So... I've been learning mentalism lately, and I've decided to take my skills to the street...
Here's a bit of one of my first performances in the city...
More to come over time...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOzzhn64-iU- Poker Face
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OSDTotEHIQ- Inaugural Performance
That's really quite neat. I'm guessing there are other tells in there than the left/right thing? Because while that was a little obvious, I've no idea how you narrowed down in the suit and individual card in the range.
Yes, there are other tells, eye access cues being the main thing I look for.
I get them to see the card in their mind, the way they look and where they look being the main indicators.
I had trouble with the second girl because she was giving a lot of confusing and contradictory eye access cues, luckily I managed to start over and she behaved a bit more consistently.
Just as a side note... I realised today that theres a lady gaga song called "pokerface". I at no time ever realised this when I made that trick up.
Hopefully, it'll be found by people who are looking up the pokerface song, and ever since southpark covered it last week, I think theres going to be a lot of that going on...
:mittens:
nice job, Lys!
Cheers man, you can show your appreciation by ranking my video :D
Can't I just squirt some spooge in a sock? That's how I usually show my appreciation for videos?
that was pretty cool! Nice NLP technique, Lys
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on November 02, 2009, 03:48:55 PM
Can't I just squirt some spooge in a sock? That's how I usually show my appreciation for videos?
Yeah, you can do that too if want.
I hope you'll be thinking about those 4 girls though.
Or me.
I don't mind.
:mittens:
Great showmanship as well.
Nice! Just gave you 5 stars.
Very cool--just watched. You wow'd the crowd. And great showmanship, as Net said.
OK guys, this is what you've been waiting for, my next video!
This is me performing for other magicians, if you've seen my first video, you can probably skip to the 2 minute mark as you've seen the trick before, the next EXPERIMENT (I've never done this before in public and I had no idea if it was going to work or not, HONESTLY) is something I've been working on that I haven't done for the public yet as it still needs some work, as you will see, but for the most part, I'm very happy with the results and I hope it gives you something to think about...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OSDTotEHIQ
Nope. Can't figure out how you did the blindfolded trick. You don't seem to be taking cues from the audience, the deck did seem to be shuffled, and it did seem to be face-down on the table. Unless you could see through the bottom of the blindfold, without your glasses, and the backs of the cards were somehow marked - but that doesn't seem very plausible :?
Nicely done!
You seem to say "alright" a lot, but I guess you've already noticed that.
Quote from: FP on November 11, 2009, 04:02:10 PM
Nope. Can't figure out how you did the blindfolded trick. You don't seem to be taking cues from the audience, the deck did seem to be shuffled, and it did seem to be face-down on the table. Unless you could see through the bottom of the blindfold, without your glasses, and the backs of the cards were somehow marked - but that doesn't seem very plausible :?
Nicely done!
You seem to say "alright" a lot, but I guess you've already noticed that.
Yeah, I gotta cut that shit out. Actually I had a script prepared but I fucking lost it all when I went up there so I just winged it.
I was so fucking nervous, I don't know why. I don't get nervous in front of lay people, but performing in front of the magic society just completely fucked with me.
But thanks man. It's a thing I made up on my own, you won't find it anywhere on the internet, I'm pretty proud of it :) Glad to see its effective.
The Magic Society did at least seem to receive you well, so that's a good sign. Nice job on the new tricks.
awesome trick lys!!
for some reason--and even if I'm totally wrong about it, you might wanna adapt your act a bit to subvert that feeling--I feel you did the blindfold trick somehow by knowing the sequence of cards, and all you had to know was the first card and from there on you could predict the rest of the sequence.
even though I might be completely off about this, and I couldn't find you switching the deck at any moment (unless it was during a camera pan, but I doubt it), so I still have no idea how you actually did it :)
but you might wanna adapt the act a littlebit because the second, third and fourth correct cards, you do much too quickly. you say "I think it is ... ummmmmm" even before the guy holds up the card and the audience has a good chance to psycho-magicallipathically beam it into your heart, and you look like you are trying to *remember* which card comes next instead of receiving it via astrally activated audience anchors. I get a similar vibe when you are doing the writing down part, trying to count 21 cards into the stack.
You might want to act more like doing something very magical. Like Derren Brown says in one of his books, you could for instance act like it hurts, receiving the thought rays is giving you a major magical migraine. Point your hand at the stack of cards or the audience, like you're somehow "distance reading" the information from the aether or whatever. Meanwhile tell them something about Quantum bullshit and how everything is connected through the Quantum Inseperability Principle and the ERP paradox and why the LHC keeps failing. Ask two people for their birthdate, and someone for the minutes in the hour on their digital watch, use a bit of creative Law of Fiving to divine the next card from that, whatever, go wild :)
Either way, just some advice, if you want it, even if you did it entirely different way, try to not appear like your memorizing something and act out some crazy magical bullshit.
I loved the video anyway, keep it up!
Quote from: Triple Zero on November 14, 2009, 04:46:18 PM
awesome trick lys!!
for some reason--and even if I'm totally wrong about it, you might wanna adapt your act a bit to subvert that feeling--I feel you did the blindfold trick somehow by knowing the sequence of cards, and all you had to know was the first card and from there on you could predict the rest of the sequence.
even though I might be completely off about this, and I couldn't find you switching the deck at any moment (unless it was during a camera pan, but I doubt it), so I still have no idea how you actually did it :)
but you might wanna adapt the act a littlebit because the second, third and fourth correct cards, you do much too quickly. you say "I think it is ... ummmmmm" even before the guy holds up the card and the audience has a good chance to psycho-magicallipathically beam it into your heart, and you look like you are trying to *remember* which card comes next instead of receiving it via astrally activated audience anchors. I get a similar vibe when you are doing the writing down part, trying to count 21 cards into the stack.
You might want to act more like doing something very magical. Like Derren Brown says in one of his books, you could for instance act like it hurts, receiving the thought rays is giving you a major magical migraine. Point your hand at the stack of cards or the audience, like you're somehow "distance reading" the information from the aether or whatever. Meanwhile tell them something about Quantum bullshit and how everything is connected through the Quantum Inseperability Principle and the ERP paradox and why the LHC keeps failing. Ask two people for their birthdate, and someone for the minutes in the hour on their digital watch, use a bit of creative Law of Fiving to divine the next card from that, whatever, go wild :)
Either way, just some advice, if you want it, even if you did it entirely different way, try to not appear like your memorizing something and act out some crazy magical bullshit.
I loved the video anyway, keep it up!
Cheers man, yes, I agree, it still needs a lot of work, as I've mentioned, it's something that I haven't really tried in public at all, it's got a lot of rough edges that need some smoothing out, but yeah, thanks for the criticism, I see what you mean in that it could appear I've memorized a deck and switched it.
It's not how I did it though, but I suppose that is another way of doing it. 8)
as long as you don't become the next david blaine, you're 'alright' :lol:
Quote from: Lyris_Nymphetamine on November 15, 2009, 02:58:35 PM
as long as you don't become the next david blaine, you're 'alright' :lol:
Fuck David Blaine, he's a horrible magician and its amazing he got his own damn show.
Quote from: Lysergic on November 15, 2009, 05:33:07 PM
Quote from: Lyris_Nymphetamine on November 15, 2009, 02:58:35 PM
as long as you don't become the next david blaine, you're 'alright' :lol:
Fuck David Blaine, he's a horrible magician and its amazing he got his own damn show.
i don't even consider him a magician. he's a hack.
Quote from: Lyris_Nymphetamine on November 15, 2009, 07:05:43 PM
Quote from: Lysergic on November 15, 2009, 05:33:07 PM
Quote from: Lyris_Nymphetamine on November 15, 2009, 02:58:35 PM
as long as you don't become the next david blaine, you're 'alright' :lol:
Fuck David Blaine, he's a horrible magician and its amazing he got his own damn show.
i don't even consider him a magician. he's a hack.
Touche.
This is my latest video I filmed for a performance for the magic society again, this was filmed on my swear in night, where I got to see all the secret meeting stuff that happens before anything else does and I'm now an official official magician, they gave me a book and a certificate and everything.
If you enjoy watching me recall random numbers, you'll love this.
The knights Tour.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZkoYqSpxhI
(It still needs some improving, I know, but it's mostly there :D)