason hadn't though to apply it here until reading your post. That is; the idea of taking the weakness and making it the main feature of the effect. For me at least (and I'm sure others won't feel the same) the weakness I have an issue overcoming is that the rings are like nothing else that exists in the real world. They look so obviously like magic props specifically designed for magicians to do tricks with. Consequently there's no starting reference point for the audience to latch onto of them being what you are purporting them to be... i.e. 'innocent' solid steel rings. But making that weakness a feature and coming up with loads of totally obscure and ridiculous things that you are trying to pass them off as tackles this 'elephant in the routine' and addresses this (for me) weakness while potentially adding to the entertainment too. And Opus: I think the rings that attach a mainsail to a mast is a good shout. That's as close to a real world thing as I've heard (other than Pat Butcher's ear-rings of course) What with your suggestion and the mooring rings Aus suggested there's a definite potential nautical angle to look at.
Neal Austin
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