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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: May 2005
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Quick Change Artists
I've just been marvelling at this, and thought I'd share:
http://www.zooweekly.com.au/video_viewer.php?id=222 |
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Queensland
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I've seen it before on Youtube, but it's an amazing act.
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Yorkshire,Uk
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They are David and Dania,I've seen them live twice and they are cool.A bit odd to interview as I did once but their act is ace,especially the glitter change.
Knowing how it's done it's still amazing. |
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"I achieve these results through a mixture of magic,misdirection,suggestion and showmanship"-Derren Brown Photography here
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Join Date: Aug 2001
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I must admit that quick-change is one bit of magic I enjoy watching but don't know how to do.
It is therefore real magic and ghosts exist. |
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Up Myself
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A couple are easy to figure out (like the blue dress she's holding and then suddenly wearing), but that's a class act brilliantly executed.
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Join Date: Aug 2001
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Yorkshire,Uk
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What is it with this forum lately? everyone wants to say how stuff is done or they know how it's done and it's simple blah blah blah.
Just enjoy!! How do they train ghosts?
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"I achieve these results through a mixture of magic,misdirection,suggestion and showmanship"-Derren Brown Photography here
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: S. California
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Still not as good as the girl who fires the bow n' arrow with her feet.
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Well, well, well. If it ain't the serious, elusive Leroy Green. I've been waitin' a long time for this, Leroy. I am sick of hearin' these ***** Superman stories about the "wassah" legendary Bruce Leroy catchin' bullets with his teeth. Catches bullets with his teeth?! ***** pleeze. |
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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Innocent bystander
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: UK
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Well, I don't know how it's done...
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Philosopher
Join Date: Aug 2001
Posts: 7,964
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You don't know how to hit keys in the right order?
It's all right there on the paper in front of you. How much easier could it be? You don't even need ghosts. (And to the point: I've admitted I don't know how quick-change is done. Which is partly true. I've never read how it's done. A few simpler ones I can figure out a way. Several on the video in the OP are beyond me, though, even repeatedly viewing it.) |
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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We're not supposed to give away secrets here.
![]() A lot of sewing. ![]() I have enough experience with theatrical costume that I can see a way all of them might have been done, but that doesn't substitute for hundreds of hours of construction and practice and trial and error. |
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Philosopher
Join Date: Aug 2001
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Having done theater all through my schooling and a bit of community theater after that, and having a mother who, among other things, is a seamstress for the Kentucky Opera Association (don't ever ask her about the night she fixed a rip in Baryshnikov's leotards while he was wearing them), I know a little about it, too. Not being a seamstress myself, I only know a little.
My limited knowledge allows me to figure out the simpler ones but leaves me confounded at others. The one that's throwing me for a loop is the fourth change (from the Green Peter Pan thing to the purple evening dress after passing a hoop over her). If you watch carefully, you will see that the bottom of her outfit changes first while she is still holding the hoop low enough to see the top of her green outfit. |
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Yorkshire,Uk
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The glitter change is a thing of beauty I say.
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"I achieve these results through a mixture of magic,misdirection,suggestion and showmanship"-Derren Brown Photography here
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Live Free Or Die
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No idea how any of it was done. Magnificent.
(How many [hundreds of?] hours go into creating and practicing an act like that?) |
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Penultimate Amazing
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Noonie noonie noonie noonie noonie noonie noo. Click here on Corpse Cruncher, you know she loves it. "You're weird." - Marquis de Carabas. The 9/11 Truther (Twoofer) Credo. |
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Arlington, MA
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I love the act, but they aren't as good as the Russian couple I saw do much the same act with the Big apple Circus a few years back.
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Illuminator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Yorkshire,Uk
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I think it's the same couple.She is definitely Russian.
http://www.veress.se/daviddania.htm |
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New Blood
Join Date: Jan 2007
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Originally Posted by Azrael
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Scholar
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Oakland/Emeryville
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I love things like this. When done properly they're a thing of beauty and expertise. Very enjoyable and thank you for sharing!
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: May 2005
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I'm really glad people have appreciated this here, as I'd hoped. Azrael, you intrigue me... how cool of you to have interviewed them!!!
Have you (or anyone) got a link? (Please?) I suspect the quick change artists' act has a lot to do with very clever couture (as well as a lot of practice and expertise). But I'm not an expert at magic in the slightest - I just love a good trick. |
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: May 2005
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I was expecting something pretty clever, but not "super-flexible girl shoots arrow backwards with her feet at balloon target while using her hands to balance on a stick"!!! Thanks, H3LL. |
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Penultimate Amazing
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you guys.Oops, forgot that bit, or I was out of breath. True, Azrael and Garrette, she could have seen through (or possibly under) the blindfold. Or, she could actually have been blindfolded. Hmmm, maybe I like my original description as it stands. Her promoters should use it, and they could add the blindfold bit if they wish. |
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Noonie noonie noonie noonie noonie noonie noo. Click here on Corpse Cruncher, you know she loves it. "You're weird." - Marquis de Carabas. The 9/11 Truther (Twoofer) Credo. |
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Some magic I love figuring out. Some magic, like this (and the way they do it I believe does qualify as magic) is just worth watching for the beauty of the execution.
I've heard that they're the fastest in the magic business where quick change is such an important part of some acts. Is this true? Or am I thinking of another couple that does magic that incorporates quick change? |
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I think they are the fastest mollyblack,yes.
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NY Paramedic, skeptic, 9/11/01 Reality-ist. I am both right wing nut and left wing lunatic. Deal with it. |
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Philosopher
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I wonder if they would be as successful if it were the male who did the majority of the changes?
I know as a male I prefer watching the female changes (it's more aesthetic than sexual so let's not go there, please), but I imagine, with no evidence whatsoever, that most females feel the same way. Anyone agree? |
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Perverts? Oh my!
I don't think so, but I have nothing to compare it to. If there was a woman dancing around a man as he did quick change, heck yeah, I think there would be just as much of an "OH WOW" factor to it. Especially since changing a male's attire that many times is a lot more difficult than a woman's. But it would have to be that fast, that many changes, and that well executed. Or else it would just be middle of the road entertainment for me. Same as if she did it in not as quickly a fashion. Not a double standard, just an equal standard of desire of quality in either way it's handled.
Okay, seriously. Sick. Bed. Bye.
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Illuminator
Join Date: Jan 2006
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We aren't supposed to be talking about secrets here, but the fact that Dania seems not to be a fan of pants is significant. I was impressed with the dress changes--the same thing with pants would be a once in a lifetime shock and amazement.
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