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- Skanadian, on 12/17/2007, -8/+447OMG SIDEWALK HACK
- ljohnblaze, on 12/17/2007, -6/+147He's a WITCH! WITTTCHHH!!!
- stelriah, on 12/17/2007, -9/+149he's french. that's how he did it.
- signal15, on 12/17/2007, -5/+120Actually, the tape box was always down. In the part where he stands behind the box, there is a 3d box sitting on top of it and blocking the view of the tape box. He picks up the 3d cube, puts it back down. Someone replaces the 3d cube off camera with a single stick coming up from the ground. Camera pans back, then he pulls the stick out of the ground.
- krinthekuz, on 09/16/2008, -5/+120my problem with this is that he took the "cube" and the "disc" out of the view of the camera every single time he was switching them... which really is not impressive. i do award points for smoothness though. i wonder how many takes it required to get it that smooth.
- chuckayoub, on 12/17/2007, -6/+100Had to watch this one twice to see what just happened...
- decker12, on 12/17/2007, -4/+86Very cool.. the guy has a creepy serial killer smile though, and his promise of "See you next time" sounded very ominous..
- AtHomeBoy2000, on 12/17/2007, -21/+83Notice how the camera doesnt show the area where the box was after he picks it up? It's simple. While he was talking closeup to the camera, someone putdown the tape box.
- jh5000, on 12/17/2007, -1/+59here is a video showing how he does it (and all of his "tricks")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1kbbk8CfnQ - AZTriGuy, on 12/17/2007, -5/+38He turned me into a newt!
I got better... - vade79, on 12/17/2007, -4/+37I did my part, but i'm only one man.
- piesforyou, on 12/17/2007, -3/+34"good bye, i'll see you next time.... IN MY PANTS!"
- greyrat, on 12/17/2007, -9/+40Meh. You know it's bad when *I* can tell when the switcheroos are occurring. It's especially bad when he looks off stage left for the cube replacer...
- GeekyGerge, on 12/17/2007, -2/+26PedoSmile!?
- ShugNinx21, on 12/17/2007, -7/+28Someone needs to tell the guy in the video that camera tricks are not magic tricks or illusions.
- estacado, on 12/17/2007, -4/+18Yeah, a very pedo "goodbye".
- KyleGoetz, on 12/17/2007, -4/+16Your mom surrendered to him.
- MDKAOD, on 12/17/2007, -8/+20The props move out of frame a couple of times. This isn't an illusion. The guy is using the limitation of the camera frame to make his "trick" work. Switch out the ball at the bottom of the frame, toss the cube off frame to the right when panning back to the tape on the ground. This is lame.
- giid, on 12/17/2007, -0/+11yeah after I watched it the second time I was disappointed when the switch seemed to happened off camera
- Abominous, on 12/17/2007, -12/+22wtf
- sandburn, on 12/17/2007, -0/+10skeptical cat is not impressed...
- yournightmare, on 12/17/2007, -3/+11Sorry, but I haven't seen ONE of this guy's tricks that weren't easy to figure out. It doesn't take a G.E.D..
- ShugNinx21, on 12/17/2007, -0/+8You are a magician's wet dream.
- davet111, on 12/17/2007, -3/+11At the begging of the trick the cube is already lined up with the tape on the ground. he switched the disk out for a ball off camera. then he never put the 3d cube back where it was. he just threw it off camera. and then all that was left was the tape on the ground.
not a very good trick, because it requires a camera to restrict your viewing. - ShrimpCrackers, on 12/17/2007, -1/+9Yes they are magic tricks and illusions. Go to a magic school, they teach camera and point of view tricks all day.
- Mononuclear, on 12/17/2007, -1/+8someone needs to tell Chris Angel and David Blaine the same thing. I hate those guys and their payed audiences and camera tricks. Do some real magic!!
- happywaffle, on 12/17/2007, -4/+11I figured it out on the second play-through. Where the camera's pointing is very important.
- CrimsonFate, on 12/17/2007, -11/+17He would have surrendered long before mastering the process.
- imightbewrong, on 12/17/2007, -2/+7i think the real box over the tape is right, I don't think someone replaces the 3-d box with stick, i think he tosses the 3-d box out of frame when he goes to put it down right before he bounces the ball. and someone put the stick there when he was showing the 3-d box to the camera.
- MindStalker, on 12/17/2007, -1/+6watch again he just throws the cube away after he shows it to the camera the one piece he removed is a prop and only 3 dimensions figure there.
- Motodog, on 12/17/2007, -0/+5You read my mind.
- NJPENSO, on 12/17/2007, -2/+7SO ITS NOT REALLY MAGIC?!
- cabronqueseyo, on 12/17/2007, -1/+6At the start, the real 3d box is aligned with the stickers on the ground. He picks up the box while the ground is off camera, and then he puts it back down off camera again, where takes it away from the shot.
- MerryMortician, on 12/17/2007, -1/+6we are the moron's and YOU believe in wizards?
- bonkeykong, on 12/17/2007, -0/+4You mean it wasn't magic?
- ShugNinx21, on 12/17/2007, -0/+4The 2 dimensional cube with the stick is an optical illusion. The fact that he preforms his "trick" by moving the camera is not illusion. If you try to replace misdirection by purposely moving a camera so you can work your magic then you aren't performing a magic illusion.
- bcardarella, on 12/17/2007, -10/+14Here's my guess: he has three cube props: the actual cube, a single white stick that was either standing behind the actual stick on the cube or placed when the camera panned away and the taped cube that was already laid down... the angle from which they are taping the 2D cube was obscured by the actual cube.
When the camera pans away the first time he picks up the 3D cube and puts it back down. As soon as it is put down someone grabs that 3D cube. So when the camera pans back it appears to still be there. The angle of the camera makes the 2D cube look 3D.
That single stick is the only 3D part now. That's why he can put his hand behind it. You'll notice that the very top of that stick looks a little off (because it actually isn't connected to anything)
So to me this basically looks like a bait & switch. The camera panning away is the only reason it works. Any other theories? - MindStalker, on 12/17/2007, -1/+5Actually the tape was always there, the cube was lined up to cover the tape just perfectly for the shot.
- JonProphet, on 12/17/2007, -0/+4That guy gives me the creeps.
- TheSnuffster, on 12/17/2007, -0/+3I'm guessing you don't fully understand what "optical illusion" means...
- ShugNinx21, on 12/17/2007, -0/+3Who would digg this guy down? Swapping out the balls off camera is in no way Slight of hand, or magic for that matter. It's not even ***** clever.
- WebCester, on 12/17/2007, -1/+4He's Swiss actually. And not from the french part…
- ZTYKA, on 12/17/2007, -5/+8The cameraman was the magician. Plenty of magicians can swap the ball for the paper without having to hide below the camera's view. Initially surprising, ultimately lame.
- rarson, on 12/18/2007, -0/+3Here's a really good example of Criss Angel using misdirection to pull stuff off right in front of the spectator's face:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV7pajY0zOk - rarson, on 12/18/2007, -2/+5It's a really great trick, and he's got some pretty cool parts to it, like the disappearing stick, but his implementation of it is terrible. You can tell he's switching out the ball, you can tell he's throwing the cube off to the side, you can tell the cube was taped to the ground from the beginning, you can tell the stick is going up his sleeve, etc.
The worst part about the trick, aside from the performance, is the fact that it involves such a large amount of off-camera stuff. Really, I suppose it's no worse than a lot of what Criss Angel does (for instance), but if you're going that route, you need to really perfect the trick to make it look convincing. It's a really neat idea for a trick, but it needs a better performer. And his patter sucked, too.
I used to do magic. The hardest part about it is the presentation. You have to entertain the audience. Houdini started out doing his safe routines by busting out of the safe within minutes. Nobody really cared. Then he decided to set a screen up on the stage. He would break out of the safe like normal, but then sit there for over an hour. The suspense drove people nuts. They thought he had suffocated. Just before the audience would demand he be checked on, he would reveal himself and they'd go nuts. That's what you have to do. You can't just stand there and verbally spell out everything the audience can already see that you are doing. Not only that, but good patter is also misdirection. Criss Angel is REALLY good at this, because (although I find his "if you believe in magic, it's real" act is incredibly hokey and insulting) he can divert people's attention just by talking.
With good misdirection, you don't even need to cut the camera away. I know that sounds pretty far fetched, but some magicians have even tried using thumb tips painted red, and nobody noticed.
Sorry for the long post, but I am pretty interested in illusions. - Nougat, on 12/17/2007, -0/+3The point I was making is that it's not sleight of hand, it's a camera trick. Much like David Blaine and his levitation trick, where they cut the shot to him being lifted by a crane to make the viewer think it's more than it is.
- Creamedweasel, on 12/18/2007, -0/+3Burn her!
- iPsyko, on 12/17/2007, -0/+2i see what you did there!
- Mononuclear, on 12/18/2007, -2/+4I know exactly how he does his tricks. A lot of them are cheap camera tricks.
- zantos420, on 12/17/2007, -0/+2he had a ball in his hand :06-:07 look in his right hand
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