Now You See (What I Want You To See)

I think it's cool that you chose to focus on slight of hand tricks since they are not a traditional optical illusion. However, I think you could focus more on what specific techniques are commonly used in this illusion. Most of your write-up discusses particular tricks, and it would be nice to see a discussion of the small things that go into this kind of deceit.

I was trying to think of other examples of this illusion, and the only thing I came up with was stage combat since it involves convincing an audience that someone was hit or injured without actual contact or harm. If you do think that that example counts, it might be interesting to include it as another example of slight of hand used to make art.

I love magic a lot, too. But I only knew the trick of misdirection and that applies at a lot of places. However, I can't really see the point where physical magic tricks you demonstrated meet digital production. So I was thinking how you are going to simulate the "sleight of hand" by digital tools. It would be really exciting if the "sleight of hand" can be shown on digital art and I believe it would be as fascinating as the live show of Shin Lim.

I think -in response to Cloud- that a possible way to incorporate the "slight of hand" trick in a digital medium would probably be via animation. While it might be more obvious, in animation you could completely copy the idea of a trick and simply replicate it. However, I think the more important idea you expressed was the idea of deception and misdirection. Oftentimes a distraction is used in a trick to prevent the audience from noticing the set-up for a trick, so it would probably be easier to incorporate a distraction into the form of a digital medium. For example, light to draw away the audience's attention from an object which is then brought to the forefront at a different angle or something.