The Field Marshal

How a Magician on the TV Read My Mind My first post of the year. What should I write about? Nothing has caught my eye. Well, that's until I caught this really interesting, and a tad freaky, magic-show programme - Mondo Magic on AXN this evening. Starring magicians JB Benn and Chris Korn, Mondo Magic follows these two guys as they go around showcasing their skills to the public. I have to say that I am impressed with their sleight of hand tricks. The movement of their hands are so fast that it is impossible to catch the optical illusion behind their 'magic'. However, there was this spooky trick which the guys performed. Cupping both their hands together, they formed a dark shadow between their palms. For a spilt second, a tiny grotesque gargoyle-like face rears it head in the shadows. It was really spooky. Makes me wonder if there's some spiritual beings involved in their tricks. Apart from this rather spooky trick, there was an interactive performance before the show breaked for commercials. Basically, Korn asked the audience, me and Mydaemon, to focus on a pack of cards which he flicked quickly on the screen. What the audience needed to do was to concentrate and remember one of the cards. Afterwards, the audience was suppose to raise their palms and think 'now' when their card is flashed, amongst other cards, on the TV screen. Both Mydaemon and I raised our hands as we had a card in mind. After all the mambo jumbo, he asked us (the audience) if the card was the 4 of Diamonds. The freaky thing is, that's the card I had in mind. However, Korn was way off the mark with Mydaemon's choice as her card was 9 of diamonds. I have to admit that if I was to watch this programme alone at home, I would have freaked out. The fact that Korn did not got Mydaemon's choice served to show that the diamond shape and the number 4 have some unique features that are somehow etched onto the human conciousness when we look at shapes and number. Well. at least that's what I choose to believe. If you don't believe in the skills of these guys, I propose that you guys catch an episode of Mondo Magic and judge for yourself. If I am right, the show should be on from 8pm to 8.30pm.