Having seventy pictures of mine on display at my library, showing all manner of animals, cartoon characters, and biblical calamities taking place in the library I have worked in for decades has telegraphed to the public that these might not be real events. No one has asked me when Charlie Brown visited our library. And seeing a picture of a Peanuts character tends to tip people off that a picture of, say, a lion lying around in front of our front desk, no matter how realistic it looks, might not be entirely authentic.
And yet despite all of this my colleagues and I are still regularly called upon to explain that, no, we have never had a tiger in the library freely adventuring through our stacks. And though the fact of this reflects well on the verisimilitude of my photos, it's not that fun to explain. I used to end up resorting to invoking the partially true word "Photoshop", which people grab onto like it's the holy grail. The illusion is dispelled. No one has learned anything. And magic is dead.
People don't like the more enigmatic answers about these pictures any better, and I have probably tried all together too many different solutions to the problem of:
How does your magic trick work?
And so, in a sense, this is just another solution attempt.
But I really like this one!
And the solution is:
Try to make the magic trick even bigger!
(I am sorry I could not embed these here. Unfortunately, that feature seems to have broken, but the link clicking should be brief, simple, and mildly rewarding)
https://youtube.com/shorts/JzWOa4H7EjY?si=FygIvnD3L0RTXqtB
https://youtube.com/shorts/eK6PJk8MyAw?si=VVk3RkYrw1Y0aAWA
https://youtube.com/shorts/5pJZYPtCKYs?si=5jyd2Y6sFsYF9CXg
https://youtube.com/shorts/Lf5TG4-oLkY?si=fOcGcJdehdw2MH6i
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