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Traveler Special user 549 Posts |
This question has been asked before... And will again. What I'm trying to do is to collect examples of "visual" mentalism.
metal bending is an obvious example. The works of Sean Fields are another. Are there any other ideas ? |
graemesd Veteran user 369 Posts |
Viewed esp prediction - osterlind
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Jean-Denis Regular user Canada 126 Posts |
I can give you a trick that you might enjoy if you like to marry visual effects with mentalism. The name is "Pencil Possession" and you can watch the video by the link in my signature below. To anyone interested by the secret, just send me a PM and I'll send you the ebook.
J-D |
cfrye Special user Portland, Oregon, USA 940 Posts |
"Coloured Discs", found on page 291 of _The Mind and Magic of David Berglas_, is a wonderfully visual effect. It would require some work to construct, however.
Curt |
jerdunn Inner circle 1735 Posts |
Not sure what you mean by "visual" here -- stuff moves, or the audience has something to look at besides you?
If the latter: Technicolor Prediction - Martin Lewis Fogel's prediction effect with soda cans under black cloth bags Shattered -- broken bottle is placed under one of several paper bags, which you crush as the audience chooses them; the one left is the one with the broken bottle inside If the former: Banachek uses his PK pen for a large college audience, and it plays very well as it falls off a table. Cheers, Jerry |
Roy Elite user Israel 486 Posts |
Any object animation using invisable loops or thread is visual mentalism! !
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scott b. Special user 732 Posts |
I believe it was Derren Brown in his lecture vid who talked about Visible and Invisible comprimise. Very good stuff on the topic.
Thanks! Scott B.
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Tom DV Special user 694 Posts |
Metal bending - gotta love metal bending!
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discjockey Elite user 451 Posts |
Banachek's PK Writing has served me very well. It combines PK with mindreading. I also like the ashes on arm effect, only I have a method where a person's name appears letter by letter.
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Graymatter_Fireworks Veteran user Atlanta, GA 357 Posts |
A good thing to keep in mind, is not always does visual mentalism need to have a prop move, bend, visualize, etc, etc. Quite often you can take any one on one effect and sculpt movements from your spectator(s) on stage and make a routine more visual. Case in point Luke Jermay's "For Andruzzi".
This technique not only gives the audience something to look at during the process of mind-reading, or the array of other skills displayed, but also can involve more people in a routine that otherwise would be more limiting. Indeed we as performers can add drastically to the visualization of our mentalism by our own actions as well as our language. I would make a point to look into, and think about, Derren Browns ideas and thoughts about making the process, of whatever skill you are displaying, more visual as a whole.
"The social world in which we live, determines our experience of what is real." - John Gager
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Gordon Fisher Regular user Derby, England 193 Posts |
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On 2005-08-08 18:06, scott b. wrote: I don't believe you quite understand the question posed. invisible and visible comprmise is about what the spectator sees in terms of performance for example if someone was to think of a word and you apparently read their mind then using a billet or book test is the visible compromise. invisible compromise would be using a m****t for a PK effect. the thread is based around visual forms of mentalism and it has always been the view that mentalism can be quite boring to watch, but if you can include a visual element to your performance then all the better. I would suggest metal bending as the prime source of visual mentalism. another source would be muscle reading or anything to do with the ideomotor response. maybe try looking into the ways of the pendulum |
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