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There are some insane magic tricks out there! Incredible feats of illusion begging the question, How’d they do THAT!? Today we tell you how!
1.Dynamo Freezes Water
This British street magician has amazed countless celebrities, including the Prince of Wales and has a plethora of tricks up his sleeve. However one of his most astonishing tricks featured on his show Magician Impossible is where he takes someone’s bottle of water, shakes it and the contained water beings to freeze right in front of the crowd. He then goes even further and puts his hands into the nearby fountain and the pool of water quickly turns to ice. Even the water flowing from the fountain begins to freeze. But what sort of equipment did he have to carry to freeze all of that water? The answer is none.
For the bottle trick, an accomplice or “stooge” carefully hands Dynamo a bottle of water which has previously been frozen for exactly 1 and a half hours. It is at a fragile point right on the edge of freezing and just needs a tap to set off a chain reaction, turning the liquid into ice. He then puts his hands into the fountain which has a pre-prepared block of ice fixed to the bottom. The ice is remotely released pushing away the water as it surfaces, creating the illusion of instant freezing. The flowing water was simply an ice like plastic tube, with the fountain flowing around it, and an accomplice simply stops the flow of water, revealing it.
2. David Copperfield’s Death Saw
Although somewhat over-dramatic, Copperfield’s tricks are nothing short of over-whelming. One of his most eye-catching is Death Saw, where he lays on a table and is strapped down with many constraints. The very real saw is set in motion and begins to lower as the magician hurriedly escapes his ties. The blade unexpectedly drops sawing him in half and his assistants pull him apart but surprisingly he is still alive. Then a heckler in the crowd shouts; :Move your feet! and Copperfield smugly complies. The secret of this trick is in the table. Why doesn’t he just lay down on it without being first concealed by a box? The table appears to be flat, but each half actually has a 45cm cavity. It’s surprising how little you can cram your legs into and David’s assistant’s top half. The table is separated and then the handy box once again conceals him as he climbs out and his assistant hides her legs.
3. Liu Qian Glass Table
One of Qian’s impressive slight of hand tricks is passing coins back and forth through a glass table. He puts a coin on the surface, puts a bowl underneath, removes his hand and the coin falls through into the bowl. He then casually puts his own arm right through the glass counter and pulls up a coin from the presenter’s hand. Impressive. There are 2 props at work here. One is a magnetic ring to which the coin sticks to when Liu Qian puts his hand on it. He then taps the glass from underneath with the bowl until one of the coins jumps up and sticks to his ring on the underside of the table. When he raises his hand it falls back into the bowl and he takes away the other stuck to the magnet. The second prop is the table. Why is he sat in the centre of a circular table? While the camera is distracted with the presenter’s hand Qian slides the glass surface, revealing a previously cut hole which he covers with his right hand. He slides his arm through, and then the camera stays low as he pulls it back out, allowing the spring-loaded surface to slide the hole back under the rest of the counter.
4. Penn and Teller’s Magic Bullet
Penn and Teller have two audience members choose bullets, and doodle on the bullet projectile and the casing. The bullets never cross the center line marked on the stage, as the two magicians load them into their guns and then fire them at eachother, through panes of glass, apparently catching them in their teeth. The bullets have travelled to the other side of the stage, and have rail scratches and powder burns on them. The only way that seems possible is for them to have actually fired the bullets at eachother, right? This trick has never been officially revealed, but the common theory is that after the bullets are signed, the magicians pull out the projectile and drop it through a hole in the specially designed glass stands, and it roles through the leg, off stage where a stage hand scratches rail marks into it and deposits it in a magnetic strip on the inside of the other magician’s bullet-proof vest, ready for them to pop it in their mouths as they slide it over their heads. Before putting the bullet back into the gun, they press a wax bullet into the empty shell, which on firing the primer launches through the glass.
5. David Blaine Pulling Teeth
Master of street magic David Blaine once performed a trick on an unsuspecting volunteer, after carefully selecting her for the shape of her teeth. He then reaches into her mouth an pulls out two of her teeth leaving her terrified. He then blows in her face and the teeth instantly reappear. How is this possible?
Blaine begins this trick by making it look like he could choose anybody, but in fact chooses an accomplice with prepared fake teeth already in her mouth. The row of teeth fit perfectly over the woman’s own teeth, but are missing two. She also has two loose fake teeth attached to the back of the teeth sleeve, along with a capsule of fake blood. Blaine seizes these, bursts the capsule and lowers the fake teeth slightly, so now it appears she has two missing teeth. When he does a dramatic blow, she pushes the teeth sleeve back over her own teeth with her tongue and nobody is the wiser.
6. David Copperfield’s Portal
Here Copperfield randomly selects some people from the audience who write on a giant postcard. David then reads this letter:
Pretty convincing huh? But obviously they didn’t actually teleport to Hawaii. The common belief is that the video was pre-recorded. There are many stooges in the audience who quickly get hold of the ball and toss it to one another until it reaches the correct stooge. These actors take the same polaroid and write the same initials, as are in the pre-recorded video they took at a nearby beach. But how did two grown men vanish from a two inch thick, suspended platform? That’s the clever part. The two inch steel that you couldn’t possibly travel through. There is a small cart structure behind them, (notice one of the wheels behind Michael’s head), which they fold down as soon as they close the curtains. The 2 inch-thick steel platform behind them also has a stretchy black material on top of it and as the curtain is pulled backwards it conceals the lump of the two curled up men in the cart which is also pulled back into the shaft of the structure. And so David and Michael have vanished from the Portal, along with all the wheels and structure that had been behind their heads earlier.
7. Indian Rope Climbing
Perhaps one of the world’s oldest and most famous magic tricks. The conjurer sits cross-legged in an open space. He throws one end of a coil of rope in to the air and it remains stiff, like a pole. A little boy then climbs the rope and balances himself at the extremity before vanishing entirely. He is then discovered in a basket or comes running in to the crowd from a distant spot. Then at a signal, the rope crumples to the ground. How on Earth is this possible?? The quick answer is that it isn’t. In fact this famous trick has never even existed. Many great magicians like Houdini have travelled to India in search of the elusive rope trick to come back empty handed. So how could tales of the Indian Rope Trick have become so popular? Where have these rumours come from? There are very few accounts of this trick being performed and as few as two are from the year 1900 where a conjurer used mass hypnosis to trick the audience into believing the rope was stiff and then a boy climbed it and disappeared.
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