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I checked that time. It doesn't look to me like both feet are off the bridge.
delta001 said:How the hell did this guy make an elephant disappear without any mirrors, ropes or trapdoors in the pavement, if anyone saw that episode. The nature of these magicians simply confounds me.
This is critical to understanding his illusions. The clips you see on TV are edited together from different cuts. Some are real (but modest) versions of the stunt in front of real passersby, some are using obvious supports but with stooges who stand around and say "Wow". Cut them together properly, and you have a clip of what appears to be innocent strangers watching a fantastic illusion.dontdisturbmycircles said:I am fairly confident that Criss Angel pays people to stand there and say "WOWWWW". Its TV, things can be edited fairly easily. It is common practice for magicians to use 'stooges'.
Yes, there's a video out there somewhere of him (or someone) actually demonstrating it.mgb_phys said:Haven't seen the video but is his back is toward you and is he wearing baggy trousers?
The usual way to do this is to have a small magnet in the side of the shoes and a slit in the front of the trousers. You put the shoes together an slip one leg out forward through the trousers. You then stand up on this leg on a (hidden) platform in front of you. The other leg lifts the shoe and trousers held in place by the magnet - it looks like two legs off the ground.
It's been done for 100s of years.
chayced said:I doubt there was any creative editing done. Also I'm sure that most of the people around the pool had no idea what was going on...
cannafield said:Hello everyone! This is my first post here, so I figure I would make it the most interesting thing I can think of. Which is walking on water. Some say it's a magic trick, others say it's something only Jesus can do. But how does Criss Angel do it? How can he walk on water? Some of you think he's a magician and illusionist. He claims he does some of his stunts as an illusion, though some of his stunts contradict his released statements on how he does them. (i.e. levitation) Some of the others he does are claimed by him, that they are done through meditation.
Please, I would like anyone who is interested in this post to watch this video if they haven't already seen it. Here Criss Angel walks on water and shows no signs of hoax.
If you watch the whole thing through, you'll notice when he steps on the water, the water doesn't seem to ripple much at all, if the water does at all from mass exerted by his body weight. Nor does he sink when he steps in the water. Which I don't get. He kicks off his shoes around 2:31 and a girl swam underneath him. So there couldn't of been glass or anything underneath him that would be solid enough to walk across.
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ibcnunabit said:But there WAS a definite indication that it was a hoax. It was being performed by a magician!
Schrodinger's Dog said:I've seen this done for an elephant in a cage, on that show with Mitch Pelagi as host, in that particular one they used mirrors that slid out from the wooden bars of the cage to give the Illusion the elephant had vanished.
I saw another one where they made it appear a tank had just vanished by simply moving the entire curtain and camera, which are all on the same rig, about 10 ft to the left of the tank, it appeared seamless, when the curtain dropped the tank was no longer there, and then it was revealed again as if by magic; the truth is the tank was where it always was, but your perspective wasn't and you didn't notice the change. When the tricks are revealed it usually appears to be fairly simple.
DaveC426913 said:Yes, there's a video out there somewhere of him (or someone) actually demonstrating it.
Ivan Seeking said:Is it a hoax if everyone is supposed to understand that it is a trick?
When I was a kid, everyone knew that magicians were performing tricks. Somehow that simple and implicit understanding seems to have been lost along the way.
I too am a skeptic but I'm going to play Devil's Advocate for a moment.ibcnunabit said:I only used the word "hoax" because of replying to someone seeming to believe it is REAL, and because the magician is able to convince so many people that what he does is real. For myself, I enjoy "magic" and admire the abilities of skillful magicians. What I see being lost along the way (for magic and other things) is people's basic skepticism. Has anyone else noticed this? So, so many people don't want to hear skepticism, they "want to believe" in things that are demonstrably untrue. It's like we're living in the gullible generation. Look at all the new "ghost shows" popping up on cable. They're ridiculous and fake! But people take them seriously.
Gelsamel Epsilon said:Chris is a crappy magician - Penn and Teller all the way.
Gelsamel Epsilon said:Chris is a crappy magician - Penn and Teller all the way.
cosmo123 said:Argh...I hate Penn and Teller...always giving away how OTHER PEOPLES' tricks are done, then acting like they're superior to them because of it. People like Criss Angel put a lot of work into performing incredible tricks and stunts, and easily make Penn and Teller seem pretty talentless.
LightbulbSun said:Any good sources on how the 'walk on water' trick is pulled off? Because my girlfriend keeps claiming that Criss Angel does his tricks based on psychology, and I think that's a load of crap. How is a 'walk on water' trick based on psychology?