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The rubber hand illusion is an old psychological demonstration where a person is made to believe that a rubber hand is there own by providing similar visual stimulus to the rubber hand and physical stimulus to their out of sight real hand. Pretty cool right?
But not cool enough to SOLVE RACISM!
As it turns out, participants who took this challenge with a darker skinned limb actually were found to be less prone to racial bias after the experiment.
“Our results show that we can positively alter them by understanding how the brain is processing sensory information from our bodies and that of others,” Tsakiris said. “It will be interesting to replicate the effect with different social groups and see if we can generalize these findings outside of a laboratory setting.”
Who says illusions can’t change the world. Or trick racists.
Just brain melting. This lil’ beauty is a candidate for 2013 illusion of the year. For a full explanation, head over to io9.
The mega tour known as The Illusionists will grace the theaters of the United Kingdom this autumn. Dan Sperry delighted/disgusted a cadre of British press in London today when he performed his razor blades illusion to celebrate the announcement.
Here are the dates for those who’d like to take the show in…
Fri September 27th 2013 – Opera House, Blackpool
Sat September 28th 2013 – Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
Wed October 2nd 2013 – Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham
Fri October 4th 2013 – O2 Apollo, Manchester
Sat October 5th 2013 – O2 Apollo, Manchester
Tue October 8th 2013 – Civic Hall, Wolverhampton
Fri October 11th 2013 – Hammersmith Apollo, London
Sat October 12th 2013 – Hammersmith Apollo, London
It definitely looks like Sperry and Kevin James will be apart of the bill but we will have to wait and see who else fills out the cast.
The following is a first person story from Jason Alan.
November 2012 The Cleveland Cavaliers asked fans to post videos of their talents. Thousands of Musicians, acrobats, comedians and magicians entered. The top 5 chosen by the Cavaliers staff were placed on their website. For one week fans were asked to vote on there favorite videos. At the end of the week the top 2 were asked to perform during a December Cavaliers game in front of 15,000 fans.
On December 19 we competed against musician Gabe Sidotti. During the first quarter both acts performed a 90 second set between timeouts. (video of first performance.
Once we both performed fans at the Q were given until the end of half time to cast there votes via text.
At the end of half time it was revealed we won the contest. Asked to perform an encore trick I performed a close up card trick in front of 15,000 fans.
Winning the contest was an experience in it’s own right. We were awarded 4 court side seats valued at 200 dollars apiece to a January Cavaliers Game. We received much publicity and the right to say we performed in front of 15,000 people.
Jason is a full time magician based out of Akron Ohio. For the past 15 years he has performed on cruise ships, corporate events and private functions across the country. He has been very active in the magic community, being a member of the 4fs convention and working with Papercrane Magic. www.Jasonmagician.com
Ugh. I defy anyone with a bit of a bug phobia to watch this without getting the heebie jeebies.
The folks at Mighty Optical Illusions found footage of a German illusion experiment where a light box is filled with spiders and then projected in a way that it appears a building is literally crawling with arachnids the size of Kawasaki quad motorcycles.
The trick involves building a light box with the same basic dimensions as the room itself, allowing for the shadows to sync perfectly.
Ugh.