It’s a great act. Not the most sophisticated magic, but still entertaining. Not likely to see it done on Fool Us though. But the guys might give her one of those gracious passes.
I found her website. She’s Ursula Martinez.
The appearances could be done by simply preloading the silks, but it’s the disappearances that make it a magic act. However, like you say, there’s something fishy in the way she waggles her hands after the disappearance, like she’s showing them empty, but doesn’t want you to get a good look.
Almost certainly a false thumb tip, probably the right hand, based on how she shields it after waggling her hands.
Exactly. She obviously uses a thumb tip, or possibly a sixth finger. I’m not sure why I didn’t just say that. It’s not like we’re trying to protect secrets in this thread.
Thank you for this.
Call me dumb, but for my love of magic and my desire to know how it’s done, I am always fooled by it and can never pick these things out.
I was about to ask “ok, I’m ignorant, please tell me how she does this”
I used to have a great fake thumb. Very realistic, made out of aluminum so I could disappear a lit cigarette. Wonder what happened to that thing?
I just did my own magic trick, if you know what I’m talking about.
Ha ha, that’s exactly the hanky she’s using, so yeah.
I was being coy, I figured it was a false hand appliance of some sort. And right hand, because that hand is always in the place where the left is pulling the silk. Watching again, it appears she pulls the thumb into her left hand to do the tuck, then in the fancy hand wiggling she puts the thumb on her right hand. Or just before the wiggling. There’s a moment where her hands are together.
8/17 show
Someone please tell me they have the slightest idea how the guy did that first trick. I have no clue.
Could it possibly, somehow, have something to do with the card he ‘accidentally’ left on the table when he scooped up the deck at the end?
I just came to check this thread to see if someone had an explanation for that trick. That was as clean as could be.
Ooh, a new show? I’ll have to wait till it’s on On Demand.
Well maybe just to set up the end card in the right direction. I think he’s separating the upside downs and right side ups as he slides through the deck for P&T to pull two out and put them back in. In his last slide through the deck after Penn puts his card back in, most of the cards are separated and he’s holding their positions by shifting them up and down. You can see when he pulls them together again that they stick out in several groups. His last little bit is to pull out the groups in one direction and flip them over onto the back of the deck to get them all pointing the same way. There are various other things he can be doing in there, but he is so smooth and quick that even in slomo I can’t pick up every detail.
This was what I always hope to see on this show. P&T getting totally fooled by a masterful magician. I think they caught a lot of the manipulation but they were admitting that it was a trick they’d never seen before, and could not perform themselves.
Well, I for one won’t be sleeping tonight after seeing that trick. From the point where he had P&T push the cards together very meticulously in a line, I was thinking obviously “stripper deck”. But then he had them haphazardly flip over cards and soup shuffle and that idea was out the window. I think you’re right that he had to be separating the cards slightly as he slowly fanned through them at the end, but how that translates into flipping them all over (EXCEPT for the two that were freely put back in the deck UP OR DOWN!!) is beyond me. The only visible move in the whole routine is the very end where he clearly flips the bottom half of the deck, but that doesn’t lessen the trick whatsoever. I’m gobsmacked.
What is doubly frustrating about that trick is that you know from the beginning how it is going to end. The whole time, you are looking for how, where, and when it happens–and it still goes by unnoticed.
I think when he appears to be taking off the top half of the deck to flip it over he’s pulling out the cards that stick out as if it were a stripper deck. I think. Whatever the hell he does he’s damn good at it.
I believe the technique that he’s damn good at is what’s known as culling cards or the spread cull. He’s actually separating the cards into face up and face down groups as he thumbs through them for P&T to return their selections.
I think we can all agree that the first trick was AMAZING and the other ones were all basically uninteresting and obvious? I had several theories about the first one, but none of them survived a careful rewatching. (On the other hand, if he fooled Penn and Teller, no reason to be surprised he fooled me.)
The silent magician was entertaining. Nothing amazing in the magic though.
Penn was genuinely pissed, wasn’t he? The way he threw the cards in the guy’s face at the end. :eek: