From CDAN: Today's Blind Items - Resurrection (pizzagate)

submitted ago by plancktonne

A convoluted story involving the "late" Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, her sister Isabel, Isabel's "late" husband, Al Seckel, who "died" mysteriously in 2015 (and allegedly was an expert in making people "look dead" whatever that means), Brock Pierce who is now a presidential candidate, Marc-Collins Rector and — Steve Bannon (one time Trump team member and now indicted for a charity scam).

From CDAN: Today's Blind Items - Resurrection

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darkknight111 ago

Flaring as a new lead. IIRC, this is the first we’ve heard of Seckel.

ORDOTEMPLIINTERNETIS ago

@darkknight111 Should we make Al his own post so he shows up in searchvoat? Theres gotta be more to dig or cross reference here...

@plancktonne Have time to take the lead or want me to assemble?

plancktonne ago

Thanks for the offer, but no thanks, you take the lead. This deep research is way beyond my abilities.

ORDOTEMPLIINTERNETIS ago

copy that - thanks for the lead .

darkknight111 ago

Absolutely.

ORDOTEMPLIINTERNETIS ago

Letting @plancktonne get back to me - and everyone do some research and weigh in, before I organize all I'm linking here, in a follow up post.

ORDOTEMPLIINTERNETIS ago

“A source exclusively told Politicalite: “Maxwell is hiding out at the former family home in France” The chateu was owned by her mother and is the same place that sister Isabel Maxwell and al Seckel fled too.”

Al Seckel was a paranormal and illusions writer who had been in a relationship with Ghislane’s sister Isabel.

He collaborated with Epstein in 2009 organising a science conference called Mindshift on the notorious Little Saint James island owned by Epstein.

In 2011 scientists Murray Gell-Mann, Leonard Mlodinow, Gerard Sussman and Frances Arnold attended. In addition cryptocurrency proponent and actor Brock Pierce.

An interview between Seckel and Epstein appeared on Epstein’s science website on October 17, 2010.

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/al-seckel-celine-cousteau-and-isabel-maxwell-attend-the-saks-fifth-picture-id83161256?s=594x594

ORDOTEMPLIINTERNETIS ago

Edge Foundation, Inc.

edge.org

The Edge Foundation, Inc. is an association of science and technology intellectuals created in 1988 as an outgrowth of The Reality Club. Its main activities are reflected on the edge.org website, edited by publisher and businessman John Brockman. The site is a critically noted online magazine exploring scientific and intellectual ideas.Wikipedia

ORDOTEMPLIINTERNETIS ago

His site : https://web.archive.org/web/20150923085738/http://www.alseckel.net/

His Illusions site (WEIRD EXCERPT "funny pictures" CP? or nothing?):

Funny Pictures on the Internet

If you are looking to kill some time and get a good laugh, check out the entertainment that funny pictures have to offer.

Funny pictures are available virtually everywhere, but most prevalently on the internet. There are three basic outlets you can view funny pictures, One is the internet, the second place is through the tv, and the final place is through a paper manufactured good such as a magazine or newspaper. All three contain funny pictures, and all have pros and cons about viewing the pictures, but in the end you receive a laugh through either of the three methods.

The first method to view funny pictures is through the internet. There are thousands upon thousands of websites that host funny pictures, and the most common method used to key in on set websites is through a search in a search engine. Typing in funny pictures will produce many websites offering a host of funny pictures for you to view and get a laugh out of. The only thing you need to look out for when viewing funny pictures online is the mislabeling of websites and getting dragged into the wrong thing. Some websites will request information from you in order to view more pictures, such as email and credit card information. It is always best to avoid those types of websites and back out as soon as possible.

The second method of viewing funny pictures is through the tv. There are several television series that have funny moments, and in those side moments are funny pictures to fill the time. Most comedy shows will have a series or two that incorporates funny pictures into their comedy routine, so do a little searching around into which programs those are.

The third and most time told method of viewing funny pictures is through a paper good. There are several magazines that lay host to funny pictures as a way to sell more copies of their magazine, and there are several magazines that run only funny pictures. Aside from magazines the funny papers in the daily newspaper columns also have funny pictures for viewing. There are also several books that contain funny pictures, the only negative of paper good viewing of funny pictures is you sometimes have to pay to purchase the item that contains the pictures.

Overall if you are looking to get a good laugh out of your day, check out what the internet, television, and paper goods have to offer in the field of funny pictures.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180109062621/http://www.illusionworks.com/funny-pictures.html

https://web.archive.org/web/19990210065835/http://www.illusionworks.com/index.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20200118031257/https://www.illusionworks.com/index.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20060127211146/http://psylux.psych.tu-dresden.de/i1/kaw/diverses%20Material/www.illusionworks.com/html/introductory_level.html

ORDOTEMPLIINTERNETIS ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20150923143738im_/http://www.alseckel.net/uploads/6/1/0/4/61042033/2798067_orig.jpg

"This (ABOVE) is a test piece, where we wanted to model a three-dimensional world of illusions. The children gradually enter the world of illusions through the perspective of the puzzle. Note the transition of the girls into the puzzle world from the real world. The girl in the yellow dress is entirely inside the puzzle world.

This image was freely adapted by Alice Klarke and Al Seckel based on the work entitled "Unfinished Puzzle" by Canadian artist Robert Gonsalves, which is reproduced in my book Masters of Deception: Escher, Dali, and the Artists of Optical Illusion."

https://web.archive.org/web/20150923143738/http://www.alseckel.net/illusions.html

ORDOTEMPLIINTERNETIS ago

AL SECKEL 1958 - 2015

Al Paul Seckel, who died at the age of 57 near his home in France, is best known for helping to make optical illusions a household name throughout the world.

Al Seckel was born in New York City on September 3rd, 1958 to Paul Seckel and Ruth Schonthal Seckel. Al had two older brothers, Ben and Bernard Seckel. They grew up in New Rochelle, New York. While attending Cornell University he met his first wife, Laura Seckel. They moved to California where he spent a great deal of time with Richard Feynman at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In 1987 their daughter, Elizabeth, was born.

Throughout the 1980s, Al Seckel was extremely active in the freethought movement. In 1983, he and John Edwards created the Darwin fish design, which was first sold as a bumper sticker and on T-shirts. In 1984, he founded the Southern California Skeptics (SCS), and became a spokesperson for science and its relationship to the paranormal. SCS co-sponsored and produced a monthly series of lectures held at Caltech that explained alleged paranormal phenomena such as extrasensory perception and firewalking, the aim of which was to interest people in the study of science. Al also authored a monthly column in the Los Angeles Times and the Santa Monica News where he wrote about investigating other supernatural claims from a scientific perspective.

In 1987, SCS and Seckel helped sponsor an amicus brief before the U.S. Supreme court in the case of Edwards v. Aguillard, challenging the constitutionality of a Louisiana law calling for the classroom inclusion of creation science. After retiring from the skeptics’ movement in 1990, he turned his full attention to studying the human brain, specifically vision and how it relates to perception.

Al Seckel launched the first free interactive website on illusions in 1994, which can now be found at http:// tinyurl .com/alseckelsillusions . Academics, researchers, and students from around the world found his website to be an immense and positive contribution to their teaching and understanding of the subject matter. Throughout much of the nineties, this site was the only source for this information.

He went on to write a number of award-winning books on visual illusions, such as The Art of Optical Illusions and Masters of Deception. He also gave invited lectures at universities and conferences around the world, including at TED and the World Economic Forum, Davos.

Passionate about igniting imagination and joy of scientific thought and curiosity in others, Al developed optical illusion installations and exhibits for museums around the world, including the London Museum of Science, the Hong Kong Centre, the Singapore Science Centre, the Calgary Science Center, and the National Science Centre, Malaysia. He also consulted for many of the most famous magicians of the time, including David Copperfield, Franz Harary, and Mark Setteducati.

Al will be remembered and greatly missed by close friends and colleagues for his gatherings of great thinkers that were akin to the salons during the Age of Enlightenment: carefully curated groups of scientists, artists, writers, and innovators from all walks of life who would gather and share ideas with people from spheres they would otherwise never have met.

Al always had a passion for delightful creations of the mind, which included impossible objects, origami, mazes, creative toys, magic, and mathematical puzzles, as well as a deep fascination with the history of scientific thought. Whether in France hunting for Neanderthal tools, exploring crystal caves and chateaux, or back in America camping and river rafting with friends and family, getting lost in a maze, or delighting a room with impossible magic you had to see to believe, he was always full of life and laughter, ever having fun and adventure.

Al is survived by his daughter, Elizabeth, his brother, Bernard, and his partner, Isabel.

Donations may be made in memoriam to the American Heart Association.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150923085738/http://www.alseckel.net/

ORDOTEMPLIINTERNETIS ago

LOOK @Vindicator MINDSHIFT IS BACK

•2010 #Seckel on #EpsteinIsland for #Mindshift science conference