Optical illusions - almost magic
Many will probably have seen this before, but it’s one of my favorites.
The illusion is that despite what your eyes tell you, square A and square B are the same color.
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February 21st, 2007
Bullet Catch and Other Mysteries
Below is an old silent film of the world famous “Bullet Catch”. Just so you know, this is a trick. If you try to do this without knowing the trick, you die. It’s as simple as that. And even if you know the trick, there is still a pretty good chance that you’ll die anyway. Don’t try this. Really.
One thing that has always interested me is the popularity of things like the Bullet Catch or anything that clearly puts someone in harms way. A vast amount of magic seems to lean this way. And it is definitely a large part of the sideshow tradition that I take part in. After all, fire is dangerous, and putting it in/on your body is a sure fire way to get hurt (pardon the pun).
And when you get right down to it, I think the reason things like this continue to be so popular is the same reason that Jeff likes to post images of animals in peril. We live our lives hoping to never get hurt, but we’d like to have a little excitement as well. Magic, specifically death defying magic, lets us do both. And animals are just so damn resilient.
Tune in tomorrow for fire. and maybe some animals.
Cavalry to the rescue
OCONOMOWOC, WIS. — A man says he broke into an apartment with a cavalry sword because he thought he heard a woman being raped, but the sound actually was from a pornographic movie his upstairs neighbor was watching.
“Now I feel stupid,” said James Van Iveren, who has been charged in the case.
The above is an excerpt from an AP article. The full article can be found at ABCnews.com.
Thought for the day ~ Brooke Shields
Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.
during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign
