23-01-2010, 03:39 AM
Sayeth Brother Klimkowski:
"The very first reaction of the viewer, on first viewing of frame 313, is almost always to look away."
I cannot tell you how many times I've found myself alarmed and puzzled in the wake of having turned away -- without intent -- from a scene that would have disturbed me profoundly yet, on purely an intellectual level, I wish I had viewed intently.
I've come to accept that we pre-view -- or better yet, pre-experience -- phenomena before it is permitted to rise to the level of consciousness.
Magicians -- in the sense that Jan, I, and others use the term -- understand how to stimulate this ... what shall I call it ... aversion response.
In the trade, it's referred to as misdirection.
But it's so much more complicated than that. And ultimately more simple.
"The very first reaction of the viewer, on first viewing of frame 313, is almost always to look away."
I cannot tell you how many times I've found myself alarmed and puzzled in the wake of having turned away -- without intent -- from a scene that would have disturbed me profoundly yet, on purely an intellectual level, I wish I had viewed intently.
I've come to accept that we pre-view -- or better yet, pre-experience -- phenomena before it is permitted to rise to the level of consciousness.
Magicians -- in the sense that Jan, I, and others use the term -- understand how to stimulate this ... what shall I call it ... aversion response.
In the trade, it's referred to as misdirection.
But it's so much more complicated than that. And ultimately more simple.