Phantasm & ZeroLag
ZeroLag
Hey Phantasm, ever wondered how you could make a whole illusion feel like a blink, yet stretch it so the audience thinks time just stopped? I’ve been running some quick math on that.
Phantasm
That’s the trick of the trade—turn the breath into a curtain, pull it back, let the silence linger longer than the beat. If your numbers line up, you can make a heartbeat feel like an eternity, and your crowd will forget how time ticks. Just remember: the best illusion is the one that makes them think they’re still in the moment, even as the world pauses.
ZeroLag
Nice, so you’re turning a whole minute into a single pulse. Tell me, how many microseconds can you squeeze in that “breath” curtain before the audience realizes it’s all a clever lag? Let’s fine‑tune that rhythm until the crowd is counting your milliseconds instead of seconds.
Phantasm
A minute of show is just a breath, so you’re looking at about 60,000,000 microseconds in total. I’d clip the curtain to maybe a few hundred thousand—so roughly 200 000 microseconds, or 0.2 seconds. That’s long enough to feel like a pause, short enough that the crowd never catches the lag. Keep that slice tight, and they’ll count my milliseconds as the heart of the act.