This has nothing to do with that old Masked Magician who revealed a bunch of common and pretty old tricks.
This is a Youtube channel, just a few months ago, that does its best to solve how many current magicians are doing their tricks. I like that he openly solved a lot of the street magic type tricks that rose up with David Blaine and so forth.
He usually knows for sure how the tricks are done, but he occasionally offers an analysis and best explanation of the trick, being almost certain but perhaps not 100%.
His videos are very short, which is great. Just 5-6 minutes most of the time and they go over the mechanism of the tricks and pause to zoom in and show how he knows the method.
Things I’ve learned:
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Way too many tricks rely on camera tricks and editing. This sucks. Any trick that relies on cutting frames out, hard cuts, or just masking what we would see live sucks.
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Many other tricks involve stooges, a method I hate as well. Not instant stooges even, just stooges that know what’s up and pretend to be part of the trick. Lame.
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I most love his analysis and reveal of Shin Lim and Eric Chien’s close-up card magic. I confess. I had ZERO idea how their routines worked and now I know, they are extremely impressive. In fact, I could never learn to do card magic like Shin Lim or Eric Chien. I would be too terrified of my tricks failing. These guys are AWESOME.
He does analyze old David Copperfield tricks/stunts as well. Most of those are long-exposed to the world, but it is nice to see his brief overview of: Statue of Liberty, Great Wall walkthrough, floating over the Grand Canyon, etc.
His only long video is a 60 minute video about David Blaine. He gets into his stunts like eating glass(it’s real!), eating nails(it’s fake!), sewing his mouth shut(it’s real!), and how he does some pretty neat tricks. Blaine is for the most part better than a lot of guys out there.
Here is a link to the channel. I highly recommend it if you like Fool Us or just magic in general.