That was freakin SWEET! He was hovering!

[johneetrash]

u guys never seen josie maran? she's hoot
she has a big scar on her abdoman but they airbrush it out in magazines. doesnt make her any less hot tho, just little fyi facts

but yah my friend can levitate.. he doenst get as high and he hasnt mastered it but from *certain angles* it looks real. he put together his own street magic thing it was cool.

 

[Murphyrulez]

With the levitation trick, he shoots the audience reaction when he is at a certain angle, and one foot has his toes still on the ground pushing himself up a few inches.

THEN they lose the audience, hook up the wires, and lift him off the ground 2 feet. Then they edit in the reaction of the crowd from before.

That's sorta lame, since he is lying to the tv audience.


When he burns the paper and rubs it on his arm, he has already had his people talk to the girl and glean info from her, so they have a high percentage chance of knowing what name she is going to say. Of course, if it is wrong, they just don't show it on tv. And I'm sure he is wrong at least 50% of the time, if not more.

But he is still cool, I watch all his specials!

 

[dullard]

<< With the levitation trick, he shoots the audience reaction when he is at a certain angle, and one foot has his toes still on the ground pushing himself up a few inches.

THEN they lose the audience, hook up the wires, and lift him off the ground 2 feet. Then they edit in the reaction of the crowd from before. >>



The vast majority of the time, he does it with just the standing on his toes (and drops the 2 feet thing). It is a very easy trick that everyone can do. Stand on your tippy toes on one foot only - then everyone behind you at a certain angle won't see your toes on the ground. Since it is so easy, I agree that it is very lame.

A lot of his tricks are just based on percentages and thus fail quite often (they don't ever show those on TV). Example:
He asks a question like this: Choose a two digit number between 10 and 50 using only odd digits. Then Mr. Blane guesses the correct number (usually).

Well that is quite simple, what numbers are left? 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 31, 33, 35, 37, and 39. If you randomly guessed you will get it right 10% of the time since there are only ten possible choices. However, people usually have the same psychology - when they hear to choose a number between 10 and 50 they usually avoid any number in the 10's or 50's since they think it is more difficult when you choose a number near the middle of the range. Thus most people will choose a number in the 30's. Now the range has reduced to 31, 33, 35, 37, and 39 for almost all people - giving about a 1 in 5 chance of guessing correctly. Well like I said, people are usually consistant and they think a repeating number is too easy - so very few people choose 33. Now all that is left is 31, 35, 37, and 39 - with nearly a 25% chance of guessing correctly. Just like people avoiding 10's and 50's they also avoid numbers ending in 1 and 5 (thinking that the magician has 1's and 5's in mind). Thus the choice narrows to 37 or 39. For some reason 37 sounds better in the mind (maybe since 39 is the highest possible number to choose, they take 37). Thus in reality almost everyone chooses 37. Sure there will be some failures that are edited out - but most will be sucesses. I don't have any good statistics but 37 is chosen far more often than any of the other choices.

I enjoy a magician much more often when live and not edited from TV.

 

[LukFilm]

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<< With the levitation trick, he shoots the audience reaction when he is at a certain angle, and one foot has his toes still on the ground pushing himself up a few inches.

THEN they lose the audience, hook up the wires, and lift him off the ground 2 feet. Then they edit in the reaction of the crowd from before. >>



The vast majority of the time, he does it with just the standing on his toes (and drops the 2 feet thing). It is a very easy trick that everyone can do. Stand on your tippy toes on one foot only - then everyone behind you at a certain angle won't see your toes on the ground. Since it is so easy, I agree that it is very lame.

A lot of his tricks are just based on percentages and thus fail quite often (they don't ever show those on TV). Example:
He asks a question like this: Choose a two digit number between 10 and 50 using only odd digits. Then Mr. Blane guesses the correct number (usually).

Well that is quite simple, what numbers are left? 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 31, 33, 35, 37, and 39. If you randomly guessed you will get it right 10% of the time since there are only ten possible choices. However, people usually have the same psychology - when they hear to choose a number between 10 and 50 they usually avoid any number in the 10's or 50's since they think it is more difficult when you choose a number near the middle of the range. Thus most people will choose a number in the 30's. Now the range has reduced to 31, 33, 35, 37, and 39 for almost all people - giving about a 1 in 5 chance of guessing correctly. Well like I said, people are usually consistant and they think a repeating number is too easy - so very few people choose 33. Now all that is left is 31, 35, 37, and 39 - with nearly a 25% chance of guessing correctly. Just like people avoiding 10's and 50's they also avoid numbers ending in 1 and 5 (thinking that the magician has 1's and 5's in mind). Thus the choice narrows to 37 or 39. For some reason 37 sounds better in the mind (maybe since 39 is the highest possible number to choose, they take 37). Thus in reality almost everyone chooses 37. Sure there will be some failures that are edited out - but most will be sucesses. I don't have any good statistics but 37 is chosen far more often than any of the other choices.

I enjoy a magician much more often when live and not edited from TV. >>


Right on with the numbers game. I was thinking 37 as well and it came up. This was definitely a probability game, nothing else.

 

[TheGameIs21]

It sounds like some of you all think that some of the magicians really are performing magic.... it's all fake and done with deception in one way or another. Just like David Copperfield (sp). David does alot of the same tricks but he does them on stage with the exact same "pre-show" setups. David goes to the street and performs in front of people that can actually get close enough to touch him. David has been around for a few years now and is considered one of the top 3 in the industry.

 

[777php]

I read somewhere that He and Josie had broken up a while ago.

 

[b0mbrman]

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<< yeah, i'm pretty sure his name is david blaine (sp). he's dating some supermodel or actress or something. he does some cool tricks but that levitating sheeet is so fake. They showed how to do it on the fox street magic secrets revealed thing. yes, even the two feet off the ground type. >>

how do you do it then? >>


Heh heh...yeah!

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