I didn't mind it. I happened to have some sausages and a roasting stick on me. Turns out the poor guy was just hungry, so we roasted some sausages over his arm. He fell asleep after and then I cut off his fucking head.
Imagine going and slaying all those goblins that live in the tents behind the old factory and you put all your points into “levitate stick, eyecolor change:cosmetic with potential debuff to scratched cornea..”
well first off you need to find a hobbit send him on a mission with dwarfs and then 60 years later send his nephew on a journey and boom you helped middle earth
My kit came in and people keep telling me I look like the Cookie Crisp wizard, which is not even a reference I get because the Cookie Crisp mascot wasn't a wizard when I was a kid; it was a burglar.
You need to sacrifice yourself in furtherance of a trope-like ideal that you were placed on earth to propogate for. Ideally you do it really heroically and save some people and you say something kind of cool like, "away, you doldrums."
It's a terrible day for me and I am hating myself for doom scrolling reddit, but by God man, you just made me laugh out loud and get motivated to get back to life with joy in my heart.
Thank you so much for this, I needed that.
Try rolling the larger of the two balls across a willing participants head. Back and forth, back and forth until you get the hang of it. They should find it not dissimilar to a massage too, win-win.
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Right? I was flying though comments and hit that one - a rare perfect comment on Reddit - and nearly woke my partner…. First from laughing, then from wanting to share it with her. lol. She’s displeased now. But once she rereads it when she’s awake again she’ll understand.
That must be from the same company that I bought my book from. Its bound in a weird kind of leather and most of the words are in a language I cant pronounce well, weird stuff like fthagn. Dont know what it means, but the eye on the cover looks at me a lot.
Little gold ball uses hard to see string attached to other body parts (best guess is forehead?) to "levitate", hands push the string to move it in any direction. The "spinning around the ball to show it's not attached" is fake, the rotation isn't complete, there are gaps.
Clear orb is simpler, he's just holding it, it just looks like he isn't because of the distortion.
Contact lenses were under the eyelids, placed beforehand.
The sticks I'm not sure - first stick maybe weighted heavily at the bottom, e.g. empty out the bottom and fill it with some concrete? Second stick I don't know.
Something to know, there's some really neat sticky tack that magicians use to quickly attach/detach the string from what they're manipulating. You can't see it because they use sleight of hand to keep the tack hidden and they only use a tiny amount. That's how he's able to take the gold ball in and out of "suspension" so easily. Also these objects are often a lot lighter than you'd expect.
"Magicians Wax" - not expensive seeing as you use tiny amounts, but you can get extremely cheaply using silicone wax ball "disposable" earplugs. One pack for £2.50 from the chemist and enough to last years and years.
But how the actual fuck do you make contacts stick to you eyelids and then release them at the correct moment to properly go over your eyes without having immense pain?? O.o
Sometimes they just slide out of place if you rub your eyes too hard. It's mildly uncomfortable, but you can get used to it. He's just practiced at displacing them.
Getting them on is easy. Put them in the corner of your eyes, and just don't roll your pupils into the cups. They are shaped the same as your pupils, so once you point your pupils into the cups, they fit and stick.
Getting them off your pupils is easy if you use your hands. Close your eyes, and bend the contacts, then roll your eyes to the side, and push the lens the other way.
Works with soft lenses, but not hard.
Side note, oasys for astigmatism are black light reactive, and using the above trick makes for some really crazy haunted house effects ...
I think its attached to his necklace which is probably weighted
The line is tacked into place behind his ear then runs up and over and hangs off of his bald head.
He bows his head to make it drop
Then transfers the line to his hand or uses his hand to pull the line away from his head to make it appear it hasn't been hanging from it
Every part of his get up is part of the trick.
One of the lines on the stick is attached to an anklet and he's sitting yoga-like cross legged to keep the line stable
The heavy chunky necklace with very tight links he can friction fit the end of the line into (probably already there at the start with the free end of the line hanging loose, ready to be tacked to the ball)
The ball is an electroplated ping pong ball to make it appear like a heavy ball bearing. It's too light to create a visible indentation on his scalp but in order to really hide it, he needs to fully shave his head
I was thinking the gold ball might be attached to the back of the room somewhere, with the string bending over his shoulder/head/hands or something for manipulation. I think this would allow for a bit more freedom for how he throws the ball around and such. Just a guess though
Yep, the gold ball is on a string to the top of his head. It swings when his head swings. That's why he grasps the string between his fingers and lifts his hand forward to prevent the swinging and make it not so obvious, then when he moves his hand forwards, the ball goes forward and upwards as he moves his hand and head.
The upright stick is on a string from the top of the stick to the edge/bottom of the mat, and then the horizontal stick rests on that same string. Not sure how it's so stable horizontally though..
If it's from the kit I think it is the first stick magnet paired with a metal plate. The plate is under rug so the plate is out of sight and there's no metal tink sound of magnet and plate hitting each other. The second stick relies on the polarity of the first it has a magnet in the middle repeling it from the first stick and 2 stronger magnets at the side pulling it towards the stick so it hovers.
Yeah when he's spinning his finger around the ball, if you pay attention when he loops above the ball he isn't actually going over the ball. Used to do this trick back in elementary school and you can easily tell where the thread is when doing the trick, so you can do loops that almost touch the wire but don't.
The stick is more invisible threads. (just an educated guess, could be wrong) Two, to be specific, tied to the rug maybe 6-12 inches apart. It has some knots tied in the middle which is where the hovering stick rests. When he tried to pick up/balance the stick at the end the threads snapped
I found the trick about the stick. You have understood on both sides. You can see that there was always a line of objects that he never fixed. There was an almost invisible thread tied to that object. (My opinion)
It's always wither strings or magnets. Still waiting on the update 6.4 when magnet strings will be released, opens up a whole new level of magic tricks
So wait I can get two sticks and two marbles and sell em as a "kit" to idiots? The instructions will read "it takes time to learn how to levitate these but keep at it!"
Have you ever seen "magic dancing finger puppets" - bit of cardboard, bit of wool, weighted feet, but sold against a wall with invisible thread they hook over, and a rotary motion hidden behind a portable stereo. Material cost negligible but absolute magnets to school exchange student groups.
If you're referring to magic as in sitting on a toilet pulling a Snake out of my hat then I've got that covered. This guy is just playing with a stick and balls.
I wear contacts and can tell you sometimes they get stuck under your eyelids, but when you point your eye right at it, it will reseat properly. You can also see he had a bit of trouble and had to move his eyelids with his hand on the second eye.
He is just hiding colored contacts under his eyelid.
Hold on. Are you saying he’s intentionally stashing contacts under his eye lids and using sleight of eyelid to seat them on the eye and remove them? And having them under his eyelid isn’t causing him to have to blink 100 times per second? That might be more impressive to me than making things levitate.
Some other commeners were saying it is painful or uncomfortable for them too, I wont even notice if I am looking at something close up.i can feel it if I pay attention, but it is like paying attention to the feeling of your toes touching or noticing that you can always see your nose, I guess to me it just doesnt feel much different than closing my eye with a contact lense normally.
It may be contact type or prescription, (i wear acuview 2) or maybe physical like eyelid tightness or something, but this wouldnt bother me at all.
I am however impressed by the speed and ease by which he was able to fix it, I take much longer and make much weirder faces as I try to maneuver the lense in my eye
Save money on the kit, go out in your backyard and get a couple of sticks, buy some invisible string, and learn how distance, planned lighting, busy backgrounds, and poor quality cameras are your friends.
My friend has this kit. I read the instructions and I agree that it’s pretty tough.
Step 1: Lure all the virgins in your local province to a nearby lake.
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Step 3: Collect various berries and nuts
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Step 5: Ask B̴̖͌̏ȃ̴̧͇̯͇̫̬̟̩̮̜̀̔̈́̿̃͂͆͆͒̿́̿͊͘͜ͅḽ̵̢̛̞̪̥̿̄̿̓̾̓̊̉͗̾̈́̈́̾͌g̶̛̮̻̪̙̗̳̘̫̮̝͑̎͂̍a̸̧̢͎̼͎̭̝͉͐̓͆̽͑̊̇̾́̀̅͘͝r̵̗̬̋̽̍ͅ to teach you how to levitate shit.
Congratulations! If you’ve successfully convinced B̴̖͌̏ȃ̴̧͇̯͇̫̬̟̩̮̜̀̔̈́̿̃͂͆͆͒̿́̿͊͘͜ͅḽ̵̢̛̞̪̥̿̄̿̓̾̓̊̉͗̾̈́̈́̾͌g̶̛̮̻̪̙̗̳̘̫̮̝͑̎͂̍a̸̧̢͎̼͎̭̝͉͐̓͆̽͑̊̇̾́̀̅͘͝r̵̗̬̋̽̍ͅ that you will be a good steward of levitation, you’ll be able to stump those rascally kids down the street!
Yeah like clearly there’s some strings and stuff involved here but the most impressive thing is he kept that glass ball on his head for so long!!! Dude has skills
It's not easy to get to the point where you can do it reliably and make it look good enough to impress people. But realistically speaking you can set this up in about 5 minutes after buying the kit. It's just invisible thread. Basically super thin nylon or silk. The stick has 2 (or a few more) tied between the tip and the carpet. It has knots in it where the balancing stick can rest. The ball is just an invisible thread from his head somewhere, often the ears (at 0:19 he's attaching the other end of the thread to the ball by moving some sticky tape basically from his ear to the ball). I was doing the trick with the ball during recess in elementary school.
I think this is a pretty important thing to point out about this type of stuff. Yeah, it isn't magic. It is, however, very difficult and takes a ton of time to master.
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u/Dazzling-Adeptness11 1d ago
It's a kit. This has been posted a couple times and others have said it's a kit you can buy and a technique you have to learn. I've read it's not easy