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10.
The Floating Man You may have seen street performers that can
defy gravity and float in mid air.
What you don't see are mechanics set in place to keep them from toppling over.
Typically, the individual, who's often in loose-fitting clothing, is accompanied by
what looks like a walking stick and a decorative base.
That base is covering a device that's attached to the walking stick, which is then attached
to a steel base, upon which the trickster sits.
9.
The Signed Card Trick You sign a playing card, the magician rips
it up into pieces, and somehow, seconds later, produces that same card.
Seeing as how they couldn't possibly reproduce your signature, how do you think they pull
it off?
Something must happen between when they get the card and when they tear it up, right?
You're absolutely correct!
It's true that the magician tears up a card, but it's not the one with the signature.
There is typically a decoy card that they'll slip into place and that's what gets torn
up instead.
8.
Cutting a Person in Half This is a classic that's been revealed on
numerous occasions, but in case you missed it, let's walk through it quickly.
Sometimes called the "Death Saw," this trick requires two flexible people and two separate
tables with a compartment on each.
In one compartment, one assistant waits unseen.
As the second assistant, the one that starts off visible to the audience, climbs into the
box, the two move in a such a way that it appears as though the one on stage is stretched
to the other table.
Then, the magic happens and the magician gets to work, appearing as though he's cutting
through one solid body.
7.
Levitation Trick This is a little bit different than the street
performer levitation, as the magician has to put on this big show to prove his assistant
is really levitating.
Which, of course, they aren't.
The magician's assistant lays down on a table supported between two objects and the audience
watches in amazement as he or she levitates in front of their eyes.
What isn't seen is the rig hooked up to the magician, which is typically covered by the
assistant's long, flowing dress.
To "prove" she's floating in mid air, the magician usually uses a hula hoop.
The rig is designed in such a way to let the hula hoop pass, as if there's nothing holding
the assistant up.
6.
The Underwater Escape (Water Tank Escape) Popularized by Houdini, this trick is dangerous
if not pulled off perfectly.
Bound in a straight jacket and chains and placed into a tank of water, the magician
must escape the impossible before drowning.
There's no surprising trickery when it comes to the tank escape.
Though the performer may look like they're strapped in tight, their assistants ensure
that there's some give in the straightjacket.
The locks used are also not typically real and can be finagled open.
5.
Rabbit Out of a Hat This is another classic - one that PETA may
not be too fond of.
But...
they're not a YouTube advertiser, so we're going for it!
What is needed for this to work is a table, a tablecloth, a sac, and, of course, a rabbit.
The rabbit is placed in a sac and attached to the table, out of view of the audience.
The magician then very swiftly takes the empty hat, slides the rabbit into it, and, without
anyone even realizing there were some quick hand movements, pulls the rabbit out of the
hat.
4.
Hand Through Glass Trick Have you ever put your hand through a pane
of glass?
Chances are, it wasn't as impressive as when a magician does it.
Also, you may have required stitches afterward..
the magician doesn't.
What the magician does differently is they use a real mirror, two fake mirror panels
and a specially cut black screen.
At the start of the performance, the real mirror is placed behind the fake panels.
This creates a space for the performer's hand to reach through and, at the close of the
trick, the mirrors are swapped again.
3.
The Bullet Catch It's an impressive-looking trick, but a trick
none-the-less.
There are a variety of ways to pull off the bullet catch, but typically involves a rigged
pistol or one that fires blanks.
If there's an "exploding" target involved, it's usually attached to a squib and rigged
to explode on queue.
If the magician is using blanks, all they have to do is hold a bullet in their mouth
and produce it as if they caught it.
Other methods include a wax bullet or magnetic bullet, the latter of which is removed prior
to firing via a ramrod with a magnetic tip.
2.
Walking on Water We doubt this is how Jesus did it, but there
is some clever trickery when it comes to magicians walking on H-2-0.
Usually, the water that the trickster is walking on is murky and unclear, and this is completely
intentional.
While it may look like they are walking on water - and they usually put on a good show
to convince the audience - there is a solid, near invisible, plastic surface between them
and the body of water.
1.
Vanishing Statue of Liberty How do you make the Statue of Liberty vanish
without the use of positively charged pink mood slime?
Just ask David Copperfield, who, in 1983, was able to accomplish this in front of a
live audience.
To make the monument disappear, Copperfield had all of the lights on Liberty Island shut
off and the area was illuminated by matching lighting on two platforms.
Just before making the statue disappear, a screen was raised, allowing Copperfield's
genius engineering to take effect.
It was at this moment that the audience and the pillars moved.
Loud music and bright lights were used to essentially distract and confuse the audience
into not realizing the stage was moving.
For the 80's, it was an elaborate trick.
Today, it's a typical Friday night show in Vegas.
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