- I want you to think of an object.
You're thinking maybe of any object.
Okay. It's not a tennis ball.
I know it's not a tennis ball.
One. Two. Three.
(suspenseful music)
Is a, were you thinking of a diamond by any chance?
- Yes. I was. - Wow.
How the heck did that work?
What's up? Welcome back.
Hope you guys enjoy that little snippet
from performing magic to people on Omegle.
This is a weird website where random people
encounter each other in video chat.
Me and my buddy Wes decided to be cool to come up with some
original magic we could perform to people on Omegle.
Here's the catch.
I don't wanna edit that video.
I wasn't aware that Omegle was a dark seedy, disgusting,
and frankly impure platform where people...
I don't wanna get into it.
Fair to say that we did get some good reactions
and there's surely a good video in there somewhere.
But in post production, I have to sit through dozens
of, well,
(suspenseful music)
I wanna expose you to that kind of, you know,
physical harm.
(mud splashes)
(man screaming)
That's the only reason I've been hesitating
to edit this video,
but tell you what, if this video gets 43,000 likes,
I will post that video.
And only if, otherwise no candy.
Let me know.
I feel like I shouldn't even have, whatever.
(whistles)
No camera man today so this is all me.
I'm just gonna (whistles)
For my reactions I'll be like, what the hell?
I'm having too much fun here.
That's definitely not gonna make the edit.
Good job Chris.
Way to alienate your new viewers.
They're for sure gonna subscribe now.
Great job.
Please stay.
Let's have a look at the comment of the week.
(splash)
It is by D V.
(bright music)
Bro.
What are all those tattoos on your hands? They look filthy.
(objects clattering)
(water running)
Nope, never doing that again.
Okay.
(upbeat music)
Ladies and gentlemen,
today, we're taking a look at who has become,
no cap,
my favorite magician.
It's not David Blaine, Copperfield,
Chris Angel, Wes Barker.
Not even sure why I added him in that category,
but there you go.
Check out Wes' channel.
You're welcome Wes.
Now, we're taking a look at a magician
by the name of Jeki Yoo.
(exclaims)
Jeki Yoo.
this man has single-handedly rekindled my love
for, especially, online magic.
He's entertaining.
He's funny.
He's fooling.
He's creative.
He's original.
I can't say enough good things about him.
Definitely check them out.
I'll let his video speak for themselves.
How about that?
Hat forwards or hat backwards, you think for this video?
Comment below. I'll wait.
Backwards.
Small disclaimer.
I feel like this,
what I'm going to say next has such importance on
what you're about to see that it's worth sticking through.
No editing or camera tricks were used during his videos.
He mentions that several times in his captions,
it's something I wanna address because most of my audience,
now, when I started,
most of my audience was, were all magicians.
Now, most of my audience are uninitiated.
So let me initiate you formally, right here right now.
It would not only be shameful, it would be harmful,
and it would be a complete embarrassment
to the art of magic itself
if video editing were used for the most part.
And I say for the most part,
because there are people like Zach King.
He mainly uses video editing.
But for the most part,
magicians are always trying to show you on video,
what it is they can create in real life.
And that's always torn the audience 50-50,
because here's the reason.
At your very fingertips,
you have all of the world's information.
And as much as it's a blessing,
it's also a curse, because with that information comes
an unwavering view of the world.
When an intelligent person such as yourself watching this,
views anything online,
if your mind cannot explain it,
there is only one thing left to do, and that is
to dismiss it entirely and blame it on video editing.
In some cases, maybe that's true.
Not in this case.
Bear that in mind.
Now I'm not saying that this man
or any other magician is smarter than you,
I'm just saying that you, are not aware of everything.
And if you were, then magicians like myself
and Jeki and everybody else would be out of the job,
I'm okay saying, I don't know.
The world would be a better place, if a lot of us just said,
I don't know.
Rant over.
All right. So this first video we're going to check out
is the very first video that I saw
and this one completely baffled me.
In fact, I've watched it so many times.
Still, I can't for the life of me, figure it out!
Have a look.
- Watch!
Lemme show you Japanese Rope Trick.
See. Here's a one piece of rope
and I make the knot in the middle.
Now it looks like a circle, right?
But watch here. (blows air)
Now the circle comes out.
See? Oh my! (giggles)
- Oh my! (giggles)
Feel free to rewind. Go watch it again.
I'm not gonna watch again. I've seen it.
I've seen it a million times. You can go ahead.
I'm going to move on.
The rest of us are going to move on
and watch something else.
Feel free to stick around and then just keep rewinding
that last part.
Totally up to you.
Oh my!
- Pocky!
See? It's my favorite biscuit pocky.
Watch here.
If I tap this, (tongue clicks)
chocolate comes out.
Goes back inside and comes out.
Oh my!
Actually I have two. - Oh my!
- If I tap this. Watch. (Jeki whooshes air)
- Ah!
- It's changing. ( Jeki blowing air)
Oh my!
- Beautifully done.
- Watch! (coins rattling)
I have a four coins in my hand.
But watch here. Two gone!
(metal clicking)
(Jeki claps)
Oh my!
(Jeki chuckles)
- Again!
- Watch! (coins rattling)
I have a four coins in my hand.
But watch here.
- One. Two.
- Two gone!
- Three.
(metal clicking)
(Jeki claps)
Oh my!
(Jeki chuckles)
- Oh my!
There's a reason he does this, you know.
Here's why.
I'll break it down for you.
Real simple, real quick.
He knows, that we know, that he knows,
that we think, he's throwing it on his lap.
He knows that we know that he thinks that we know.
So what does he do?
What does Jeki do, you ask?
Well, Jeki uses a glass table.
There's an old magicians' proverb that says,
"Magic is the willing suspension of disbelief."
But there's another magicians' proverb
that Teller from the famous duo, Penn and Teller says,
"Magic is the unwilling suspension of disbelief."
When there is no explanation,
so you have nothing left to do, but suspend your disbelief,
unwillingly.
- Watch!
Lemme show you an unique card box.
See? (springs swishing)
Here's nothing.
It looks like nothing inside.
But watch here. (blows air)
If I blow on it, (cards tap)
See?
The dart comes out. (card box clunks)
The beautiful dart. (cards swishing)
Oh my! - Okay.
- I'm gonna show you one simple trick.
I put the ball here and watch.
One, two, three.
See?
The ball changed to yellow dot.
The secret is toy gun.
(springs swish) (both chuckle)
- This is so good
- Cover the board and punch it.
That's it.
Oh my!
- There's something so great about that because
the method that he's showing
is just as silly as the presentation, as his character.
- Maths test!
Three plus two plus four plus one.
And the total is,
10!
- Wow.
- Oh my!
Watch!
I have a four cards in my hand.
And if I put the cards one by one, like this
(fingers snapping) - Wow.
- See, it change to mini cards.
- The mini cards.
- Mini card.
- It's not the mini card.
Watch here.
One, two, three, four. (fingers snapping)
It's gone!
You wanna know the secret?
- It's in your hand!
- The secret is, I have a hole in my hand.
Hole!
Let me show you.
See, here's hole.
So I can put the cards here inside.
And yesterday I put a coin here.
Watch!
- Ah!
- Oh my!
- Jeki, lemme tell you something.
There is a fine line you're walking right now, sir.
A fine line between amazement, amusement, bewilderment,
astonishment, and annoyance, frustration and anger.
And you sir, you've walked in a fine line.
Moving on.
- Watch!
I'm in the park today with my dog.
Oh my!
(Jeki laughing)
- No video editing was used. - But I forgot my lunch box.
Oh my!
But I have a black hole.
- It's written right there. - Watch here.
If I put my hand into the hole, like this, see?
Here's a coke comes out.
Oh my!
Okay. Let's do it again.
If I put my hand into the hole, see?
Oh my, this is burger. (laughs)
Watch!
I'm in the park t...
- Oh my, this is burger.
No video editing was used.
Now it's circumstances like this,
which makes me believe otherwise.
My mind, that's the only place it's got left to go
because I don't know the method.
So instinctively, I say, well, screens.
Got the camera around.
There's like a two camera,
but I can tell you there isn't and I trust this man.
Wow.
- Watch!
Here's a small mat, nothing here.
And I have a four cards in my hand.
One, two, three, four. Right?
Before starting,
I place one card right here on this table.
So now I have one, two, three. Right?
The snap. (fingers snap)
One, two. (fingers snap)
One card left.
See? (suspenseful music)
- What? - You see.
Where did they go?
Huh, watch here.
Here's the one, two, three, four.
But the difference is, it got smaller.
You see.
- Ah, you hit me with the mini cards again!
- Oh my!
Watch! - Watch!
- This is more fun air and nothing inside.
And I have, one, two, three, four cards in my hand.
But if I put the cards right here, (blows card)
- And now, - Wow!
- one card magically changed to mini card.
See? Mini card.
Oh my!
Okay, let's see it again.
Now I have a one, two, three cars in my hand.
But watch. See?
Now I have only two cards left.
One, two.
But watch here.
- Where are they going? - One, two.
See? One card left.
And this is the last one.
I grab the card.
And one, two, three.
See? All four cards change into, mini cards.
Oh my!
- Dearly beloved.
We are gathered here today to commemorate
and remember Chris's mind.
(soft, suspenseful music)
Chris's brain was something special and spectacular.
And unfortunately he is now just a puddle of goo
on the floor and will be missed greatly.
That was pretty good.
It's okay. It's pretty good.
- Watch!
Here's an empty tube and three paper balls.
I put the balls inside the tube
and blow on it.
The balls completely disappear.
Oh my!
The secret, is the vacuum cleaner.
Ah.
All you need is some duct tape,
place the vacuum cleaner right outside of the camera.
- Oh wow!
- Before starting, push the button using your foot.
Now put the balls inside tube
(Chris laughing)
and after bring the tube near the vacuum cleaner.
- That's so great.
- That's how I make balls disappear.
Oh my!
- That's so...
Just the silliness of his naked foot,
just hitting the vacuum by himself.
I can imagine him doing this.
Of course, we know something was going on
because it was off camera.
But what a great explanation and what a great way
to show you guys a little bit
of what he's doing behind the scenes
to achieve these effects.
He's using perspective, a force perspective.
Actually Buster Keaton, this guy,
(bright, suspenseful music)
One of my great inspirations for filmmaking once said
that, "If the camera can't see it, it doesn't exist."
And that's exactly what's happening here.
He's using that principle.
And that's totally fair.
And that's not a camera trick.
It's just not on camera.
Well this again. - Watch!
Nothing here, but if I put my hand
into the hole, - How does that even work?
ball comes out and you can put it back,
it's gone. - I don't...
- The amazing thing is that, if I put my hand like this,
the ball comes out and it goes back inside .
See? (chuckles)
Watch here. It's crazy.
- I know something's going on and he's good at it. I just...
- But lemme show you something more crazy.
Here's a cube and a frame, you see?
Nothing here.
But watch, cards come out.
But actually, this is not a frame.
If I remove this cube. - Stop!
- See? This is an amorphic illusion.
Oh my!
See? It's not a frame.
(suspenseful music)
Oh my!
- He just keeps like,
this is my brain and this is his magic, just...
(boxes pillow)
Felt really good.
Okay. Moving on.
- Watch! I change these to one dollar bill.
See? Watch here.
(coin rolling)
Here's one and two.
(coin rolling)
Oh my!
- Wow.
- Is this one dollar bill?
- There's something so beautiful about that
because spinning a coin, just beautiful
and quite magical in its own right, the physics of it.
Naturally as a magician, my mind goes to,
well, if I wanted to change a coin,
you can't really see it while it's spinning.
So maybe I'll change the size, the color,
the denomination of the coin,
but to add another coin to that
and still retain that spinning effect is really clever.
And so that's just something I really appreciate,
when I see things like this.
- Watch!
I have four aces in my hand and it's all pulled back.
And if I put the cards one by one, like this.
See? The card magically changed to red card
and also it changed king.
- Wow! - Oh my!
See. Four kings!
And if I put the cards like this
(fingers snapping)
It's gone. - He's so good.
- And where is king?
(suspenseful music)
I'm here.
(Chris laughs)
- I'm here.
That's a great payoff right there.
That reveal at the end made that whole video
so much more entertaining.
If there's anything you could take
from my entire video today, just as a magician,
just remember,
you can create your own online persona, right?
You can film yourself a billion times
before you upload something.
You can get the perfect angle
and refilm it as many times as you'd like,
just to get it perfect.
And that's something you can't do in real life.
So take this time if you're sat at home quarantining
or you know, not going outside and being social
to create something that can be appreciated
through an online medium, much like this guy.
He's exploring it to its furthest points.
And I appreciate that.
- Watch! This is glass cup.
And inside this cup, there's a yellow ball, and two,
oh my!
Two! (chuckles)
And I grab the balls one by one like this.
And I make them pass through this table.
I always quite difficult because this is glass table,
but there's easy method.
Watch here.
First, you need to make them smaller, like a powder.
See? It's crazy. (laughs)
- What?
- That's it?
See? (hands clap)
Oh my!
- How is the sand just suspended like that under the table.
You understand what I'm saying? Physically?
Like, I mean, physics talking here.
This effect could have been achieved,
if the cups were opaque, if you couldn't see through that.
He knew that, and knew that it would be twice as fooling
if they weren't.
And also the table is made a glass and frankly,
yeah, it's really good.
I mean, it's all right.
- This is my math book. See?
Oh, that's tape.
The interesting is that if I put this inside.
Oh my!
See?
They are somehow connected like this.
(Jeki chuckles) (objects cluttering)
- Oh that's table watch.
Here's my tape.
The interesting is that, it's a tincase.
- What? So much going on there.
He, it's almost like he knows.
It's not almost like he knows.
He knows exactly where your eyes are going
and where the misdirection is, even on camera.
He's able to misdirect you, which is really great.
Oh, that's an interesting setup.
(soft music)
(Jeki blows air)
- Wow. - Oh (chuckles)
(suspenseful music)
(Jeki blows air)
- Wow!
(hands clap)
- Oh.
- That's so good.
A few things I like about this particular illusion is
(a) What am I looking at? Right?
You're looking like, what am I seeing right here?
This looks abstract. It looks bizarre.
It's captivated my attention.
And are they mirrors? Are they pictures?
Are they simple frames? Why are they in this order?
And then he proceeds to do these magical things
in around it using,
and I say this very aware,
he's using the angles of the frame and string
and everything else in there to create this illusion.
So, yeah, really well thought out.
- Watch! This is called Mystery Frame.
I made this yesterday.
Ah, see?
Is nothing inside.
Nothing. Right?
But watch here.
If I put my hand in this way.
See? (hand claps)
Pull my hand like this,
- Wow! - one card comes out.
See? Nothing. - That's so clean.
But watch here.
Oh my gosh!
See? Second one.
And watch here (ooing and laughing)
Crazy!
And now this is last part.
Watch! I cover this,
like this and snap my finger.
See?
- No! Stop!
(phone pings)
- But actually there's nothing.
See? Nothing inside. Ah!
- Oh my!
- One day, my friend asked me,
can you show me one simple trick?
At the time I had 10 cards in my hand.
10 cards! - Follow along here.
And I made them disappear one by one like this. Yeah.
(fingers snapping)
(Jeki laughs)
Yeah, after watching this, he was quite shock.
And then he asked me, oh, that's cool.
But can you show me your left hand?
And I say, yes. Why not?
- Wow.
(Jeki laughs)
Can you imagine.
Put yourself in this predicament right now?
You're at a bar. You see this guy,
he's making everyone laugh.
He's performing these things.
Now, you've had a couple of drinks
and maybe you're not in a great mood.
And then you're trying to talk to someone,
but this person's just distracted
by this amazing magician over here.
And you're kind of getting like, you know, fed up with this.
So you walk over and you're like,
oh yeah, well what's in your left hand?
Imagine!
Oh, I'm having goosebumps.
Imagine, he pulls this out just as you asked that question.
Imagine the room exploding and this man disintegrating,
before your very eyes, melting into the floor being like,
please, don't ever, please don't look for me.
Goodbye, cruel world.
That's what I would like to imagine happened.
I can watch this guy's videos all day, by the way,
if you couldn't tell by now.
One more.
This one's got a cool thumbnail.
Let's look at this one.
- Here are two rings in my hand.
Two rings.
Watch here.
One, two, three.
Oh. - Wow.
See.
The two rings connected into one.
And lemme show you once again.
One, two, three.
Separated. - Wow!
- And connected and separate again.
- He's very good.
- I know, my hand is fast, but wait a minute.
Have you seen my ring?
Oh my gosh! (chuckles)
See? My ring is connected here and you missed it.
If you watch here.
One, two, three.
See? They're connected.
The interesting is that.
One. Two.
One, two, three, like that!
Oh my gosh!
(Chris laughs)
Huh, here's my glasses. - Oh God! He's such a goof.
- See? My glasses is connected here
and the ring and my ring is connected into one.
Let's go back to the beginning. (chuckles)
One, two, three. (fingers snap)
- My ring comes out. - Wow!
The ring comes out,
and this is the last part.
It's difficult part.
But I'm magician Jeki Yoo.
(both chuckle)
And this is for the Cover Photo.
(papers blow)
Here are two rings.
- Wow! Unbelievable!
Not gonna lie, you had me in the first half.
Well played, sir.
Well played.
All right. Again,
I'm probably gonna sit through all these videos,
whether or not they're on camera, probably at home,
by myself, eating a fat bowl of chips,
crying myself to sleep.
wondering how it was that I failed to magic community
after all these years.
That just got super dark. Okay.
Not insecure about that at all.
For real though.
He is an incredible inspiration to me.
I hope he's inspired some of you out there.
And if not, at the very least,
I hope that this whole video served
as some form of entertainment for you
while you're sat at home.
Do check out his page, left it below.
I know by now, if you're not following him,
you probably wanna download Instagram and follow him.
Be the only person you're following,
it would be much worth it.
Thank you so much to everybody who watched this video.
Don't forget to like and consider subscribing,
if you haven't already.
We'd love to have you.
And we'll see you guys on the next video.
Peace, right?
(bright music)