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This truly is one of the more amazing magic tricks ever performed. A man is sawed in half and then put back together, and there is no box of any kind to hide the details: How is this possible? Is it Robots? Puppets? Mirrors? In this alternate version of the same trick, the answer is [...]
If you look on YouTube, you can find an amazing card trick by James Galea. He uses a deck of cards that has been repeatedly shuffled and cut to tell an amazing story. Here are two versions of the performance by this famous magician…
If you watch the following video, you will be able to see one of the world’s leading card-throwing experts practicing his craft. With a business card and a flick of his wrist he can pop balloons, extinguish candles, hit targets, etc.: Around the 50-second point, you will also see him impale a tomato with a [...]
Here is a good trick that anyone can learn to do. Yet it is baffling to the audience (assuming the audience is uninformed): Here is how it’s done: There are variations. This one uses no ring: The solution to this variation involves double-sided tape on the right hand instead of a magnet, and (potentially) under [...]
The “sawing a woman in half” trick is almost a cliche today. It is a cliche now, however, because it was so dramatic and so amazing to audiences when they first saw it in the 1920s. The trick has had a huge effect on the magic profession. Here is a version of the trick that [...]
At the beginning of the following video, Derren Brown performs a classic “mind reading” or “mind influencing” trick. He writes a letter on a piece of paper, puts it in an envelope and then asks a woman to pick a letter. She does, and it appears to her (and us) that she is making a [...]
This trick is called “healed and sealed”. It involves an ordinary soda can, and you can see the trick performed in these two videos: Even David Blaine has performed a variation of the trick: So how does this trick work? How can a crushed can restore itself, reseal itself, and then contain liquid? Think about [...]
Say you have a small, thin object like a tooth pick or a cigarette, and you would like to make it vanish and reappear. Watch this video to see the effect: In the following video, Chris Angel shows how to do the same trick with a toothpick: The principle being used here is occlusion – [...]
Understanding magic #9 – The David Blaine Shoelace Trick
by Marshall Brain | February 26, 2010
Here is a simple but very convincing trick that anyone can do. It is so convincing that David Blaine has performed it on prime time TV, as seen here: David Blaine Shoelace Trick on ABC Here is someone else performing the same trick with the addition of untying the laces first: It looks totally legitimate. [...]
Understanding magic #8 – the very entertaining glass and bottle trick
by Marshall Brain | February 19, 2010
If you have never seen this trick done before, it is very entertaining. It is called the “glass and bottle trick”: A second version of the same trick: A variation is called the Passe Passe routine, which is nicely done here: So how do they do this? Sit and think about it for a minute. [...]
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