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dave_matkin Inner circle 4522 Posts |
I will havew alisten to the CD of Bigelo form the EARL shop tomorrow and let you know if it is on that.
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Wolflock Inner circle South Africa 2257 Posts |
Xargo's! I really Like that idea. Is it your idea? Do you mind if I use it?
Wolflock
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Steve_Mollett Inner circle Eh, so I've made 3006 Posts |
At the expense of 'tooting my own horn' again, my Garrote escapes are technically 'seated in a deadly device' stage escapes:
http://www.cannonsgreatescapes.com/Shopp......ase.html
Author of: GARROTE ESCAPES
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jay leslie V.I.P. Southern California 9498 Posts |
Kast year I filmed Mark Logsdon performing (and explaining the 100 foot rope tie while citting in a chair. The audience is completely engrossed in watching HOW the person escapes. Audiences today konw that you are going to escape, so In My Opinion lots of the extra bells and whistles don.t really add to the performance. The issue is a challenge. Man against machine or man against man, that's where the theatre comes in.
Hopefully by the next escape artist convention the 100 foot rope tie DVD will be complete. My goal was to pick up where Lee jacobs lft off, and make an all-inclusive teaching tool. Thinking about the chair again. If you used specially designed bands of metal that held you like a crab or what you would see in a movie... after the escape the audience woulde dismiss the presentation by saying "Oh it was all an act. He had that chair made to his specifications".
Jay Leslie
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Tod Todson Inner circle USA 1296 Posts |
@Steve
Thank you for tooting your horn! Your books sounds like something I'd be interested in ordering. Here is the Garrote chair used in James Bond: http://commanderbond.net/resources/secti......wine.jpg http://www.otterfx.com/pics/bond_chair1.jpg I wonder if it's acceptable anymore since Iraq, in our culture, to put items around the neck?
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Harley Newman Inner circle 5117 Posts |
Good comments on this idea.
Jay, I disagree with you. There are different kinds of escapes. Some are puzzles, like handcuffs, or the 100' rope tie. Others have the ability to grab the audience by the guts, and twist. Whether the audience understands that the escape will be successful, depends entirely on the showmanship of the performer. If, for example, you present a program that's all escapes, you'll not be able to have a real gut-twister, because the underlieing assumption of the program, is that you'll get out of anything. The issue becomes, how do we present these things, so that the audience will always question the outcome? Otis, yes, you can put things around your neck. It just needs to be clear to the audience, WHY you're doing it.
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus” -Mark Twain
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Tod Todson Inner circle USA 1296 Posts |
How do others feel about escapes involving the neck?
Anyone experienced an increase in family members being offended or wincing? Wondering if the Abu Guraid photos and/or beheadings have had an impact?
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dave_matkin Inner circle 4522 Posts |
Sorry to harp back to the Novak to Bigelow CD from EARL but he talks about a hanging challenge on that and I think the presentation idea that he has is GREAT! If you want to know what that is you will just have to buy the CD from http://www.ealib.org/ord1.htm I would say it is well worth the money. He does have a very good suggestion on how it would make an escape more dramatic and to be honest I am thinking about using the idea. I am sure some people will cringe at it but hey why not!
I don’t know how many of you have seen the escapes that Jonathan Goodwin (www.jonathangoodwin.co.uk/) did on his TV show – I was told that he had deliberately planned to have escapes that he would not get out of in time. He wanted to challenge that idea that escape artists always escaped. He also did a hanging escape that he fumbled - he did not mean to miss that one he had intended to escape! I believe he got some complaints about that one! |
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Tod Todson Inner circle USA 1296 Posts |
@Dave
Was the "Experiment in Terror" on Bigelow's CD?
Mystifier, Youth Speaker
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Tod Todson Inner circle USA 1296 Posts |
Joked poked around the net and found that Santini does something similar with spikes.
Don't know if the method is the same though, but it could be adapted to the above method.
Mystifier, Youth Speaker
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Tod Todson Inner circle USA 1296 Posts |
Poked around some more and came up with these alternate solutions to a sand bag:
Purchase a generic timing motor: http://www.electronicplus.com/content/Pr......bcat=fac Pilfer a timer motor from a cheap garage sale dryer: http://www.do-it-yourself-washing-machin......estn.jpg Attach a regular Home Depot timer to a motor: http://www.conservastore.com/productimages/03-0066.jpg Build a timer kit (either DC or AC): http://www.bakatronics.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=380 http://www.canakit.net/Default.asp?Conte......K002.asp http://hiendsecurity.com/volt-universal-......-64.html
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