davidhorman
7th November 2004, 04:06 AM
Did anyone catch Magic on BBC2 last night (UK)?
It was all about disappearances. The culmination was Franz Harary making London's Tower Bridge disappear. I don't know whether I should how he did it (and I'm 99.999% sure I'm right), but I would class it as "cheating". Similar to David Blaine's "amazing" street levitations, what the live audience saw wasn't we saw on screen.
There was a lot of preamble involving lasers, surveying equipment, a brief glimpse of an accurate scale model of Tower Bridge, and some large mirros, all of which may or may not have been involved with the live illusion, but since I'm pretty sure we didn't see any of that in use, it was a bit meaningless. I know magic's all about misdirection but some things just aren't cricket.
Anyone else see it or have any thoughts about it?
In case you don't know, Franz Harary is the guy who made (among other things) a space shuttle and the Taj Mahal disappear. Both of those illusions were shown briefly on last night's program, with the space shuttle looking a lot more convincing than the Taj Mahal.
David
It was all about disappearances. The culmination was Franz Harary making London's Tower Bridge disappear. I don't know whether I should how he did it (and I'm 99.999% sure I'm right), but I would class it as "cheating". Similar to David Blaine's "amazing" street levitations, what the live audience saw wasn't we saw on screen.
There was a lot of preamble involving lasers, surveying equipment, a brief glimpse of an accurate scale model of Tower Bridge, and some large mirros, all of which may or may not have been involved with the live illusion, but since I'm pretty sure we didn't see any of that in use, it was a bit meaningless. I know magic's all about misdirection but some things just aren't cricket.
Anyone else see it or have any thoughts about it?
In case you don't know, Franz Harary is the guy who made (among other things) a space shuttle and the Taj Mahal disappear. Both of those illusions were shown briefly on last night's program, with the space shuttle looking a lot more convincing than the Taj Mahal.
David