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Super Trooper said:
This was one of the first vids I ever saw where I suspected him of either using actors or editing to make the trick:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=25dNZhgVrkc
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Hey SuperTroop...I came across this thread which debunks this exact trick/episode. http://www.talkmagic.co.uk/ftopic7200.php

I get what you are saying...technology is evolving and so is magic. But, I don't think it can be considered magic any more once you rely on post production. If you HAVE to stop and start the camera in order to fool us...and if you HAVE to ensure that ALL of the supposed "audience members" or "innocent bystanders" are being paid to be 'in on it' it aint magic.

Whats in it for the true magician to spend years honing is craft of sleight of hand and visual deception if the new breed need only a good producer?

Yeah, he's entertaining. But its like cotton candy. At first, its delicious but after a while it starts to make you sick.
 
did anyone see him levitate over the Luxor hotel in vegas? he levitated IN the light of the luxor, and it showed home video footage and such too. it was really cool.
 
Chris Messineo said:
I'm much more impressed by magicians like Ricky Jay, who are masters of sleight of hand.
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ricky jay is a wiz at sleight of hand. i wish my sleights were as good as his (something to practice for!)
 
i just watched part 1 again...i nearly pissed myself. those are the funniest videos ive seen since i can last remember.
 
Super Trooper said:
For that, I can forgive Angel and any and everyoneelse for that matter. But I still hate his ego-centric personality.
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But I think that's all part of the joke. He's this "ultra cool" long hair freak who can do magic tricks. I think he's David Cooperfield for the 2000s. I mean Cooperfield was just as cool for his time and had just as much ego. With the dark eyed stare and all that jazz. That's part of the fun in watching them, they're big hams who do magic.

As for the David Blaine parodies, I saw these on YouTube and I think I hurt myself from laughing so hard. The hook at the end of part two was so worth it.

-Nate
 
My brother is a magician (mainly just hand/card magic) and we are also twins. We participated in a magic show where my brother was a plant in the audience and the magician teleported him across the stage (me hiding in the trap door of a crystal box).

If you think about, there is a good reason why you don't see a lot of magic on T.V. Copperfield did not allow his specials to be re-run - the number one rule is never show your trick twice.

Copperfield is the worst magician when it comes to using plants in the audience. We had a video tape of 2 of copperfields specials where he levitated a woman from the audience. You could clearly see it was the same woman. And one of the speicals is when he was in Chnia.
 
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