Robert Fox, czech illusionist
Offline Here's one my countryman I can be proud of. I don't know how he does his tricks, but apparently he does them in complete field circumstances, without preparation. For example, here he takes about 10 dollar bill and changes it to 100 dollar bill, then back to 10. And then he conjures a change for the bill. All with empty hands and no sleeves to hide anything in. He's certainly very talented.
Fox has his own show on national TV channel. Obviously, his style is doing magic right on spot, with complete strangers, often with their stuff. In these circumstances he works to make reality look like illusion. Of course, most of his tricks could be replicated by extensive preparation, but he intentionally avoids controlled circumstances. His purpose seems to be puzzling people.
Considering the average skeptic's observing skills, I hope you all see what's on the videos.
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Er, wait. Your contention is that this guy is actually doing Magic as opposed to a tricky illusion?
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For example, that highway mark was from some random car on the street, and he clearly moved it, when he put it back it was placed a bit differently.That wouldn't happen if that would be only some optical trick.
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Hey Lumi, what's your take on this ? : http://www.scribd.com/doc/24506/Pop-Magic-by-Grant-Morrison
"Pop Magic! is magic for the people ! Pop Magic! is Naked Magic ! Pop Magic! lifts the 7 veils and shows you the tits of the Infinite !"
OK Luminon, magicians are basically always doing tricks of some kind. The real deal is not being amazed by what you see so much as trying to figure out how something is done. If you pay close attention (and possibly do a frame-by-frame) you can get some clues as to what is actually going on.
With this guy, doing a frame-by-frame does not work because he does not use a single camera shot. The camera view is changing all the time so we would have a really hard time showing that he did not take several different performances and stitch them together to make the video look like it was all one thing.
Also, it is fairly obvious that he is using some pretty general techniques such as showing that one hand is empty so that the audience will accept that the other hand is also empty, even though he did not show the other hand.
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Did you see that trick with the sign?!?! Yea I'm pretty sure David Blaine has Robert Fox beat
Too bad that was not David Blaine.
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