Witchcraft & Occult

How Blair Witch Built a Legend from Nothing

RedGrave For Your Files February 12, 2024 Leave a reply

For your files…

The Blair Witch Project nefarious misuse of the internet to create a legend from nothing. Once you understand everything they did from fake websites to backdating forum posts, all designed to support the legend created by the movie, you will stand in awe. This was at the leading edge of the web but they still understood some people would try and look it up and once they found “research” they would spread it around. How prescient of how people would react to the internet later.

https://www.site-seeker.com/blair-witch-project-still-greatest-marketing-campaign-15-years/

Originally posted in the Bizarre Magick Facebook group.

This comes from Christopher Kessler who presented it in the Elders group as a very very early citation of mentalism and bizarre.

RedGrave For Your Files September 29, 2023 Leave a reply

For your files…

This comes from Christopher Kessler who presented it in the Elders group as a very very early citation of mentalism and bizarre.

The manuscript dates from around 200 AD and has recently been made available to the public by the Vatican. The full title is Book IV of Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies (Philosophumena). Chapters 28 to 41 describe performance specifics, including pre-show work, novel impression devices, Q&A, billet switching, stage illusions, and spirit writing, and effects of bizarre Magick. Book IV is the relevant one. A PDF version is available for free from the Vatican library: http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/04z/z_0180-0254__Hippolytus_Romanus__The_Refutation_Of_All_Heresies_[Schaff]__EN.pdf.html

Originally posted in the Bizarre Magick Facebook group.

Just a note, if you are looking for inspiration for an effect, use the group – that’s what it’s here for.

RedGrave For Your Files March 16, 2021 Leave a reply

Just a note, if you are looking for inspiration for an effect, use the group – that’s what it’s here for.

And I’m a firm believer in going outside of the “normal” topics and presenting interesting stories and artifacts that people have never heard of but are true (as far as they can google). Seeing and hearing something new grabs audiences.

Just do a search in the group for “For your files”’ and you’ll see there is method to my madness – hundreds of unusual topics from around the world accumulated over years that can be the basis of props, effects and stories/scripts you create from the ground up.

Creation of your own piece or scripts is one of the most fulfilling things as an artist. Yeah it takes a lot of thinking and…hard play. Sometimes it’s useful to bounce ideas off of someone. I’m fortunate in that I have my friend @[1696603043:2048:Ross Berteig] who lives near me. If you have no one, you have us. That’s what the group is for. It is private and members are carefully curated to be brothers and sisters of the craft from all over the world. The largest gathering of bizarrists in history. We are each other’s Shadow Network (like Brother Shadow devised).

I guess I just hope you are inspired and animated by this witches brew of ideas in this group. That’s why I created it. The world needs more true magicians to make the people think differently because of great art.

So Mote It Be,

RedGrave

Originally posted in the Bizarre Magick Facebook group.