BIG RIG (Random Idea Generator)

We’ve all been there. You want to create a unique piece of magic but you are stuck. You’ve tried to wrap your brain around an item that you want to build an effect around and your mental capacitors have burnt out. Have no fear! Enter the Big Rig, busting through your wall like the Kool-Aid man hollering “Oh Yeah!”

Here’s the idea, you take one word from Column A, one word from Column B and throw them at a word from Column C. This is an exercise designed to help spawn new creative en devours.

These of course need to have some way to bridge with one another. For example, assume you have chosen paperclips, in a flash of fire and spectator assisted.

“Let’s see, spectator assisted. Flash of fire. I know for a fact I don’t want someone burning themselves, so I’ll handle the fire. Paperclips. Hmm, they have those memory metals that can be burnt into different shapes. Maybe force the shape and pull out a piece of metal in the shape of a paperclip.

Better yet, what if I dump a box of paperclips out, have someone chose one, then switch it for the memory metal. I wonder if I could wrap the metal in flash paper and have it change its shape? Now the force. I don’t want the handling to seem to contrived, so what about a few business cards set up so that half of them are the force symbol for the metal, the other half are random.

I could even use a papeclip to hold the business cards and apparently use the same paperclip to make the change. After a shuttle pass, I could place the actual paperclip in my pocket with the business cards as I remove a piece of flash paper.”

So using this concept, thus is born Phoenix, this month’s free trick.

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