NOVA: Memory Hackers

Discussions of new films, books, television shows, and media indirectly related to magic and magicians. For example, there may be a book on mnemonics or theatrical technique we should know or at least know about.
Edward Pungot
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NOVA: Memory Hackers

Postby Edward Pungot » December 5th, 2022, 8:51 pm


Edward Pungot
Posts: 922
Joined: May 18th, 2011, 1:55 am

Re: NOVA: Memory Hackers

Postby Edward Pungot » December 5th, 2022, 10:51 pm

Magic Reference
Shadowy Shills and Shady Zones:
Fugitive Notes on Blindness, Forgetfulness, and Other Discrepancies
by Jon Racherbaumer
Antinomy Issue 10, Vol. 3 No. 2, June 2007

Edward Pungot
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Re: NOVA: Memory Hackers

Postby Edward Pungot » December 6th, 2022, 8:11 am

Flicker: Your Brain on Movies by Jeffrey Zacks
See: Jon Racherbaumer’s On the Slant Book Review
Genii, Vol. 78 No. 9, September 2015

Precis of “Flicker: Your Brain on Movies”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8553010/

Public Talk by Jeffrey Zacks (2020)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f16qosUogtQ
How is it that a patch of flickering light on a wall can produce experiences that engage our imaginations and feel totally real? From the vertigo of a skydive to the emotional charge of an unexpected victory or defeat, movies give us some of our most vivid experiences and lasting memories. They reshape our emotions and worldviews—but why? This talk draws on the history of cinema and the latest research in neuroscience and psychology to explain what happens in your head when you sit down in the theater and the lights go out.


Public Talk by Ricky Jay & Michael Weber (2013)
https://www.oscars.org/calendar/touch-magic-academy
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will explore cinema’s roots in stage magic and sleight of hand and show how visual deception drove the development of movie special effects, on Wednesday, November 20, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. “Like Magic” will examine how some of the techniques used in the earliest “trick films,” such as forced perspective, cuts, dissolves and multiple exposures are still used by filmmakers in the digital age. Hosted by sleight-of-hand artist Ricky Jay, special effects supervisor Shane Mahan, and stage and screen illusion designer Michael Weber, the program features clips from such pioneering films as Georges Méliès’s “The Magician” (1898) and contemporary favorites like “Snow White and the Huntsman” (2012). It also includes live demonstrations and conversations with some of the films’ creative teams.


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