Using a pencil - the lighter of the object - the better. If you have a really heavy pen, I tried
this with a sharpie and it didn't work that well. But a lightweight colored pencil here works great.
Tie some string and tape it to the end of the pencil now on the other end. I have this anchor.
I'm using a playing card but you can use any piece of paper or anything you like and all
you're doing is taking a length of cord taping it to this side to the anchor and taping it to
the pencil. Now take your anchor and place it in your pocket and you're going to have
to play around with the length. You're ready to go. Take out your pencil. Now you want your
taped end to be near the end of the pencil and then that goes down. You drop the pencil into
the bottle and then by moving forward it makes the pencil rise up. See how that
happens? I just move the bottle forward and if you wiggle your hand a little bit you'll kind of
give the impression that it's rising. The other way to do this is you can take your other hand
and just hook your thumb underneath and just kind of do this.
And then grab the pencil out of the bottle. For the levitating ring on a pencil you can pretty
much use the same setup with some adjustments. So once again i have a pencil. Taped on the end
is the string - one end of the string - I have an anchor. Over here, I'm using a playing card.
You can use paper - any spool or small object that you like to anchor in your pocket or on a button.
Now all you do is you have your cord here. You drop your ring and you want it resting
on your hand. And then by just moving forward it causes the ring to rise up.
Look at the angle I'm standing at here. The idea is that this leg here is the one that lifts up
and what you're doing is with this other leg, just standing on your toe. But by having this
other leg in front it covers this action so it looks like you're floating. Now you have to get
this angle correct. It's kind of a 45 degree angle from your audience so you have to play with this.
And make sure your audience members are grouped closely together. And then you can do the lift
and come down. The idea is that they're looking down from above a little bit and so you have to
get the distance. You normally need about five to eight feet and if they're looking down,
then this shoe here should kind of look - well, the back heel is all they should be able to see.
So you have to play around with this angle. This levitation is very angle sensitive
but something like that. That's pretty decent there and you do this momentarily
and usually you get a reaction. A lot of times they're not necessarily looking just at your
feet. They'll look at your body as well so you could use that as somewhat misdirection
at that point. And then they're going to often ask you can you do it again. And all you have
to do is just tell them that you've expended all your energy that day and you can't do it
again. Because if they watch you do it again, they're going to figure it out.
All I've done is taken a playing card and some tape - you can use clear tape obviously, but I'm
using green tape so you can see how I taped it. What I did was I taped the thread to the middle of
the card right here. And on the other end of the string, I just, I'm using a playing card here and
just taping the string to the playing card. You can use paper a spool whatever you have around.
Just a small object. It'll make things a lot easier now you just cut a length of string and
then wind it around your anchor here. And all you do is take the anchor and place it in your pocket.
And now you're ready to go. So all you do is place your hand underneath the cord and then you
show the card. You can handle it pretty naturally. And then you just give it a little spin. Now this
isn't going to spin as well as the thread does but I think you get the idea. It's just a spin
and then as you move your hand forward you can bring the card up rising up into your hand.