Its hero, Jack Shaw, is a rock drummer "high on drugs, Carlsberg Special and illusions".
While hewing to traditional circus fare, this 139th edition of the entertainment that promotes itself as "The Greatest Show on Earth" puts special emphasis on illusion and magic.
Seitz does agree with Turan that amid the chaos, "DiCaprio's Gatsby is the movie's greatest and simplest special effect: an illusion conjured mainly through body language and voice".
The ingredients "Beetlejuice" uses to whip up its eye candy include projections, puppets, illusions and special effects.
Illusions are special perceptual experiences in which information arising from "real" external stimuli leads to an incorrect perception, or false impression, of the object or event from which the stimulation comes.
Then I ran into Richard Gregory soon after I arrived, and I said, 'Well, at least there's some of them here!' " Gregory was a professor of neuropsychology at the University of Bristol, the author of several best-selling books about science, and an expert in visual perception who had a special interest in optical illusions.
This summer, a new Ghost Train attraction combining virtual reality technology with special effects and magical illusions will debut at Alton's U.K. rival Thorpe Park outside London.
Parsimony suggests that the above illusions are special cases of the debut effect, and perhaps, we hypothesize, the direct perceptual consequence of repetition suppression.
Fascinated by House of Stairs, the Penroses published a paper in 1956 in the British Journal of Psychology entitled "Impossible Objects: A Special Type of Visual Illusion".
It seems rather one more illustration of that great British illusion, a "special relationship" that only one side knew existed (and relationships don't come more special than that).
