November 06, 2009
Lennart Green does close-up card magic
Lennart Green is a world champion Swedish magician. Here he is at a TED conference
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May 05, 2009
The Carpet Index
(Inside)
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April 03, 2008
Paying with Paper
My previous post about Derren Brown from last year
Many more YouTube videos
Un-related: Tim Yarzhombeck’s Beard alphabet. (From FFFFOUND)
Also, Bunny butt on flickr - NSFW!
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(No time to blog today)
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March 24, 2008
Spoofing David Blaine
A minimalist horror scene inspired by Dune, created with LEGO by RebelRock. (From Geekdad)
Learn how to perform tricks similar to David Blaine Style Street Magic
Mikey Day and Michael Naughton are "Those Lil’ Rabbits". They like to Spoof David Blaine's street magic specials
Ricky Jay and Errol Morris in The Ames room optical Illusion (YT).
An Ames room is a distorted room that is used to create an optical illusion. An Ames room is constructed so that from the front it appears to be an ordinary cubic-shaped room, with a back wall and two side walls parallel to each other and perpendicular to the horizontally level floor and ceiling. However, this is a trick of perspective and the true shape of the room is trapezoidal: the walls are slanted and the ceiling and floor are at an incline, and the right corner is much closer to the front-positioned observer than the left corner (or vice versa)
Tay Zonday sings Never Gonna Give You Up - Magical!
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March 13, 2008
Animated Magic Eye on YouTube
Magic Eye and Binaural Beats combined
Virtual dream machines. A dream machine is a stroboscopic flicker device that produces visual stimuli. (Warning: A dream machine may be dangerous for people with photosensitive epilepsy or other nervous disorders. It is thought that one out of 10,000 adults will experience a seizure while viewing the device
Trippy...
How to build a Matchstick Box without using glue
Cicada Molting animated .gif
How about this schooner??!
George Clooney's Degrees of Separation. (Thank you, Peter)
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January 31, 2008
Egg in a bottle
How to put an egg into a small bottle without breaking it
Daniel Chesterfield, Magic That Defies The Ordinary (As played by Belgian comedian Chris Van den Durpel)
Turning Tables Optical Illusion
Quick-change is a performance style in which a performer or magician changes quickly within seconds from one costume into another costume in front of the audience. From wikipedia’s list of magic tricks
Top 30 Magic Trick Tutorials Of All Time - Part one
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October 10, 2007
Secret Magic Revealed
Secret Magic
Derren Brown debunks "astrology" from "Trick of the Mind,"
Another Derren Brown trick: Person Swap
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July 08, 2007
Sam the Bellhop
How to Conjure Up Cards from Thin Air
Harry Eng was a master of Impossible Bottles. (From Judson Frondorf)
The Amazing Color Changing Card Trick. See how easily we can be fooled
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June 10, 2007
Dr Juma’s Magic Medicine
Dr. Juma can treat. Solve many problems such as: Bewitched people, swollen body, lost lover, insanity, diarrhea, madness, to make mens penis strong, woman with pregnancy problems, vomiting all the time, misfortunes, demand debts, remove misunderstand with anybody, court cases, casino specialist, bad luck, customer attraction, Etc.
(Click on pix to biggify. Thank you, Jakob E. for the email)
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May 07, 2007
Trick or Treat
Derren Brown is an English illusionist, hypnotist, magician and a host of the show "Mind Control" on TV. Watch how he uses NLP to influence someone’s selection of a gift (YouTube, and so are most of the links below)
How he beats 9 chess players simultaneously
Russian Roulette, the video. Background on wikipedia
Derren Brown at the Dog Track
Beside his interest in psychological illusion, perceptual manipulation and persuasive technique, he is also interested in Taxidermy & likes to draw cartoons
More videos. More on YouTube
Also, The 0x09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 pool on flickr
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April 11, 2007
Ketchup In A Bottle
Penn and Teller Explain “The seven basic principles of Sleight of Hand”
Japanese Unicycle Magic
Old world record by Ben Jennings
Each of us is a magician. We can either put a spell on ourselves that says “I am no good.” Or we can release ourselves from that spell by saying “I am special.”
Ketchup In A Bottle Trick: Entertain at your next party with this trick. All you need is a plastic bottle with water inside and a small packet of ketchup or mustard
By the same guy (?) - How to Take a Cork Out of the Bottle Without Breaking It
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January 03, 2007
History of illusion
The Amazing Handless Shoe-Tying Trick. (From Presurfer). Update: Here's how it is done
Amaze your friends at the bar with this Toothpick Trick
Slowly move your nose to almost touch the dot to see the magic
From Dynomighty Design, the “Mag-net-ic” magnetic jewelery (YouTube)
History of illusion on wikipedia
Was linked everywhere a few months ago: A mime from Montreal Jerome Murat. (Thank you, Dafna)
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October 03, 2006
Pool meets Dominos
How to create Spooky Glowing Water
The Beauty of Math
All about magic squares
Cyril Takayama shows cigarette tricks
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August 20, 2006
Magicienne Nue
Never Stand Too Close to a Naked Magician. Nothing to hide. Performed by Ursula Martinez
Carbon Dioxide party trick
Magic Squares up to 99x99 in size
Criss Angel pulls a lady apart and then half of her crawls away
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February 27, 2006
Ultimate Shuffles
From the Library of Congress: Japanese Acrobats. A clip by Thomas A. Edison, April 29, 1904 (Might take a while to load, worth the wait)
Do not cheat! scroll slowly, and try to answer all questions!
Magician Eric Mead retells The Aristocrats as a card trick, (Obviously NSFW!) then takes a cab ride in Aspen and performs the Three of Spades Card Trick inside the Ultimate Taxi. Learn to do card tricks with Ian Kendall
Depth Spinner and Squirming Palm
Juggling Balls. Boing light balls change color with a squeeze of the hand
MindFreak with Chris Angel
Animation above by Cyriak. Many More Unusual Magic Tricks Here
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