
- 288 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
D.I.Y. Magic offers a set of mind hacks that will help any creative artist to find new sources of inspiration. It will change the way you think about yourself, about creativity, and about the world. Encompassing self-help, psychology and philosophy, this book will help you hack into deeper levels of creativity, access the subconscious, and discover techniques that have been used by artists for centuries.From vision quests and lucid dreaming to creating a memory palace and Salvador Dali's spoon trick, the deceptively simple exercises collected by Anthony Alvarado are designed to help readers escape the traps of rationality we are conditioned to fall into.Follow in the steps of the Romantics, the Dadaists, the Surrealists, the beatniks and anyone chasing the muse. Learn how to pull the strings of everyday reality and unlock the magic of the creative mind. Illustrated by a host of visionary artists, including alternative comic artists such as Farel Dalrymple and Ron Rege Jr, D.I.Y. Magic is a radically original arsenal of ways to think, perceive and experience the world.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION: What I Talk About When I Talk About Magic
- 1: Dropping the Spoon
- 2: Intuition
- 3: Time Travel, or Neo-Ludditism
- 4: The Life Line Walk
- 5: Automatic Writing
- 6: Establish a Creativity Ritual
- 7: Ornithomancy
- 8: The Cloak of Invisibility
- 9: The Ganzfeld Technique, or the Poor Man’s Sensory Deprivation Tank
- 10: Yoga
- 11: Bibliomancy
- 12: Manifestation
- 13: Build Your Own Tarot Deck
- 14: The Coin Trick
- 15: Schizophrenia as Oracle
- 16: Lucid Dreaming
- 17: Surfing Waves of Synchronicity & the Interpretation of Random Events
- 18: How to Get Lost
- 19: Meditation
- 20: Dreamtime & Astral Projection
- 21: Power Stance
- 22: Surreal Juxtaposition
- 23: The Flâneur
- 24: Active Imagination
- 25: Memento Mori
- 26: Counting Coup
- 27: Aleatory Writing
- 28: Memory Exercise
- 29: Floating in Inner Space
- 30: Potions, Libations & Herbs
- 31: Fasting
- 32: Beards & Other Transformations
- 33: Trance & Reverie
- 34: Neuro-Linguistic Literature & Programming
- 35: A Vision Quest
- 36: Memory Palaces & Mental Golems, or the New Art of Daemonology
- CONCLUSION: An Irrational Manifesto
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- FURTHER READING
- ART CREDITS
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- Copyright
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