This is pretty cool. Anyone want to explain how he accomplishes some of these illusions so damn fast?
You only think it’s fast.
He stands on top of a box and raises a curtain up to his chest. Then, lifts it above his head and in a flash he’s replaced by a scantily-clad babe.[sup]1[/sup] Do you think the trick only starts when you can’t see his face? They know what’s supposed to happen, and exactly when. They’ve done this before. When the guy is positioning the cloth curtain, the babe is climbing out of the back of the box, bewteen his legs, and is carefully prepared for that split-second switch. He drops down and has a couple seconds to climb back into hiding.
- Not complaining; just pointing it out.
I don’t disagree that there’s a trick at play here…just the speed with which he goes through them all being pretty amazing.
I don’t think these illusions were particularly fast; it’s just that most elaborate stage magic is intentionally slow. They wheel the apparatus out on stage, the magician turns it around and taps on all four sides to show how solidly it’s built, now show us the razor-sharp blades that will slide through this deadly device, first stage left, then stage right, the SCB struts out and does a few twirls, poses for the audience, then the magician takes her hand and gallantly leads her into the disappearing cabinet, closes the door (“ooh, what’s that knocking sound?”), then opens a little door so we can see her face or hand so we know she’s still in there. Done properly, they can probably stretch that out to five minutes.
It’s all misdirection. All you need to catch people attention, to get them looking where you want them to look, is loud music, flashing lights, and fishnet stockings.
By the way, if anybody wants to use that last sentence as a .sig line, just be sure to give me credit.
And maybe fix the typo.
Didn’t Alice Cooper say that some time in the '80s?
No, you’re just confused by my uncanny resemblance to him.
“We’re not worthy!”
I have to disagree there. I don’t think they did it very fast. I stopped at the one that looked like a big round gift box. As he’s getting up on top he’s holding the curtain half over the back of the box. It doesn’t look like much, be she’s clearly climbing out of the back during that time.
You want fast…try this.
Yes, it’s very obvious how there doing it*, in fact, during one change you can actually see the old outfit roll down to reveal the new one. It’s still pretty cool. Keep in mind, this was the first time we had really seen quick change artists doing something like this.
If you check out some of the other David and Dania acts, you can tell they’re each wearing about 5 outfits when they first come out.
I might have to watch it again, but I strongly suspect that Hans has exceeded the magician’s guild self-imposed limitation of tiger roars on stage per hour. Bad Hans!
Hilarious.
I kept thinking he might do in a pinch as a body double for Siegfried and Roy.
Wow, you just managed to capture the gist of the entire American political campaigning process in one sentence.
I always found these acts to be cheesy as magic/art, but I do appreciate the fitness and athleticism involved.
…and the cleavage. Lots of respect for that.
You… quit watching? The scantily clad babe is leaning over the box, the stiffened front of her dress bowing out as she struggles with the lid, and you quit watching?
Dude.