Magic Tricks
Illusions, prestidigitation and legerdemain has such a great history, going to back more than 250 years to the great Jacob Philadelphia and others.
The key to magic is secrecy. In fact, once you find out how the tricks are done, it seems so banal and simple. I remember a television special about six or seven years ago, called "Magic Tricks Revealed," which unveiled a lot of illusions. It seemed like the magic was gone from, well, magic.
After a long drought in the magic world - we haven't really had a great showman since Copperfield, and he was a little too Vegas-y even before he went to Vegas - we now have Cris Angel, the rock-and-roll magic man. Watch this trick and get grossed out and fascinated all at once:
The key to magic is secrecy. In fact, once you find out how the tricks are done, it seems so banal and simple. I remember a television special about six or seven years ago, called "Magic Tricks Revealed," which unveiled a lot of illusions. It seemed like the magic was gone from, well, magic.
After a long drought in the magic world - we haven't really had a great showman since Copperfield, and he was a little too Vegas-y even before he went to Vegas - we now have Cris Angel, the rock-and-roll magic man. Watch this trick and get grossed out and fascinated all at once:
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posted by Bret Bradigan at 4:56 PM
2 Comments:
Have you not seen or heard of David Blaine?
The so cool. Do you know how he does that?
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