A little late on this but Max Maven has finished taping an Israeli television series entitled “Who Can Fool The Master?” where he will attempt to guess the methods of contestants. The format is a port of Penn & Teller: Fool Us which aired in the UK last year.
No word yet on an air date.
The information came from a video published by Magic At The Red Sea organizer Roy Zaltsman which we found via the Magic Cafe.
His name is Leon Thomson a teenaged UK magician whose latest video has gathered some local press attention and an attaboy from Derren Brown himself.
The clip features Thomson walking through a window at a local table tennis center. He explained his inspiration to a local paper:
“I was inspired by magicians on TV. I already knew how to do a trick putting a pencil through a sheet of plastic but I wanted to go bigger. I thought – why don’t I do a similar trick with a human.”
The video has currently gathered over 13,000 views on YouTube. Shortly after it was release Brown responded on Twitter with “awesome, well done. X”
A bunch of magicians are currently on a bit of a hike from Portsmouth to London, a grand total of 115 miles over 6 days. Amongst their crew is a seven foot tall rabbit.
They will stop each night and hang with a local magic group before finally arriving at the Magic Circle HQ in London. Proceeds for the epic trek will go to the Anthony Nolan Blood Cancer charity.
Get all the details here or watch their cheeky video below.
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After a somewhat sluggish start, a magic and music team Jarret and Raja start a slew of wins on last night’s America’s Got Talent auditions in San Fransisco. One of them makes with the magic while the other plays classical piano.
From what we see, they perform a sawing in half which eventually leads to Raja on his back keeping the tune going on the piano. The act wows the judges and gets sent straight to Vegas.
Videos for the AGT recaps are gathered by Brandon Parnes.
Votes are in and we have a winner for the 2012 Best Illusion of the Year contest. Blue ribbon goes to Roger Newport and his team at Nottingham University who developed the above illusion which makes the subject temporarily believe that their hand has disappeared.
The subject places their hands under the screen are is told to make sure that their hands don’t touch the blue lines which slowly inch closer and closer. Here is what happens next…
What the volunteer doesn’t realise is that the screen isn’t projecting exactly what’s going on underneath. In order to dodge the blue lines, the volunteer will gradually move their hands outwards but the hands on the screen look fixed in place. After just 25 seconds, the volunteer has moved their hands much farther apart than they think.
Eventually, one of the hands on the screen disappears. Of course, the volunteer doesn’t really believe their hand has vanished until they reach across to feel it and become aware of the trick. The illusion is designed to simulate the loss of awareness experienced after a stroke.
Let’s all give Roger a hand.
From a 2002 edition of Celebrity Fear Factor, here is Teller eating a roach much to the disgust of Baywatch knockout Gena Lee Nolan.
You know… just because.
