Teller Reveals His Secrets

Post by sc00ter » Sun, Feb 26, 2012, 2:27 AM UTC

zecho wrote: post #23

sc00ter wrote: post #14

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"Magicians do the sleight of hand right in front of a crowd of people, in plain sight, but nobody notices." Could you define "in plain sight" in this context? Are card manipulations that are almost impossible to detect, even when known and watched for considered "in plain sight", just because they don't happen "out of frame" to use Teller's term. If so, it isn't "because you don't want to notice", it's because you ca…

Excellent points. For example, I'm specifically referring to things like in the rising card, having the person place the card in the "middle of the deck" and holding out the entire deck minus a single card. That's not out of frame at all. It's a reframing of the definition of the middle of the deck. It's in plain sight and depending on the size of the crowd, it's impossible to completely control all your angles. Anot…

Post by bipolarla » Sun, Feb 26, 2012, 5:46 AM UTC

Post by anothermachine » Sun, Feb 26, 2012, 8:03 AM UTC

zecho wrote: post #11

sedev wrote: post #4

"Make the secret a lot more trouble than the trick seems worth. You will be fooled by a trick if it involves more time, money and practice than you (or any other sane onlooker) would be willing to invest. My partner, Penn, and I once produced 500 live cockroaches from a top hat on the desk of talk-show host David Letterman. To prepare this took weeks. We hired an entomologist who provided slow-moving, camera-friendly…

There's a grave marker in Los Angeles for Penn and Teller with a 3 of Clubs on it. It's definitely one of their "make a trick a lot more trouble than it's worth" routines. The payoff is featured in one of their videos from the late 80s.

Post by omegant » Sun, Feb 26, 2012, 10:58 AM UTC

zackattack wrote: post #27

mladenkovacevic wrote: post #22

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And there he reveals the biggest trick pulled on the "free world"... and it's performed over and over and over with the same resulting awe and enchantment in the magicians' subjects. With this trick the viewers are distracted enough to fail to realize that they've selected the same person with the continuation of same agenda every single time.

> With this trick the viewers are distracted enough to fail to realize that they've selected the same person with the continuation of same agenda every single time. And what agenda is this?

Post by SoftwareMaven » Sun, Feb 26, 2012, 6:47 PM UTC

darksaga wrote: post #17

terinjokes wrote: post #15

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In the parent's description, it doesn't sound like he ever gave the card back to the magician. He himself ripped the card, then immediately keeping the pieces tight in his fist.

An easy way to do this is to have the folded card in your right hand (palmed), you place the ripped pieces in the same hand, but hold them with your fingers. You look like your folding the pieces up, then make the switch as you place it in his hand, fold it up and tell him to hold it tight. Of course this is done in one fluid motion, so he doesn't see the slight of hand switch - like the guy does at the very end of t…