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August 11, 2013 09:00 pm GMT
Its summer here in Silicon Valley, and for my column this month, Ill try to finally polish and publish some of the old posts that have been collecting dust in my drafts folder. Usually, I try to make the column timely, but not this time. Almost two years ago now, my wife and I visited a museum in San Francisco to an exhibit called Art of Magic, honoring Harry Houdini. I dragged my wife to the museum to see this because I had been watching Pawn Stars on the History Channel and was obsessed with the show. In one episode, a customer came in with original handcuffs and a straightjacket used by Houdini. The shows characters all marveled at the legend of Houdini, the nostalgia, the myths. While all this information is available on Wikipedia, the art exhibit highlighted an interesting them: Houdinis masterful command of new mediums and platforms to manipulate and leverage his audiences deepest hopes and fears.
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Harry Houdini, Lock Picking, And Entrepreneurship
Its summer here in Silicon Valley, and for my column this month, Ill try to finally polish and publish some of the old posts that have been collecting dust in my drafts folder. Usually, I try to make the column timely, but not this time. Almost two years ago now, my wife and I visited a museum in San Francisco to an exhibit called Art of Magic, honoring Harry Houdini. I dragged my wife to the museum to see this because I had been watching Pawn Stars on the History Channel and was obsessed with the show. In one episode, a customer came in with original handcuffs and a straightjacket used by Houdini. The shows characters all marveled at the legend of Houdini, the nostalgia, the myths. While all this information is available on Wikipedia, the art exhibit highlighted an interesting them: Houdinis masterful command of new mediums and platforms to manipulate and leverage his audiences deepest hopes and fears.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/LNvruEvM73I/
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