Cool Illusion
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I love those 2d illusions like that. Unfortunately they only work if you're seeing hte object in two dimensions such as looking through a tube with only one eye open or through a camera lens.
The dragon one is pretty dope to
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIZcl8q0u4Q"]YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.[/ame]
The dragon one is pretty dope to
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIZcl8q0u4Q"]YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.[/ame]
No shit. Next to trying to comprehend astrophysics, I hate magic a close second. There MUST be a reasonable explanation for these tricks, but I can't figure how how they do these things.
Must be camera tricks..that's all I have to say.
Wish I could throw a blanket over the sand and have hot blonde chicks with big tits pop up out of no where.
I (briefly) liked Chris Angel because the stuff he was doing - in front of a crowd - seemed impossible.
But then I realized he just uses camera tricks, even switching out participants & scenes, and thus obviously has a crowd that is made up entirely of actors too.
In this beach video my GUESS is was done this way...
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLgmCY1fEE8"]YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.[/ame]
- He sets the stage in the first bit to make it look like he is doing it on a flat beach at essentially the same level as the water behind him.
- but the actual trick scene is filmed somewhere entirely different... likely somewhere else on that same beach, where the back ground is actually a slightly raised sand dune higher than the water level behind it.
You can see people walking in the background, presumably by the water, and the dune blocks them from roughly the chest level down.
- this allows him to have the first girl quickly crawl over that dune behind him - while he uses the lengthy blanket shaking to block the sight of her crawling up - and under the blanket. Keeping in mind that he can continue to reshoot the scene until they get the timing perfect, since the 'crowd' are all actors.
- the second time, he has a Criss Angel "look-alike" (mostly just wearing same clothes, same hair, height, etc as him) similarly crawl up behind him.
At one point Criss Angel has the blanket above his head, and that's when he ducks down under the blanket, the look-alike stands up to take his place, and then quickly runs down to the beach.
You'll notice that the second 'Criss Angel' immediately lowers his head after dropping the blanket onto the real one, so you can't see his face, and keeps it that way before quickly turning his back to run away from the camera.
If this was done in front of a REAL crowd, they'd know he was moving the scene from the flat beach area to the spot with a raised dune, and obviously see those two people crawling up behind him.
Also notice he enforces the illusion is real by having a camera man walking behind him to the side... as if to show they are covering the trick from more than one angle. Although we don't actually SEE footage from that camera.
That's my guess anyway.