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Whit Haydn V.I.P. 5449 Posts |
Visual magic is where the magic happens "in front of the eyes." Levitation, animation, color-change, etc. Spikes through coin is not visual because the spikes penetrate the coin while it is hidden in a plastic box, Coin in Bottle is visual, because the spectators think they "see" the coin penetrate the bottom of the bottle. Linking Rings is visual, Spikes through arm is not.
The classic non-visual card trick is the 21 card trick. A visual card trick would be like Mental Photography, Phoenix Aces, color-change, etc. People "see" the magic happening, rather than just witnessing the result. |
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Alan Wheeler Inner circle Posting since 2002 with 2038 Posts |
Tommy Wonder discussed "covered" and "uncovered" effects near the end of the _Books of Wonder_. I've shipped my books back to the US now, but if I remember correctly, he claims that the more visual the effect, the less mental the impact--and the less visual the effect, the more mental the impact. (I think that was called an "indirect relationship" in science class.)
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funsway Inner circle old things in new ways - new things in old ways 9982 Posts |
As this be true, Alan, then does the magic designed for younger audiences today have to be diffferent than for older ones? Many magicians cannot "imagine" how an effect will play without seeing it on a video, so how about an audience in which only limited visual glimses of the world by anothers direction serves as 'experience'? Are younger people capable of appraciating non-visual magic (or concepts)?
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Donal Chayce Inner circle 1770 Posts |
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On 2010-05-12 11:44, funsway wrote: If by younger audiences you mean children, then in many cases the answer is "yes." |
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funsway Inner circle old things in new ways - new things in old ways 9982 Posts |
Certainly those, but I meant to include those of the "computer native" cohorts whos elearning has been primarily technology assisted rather than direct experience.
I once had a class write on the subject "My first Butterfly" and discovered that 8 out of the 20+ students had never seen a live butterfly. If I used a butterfly silk in an effect everyone might recognize it, but the sense of awe and wonder will be different, methinks.
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Lawrence O Inner circle French Riviera 6811 Posts |
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On 2010-05-11 12:29, Whit Haydn wrote: For me Visual Magic is magic where the actual cause for the effect happens at the same time as the alleged cause. As a result, people look for the cause (skill, gaff... and it's no longer magic) Proper magic is based on a time distance and placing at least one short action between the actual cause and the alleged one. Then the after effect memory rewinding which stops at the alleged cause cannot encompass the actual cause.
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Alan Wheeler Inner circle Posting since 2002 with 2038 Posts |
Darwin Ortiz mentions the lack of time displacement as a problem of most visual magic. Floating objects might be a classic example.
But some effects that seem instantaneous are not truly visual, for example, Metamorphosis or Copeer-Silver-Brass. And there can be time displacement in truly visual magic as well: a rubber pencil can be rung in early while the warping of it visibly can be delayed. Also in spoon bending (a mental effect!) participants sometimes seem to see and even feel the bending after the fact. Children do seem to require color and visual stimulation. But teenagers can be stunned by a purely mental effect, even today!
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Lawrence O Inner circle French Riviera 6811 Posts |
Alan
Before we define if possibly there is or not time displacement in visual magic we need to define visual magic Thus we will not confront analysis based on the fact that we use the same name do describe two different things. I proposed a definition of visual magic in my previous post. Naturally it can be argued and fine tuned or discarded. Now since the defining criterion of visual magic in my proposed definition is precisely the time distance between the actual cause and the virtual one or its lack, consistency prevents claiming that there would be time displacement in visual magic tricks: by essence such tricks would no longer correspond to the definition of visual magic. In your post you are just using a different criterion but you don't describing such a criterion. Let's see what your own definition is and we'll, instead of a sterile semantic debate, try and build a definition, which we will be able to use in the future to refer to "visual magic". Then our analytical work (and its practical consequences) will be more progressive and more fruitful
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Alan Wheeler Inner circle Posting since 2002 with 2038 Posts |
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On 2010-05-11 12:29, Whit Haydn wrote: I was going with this definition.
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Lawrence O Inner circle French Riviera 6811 Posts |
It seems to me that under Whit's definition every trick falls under the visual magic category.
Most versions of the 21 card trick have the same visual aspects which meet the criterion proposed by Whit.
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The Burnaby Kid Inner circle St. John's, Canada 3158 Posts |
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On 2010-05-21 19:56, Lawrence O wrote: He's talking about witnessing the effect itself, not just the result of the effect.
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
? Things happen called causes and what happens as a result are called effects.
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Michael Kamen Inner circle Oakland, CA 1315 Posts |
Many of our illusions are never intended to be perceived by the audience. They are illusions of normalcy that occur between the initial condition, and the final condition that we call the effect. The more distant the illusion from the final condition, the less visual the magic.
In the case of what we call visual magic (I submit), significant amount of illusion is used quite close too, or even coincidental with the final condition, i.e., the perceived effect. I think this proximity of illusion to effect is the defining charcteristic of visual magic.
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8357 Posts |
Apparently, my definition of "visual" is just a wee bit different than most of those posting above! The one exception is Whit Haydn's two posts.
To me, if the effect happens out of sight, in a tube, box, or bag, etc., it's not visual. If the effect happens totally in view, it's visual. Someone above said that one could not do a show with all visual effects! Well, I did, for 50 years. MOST of my show is/was visual effects. The TipCee (hydrostatic) Bottle is/was strong enough to close my high school program. I used tricks like the Serpentine Silk, Silk thru Mike Stand, Grant's One Two One Rope, Ovette's Repeat Knots, Percy Abbott's Perpetual Ball, Bill Williston's Ball Penetration Thru Silk, Karrell Fox's Ball 0 Matic, Color Change Silk Thru Hand, Hull's Elusive Silk Vanish, 20th Century Silk, Needle Penetration of Inflated Balloon, Jastrow Area Illusion (the boomerangs) Linking Rings Other tricks are "semi" visual. E.g.: Misers Dream. (Misers Dream is partly visual, and partly aural.) I even did a tactile illusion, with no props, and the audience did it themselves.
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8357 Posts |
P.S.
I forgot to mention the Professor's Nightmare, my YOYO (really a juggling bit, not magic) and, Fresh Fish Sold Here Today. The Lazy Magician, and the Paper Tear to Hat were used to help pad the 45 minute assembly show, for occasional evening 60 minute family shows. I did the Mardo/Sterling Egg Bag, but, don't consider it a visual, because the egg disappears from inside the bag. I did paper balls over the kid's head, and, a brief sponge ball routine, in high schools, in place of the egg bag. Oh! the G.W. Hunter shoelace knot, was part of the rope routine!
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
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On Jul 16, 2007, peppermeat2000 wrote: I would imagine, putting something (someone) in a box, closing it, opening it to show a change would NOT be considered "visual." Before anyone brings up "Metamorphoses," the "visual" nature of that trick is increased by the lack of time the person on top of the box is behind the curtain. Doug Henning made it a much more visible trick by cutting down the time, the Pendragons made it even more so by making it appear there IS no time behind the curtain. (Toss the curtain up, rip the curtain apart in a split second.)
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8357 Posts |
I agree, Ed! I met Doug when he was in his late teens. We corresponded. For about five years we would meet at Abbott's Get Together. Denny Loomis, Gene Anderson, Karrell Fox, et al, would stay with Jerry Conklin, and we had "our own little convention".
Doug really understood how to make his presentation, dramatic! TEMPO, TIMING, & TIME! Doug had done the sub trunk for a "few" years, before, he was "discovered"! Being young and athletic, his TIMING, IMO, too, really made the trick "seem more visible"! ("It aint WHAT ya do, it' HOW ya do it!") Ditto, the Pendragons! The EFFECT is what the spectator(s) PERCEIVE! (The spectator's experience, intelligence and, IMAGINATION, are all combined to create his/their PERCEPTION! Therefore, everyone in the audience, perceives a "different" show! Truly, the "magic" is in the spectator(s) mind(s)!!!
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
Legend is that he got the girl from "The Magic Show" in rehearsal studio with the Sub Trunk and said; "You're going to hate me. We're going to do this so often, you're going to hate it AND me for putting you through it. But it's going to be worth it when you see the effect on the audience!"
I think it's interesting that Houdini and the Pendragons have the magician in the trunk and switch places with the assistant on top. DOUG had the assistant in the trunk and switch places with HIM standing on the trunk.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
Dale Soules might have stories to tell: http://t2conline.com/no-longer-a-lion-ta......d-award/
Not sure that item, or the Mismade Woman are as visual as the Sword Suspension. She was the assistant for those items in that show.
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8357 Posts |
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On Mar 21, 2017, Dick Oslund wrote: So, I would not consider the Stack of Boxes to be VISUAL. --The trick "happens" inside of boxes. Almost any levitation would need to be VISUAL. (Even ASRAH, could qualify, as the spectators "perceive" what they think is a person, floating. Then that "person" disappears! I suppose that it could be argued that they do not see a person, floating, and, a person disappearing.
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