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Yup. When you hand out a business card, you'll be giving someone something they'll actively want to show other people

Kenton Knepper has also written a couple of volumes of presentation ideas (Signs of Influence). So there are plenty of presentation ideas in magic already written for you. I thought I'd mention that before a certain person scuttles off to try to spread lies about me ripping people off. It's getting tiresome.

You could think up some good dual reality routines along the lines of Luke Jermay's 'Manipulation of Perception', using a number of these cards printed up and a few basic sleights.

The audience see one word on the card but under your 'influence' two spectators see totally different words. Three different words seen on the one card, could be interesting.

Tomo wrote:I bet people are trying to download and blow up the sample image above to use for free

Guilty! Used the trick/treat image in the restaurant tonight. Wow - fantastic reactions. Really freaks people out with the right presentation. The ebook is a must buy, can't wait - bring it on!!!

That is absolutely amazing! If you squint at it you can see the alternate image, so how does it look to people with poor eye sight?

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Tomo wrote:Kenton Knepper has also written a couple of volumes of presentation ideas (Signs of Influence). So there are plenty of presentation ideas in magic already written for you. I thought I'd mention that before a certain person scuttles off to try to spread lies about me ripping people off. It's getting tiresome.

Kenton's also working on Signs of Influence 3 at the moment (which might well include some ideas of mine ) so there'll be even more ideas doing the rounds. Oh and don't worry about those lies about ripping people off, Kenton's given your work the thumbs up.

I really love this idea, I did some work on hybrid and ambiguous images when I was at college but can't believe that I never thought of using them for magic, great thinking Tomo. These images do go back much further than the 90s though, Dali was using that same principals in his paintings in the 30s and 40s.

Lady of Mystery wrote:Kenton's also working on Signs of Influence 3 at the moment (which might well include some ideas of mine ) so there'll be even more ideas doing the rounds. Oh and don't worry about those lies about ripping people off, Kenton's given your work the thumbs up.

I really love this idea, I did some work on hybrid and ambiguous images when I was at college but can't believe that I never thought of using them for magic, great thinking Tomo. These images do go back much further than the 90s though, Dali was using that same principals in his paintings in the 30s and 40s.

If only he wasn't so mercurial, science might have had a better handle on the way we process information a lot sooner. Mind you, going back and looking again at the pictures we discussed on Facebook, you can see he was so far ahead of everyone else it's actually embarrassing. It's not all lobster telephones!

Looks fantastic ..... I'm commenting on this thread so I'll be kept up to date. Ideas buzzing.

Take the image and put it on your mobile phone screen .....

I think that the art world has been way ahead of science when it comes to things like understanding perception for years. The smile on the Mona Lisa is another example, using subtle shades and details to change the way it looks.

I think that the thing with artists like Dali is that very few people outside the art world really understand what he and others were exploring and doing, they just tend to see these strange pictures. I'm sure that there're things now that artists just take for granted which psychologists would be fascinated by.

Lady of Mystery: which paintings of Dali use the effect? I'm quite a fan and have gone beyond the melting clocks and lobster phone, but nothing springs to mind in relation to this principle

Take a look at The Slave Market and the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire. Up close, your eyes are drawn to the detail and you'll see the merchants but at a distance, its the bust that you'll be able to see. The man really was a genius, there's so much in so many of those paintings

Anybody had problems printing the hybrid image? I can get it to work well on the screen but I can't get the image to work well when printed. I've tried high quality photo paper. I'm a bit nervous about committing to business cards (or printing an image on blank playing cards) until I can get a prototype working.

Suggestions?

Waldorfcartoons wrote:Anybody had problems printing the hybrid image? I can get it to work well on the screen but I can't get the image to work well when printed. I've tried high quality photo paper. I'm a bit nervous about committing to business cards (or printing an image on blank playing cards) until I can get a prototype working.

Suggestions?

My fault. If it's the image I sent you, I sent a duff one by mistake. Check your email for a new one,

The famous one is Albert Einstein turns into Marilyn Monroe.. i had some good times with that but left it in the bar. this was great as both people see the same pic and you have not touched it. You get them to write down what they saw

Scientific American usually does a yearly book full of this stuff

The other great illusion is the black is white illusion...and vice versa.
A huge face is made up of coloured bricks and one spec gets a white brick and the other gets a black brick

They are both EXACTLY same colour when matched up ... light grey. When you look at the face from 12 feet away the bricks look white and black due to the shading and the eye is fooled

Thanks Tomo; *I've now got a good A4 sized printed image. Has anyone managed to print smaller versions that work? Beats me.