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Icarus
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Player Photo Anagrams by Icarus

September 1st, 2008 6:23 AM

INSTRUCTIONS: Anagram your username or player name using the Internet Anagram Generator (or better yet, do it yourself).

Choose at least one interesting anagram from the list and create a physical representation of it such as a photograph, movie, or sound recording. Share this representation with someone else, but do not tell them the anagram inspired it. Now ask them to give your work a title. Finally, anagram the title, and choose an anagram that might be used to describe your player photograph.

If none of these anagrams feel appropriate, make a physical representation of this second anagram, and repeat the process as many times as you choose - or as many times as it takes to end up with a good anagram for your player photo.

Come around, little kiddies, and let Auntie Tanya tell you all about how her name gets miraculously transformed into all sorts of wonderful and horrifying things! I think that the key to this task was ITERATIONS. And the fact that the anagram representations did not have to be limited to a particular medium.

A huge thank you to everybody who helped me title things, including (but not limited to): Lincoln, Strum and Drain, Someone, GYØ Tom, Loki, Waldo Cheerio, GYØ Ben, Peter Garnett... And more. I honestly can't remember who I asked any more. If you would like to be mentioned in this praxis, regardless of if you helped me or even know me, just say so in the comments.

So! Listed below are the transformations, along with accompanying physical representations.

BOOMSTICKS --> TO KISS COMB

TO LICK COMB

Pen on paper.

The first iteration! A little drawing to kick-start things.

Title suggestions made:
Happy monster licks comb
Humorous comb fetish of a small semi-chibified thing

HAPPY MONSTER LICKS COMB --> PORK BY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

PORK BY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Pen on paper.

This iteration gave me the most grief, because I never actually wrote down "Pork by accomplishments". As such, when I reached the end and came back to do the write up, I couldn't find the original title of my bacon trophy picture! I was also very sure that the title would contain the word 'bacon', but it didn't.

Title suggestions made:

Bacon hat wins!
Apprehensive win

APPREHENSIVE WIN --> EPINEPHRINE WAVE

EPINEPHRINE WAVE

Hand, camera.

Epinephrine is adrenaline, so this is a picture of me waving my hand up and down with much gusto after I hyperventilated myself to try to get my heart full of adrenaline. I don't think that scientifically works, but it did achieve a 'flame' effect.

Title suggestions made:

Swift soaring swine
Twisty flame thingy
Aurora borealis, home edition

AURORA BOREALIS, HOME EDITION --> BLOODIER ROOMIER EUTHANASIA

[For this iteration, look in the media section and download the M4A. Or, you could just not bother.]

Piano, doorhinges, creaking chair, footsteps, books, incantation. Recorded on laptop.

I appreciated how easy it was to find an anagram for this iteration. Bloodier roomier euthanasia came out as the first result (under word number constraints)! Unfortunately the final result probably does not convey the blood, or roominess. Nor the euthanasia, perhaps.

Title suggestions made:
Ominousness
Myst meets Mortal Coil

MYST MEETS MORTAL COIL --> MEALTIMES STRICTLY SMOOTH


At deafening clinks of hushed utensils
deep furrows on my father’s taut visage
did deepen further, and the abhorrent sound
stopped. We waited tersely, for a good seven seconds
eight, perhaps, or somewhere in between
our gazes hungrily lapping up soup, but
nobody moved. Now:
Watch carefully for the unclenching jaw, because then
(and only then) does time unfreeze -
breath easy, young ones, and have your supper;
you will sleep well tonight.

Poetry, typed up.

I didn't know what Mortal Coil was until Someone enlightened me with this title. It also anagrams much nicer than "ominousness". At this point, I forgot that writing a poem isn't technically physical representation. But there was no going back...

Title suggestions made:

Still
Obedience
Soup Father
Food poisoning in the financial district

SOUP FATHER --> TOFU SERAPH


TOFU SERAPH

Marker on whiteboard.

There was a tofu seraph, but I didn't like it, and so I never asked anybody to title it. Let's move on, shall we?

TOFU SERAPH --> PROFUSE HAT

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Hats, stop animation on laptop.

These hats come from an Indonesian bank, and there are a lot of them. Hence, the hat (structure, video, etc) is profuse. Yeah, it's a rather weak interpretation. Perhaps you liked my tofu seraph better?

Title suggestions made:
Some hats
Cascade of mediocrity

CASCADE OF MEDIOCRITY --> A SACRIFICED DECOY TOM

DECOY TOM!
DECOY TOM FOLDED
DECOY TOM ORIGAMIFIED!
A SACRIFICED DECOY TOM
A HORRIBLY MUTILATED DECOY TOM

Printer, origami skills, utensils of torture and sacrifice.

Yes, that is a sacrificed decoy Tom. For more information, look at the media files.


Title suggestion made:

The pain of remembering

THE PAIN OF REMEMBERING --> NEAT REMEMBERING OF PHI

I devise a mnemonic, practical instrinsically for one difficult endeavour (reworking verbage into beautiful decimals, intensely!). This numerical task? Learning an incredible, 'gold rated' number... Venerate phi!


Pencil on paper, later typed up.

This was fun to do, and also a challenge. As such, I present it as a challenge to you, the readers, to figure out! After all, it is rather self explanatory. (Again, I forgot the idea of physical representations. But I worked hard on this!) Huge thanks to Spidere for alerting me to the mistake in my mnemonic!

Title suggestions made:

Trig exam
We're talking about numbers!

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT NUMBERS --> TROUBLE MAKER BUSTING ANEW


We've reached the final anagram! Why does it describe me?

GASP!
EVIDENCE!

Because I'm breaking my masquerade, and I'm starting again. See you next era!

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TO LICK COMB
PORK BY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
EPINEPHRINE WAVE
BLOODIER ROOMIER EUTHANASIA
TOFU SERAPH
PROFUSE HAT
DECOY TOM!
DECOY TOM FOLDED
DECOY TOM ORIGAMIFIED!
A SACRIFICED DECOY TOM
A HORRIBLY MUTILATED DECOY TOM
GASP!
EVIDENCE!

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13 comment(s)

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posted by Icarus on September 1st, 2008 10:51 AM

*blush* Thanks heaps! You have been thanked in the praxis. Because I can do that.

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posted by teucer on September 1st, 2008 11:08 AM

Or because we didn't want our comments as they appear in the updates page to spoil the twist ending for those who didn't already know.

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posted by Icarus on September 1st, 2008 11:10 AM

Very good point...

Where did Waldo's comment go?

Still confused...
posted by Spidere on September 1st, 2008 11:16 AM

...but then, identity is always confusing to me, especially here.

Excellent completion, especially if it means what I think it means--with bonus points for phi's mnemonic (though, is it really practical? I think naught.) ;)

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posted by Icarus on September 1st, 2008 7:27 PM

Thank you so much for fixing up my mnemonic! I also like your word play, Senator.

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posted by Not Here No More on September 1st, 2008 1:31 PM

WIN!

Never would have guessed that you were Mr. Lee.

I for one was thoroughly fooled. Nice work.
posted by Loki on September 2nd, 2008 12:34 AM

Excellent. The whole sequence is great fun, but I particularly like the audio. (I do wonder if the metadata was left on the audio clip when it was originally distributed, and if so whether your titular cohorts caught it.)

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posted by Icarus on September 3rd, 2008 12:49 AM

The metadata was left on the audio clip. Indeed, I left many clues to my identity along the way... Also, I had a Skype conversation with you that went like this:

Loki: "My friends and I have tried to meet as if it were for the first time. It never works, and we feel like everybody around us knows that we're only pretending."
Me: "Uh... Right."
Loki: "But perhaps that's just because we're bad at acting."

I really thought that you had figured out who I was at that point. Did you?

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posted by Loki on September 3rd, 2008 2:41 AM

Not even close.

If I remember correctly, the same conversation also included a discussion of the impossibility of understanding how little attention other people actually pay to you. This is especially true when doing something sneaky, as you're maximally attentive and focused on yourself and your immediate environment. It's almost impossible to believe that everybody else in the room isn't doing exactly the same thing.

In some sense they are, but they're mostly concerned with themselves, or on rare occasions the attractive person across the room, and even then they probably aren't really paying much attention to detail. *You* know there's a live mouse in your coat pocket, and the squirming bulge is right there in plain sight. How is it possible that all the other people on the escalator don't notice it? Eventually you become frustrated, begin to taunt them, drop hints, leave clues. What's wrong with these people? Don't they see it? But of course, they don't. They're too busy worrying about the wrinkles in their trousers, the termites in their houses, the anger of their spouses, and on rare occasions, their own pocket mouses.

Well, that part of the conversation turned out to be the relevant bit.

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posted by Icarus on September 14th, 2008 5:04 AM

Do *you* have a pocket mouse of your own?

and can it shoot lightning?

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posted by rongo rongo on September 3rd, 2008 9:12 AM

Lots of layers!

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posted by John Galt on September 5th, 2008 12:16 AM

This is a particularly wonderful completion. I love the audio track, though ambient sounds such as these have always fascinated me, and I particularly enjoy the "Tofu Seraph." Wonderful anagram and an elegant drawing to boot.

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posted by Myrna Minx on September 7th, 2008 8:22 AM

::swoon::