Telekinesis Not Physics: Trick Photography or Static Movement?

[JJbrigham]

Physics Lab Experiment, Trick photography or static movement. or your theory?

 

[russ_watters]

Cool video, but there are definite editing marks. There's hickups at 2:52 (when he starts it) and 3:33 (when it begins to slow down). The hickups only affect the table and what's on it (it shifts slightly to one side then the other) - he stays still. It is easy enough to spin the piece of paper, put the bowl on top, then cut together the pieces of film.

Not a bad edit job, but definitely fake.

 

[JJbrigham]

Cool video, but there are definite editing marks. There's hickups at 2:52 (when he starts it) and 3:33 (when it begins to slow down). The hickups only affect the table and what's on it (it shifts slightly to one side then the other) - he stays still. It is easy enough to spin the piece of paper, put the bowl on top, then cut together the pieces of film.

Not a bad edit job, but definitely fake.

Nice catch Russ, Your good. I looked at it 7 times before I saw the hickup. Do you know how it's done without the edit?

 

[russ_watters]

I'm not following - it isn't done without the edit.

 

[DaveC426913]

I see the hiccup - at least the 2:52 one - but what it looked like to me was camera shake.

My first hypothesis - I thought I was so clever - was paper impregnanted with a ferrous precipitate but he ruled that one out.

My second hypothesis is that he's spinning the room. This would explain the camera shake. It might have worked before I saw how fast the thing spun.

 

[DaveC426913]

It is easy enough to spin the piece of paper, put the bowl on top, then cut together the pieces of film.

How does he move the bowl and replace it with perfect precision?

 

[K.J.Healey]

Couldn't you use some very very thin string (like magicians) and wrap two pieces around the center cap thing its sitting on or the toothpick, one CW, one CCW. Then with his left hand, off camera, he barely has to pull on it to start it spinning. You can't tell that the stem is sitting still because it's clear. The string is thin enough that it wouldn't let air in, and slick enough to not move the bowl.
Just a guess, probably wrong. But you'd barely have to move your hand if the "witches hair?" was wrapped around the toothpick, probably like 3mm = 1 rotation.

 

[russ_watters]

I see the hiccup - at least the 2:52 one - but what it looked like to me was camera shake.

The camera is on a tripod and only the table shakes - the person doesn't shake. If the camera shook, you'd see the whole image shake.

[edit] Looking at it again, it looks like everything in the frame below his hands has that little glitch.

 

[russ_watters]

How does he move the bowl and replace it with perfect precision?

It isn't perfect. That's why you can see the edits.

 

[russ_watters]

Looking at it more, there are lots of skips and glitches. There are glitches at 2:53, 2:57, 3:09, 3:14, 3:32, 3:34, 3:55...

As one commenter pointed out, it would be more convincing if he got someone to shoot it handheld, which would make editing a lot more difficult.

 

[russ_watters]

Well, I was wrong - the glitches are apparently just glitches. The hoaxster who made the video explains the hoax here: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=73996&st=225&p=1714992&#entry1714992