by Omnitir » Fri 25 Nov 2005, 22:27:01
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DerelictOverlord', 'T')he coat conceals a hinged leg that is belted just underneath his arms as he is laid back, the hinged leg extends. take note that everyone else is in short sleeves. Same way the swamies (or whatever they call themselves) levitate.
Actually on his show he did it a few times with “volunteers” who didn’t have any coat touching below them. He also ran a stick underneath them to show there was nothing supporting them. I think it would have been done with a simple rig set above them in plain view supporting them with thin wires. The rig and the wires would just be edited out later.
I find illusionists to be very entertaining. I love trying to figure out how they did it, and I don’t think it takes the fun out of the illusion. But I really hate how Chris Angle pretends its real magic and craps on about our inner power being stronger then the physical world etc. He wants people to believe it’s real. Give me a break.
If he could really perform magic, he wouldn’t be doing party tricks, he’d be healing the sick, restoring the environment and replenishing the worlds oil reserves. Now that would be much more impressive then levitating in a crowd or bench-pressing a Hummer.
"Mother Nature is a psychopathic bitch, and she is out to get you. You have to adapt, change or die." - Tihamer Toth-Fejel, nanotech researcher/engineer.