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Wx4usa Regular user 198 Posts |
I've been working on a silk vanish routine that hides angles well and I have a short video that is NOT full speed but would welcome comments. The TT will not show at full speed. I'm still trying to smooth out the transition to the second vanish. Here is a link to the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9C9V12Nvjo&feature=youtu.be
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funsway Inner circle old things in new ways - new things in old ways 9981 Posts |
You seem to have mastered the extraction of the TT from the back side after tucking in the silk from the top - good,
but you make it a synchronous action. Try removing the right hand from the proximity of the left after the silk is tucked - casually showing it empty with the thumb in the same position as it will be later with the TT. You train the audience what normal looks like. Scratch your nose, adjust glasses, etc. Then you can just wave your hand over the left and extract the TT. The ket is to avoid any thought of looking at the right hand after the vanished is revealed. They will remember that the right hand was empty AFTER the silk was in the left fist. Any glance now will see the naturally relaxed and open right hand as before. but, that is just technique. ,Of greater concern is where you are going with this. Such a vanish as part of larger routine in which the silk must vanish cna be great. To just have it vanish and reappear twice seems limiting to me. Where do you go next? Possibly, the silk's appearance should be somewhere else like your shirt pocket. When it vanishes a second time everyone will be guessing where it has traveled to. Maybe I just feel the pulling of the silk from the hand is too "telling."
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Wx4usa Regular user 198 Posts |
Ah very good. What about a previously shown empty change purse that is held by a spectator for the location of the silk as the second appearance? Can you explain your first paragraph for me? Im not following.
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Wx4usa Regular user 198 Posts |
Oh, so perhaps, I think I follow you.... leave the silk in the left fist, using the right hand....wave, point etc. Perhaps brush the left closed fist as if one was doing a salt vanish and steal the silk at this later point... not as one movement....
I was thinking of perhaps having a spectator first aspect a small leather coin purse inside out and show it empty. They retain it until the end and then I produce the silk from the second vanish in it at the end. I will work on a new video at some point for your review. Thanks so much ... |
Signet Loyal user 257 Posts |
This video was very fun to watch. I have been doing this same vanish quite a lot lately. I carry it in my jacket pocket. I have seen tapes of professionals doing it, but it is nice to see what it looks like when someone like me does it. I like that to you kick steal the TT from the back. I like the way you use the silk to hide the TT as you pull it through your hand. Your idea of the purse is a good one. I sometimes pull the silk from my ski hat after showing it empty. A more powerful thing would be to pull it from something borrowed from the spectator.
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funsway Inner circle old things in new ways - new things in old ways 9981 Posts |
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On Jan 6, 2019, Wx4usa wrote: Quite so ... being asynchronous plays with the human "distraction bias." Since our mind can only compare two things at once, any distraction causes a mental "blink" that requires memory and experience to fill in blanks of perception. By placing a separation between the hiding of the silk and the apparent "moment of magic" with a natural gesture and casual show of empty, their mind will fall back on the pattern of "knowing the right hand held nothing" over any suspicion of that hand (I call this Preemptive Doubt) Along this line, you do not hold your right hand in the same positions after the steal as before when it just held an empty TT. Why? In both cases the spectator has no knowledge of the TT or reason to suspect its existence. Only your own guilt or bias changes your action. That is the practice and acting part. You become so confident that the TT is not suspected that it is actually invisible to perception. A video can be a disservice here as repeat viewing will make it visible. Thus, I did not look to see if I could detect the TT, but in the change of actions of your hand under the different conditions. If you only believe they will not see the TT you have a problem. If you trust that they "know" the silk is still in your left hand and that your right hand is empty -- that is where the magic begins. Rather than trying to get an audience to believe anything, grasp what they know at the moment and follow. You cheat by preparing their perceptions to be deceived rather than fooling them. Took me 50+ years of performing to realize such things. You are doing fine!
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Wx4usa Regular user 198 Posts |
So to avoid the ‘blink’ then I ask the question is the silk in here or is the silk in here giving them two options perhaps repeating the question in a ridiculous manner and opening one empty hand and closing it then opening the other quickly and foolishly as if accidentally and saying maybe it’s in here opening the other empty hand sillily and closing it quickly for the ‘blink’ as you say? Then doing the production perhaps somewhere else maybe in the empty spectator held change purse? Hmmm?
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funsway Inner circle old things in new ways - new things in old ways 9981 Posts |
Many possibilities! You being alive to the opportunity is great.
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