How Does Levitation Work?
i just watched a show on TLC called david blaine: street magic.
i tried not to belive it but i saw it and i acually do.
how does this work?
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i just watched a show on TLC called david blaine: street magic.
i tried not to belive it but i saw it and i acually do.
how does this work?
I didn’t see the show. There are lots of ways to do it. Dangle something on a very fine string. Fishing line works pretty good. One trick i’ve seen is to take a dollar bill, crumple it into a ball, and make it float. You use an air pump on the floor. The ball keeps to the center via the Bernoulli effect. There’s also magnetic levitation, used for certain trains. There are various illusions that make you think you see something where it can’t be. But on TV, you can edit things in later.
David Blaine does this in two different ways, one to amaze the people on the street, so they can get a reaction on film, and another to show to the camera to amaze you at home. When you see him levitate it is a complex system of strings to lift him up, which has been set up prior to filming. When he shows the people, he simply stands at a 45 degree angel with his back to the people and stands on the toe furthest away from them. This makes it so that his leg blocks his toes, and it appears that he is levitating, when in fact he is simply standing on the toes of one foot. It is all about the angle to make this illusion effective.
lol, that’s really funny because I watched it today too and researched it since. It’s basically all angles. What he does in front of the people is called the “Balducci Method” and can all be seen here, “http://www.free-card-tricks.net/blainel… When it shows us him floating, it never shows the crowd, therefore it’s just precisely edited footage, probably had him use a harness or something. Hope this helps
I don’t know, but I do know that I can be shown stuff that I know is misleading. At least this guy isn’t trying to sell you something.
I watched a person I know and trust find something she could not have known about. It is startling and most impressive. Then we were told the trick. And it was so simple…… just set it up beforehand and LIE. We knew there had to be a trick but hoped for something a bit more clever than straight deceit….wins every time.
It’s not real. Check out the link below. Basically he does the trick then he takes the tape back and edits it so it looks like he’s up really high when in reality he’s only a couple inches off the ground.