I didn't see a "new member" sub-section so I hope this listing is in an appropriate place:
I have had a lifelong fascination with magic and performed illusions, and while I was never a practitioner of magic in the traditional sense, I have had a lengthy career in film and TV special makeup effects, where we use some of the same concepts and principles of creating an illusion of some reality, by artificial devices.
I have studied the technical side of the magical performing arts and enjoy trying to reverse-engineer a trick. I particularly like the way the magical performing arts have adopted a method of a rigorous anaysis of a trick or illusion, so it's actual mechanics can be studied.
I specifically joined this forum to discuss a clasical mystery widely assumed to be a hoax, but something which I must question, and I do not think that the analysis by people before me properly analyzed the problem, and thus could not get a truthful solution. It is my hope that being in a discussion setting where people do engage in reverse engineering of hoaxes, tricks, and illusions, that dialogues on this topic of my concern may be dissected with the same reasoned and methodical processes used for magic illusion analysis.
I'm still in the process of getting familiar with this forum and in drafting up the Opening Post of the topic I wish to explore, but I simply wanted to introduce myself at this point. Also, I'd simply like to say I do use my real name as my screen name.
Bill
I have had a lifelong fascination with magic and performed illusions, and while I was never a practitioner of magic in the traditional sense, I have had a lengthy career in film and TV special makeup effects, where we use some of the same concepts and principles of creating an illusion of some reality, by artificial devices.
I have studied the technical side of the magical performing arts and enjoy trying to reverse-engineer a trick. I particularly like the way the magical performing arts have adopted a method of a rigorous anaysis of a trick or illusion, so it's actual mechanics can be studied.
I specifically joined this forum to discuss a clasical mystery widely assumed to be a hoax, but something which I must question, and I do not think that the analysis by people before me properly analyzed the problem, and thus could not get a truthful solution. It is my hope that being in a discussion setting where people do engage in reverse engineering of hoaxes, tricks, and illusions, that dialogues on this topic of my concern may be dissected with the same reasoned and methodical processes used for magic illusion analysis.
I'm still in the process of getting familiar with this forum and in drafting up the Opening Post of the topic I wish to explore, but I simply wanted to introduce myself at this point. Also, I'd simply like to say I do use my real name as my screen name.
Bill
