Amazing Magic Trick…
This one is just unbelievable. I usually assign the label “sleight of hand” to table magic tricks, but this one is just so perfectly done I really have zero clue as to the secret behind the trick. Watch the entire video, be sure to zoom in to full screen and highest resolution your screen can handle. Well worth it…
– Dave
Great illusions. I could spot how all but the last illusion was done.
The last one (hand through the “glass” table) had me stumped.
I had a guess as to the others, but definitely no idea on the glass table. Unless this was trick photography and everyone was in on it.
– Dave
Looks to me like he slides the table around at around the 5:23 mark as the camera goes down to level. That would enable a hole to be concealed under his left forearm whilst he’s polishing the spot.
Can’t see him slide it back through there looks like a little drag at 6:21 – very strategically placed teapot to the right of the screen.
I think its almost guaranteed that the front two had to be in on it.
Jeff, brilliant assessment. The glass must move. Just not sure how. When I look closely, once he removes his hand from the hole, it looks like his skin is being dragged a big by the moving glass. The front two must have been in on it, agreed…
– Dave
Two things I notice: One, the table top is composed of four glass sections, separated by four metal radial lines/bars/whatever. If you look at the other radial lines, they seem flush with the glass. But the glass in front of the magician seems to be lower than its corresponding radial metal bars. – Two, there are a few closeups of the glass, and I see nigh-perfect arcing smear marks. These two give me the impression that, indeed, the glass is slid over during the illusion, giving the magician access to a hole.
Lastly, I love magic/illusion, but not when shills are used, especially when they come across as representatives of the audience. I am fine with assistants, but only when they are identified as such. We have a few illusionists in our country who use this technique (folks like Criss Angel) and, in my opinion, gives magicians a bad name. We all know it’s a trick, but using shills as extensions of the audience in order to heighten the belief factor is pretty lame.
Excellent points, both, Stu. I am disappointed by the use of shills. Still love the engineering involved in pulling off that trick, though!
A beautiful trick, wonderfully executed. The hand through the glass didn’t move me near as much as the heart-pump I felt when he had three coins on top of the table, whacked his hand underneath, and, in that instant, one of the coins appears to have jumped through the glass. Absolutely stunning.