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The World Champion of Close-Up Magic

Eric Chien

Posted 5 years ago by Ed in category: magic

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DaveJoyce - 5 years ago [ Reply ]

How on earth.....

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Noemoc - 5 years ago

From my vanta ge point, and I may be going out on a Lim here, but you seem Green with envy. A brilliant performance with so much going on!!!

DaveJoyce - 5 years ago

The table has to be a huge part of the act. That's all I can figure.

Wetfish - 5 years ago

Right at the end when he goes to grab the rectangles, if you slow the video down and pause it you can see what looks like blurred out squares where the rectangles were. Then there is some weird distortion around his right hand directly after this. It looks like some kind of video effect to me. If it's not i would say there's some kind of crazy mirror effect or something

Noemoc - 5 years ago

I do not think he had the ad vanta ge of video effects. That would be the ultimate face palm. But he is very good at haydn his cards. He had the audience in his pocket the whole time.

qwqwqwqw - 5 years ago

@Noemoc, other similar acts have been made with video effects. Which of course is face palm and completelely misses the point of "magic".

DaveJoyce - 5 years ago

Yeah, but he won an award at a Live event. I was thinking the same thing at first, but the award at the end could not be faked I don't think.

jcrider - 5 years ago [ Reply ]

Reminded me of this chap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAN-PwRfJcA

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Noemoc - 5 years ago

I said that already. Please try to pay attention, JC.

Noemoc - 5 years ago

*Private Message to jcrider* - JC, no one else can read this (but you knew that already). My comments above are cryptic hints (go out on a LIM?) about how some aspects of this act were performed. But I do not want to give too much away since it is such a good act and Dave seems to be in such a lovely state of awe over it, so I can't say more. Not even in this private message. *End Private Message*

jcrider - 5 years ago

*Private Message to Noemoc* - The private message feature is working!! I got your message!! Thanks for decrypting your cryptic message, truth be told I had no idea who you meant... but didnâ€™t want to say anything for fear of looking daft in front of others (especially Dave). Iâ€™ll send a public message in a moment pretending Iâ€™m responding to yours using a technique first developed by Fanny Chmelar whilst she was skiing down an alpine run in Bavaria - i.e. 'Of course I knew that, I was just helping Dave' ;). On a side note, I agree about Dave, perhaps itâ€™s worth considering posting a magic trick a day, you know, to keep the doctors... (you get the idea). Thanks again. *End Private Message*

jcrider - 5 years ago

Of course I knew that Noemoc, I was just translating it into layman's terms for Dave :)

DaveJoyce - 5 years ago

Thanks JC for translating. LOL. I wondered if you were being cryptic about something Noemoc, but I couldn't figure it out. But yes! It is very similar to Lim's act.

jcrider - 5 years ago

:) you're welcome... 'I may be going out on a Lim' is what gave it away... and it seemed right to help explain to others who Noemoc meant

DaveJoyce - 5 years ago

Yeah, youâ€™re really perceptive. Unlike you, *I* had to have someone explain it to me. I wish I had your knack for subtlety.

LazG - 5 years ago [ Reply ]

I like your puns. It could be that the act was done without video editing but that the release for the public was edited to "reproduce" the effect the live audiance "had". Very black cloth is indeed an ad- vantage. Captain desillusion to the rescue.

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jcrider - 5 years ago

LazG, just a reminder - Don't forget next Wednesdays song and choreography practice. :) See you there. https://www.bestofyoutube.com/backstreet-boys-lineup

- 5 years ago [ Reply ]

I am calling Captain Disillusion!

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jcrider - 5 years ago

Hello Iceman :)

qwqwqwqw - 5 years ago [ Reply ]

A "magician" on America's Got Talent did something similar to this. It was all post-production video effects. So I have my doubts about this being real.

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Noemoc - 5 years ago

I don't think they would give him the championship if it was video effects. Also, a lot of it is inspired by (or similar to) what Shin Lim did on Fool Us where there are no camera tricks (or if there are, the whole premise of the show is lost). A lot of it finds its roots in the card mastery of the likes of Lennart Green. This is just a combination of classic slight of hand, the latest materials technology, a ton of skill, and years and years of practice.

jcrider - 5 years ago

qwqw(etc.) you were referring to this chap (I think?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDl7VE8xL8c

DaveJoyce - 5 years ago

I can't recall a single documented case where camera tricks were used with a live audience. The whole audience would have to be in on it in that case.

jcrider - 5 years ago

Here is the explanation of how he did it in the youtube video 2 comments up: https://youtu.be/_dSp_f0f9gE?t=302

DaveJoyce - 5 years ago

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I canâ€™t believe Iâ€™ve been duped! Have they no decency!!!

jcrider - 5 years ago [ Reply ]

I wish someone would magically disappear these edge adverts that keep popping up now

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DaveJoyce - 5 years ago

Noemoc - 5 years ago

I mentioned this to BOYT a few days ago and s/he said they would be removed on mobile, whether they are especially annoying. But they are still here.

DaveJoyce - 5 years ago [ Reply ]

I think this video probably holds the record now for most comments on a BOYT post.

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jcrider - 5 years ago

I think you're right. I'm crediting Iceman for that happening.