Come on then, someone must know how this was done?
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Posted 22 September 2006 - 11:34 PM
Dang...that's amazing...
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Posted 24 September 2006 - 11:29 PM
I think I know how it was done - want me to spoil the magic?!
Seen some other tricks by this guy and he is pretty good - would give David Blaine a run for his money!
(Edited for typos!)
Seen some other tricks by this guy and he is pretty good - would give David Blaine a run for his money!
(Edited for typos!)
Edited by ruth, 25 September 2006 - 12:21 AM.
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Posted 25 September 2006 - 05:21 AM
ruth, on Sep 25 2006, 12:29 AM, said:
I think I know how it was done - want me to spoil the magic?!
Seen some other tricks by this guy and he is pretty good - would give David Blaine a run for his money!
(Edited for typos!)
Seen some other tricks by this guy and he is pretty good - would give David Blaine a run for his money!
(Edited for typos!)
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Posted 26 September 2006 - 09:09 AM
It's either done using edits (note the camera cuts away from the card as it is seen stuck on the fish tank- there are other similar unnecessary cuts) and everone is in on the trick - doubtful given that this guy does lots of these types of tricks, but certainly a possibility...
If it is a 'real' trick this is one way it could have been done...
The first bit (card into the fish tank). The magician (or the girl who signed the card - she is probably in on the trick) secretly passes the card to assistant 1 (perhaps the guy at the back with the baseball cap on) The accomplice passes it to assistant 2 hiding in the bottom cupboard at the bottom of the tank. When the magician throws the cards at the tank, assistant 2 sticks the card on the inside of the tank from the bottom very quickly. The tank has a double shell, so the fish (and water!) are not disturbed.
The assistant also doesnt stick the card where is looks where it is. They will stick it on the other side of the tank (the side the magician is going to retreive the card from). I think the card you see is a projection (note obviously no one can touch the card, as it appears to be inside the fish tank, so the card may not actually be there!)
The second bit (card out of fish tank) - The tank with the fish in it is not symetrical, and remember the double glass walls (you can see them if you look carefully). The wall on the side where the magician is going to retreive the card will have a sliding glass front, and another piece of glass with a hole in it. Assistant 2 (the one hiding) will move the false side out of the way when the magician is messing about with that little paper towel, so the magician can put his arm through the reveiled hole. The magician retrieves the card from assistant 2, and the arm you see 'in' the tank is a projection of what is really happening (the magician retrieving the card from between the 2 glass shells). Note that when you stick something in water there is an optical illusion that it is bent at the waterline. This doesnt happen here, so I doubt the magician is actually putting his hand in the water. The water you see pouring out is released not from the tank, but is a small reservour the magician palmed before messing about with the towel. Note that the weed in the tank will obscure the view of what is really happenning from the people on the other side of the tank. As the magician pulls his hand out of the tank, the assistant sides the false front back up to hide the hole, so when people inspect the glass at the end, it is a solid glass wall.
Another option might be that he messes about with silicone cuffs n stuff (which would be nearly invisible in water) around the hole in the side, and he does actually retreive the card from the tank, but as you dont get the 'bent' arm optical illusion, I dont think he did.
Obviously I dont know if this is exactly how he did the trick, but it is a plausible explanantion, and ties together a lot of tricks he does.
Did that make any sense? Anyone else got theories of how he did this trick?
If it is a 'real' trick this is one way it could have been done...
The first bit (card into the fish tank). The magician (or the girl who signed the card - she is probably in on the trick) secretly passes the card to assistant 1 (perhaps the guy at the back with the baseball cap on) The accomplice passes it to assistant 2 hiding in the bottom cupboard at the bottom of the tank. When the magician throws the cards at the tank, assistant 2 sticks the card on the inside of the tank from the bottom very quickly. The tank has a double shell, so the fish (and water!) are not disturbed.
The assistant also doesnt stick the card where is looks where it is. They will stick it on the other side of the tank (the side the magician is going to retreive the card from). I think the card you see is a projection (note obviously no one can touch the card, as it appears to be inside the fish tank, so the card may not actually be there!)
The second bit (card out of fish tank) - The tank with the fish in it is not symetrical, and remember the double glass walls (you can see them if you look carefully). The wall on the side where the magician is going to retreive the card will have a sliding glass front, and another piece of glass with a hole in it. Assistant 2 (the one hiding) will move the false side out of the way when the magician is messing about with that little paper towel, so the magician can put his arm through the reveiled hole. The magician retrieves the card from assistant 2, and the arm you see 'in' the tank is a projection of what is really happening (the magician retrieving the card from between the 2 glass shells). Note that when you stick something in water there is an optical illusion that it is bent at the waterline. This doesnt happen here, so I doubt the magician is actually putting his hand in the water. The water you see pouring out is released not from the tank, but is a small reservour the magician palmed before messing about with the towel. Note that the weed in the tank will obscure the view of what is really happenning from the people on the other side of the tank. As the magician pulls his hand out of the tank, the assistant sides the false front back up to hide the hole, so when people inspect the glass at the end, it is a solid glass wall.
Another option might be that he messes about with silicone cuffs n stuff (which would be nearly invisible in water) around the hole in the side, and he does actually retreive the card from the tank, but as you dont get the 'bent' arm optical illusion, I dont think he did.
Obviously I dont know if this is exactly how he did the trick, but it is a plausible explanantion, and ties together a lot of tricks he does.
Did that make any sense? Anyone else got theories of how he did this trick?
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