Self-Tying Shoelace

[HeyLeroy]

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This is cool; I think I'll have to invest in this one.

[Dinsdale Piranha]

Here's a review:

http://www.mylovelyassistant.com/index.php?module=MlaProducts&func=display&pid=9161

[personable]

I'm not a magician, but from watching the video once I have to say that it is immediately obvious to me how this is done. I'm not sure how effective it would be on a non-intoxicated audience tbh, and I certainly wouldn't spend money on 'learning it'. If you genuinely don't know how this is done, while I won't post the method on here, if you pm me I will tell you (only because I don't think this is worth paying money for and you would be greatly disappointed if you paid for it).

[Garrette]

I've got it. As a set-piece, it's abominable. As a throw-off, in a crowd unsuspecting and only paying half-attention, it's great.

Overall: I don't recommend it.

[T'ai Chi]

I wonder if he can do it with shorts on?

;)

[Garrette]

I wonder if he can do it with shorts on?

;)Yes, but it hurts more and doesn't impress anyone.

[Azrael 5]

Seen it up close,had the secret shown to me,and it's not all that!

[LawnOven]

Damn, after watching it 20 times I finally think I understand the trick. I was starting to feel like an idiot.

Though I'm sure it helps that the video is of relatively low quality; I'm not sure I would believe the illusion if I saw it in person and was prepared to see a trick (but then I guess the person doing it wouldn't be a very good magician :))

[Orangutan]

I think I know how this is done too, and I'm not a magician! I watched the vid once read the comments and then had the luxury of watching the vid again to confirm my theory.

[JPK]

Good evening.
I happen to like this trick. Like all effects it has it's place. The nice thing about this effect is that the person doing it doesn't approach someone and ask them if they want to see some magic. It's the other way around. If you are walking around with your laces untied, complete strangers will be more than happy to point that out to you. You do your effect and move on. It's a subtle thing.
JPK

[ChristineR]

I don't think it's obvious how it's done. Obviously there is some sort of mechanism with laces and tugging inside of the pant, but clearly someone has gone to a lot of trouble to make it look convincing, and after the trick is over the mechanism is no longer visible.

If you read the YouTube comments, there are a lot of people insisting that it's a camera trick. :rolleyes:

[hcmom]

Those of you who know how it's done -- would this be a good one to buy for a 13 year old boy? He's a little into magic, but not too into practicing.

[Garrette]

Those of you who know how it's done -- would this be a good one to buy for a 13 year old boy? He's a little into magic, but not too into practicing. It's easy to do, even easy to do well (as well as you can do this) if that's what you mean.

He'll likely be disappointed, though, unless he's already inured to the disappointment of magical secrets.

[hcmom]

It's easy to do, even easy to do well (as well as you can do this) if that's what you mean.

He'll likely be disappointed, though, unless he's already inured to the disappointment of magical secrets.

Well, he certainly doesn't expect it to really be magic, if that's what you mean.

[Garrette]

Well, he certainly doesn't expect it to really be magic, if that's what you mean.Not what I meant at all.

Magicians know that many, many secrets to apparently miraculous effects are very mundane and, well, boring, if you're wanting hi-tech wizardry or psychological manipulation. Yet even we (at least I) can still be disappointed with some secrets. This is one.

Kind of being a James Bond fan, going excitedly to the new Bond film, and finding that, despite having all the ingredients of Bond (gadgets, girls, guns), it's still somehow down-letting...

[ChristineR]

Someone commented on the video that he could build the effect for seven cents. Now my take on it was that a lot more than seven cents worth of thought and planning and design went into the trick...BUT...it's possible that it is just seven cents and shaking the foot so fast that you can't see what's really going on. :)

[Garrette]

Someone commented on the video that he could build the effect for seven cents. Now my take on it was that a lot more than seven cents worth of thought and planning and design went into the trick...BUT...it's possible that it is just seven cents and shaking the foot so fast that you can't see what's really going on. :)I don't know about 7 cents, but you could build the same effect with stuff around the house. The commercial version just packages it and makes it easily re-settable.

Can't remember his name, but the guy who did the first ITR video I ever saw did it all with stuff from around the house. Very ingenious, really, but a bugger to pack up and continually reset.

[ChristineR]

Seven cents would pay for a piece of string. :) If it's more than a piece of string, then you're paying for someone to design the thing and test it and make it look good. It sounds like it's more than a piece of string.

Think about the classic lady being sawn in half. It doesn't take much thought to figure out how that one is done, but it took a lot of work to get the details right--the fake front that makes the table look shallower than it is, coordinating the assistants, using metal sheets, spinning the table around, that kind of thing.

For someone like me (audience, not magician), the whole fun is in figuring all that stuff out. But others may feel differently. :)

[Garrette]

Seven cents would pay for a piece of string. :) If it's more than a piece of string, then you're paying for someone to design the thing and test it and make it look good. It sounds like it's more than a piece of string.I've said too much and must regrettably have you silenced.

Unless you want to bribe me. The last one I accepted was in the vicinity of six cents.

[hcmom]

I'll give you a whole dime if you'll please PM me with what you know. I'm still way on the fence about if I want to spent $20 to buy this...

[Orangutan]

PM sent. I wonder if I got it right.

Personally I'd pay the $20 if you think he'll enjoy the trick, but it would be better played when somebody notices your undone laces, it would be harder to say look at this...

[Garrette]

I also pm'ed, and as the request was to me, I claim the dime.

(consarned apish interlocutors)

[hcmom]

Orangutan, yep, Garrette said pretty much the same thing you did.

Garrette, as soon as I have a chance to run to Walmart and buy a Hot Wheels Mazda, I'll drop it and your dime off.

Thanks, both of you. I still haven't decided to buy it, in part because since I live in sunny Southern California, the kid doesn't wear long pants all that often...

[Garrette]

Orangutan, yep, Garrette said pretty much the same thing you did.

Garrette, as soon as I have a chance to run to Walmart and buy a Hot Wheels Mazda, I'll drop it and your dime off.

Thanks, both of you. I still haven't decided to buy it, in part because since I live in sunny Southern California, the kid doesn't wear long pants all that often...
I would be extremely grateful if you stuck to the spirit of my messages as opposed to their letter.

[hcmom]

I would be extremely grateful if you stuck to the spirit of my messages as opposed to their letter.

You shoulda told me that before you made your request...