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Illusion

Whereas in general usage it is common to assume that illusion is false, Hindu philosophy makes a distinction between Maya (illusion) and falsehood.


America's Most Talented Kid

of talented children would perform songs, dance numbers, magic, and other forms of entertainment in front of head judge Lance Bass and other guest celebrity judges, such as Sisqo, Maureen McCormick, Jermaine Jackson and Daisy Fuentes.

Art Kane

Art Kane is credited in the book Stainless Steel Illusion for the photograph of John DeLorean with the DeLorean DMC-12 sports car that was the basis for the only magazine advertisement ever created by DeLorean Motor Company.

Balducci

Balducci levitation, a levitation illusion first described by Ed Balducci

Basilica of San Frediano

The sgraffiti are drawn in the art technique of trompe l’oeil, giving a false perspective and the illusion of a column.

Beverly Pepper

In an interview with the art historian, Barbara Rose, Pepper said... "Another effect I'm trying to obtain with this bright finish is not simply illusion, but the inclusion of the person looking at it, so that there's a constant exchange going on between the viewer and the work" ....

Brazilian thrash metal

The last thrash metal albums to represent the "old-school" style of thrash in Brazil were Mass Illusion by Korzus (1991), Arise by Sepultura (1991), Rotten Authorities by Executer (1991), and The Laws of Scourge by Sarcófago (1991).

Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed

The title alluded to the magician's code: the promise by working magicians not to reveal the basis of their tricks, or else risk getting blackballed by fellow magicians.

Card stacking

The term originates from the magician's gimmick of "stacking the deck", which involves presenting a deck of cards that appears to have been randomly shuffled but which is, in fact, 'stacked' in a specific order.

Clarke Quay

Another anchor tenant, The Arena, will be home to Singapore's First Permanent Illusion Show (starting August 2008) starring J C Sum and 'Magic Babe' Ning.

Cube 2: Hypercube

The Cube is actually a tesseract; it has the unlimited number of rooms, each of them are high-tech built, and the Cube itself controls gravity, time, illusion and reality.

Cups and balls

The Latimer Clear Cups And Balls is an illusion, created and performed by American illusionist Jason Latimer.

Cyril Takayama

On August 26, 2012, Cyril and Hong Kong movie star Andy Lau performed an illusion at the Miss Hong Kong Pageant 2012.

Daniel Kamihira White

In 2013 White was the illusion consultant and creative consultant for Kanye West's The Yeezus Tour.

Devil's Pitchfork

The Blivet, also known as the Devil's tuning fork, an impossible object and optical illusion

Epiphenomenalism

Popular science author Tor Nørretranders has called the delay "The User Illusion" implying that we only have the illusion of conscious control, most actions being controlled automatically by non-conscious parts of the brain with the conscious mind relegated to the role of spectator.

Fred Van Buren

The performance mantle has, however been passed on to their son Andrew Van Buren, a multi-talented performer who is recognised as the top expert in Variety specialising in the family trade of magic & illusions, also mixing in circus skills of juggling, unicycling, escapology & plate spinning, he keeps the Van Buren flag flying high over entertainment venues all over the world with his illusion spectaculars & is one of the worlds top platespinner experts.

Garrett Brown

The Steadicam was first used in the Hal Ashby film Bound for Glory (1976), receiving an Academy Award (Best Cinematography), and since used on such films as Rocky, filming Rocky's running and training sequences, and Return of the Jedi, where Brown walked with the Steadicam shooting film at 1 frame per second to achieve the illusion of high speed motion during the speeder bike chase.

Gun port

In the Action of 4 August 1800, the large East Indiaman Exeter passed herself as a 74-gun ship of the line when she endeavoured to chase the much stronger French frigate Médée; after sunset, she perfected the illusion by opening and illuminating all her gun ports, whether armed or not; her appearance was so convincing that when she caught up with Médée, the frigate struck as if hopelessly overpowered.

Gun trick

Gun trick, a conjuring illusion in which a magician appears to catch a bullet fired directly at him.

Harry Blackstone, Jr.

Dutch illusionist Hans Klok and Darren Romeo perform the famous "Blackstone Floating Light Bulb" illusion under a licensing agreement with Blackstone Magik Enterprises Inc.

Harry D'Amour

D'Amour was portrayed by actor Scott Bakula in the film Lord of Illusions (which is loosely based on the short story "The Last Illusion").

Illusion On-Demand

Illusion not only premiered Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere to American audiences but has been applauded for returning classic Doctor Who to television after well over a decade of absence.

Introspection illusion

Moreover, also Timothy Wilson has tried to find a way to get out from "introspection illusion", and in his book Strangers to ourselves he suggests that the observation of our own behaviours more than our thoughts can be one of the keys for a pure introspective knowledge.

John Henry Anderson

John Henry Anderson (1814–1874) was a professional magician, born in The Mearns, Scotland.

Joseph Grossman

(William is said to have died as an indirect result of copying Harry Houdini's famous illusion featuring an escape from a tank of water.)

Mark Kalin and Jinger

In 2001, Kalin & Jinger purchased the remaining company interest in Supreme Entertainment and formed a new company, Majikal Productions, employing the talents of magician and former Copperfield choreographer Joanie Spina and leading illusion designer Jim Steinmeyer.

Materialism

For instance Werner Heisenberg said "The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct 'actuality' of the world around us, can be extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation, however, is impossible... atoms are not things."

Nairatmya

Buddhism teaches that to perceive ourselves as independent, separate selves, is an illusion.

Neo-Victorian

McDermott & McGough are a couple of contemporary artists whose work is all about a recreation of life in the nineteenth century: they only use the ultimate technology available, and since they are supposed to live anachronistically, this means the use of earlier photographic processes, and maintaining the illusion of a life stuck in the ways of a forgotten era.

Operation Displace

It involved maintaining the illusion that the SADF had remained in brigade strength east of Cuito Cuanavale at the end of April 1988 and the eventual withdrawal of all South African military units from south-eastern Angola during August 1988.

Patch Theatre Company

The Adelaide Festival Centre Trust and Come Out '99 presented Ken Evans' and Jonathan Taylor's Visible Darkness, a collision of Film Noir, contemporary dance, puppetry and illusion.

Psirens

Jenny Agutter plays another Psiren, this time an illusion of Kryten's creator Professor Mamet.

Racial integration

Steinhorn, Leonard and Diggs-Brown, Barbara, By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race.

Raymond Geuss

They are: The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School; Morality, Culture, and History; Public Goods, Private Goods; History and Illusion in Politics; Glueck und Politik; Outside Ethics, Philosophy and Real Politics, and Politics and the Imagination, which has just appeared from Princeton University Press.

René Lavand

In between international tours, he resides in Tandil, Argentina and has adapted a train wagon which he turned into a magic saloon where he teaches illusion.

Roman Dirge

Roman Dirge (born Roman Elliot on April 29, 1972) is an American comic book writer, artist and former magician best known as the creator of the Lenore comic book series.

Saltation

Sensory saltation (psychology), a perceptual illusion evoked by a rapid sequence of sensory stimuli.

Simon von Stampfer

In 1832 Stampfer became aware through the Journal of Physics and Mathematics of experiments by the British physicist, Michael Faraday, on the optical illusion caused by rapidly rotating gears, in which the human eye could not follow the movement of the gear.

Skyharbor

After signing with Basick Records, the band released its debut album Blinding White Noise: Illusion and Chaos on April 23, 2012 worldwide as a double-disc album (Illusion and Chaos), featuring vocalists Tompkins and Sunneith Revankar from Bhayanak Maut on each disc respectively.

Sustainable agriculture

Lindsay Falvey (2004) Sustainability – Elusive or Illusion: Wise Environmental Management.

Take Me to the Pilot

The lyrics possess many elements: betrayal, either political or personal ("treason"); the illusion of danger ("through a glass eye"); and fearlessness toward the unknown ("take me to the pilot of your soul").

The Economics of Innocent Fraud

8. The illusion that the Federal Reserve, by raising or lowering interest rates, has any effect whatsoever on spurring growth or preventing inflation.

Tom Sietas

Since then he has set a large number of world records and won many titles, including taking the world record from magician David Blaine about four and a half months after his much-publicised achievement in mid-2008.

Unknown Component

The music video "When The Illusion Is What It Seems" from the album 'The Infinite Definitive' received a Silver award at the 2012 ADDY Awards.

Upside Down; or, the Human Flies

The film, "exploits a very simple illusion: that of filming with the camera turned upside-down so that the actors appear to be performing on the ceiling," and according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "the effectiveness of the final result is such that nearly seventy years later Stanley Kubrick used the same technique in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)."

Wishmaster 4: The Prophecy Fulfilled

In a scene where the Djinn shows Lisa an illusion of paradise, they are standing on a pond in Assiniboine Park, a notable locale for the city.

Zig Zag Girl

Some of these issues are overcome in Modern Art, an illusion created by Jim Steinmeyer.


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