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Khopri Loyal user Austin, TX 237 Posts |
"BALTIMORE, Maryland (AP) -- A particle accelerator is being used to reveal the long-lost writings of the Greek mathematician Archimedes, work hidden for centuries after a Christian monk wrote over it in the Middle Ages."
Click Here! This might be good research for an effect. Any ideas? |
Slim King Eternal Order Orlando 18012 Posts |
Maybe a UV revelation of a long lost secret. Or a prediction....The subject could have the parchment in his hands all of the time until the revelation of the force via UV.
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Peter Marucci Inner circle 5389 Posts |
Archimedes; now there was a guy who knew a good screw!
Sounds like a logical use for either a card box or the coloring book pinciple. |
Khopri Loyal user Austin, TX 237 Posts |
Peter, I just KNEW you would chime in on this. I'll keep lobbing them over the plate and you keep knocking them out of the park.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
How do you pronounce "palimpsest" without asking for trouble?
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Peter Marucci Inner circle 5389 Posts |
As Aristophanes said to Archimedes, when he stepped on his robe: "Hey, you rippa dese, you menda dese!" (Or "Euripedes, Eumenides!")<G>
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Khopri Loyal user Austin, TX 237 Posts |
I believe its pronounced "Pah-LIMP-sest"
Very interesting article, by the way. |
Lord of Illusion Veteran user Has his enemies stuck on 310 Posts |
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On 2005-05-22 13:36, Peter Marucci wrote: I can't think of a single thing to follow that! ROTFLMAO I do like the idea of using a UV light to reveal hidden secrets. Perhaps a blank parchment with a hidden sigil, or even a reused parchment like in the original article. What a great way to reveal a tarot card! Azrael
Edward Wolfgang Poe,
The Necromancer of the South |
Clifford the Red Inner circle LA, California 1941 Posts |
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Reminds me of an Alias episode....
"The universe is full of magical things, waiting for our wits to grow sharper." Eden Philpotts
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George Ledo Magic Café Columnist SF Bay Area 3042 Posts |
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On 2005-05-22 13:36, Peter Marucci wrote: Eureka!
That's our departed buddy Burt, aka The Great Burtini, doing his famous Cups and Mice routine
www.georgefledo.net Latest column: "Sorry about the photos in my posts here" |
Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
Hmmm a UV setup, and perhaps a book with a duplicated page that has a different drwaing or word printed in the right ink.
Two volunteers see the thing, yet see something entirely different. Options aboud.
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Jake Boone New user Cottage Grove, OR 78 Posts |
Or you could even have them see one of those word-pictures (they have a name, but I can't remember it at the moment) that looks like a different word when it's upside-down. Then you just have to ensure that the parchment (or whatever) is rotated 180 degrees between spectators.
-- Jake
"Trust everyone... but cut the cards."
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
Those word pictures are "Inversions". Scott Kim published a book of his artwork back in the 1980s.
Here is his site: http://www.scottkim.com/inversions/
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Jake Boone New user Cottage Grove, OR 78 Posts |
Yes, that's just what I was thinking of! Thanks!
-- Jake
"Trust everyone... but cut the cards."
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weepinwil Inner circle USA 3828 Posts |
You guys are way above my head.
"Til Death us do part!" - Weepin Willie
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Slim King Eternal Order Orlando 18012 Posts |
Those are cool. Some inversions are the same word but others aren't. What are the ones that are different words called? And where do you find them? With UV and conventional lighting one slip of Parchment could reveal four different things to four different people all in one sitting. See what I'm saying?
PS...I partied in Corvallis Oregon. Animal House.
THE MAN THE SKEPTICS REFUSE TO TEST FOR ONE MILLION DOLLARS.. The Worlds Foremost Authority on Houdini's Life after Death.....
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Khopri Loyal user Austin, TX 237 Posts |
Nice stream of consciousness stuff going on here.
I see a nicely aged ancient tome that could contain the UV idea on one page, the inversion idea on another page, maybe a force card on another page... You could write an entire presentation just out of the notion that you're reading passages from the ancient book (that was shipped to you from an old mysterious friend, etc, etc.) The book would make a nice prop in a walkaround scenario. |
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