


Player Photo Anagrams by Icarus
September 1st, 2008 6:23 AMA 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

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

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

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

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
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





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,
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?


Because I'm breaking my masquerade, and I'm starting again. See you next era!
28 vote(s)
- teucer
- GYØ Vicki
- Vena Nightmare
- Optical Dave
- Marshall Electric
- The Found Walrus
- Jellybean of Thark
- Darkaardvark
- Waldo Cheerio
- Tøm
- Tricia Tanaka
- Sombrero Guy
- JJason Recognition
- Spidere
- help im a bear
- GYØ Ben
- Not Here No More
- Ben Yamiin
- Loki
- zer0gee
- rongo rongo
- inquisitive dragonfly
- John Galt
- Dela Dejavoo
- Myrna Minx
- Minch
- teh Lolbrarian
- Kid A
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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.
Very good point...
Where did Waldo's comment go?
...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.) ;)
Thank you so much for fixing up my mnemonic! I also like your word play, Senator.
WIN!
Never would have guessed that you were Mr. Lee.
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.)
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?
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.
Do *you* have a pocket mouse of your own?
and can it shoot lightning?
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.
*blush* Thanks heaps! You have been thanked in the praxis. Because I can do that.