Monday, May 23, 2005

S for stupid

Well,I have promised long time ago to share with you my thinking of what is known as 'using the angram principle to devine the Zodiac sign' of a spectator.
I believe that promised should be fullfilled, unless you promised to kill someone...
Here are my thoughts on this concept.
This is not acriticism of any peoples or manuscripts but of a concept.

Everytime the image of someone, somewhere, standing in front of someone and he is telling him:"I'm getting an R and an S..no! its a d" is comes to my mind I just can't stop laughing.
It is just so funny.
If you can convince someone that you are a real mindread using that concept, you are wasting your time...go to hollywood!

1 - Why do you call out letters?
I don't mean why do you GET the letters one at a time...but why do you call them?
You call them not because it makes any sense, but because you have to.
The method in this case is dictading the effect instead the other way around.

2 - If you managed to convince the spectator that every letter you called was a 'hit' than the impression created is that you knew what their zodiac sign all along.
The question that will crossed the spectator's mind is:"Why the hell you didn't named the exact zodaic sign right at the begining???"

3 - If one of the letters you called out loud was wrong and you didn't managed to cover this mistake, than the concept is becoming quite obvious.

4 - If you name the exact sign after you called only three or four letters of their zodaic sign the question that arise is:"How exactly do you REALLY know what their zodiac sign is?"

5 - If you do call out all the letter in their zodaic sign than their is no point in naming their exact zodaic sign as at this point it becomes obvious what their zodiac sign is and there is no point in naming it.

6 - You don't even call the letters in the exact order the spectator is thinking of!
I guess we can call it The Brainless Game...

Yaniv Deautsch