Penn and Teller explain sleight of hand in this marvelous trick!
Penn and Teller Explain Sleight of Hand
You can watch the above video if you’re kinda bored at work. Make sure you have audio turned on.
Very cool explanation by Penn & Teller on how to pull off one of their famous tricks.
It’s just so enjoyable to watch I never thought how it’s done. If you love magic and want to continue to love magic, perhaps you shouldn’t watch the video.
Hmmmp, I don’t think I would want to volunteer for those magic tricks. You won’t know if it’s going to be dangerous. They can make you feel relaxed and all but it does not fully eliminate the possibility of getting hurt as the following video illustrates.
Sometimes magic tricks go wrong
Humans make mistakes. Magicians are human. Well, you get my point.
I just watched The Prestige and the movie is amazing. The Nolan brothers (director and writer) really shone in that film.
(The Prestige 128 x 128.)
The Prestige is about 2 rival magicians (performed by Hugh Jackman and Christopher Bale), when one manages to perform an amazing trick, the other struggles to find the secrets as to how the trick is done. The struggle to find out secrets are costly and that is pretty much all I can tell you without review much of the suspense.
Every great magic trick consists of three acts. The first act is called “The Pledge”; The magician shows you something ordinary, but of course… it probably isn’t. The second act is called “The Turn”; The magician makes his ordinary some thing do something extraordinary. Now if you’re looking for the secret… you won’t find it, that’s why there’s a third act called, “The Prestige”; this is the part with the twists and turns, where lives hang in the balance, and you see something shocking you’ve never seen before.
I like the way the story plot jumps around to reveal itself. The Prestige is, to a certain extend, made to reveal itself in the form of the magic trick. I kinda felt it follows the Pledge-Turn-Prestige path which makes the show rather interesting. It’s great to discuss about it after your movie with your friends too.
And look! I even make a The Prestige Live Messenger display picture. I really enjoyed the film and it deserves 5 stars out of a total 5 for being such an excellent movie. It’s probably not in the theatres already since I forgot to release this post. Get the DVD soon perhaps?
On a side note, take a look at Windows Live Messenger:
(Look you can create so many types of display pictures, so confusing.)
Okay… So you can make a lot of different display pictures, but this is just too much right? All the Kiwee, Meegos and Quebles… I have no idea what they are at all. And you can click on the tile on top or the link below. Aren’t they repeating information too much? It’s a waste of space and doesn’t look pleasing at all. Perhaps Microsoft can remove those links at the bottom. I’m using the Aussie Windows Live Messenger by the way.
I love watching these magic shows in the past. And then I’ll start to think how is this trick possible; could it be that they…? Well, there are just sometimes when the tricks get so sophisticated that I simply can’t think of anyway that the trick may work. It’s just amazing. And the following is one of those.
It’s a magic trick starting with a simple coin-through-the-glass trick. And then it gets better.
Time for useless news. I am going to be busy today and tomorrow so I probably won’t be blogging so I added fillers. I am not performing a disappearing act though.
Heckler Makes Magician’s Hat, Rabbit Disappear
LONDON (Reuters) - A thief stole a British magician’s black top hat and white rabbit in the middle of one of his performances and then staged a disappearing act, police said Wednesday.
The Great Velcro — whose Web Site boasts “Have Rabbit will travel” — was half an hour into his show at the Komedia club in Brighton on England’s south coast when a man who had been heckling him got on to the stage.
He swiped the magician’s hat which had his rabbit Georgina inside and fled.
“At first people thought it was part of the act,” a police spokeswoman said.
The audience chased after the man when they realized he was stealing the props, but the thief simply disappeared.
Source: Reuters
…the thief simply disappeared. Like magic.