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Here at ColorBurstVideo, we are big fans of magic, video technology and also the iPhone. As such, the following video really caught our attention.
See this video and others like it on TED.com.
Bonus: Do you wanna see how this trick was done? See the post and video from Robert Scoble.
I don't know if it's an original quote, but George Lucas once said The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
And it's certainly the truth. At ColorBurst Video, we are big fans of magic and know a few tricks of sleight-of-hand that we've practiced in addition to the special effects. That's why a recent article on Wired.com caught my attention and I wanted to share it with you. It features incites from Teller of Penn and Teller, along with some video clips of their magic act.
For Teller (that's his full legal name), magic is more than entertainment. He wants his tricks to reveal the everyday fraud of perception so that people become aware of the tension between what is and what seems to be. Our brains don't see everything—the world is too big, too full of stimuli. So the brain takes shortcuts, constructing a picture of reality with relatively simple algorithms for what things are supposed to look like. Magicians capitalize on those rules.
Every time you perform a magic trick, you're engaging in experimental psychology,Teller says.If the audience asks,How the hell did he do that?then the experiment was successful. I've exploited the efficiencies of your mind.
See the full article on the Neuroscience of Illusion at Wired.com.
I love a good magic trick, don't you?
It's clearly a viral video, but they aren't lying when they warn you at the beginning that it hasn't been edited in any way. The answer to how this one was done has already been posted in the comments and video responses on YouTube. But I urge you to watch the short video all the way through (1:43) and see if you can't reason out how it was done. It's not that hard, but it is very clever on their part. Good luck, and let me know what you think!
