Correct. I just grabbed them as I remembered them. He has been posting them regularly the past month or so. He’s really been having fun interacting with fans.
By the way, here is his most recent one, filmed by a fan/layperson when he went to Sweden for some kind of event.
So there’s more? I’ll have to check out his channel. I want him to fool me.
Watching the commercial though, I get the sense that the watch hands are not rotating at all. First, he shows the face while holding the watch vertically and says a time completely inconsistent with the position of the hands. Then he does some winding and shows the watch horizontally, and does say a time consistent with the hands in that position if the face were vertical. When he reveals the watch after the “winding” by the confederate next to him, the hands look to me like they’re in the same position.
I didn’t provide them. That was Mahaloth. I quoted his post in mine, but he ordered and posted the links.
He uses the same vanishing technique he uses in the “naked vanish” and then drops it in his lap.
It’s not impressive magic in itself, but it’s clever marketing, a skill possessed by the very best of magicians. That is not to say he is one of the very best, I don’t know much about him.
I just watched the commercial for the watch again. The hands say 3:05 the whole time. He just holds it upside down the first time (and says 3:15 when the hands look more like 3:35), holds it sideways and says 12:20, which it looks like sideways (but not from it’s proper orientation), and then does the trick to result in 3:05.
The guy on Penn & Teller may have thought that was too obvious, but it would have been better to go for that rather than to never show the face at the beginning.
This one has me partly stumped.
I’m pretty sure that the deck we see at the end is not the same “deck” as we see in the bottle. I’m also pretty sure that vanish is done the same way as in the “naked vanish”. How he gets rid of the bottle and switches in the deck is something I can’t figure out. I can see between his arm and his side the whole time, and I can see below his hands the whole time.
The deck in the bottle is just an empty box, and may not even be a real box (it had to get in through the neck somehow), so maybe the deck at the end is also just an empty box that springs open to appear full.
Maybe it’s some sort of trick bottle that only appears solid but somehow collapses into a card box? I really don’t think so but it’s the only thing I can think of.
He has the second deck in his left hand right from the beginning.
I suspected that from the way he’s holding the bottle before it vanishes. He then swings it up so it’s pointed straight back from his hands, but then what?
It must have something to do with the way he’s standing; turned slightly with his left shoulder forward. The only obscured paths I can see would be up the bottom of his right arm and then behind his back or along the back of his left arm and then behind his back, but I can’t see how he could make it travel along either of those paths. He could use a string or elastic of some sort but why wouldn’t it hang down?
I’m thinking that it may be extremely angle dependent and that he may even have had to do numerous takes until he got one where he got lucky and we don’t see any flashes of bottle as it somehow travels behind his back.
I’m guessing that the dark background behind him may be a factor.
Okay, it may be a matter of very tight camera work, or maybe even cropping of the video. Right before it vanishes, the camera tilts down so that there is space between his hands and the bottom of the screen, presumably to eliminate any possibility of him simply dropping the bottle. Then he brings his hands together and the bottle “vanishes”. At this point we know (or at least think) that the bottle is pointing straight back with the top gripped in his right hand. Then he flips his left hand to reveal the deck.
When he flips the hand there is a brief moment when there is no space between it and the bottom of the video frame. Maybe at that point he drops the bottle. Maybe it’s plastic or he drops it onto a pillow. This would require a number of takes to get it perfect or cropping the video exactly right, or maybe both.
Somebody tell me how he does this shit right goddamn now.
I hate magic tricks so, so, so much.
I think Farquhar is a mutant with a kangaroo pouch. That’s the most logical explanation to me.
I can explain every one of his bottle vanish videos that I’ve seen. The explanations may or may not be correct but they can be explained.
Some of them are very dependent on timing and angles and it may seem remarkable that he can pull them off so perfectly, but keep in mind that these are videos so he can do as many retakes as he needs to get it perfect.
Some interesting insights into the show and Kostya Kimlat’s experience here:
He is a very talented magician and is quite well known. I can show you two more tricks of his that are pretty cool.
Here he is on Fool Us. They saw him swap the deck, but still gave him a “fool us” because they don’t know how he gets the card in the sealed deck. He was going to sell this trick online, but has not and I believe he remains the only one who knows for sure how it works.
I do love this one, too. Shape of my Heart.This demonstrates how skilled he is with card manipulation. He’s just great.
He seems like a nice, smart guy. Making sure Penn and Teller walked through the trick step by step so they knew he had not done it in one of the ways they expected was pure genius.
I like this part of his write-up
I remember him from Fool Us. Shape of My Heart shows his skills with the cards and his ability to make art from the performance. I’m sure he’s very talented.
Using YouTube for marketing is a new thing for quality magicians, they have to be able to perform their magic live as well as on a video, he could be the one to use that route to stardom. The very best magicians aren’t always the most well known, and vice versa, but getting an audience is one of the tougher tricks to pull off in the trade.