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[quote="Hob"]Anyone see the experiment thingy on the telly? People were asked to draw their impression of an image being 'transmitted' by a woman who was incommunicado, other than her eyes.

A whole load of people drew a set of concentric circles with a dot in.

I was planning to draw the same, but thought 'Ah, nah, I'm Cup and ring obsessed'. And desisted. She also implies something about Stonehenge.

How odd.[/quote
Watched it Hob . I think there may haev been suggeston throughout the show and also in the press e.g. guardian G2 p16 .had an ad in the top right "Draw concentric circles " dunno where the stonehenge bit came in .The fact that the stonehenge aspect wasn't too obvious in the makes you wonde why it was picked on to the extent of dropping the artist off there. He must have known what was on the drawing but how did he recognise stonehenge from so little info ? Brilliant success last week he had millions doing the same thing at the same time i.e. standing up .

You're spot on about the subliminals there. The background was dripping with concentrics, and there were also circles in the metalwork on the balcony he was standing on. Very cleverly done, as you'd expect.

The thing that's really oiques my interest is the way that it was apparently possible to use the motif in such an experiment. Obviously it's not anything like proof of psychic communication, but whatever strange neuro-linguistic-programming type stuff he uses, Mr B chose this motif* possibly because he's ware of the depth to which it's encoded in the human visual cortex. I can't quite express it, but it really seems to speak to me about why the folk who carved cup and ring marks chose such an abstracted motif to replicate over and over and over, and why it' such an absorbing subject once your brain keys into it. It would appear that rock art can, in some instances, make your brain go a bit strange if you allow it to do so :)

*I'm assuming he had at least some influence in the thing the artist painted. The Stonehenge link may have been an attempt to hack into something iconographically mysterious enough to induce a sense of 'Oooo-wee-oo-wooo'. Cracking good stuff however it was done.

'incommunicado other than her eyes'
erm, aren't eyes themselves like a series of concentric circles with a dot in.

I started to watch it but frankly I got bored. I was annoyed from the moment those idiots started talking about the box with the alleged bricks in 'ooh how many do you think are in there? thirty, forty? - ooh yes' yeah listen to yourself for goodness sake.

tiompan wrote:
Brilliant success last week he had millions doing the same thing at the same time i.e. standing up .
I think it was the week before that when he "predicted" the National Lottery results a minute or so after the BBC had actually announced them.

Let's get that straight... he "predicted" the result after it had been announced on TV.

Loads of people were amazed... that is how much of a genius this guy is.