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)
The first stick is weighted. Him trying to balance it on his finger is an act to trick you that this stick isn't easily balanced
The second stick is attached to something, possibly him. He moves to levitate the second stick and adjusts the position of the first stick. That is him looping another monofilament around the weighted stick
That motion makes it appear as if the sticks don't get close enough to do this when in fact they do (well, the strings do anyway)
Picture a bow 🏹. The stick is attached to him with a superfine fishing line somewhere around the middle. There's a second line that runs from one end of the stick to the other with a little slack.
It's held in the air with tension. He pulls his body part back just enough to get the stick off of the ground without pulling the weighted stick over
Edit: it might be attached to the anklet. No matter how much he moves his body, he tries to keep that point immobile and exposed
Everything outside of the first paragraph is wrong.
None of the illusions performed here require a string anywhere. Why are you so dead certain that this guy does it with the string method that would have been done that way in the 1800s?
Modern techniques are way simpler and magnetic fields allow for more end results in illusions.
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
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u/FlameShadow0 1d ago
Cool. That’s explains literally nothing