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2hot New user Sydney 89 Posts |
I would like to perform tricks using invisble thread on the streets but the lighting is a problem. please share your experiences
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funny_gecko Elite user 436 Posts |
The usually asume the string is on top.. you have to know where to look in order to see it... keep the itm moving and don't leave it suspended for too long then you should be ok
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ryrysweetipie New user 54 Posts |
Man, people always wave there hand over and under the floating object when I do it. I don't use IT anymore
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funny_gecko Elite user 436 Posts |
Well truly hook ups that are vertical aren't very good.
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Brady Loyal user Los Angeles, CA 235 Posts |
You can use it on the street, you just hae to know what you are doing. Use your body to produce shade, work under trees, under awnings, etc. You just have to watch your lighting and keep yuo IT below eye level. if it is at or above eye level you will get into trouble. If conditions aren't right, don't do that trick. Work in the evenings and at night, but watch the lights and take the same precautions with them as you would with the sun.
I use loops both during the day and at night. I usually float a dollar bill. I have people sometimes guess that there is a string somewhere, but they can't really catch me. If they guess there is a string, I offer to show them how it is done. I load teh dollar bill with a TT holding a silk streamer, I then pull out the streamer and show it to them as the "string" I was floating the bill on. It gets a good laugh and a lot of "no-way's." It also gets them away from the string theory, unless they are physicists, they never get away from string theory. Regards, Brady |
bloodkin Special user 646 Posts |
LOL. That's awesome Brady!
I've worked with string since I was in second grade. It really comes down to getting a lot of experience with types of thread, methods of disguising it, but also WHAT you're doing with it. When you perform straight floating effects, the only place for a spectators mind to run is "it must be thread". They may never see the IT but it's the only way to rationalize it. Now if you layer the effect, it makes it much harder for a spec to rationalize it away. A recent example is "SPUN". The coin is borrowed, signed, floats and bends in mid-air. Even if someone wants to explain it away as using IT, they just can't explain seeing it bending in mid-air. Effects where you have a variety of motion make it hard for Spec's to reverse engineer it. Tricks like the haunted deck. The cards move one way, then another, then the selected card pops out in the opposite direction. Same with animated match box routines or if you do "lite flite". That hook-up gives you such a strong range of motion. It just looks impossible for it to be accomplished with just a piece of IT. |
rboeskin New user 41 Posts |
I really like the effect, but I would like to know if you have to build something or if it comes ready to go
rboeskin
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bloodkin Special user 646 Posts |
Which effect do you mean?
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