Animated Gif Sigils: what they are and how to create them.
An anigifsigil is an auto-gnostic method which employs an
internet browser capable of displaying animated gifs and playing
background sounds. Both are looped, in an effort to create a visual
and auditory mantra. A pleasing (though not necessarily related) image
is interspersed with a graphilinear sigil of one's desire, and a
verbal sigil is created in the same way, a voice-over in front of a
repetitive or monotonous tone.
Required:
- Computer with sound card and/or microphone.
- Browser (Netscape, MSExplorer). No internet connection is
necessary.
- An animated gif-maker, like GIF
Construction Set.
- One of the following:
- an existing animated gif, or
- a program for creating "slides" from
computer-generated artwork, or
- digital camera, or
- video frame grabber, or
- photographs and a scanner.
- A desire worthy of sigil-casting.
Steps:
- Ensigilize desire.
- Create anigifsigil and background sound.
- Create an HTML document for its use.
- Cast the sigil spell.
- Launch the sigil.
- Banish.
Ways to ensigilize desire:
Write out a desire in simplistic terms. Say it to yourself a few
times; does it feel right?
- Develop a drawn image of the desire's lettering
by overlapping letters into a singular shape.
- Develop a verbal sigil or mantra by sounding
out (adding vowels where necessary) the letters remaining from the
written desire after repeating letters are deleted.
To create an animated gif:
RTFM. Intersperse your sigil between frames of the animated gif.
To create a background sound:
Record your mantra with some monotonous sound behind it,
preferably something rhythmic or pulsing using your computer's
microphone recorder.
To create your sigil's playground:
Open up a word processing application (if you know HTML code)
or your favorite HTML processor and create the page upon which your
sigil will unwind.
Method-Acting® suggestions:
- Be restful.
- This is a passive gnostic technique that requires concentration,
at least at the beginning.
- Start your computer's browser and open the anigifsigil page.
Make sure volume is appropriate and you can see nothing
unnecessary (the tool & status bars, directory buttons,
location, etc., are deselected).
- Sit str8 up if in a chair, or on the ground, facing your
monitor.
- Stare into the anigifsigil until you see only the
"filler" or "engine" images cascading as one,
then only the sigil, and vice-versa.
- Prepare to launch the sigil by preferred means.
- The sigil is launched, and banishing is accomplished with a
single loud clap and the browser's shutdown.
A sample code: substitute your own elements where you see green
lettering:
START______
<html>
<head>
<title>UgcfnAOtrIsEdym</title>
<bgsound src="file:thesound.wav"
loop="infinite">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#000000"
text="#OOOOOO">
<p align="center">
<img src="file:SigilSample.gif"</p>
<h1>My
desire to manifest a contagious meme</h1>
<p>Cast
980523 2300 hrs. Launched via trance aided by E 980523 2600 hrs.</p>
</body>
</html>
________END
Make sure that your bgcolor
and text match in hexcolor.
And there you have it; a trance-inducing method of casting a sigil
which can be saved with all the necessary information contained in it
for record-keeping (the desire itself, its date of launch, etc.) in a
subliminal context. You can save the files attendant on a floppy disk
with the title "Sigil" and its performance date if you like
and send it to friends!
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