Why is it so hard for much of us to create misdirection for our spectators? We read books and essays on it constantly (a good many of us do anyway). We go home, the streets, the malls, the parks, wherever, and we apply these techniques we learn to real life scenarios and we practice. They say that the mind of our spectator is not easily fooled. Which is true, You can not easily fool the spectator of what they have just seen. you can't clearly show someone a carrot and one second later try to convince them that they just saw an apple. Okay, you possibly could, I won't judge you, but it would be very difficult.
I tried an experiment. I set my focus on a small spot on the wall. A spot that I could easily and clearly define, if I were to jump around in a circle, do a handstand, go away backpacking in Europe for a month, then return, I could locate the spot. black spot on a white wall if you will. I asked someone if they could stick their finger onto the spot. I set my focus onto the tip of their finger that covered the spot. I took some time to concentrate on the finger. I then had them lift their hand away while my eyes stayed focused in the same optical position that they were before. Then, after a few seconds, I had them put their finger back over the same spot. As we would probably assume from this, is that my eyes had to refocus themselves on the finger, even though it was on the exact same spot where my eyes were focused the entire time.
Many lessons can be learned from this. One of them, is that I spend too much time with my mind on pointless theories. But another is that our focus, no matter how intelligent we might be, can easily be thwarted. Even if we don't move our eyes for a second. Even if we don't blink. If we are burning the same spot to the point where we would not miss a single event that took place in that spot. But if you think about it, my focus did change like I mentioned before.
We worry so much about people burning our hands when we're trying to complete a pass and ditch a gimmick or a duplicate. Is there no other psychology that we can use to thwart what the spectator focuses on when they burn our hands and for some unknown reason we can't get them to look away?
Just a late night thought for discussion.
I tried an experiment. I set my focus on a small spot on the wall. A spot that I could easily and clearly define, if I were to jump around in a circle, do a handstand, go away backpacking in Europe for a month, then return, I could locate the spot. black spot on a white wall if you will. I asked someone if they could stick their finger onto the spot. I set my focus onto the tip of their finger that covered the spot. I took some time to concentrate on the finger. I then had them lift their hand away while my eyes stayed focused in the same optical position that they were before. Then, after a few seconds, I had them put their finger back over the same spot. As we would probably assume from this, is that my eyes had to refocus themselves on the finger, even though it was on the exact same spot where my eyes were focused the entire time.
Many lessons can be learned from this. One of them, is that I spend too much time with my mind on pointless theories. But another is that our focus, no matter how intelligent we might be, can easily be thwarted. Even if we don't move our eyes for a second. Even if we don't blink. If we are burning the same spot to the point where we would not miss a single event that took place in that spot. But if you think about it, my focus did change like I mentioned before.
We worry so much about people burning our hands when we're trying to complete a pass and ditch a gimmick or a duplicate. Is there no other psychology that we can use to thwart what the spectator focuses on when they burn our hands and for some unknown reason we can't get them to look away?
Just a late night thought for discussion.