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Old 4th July 2007, 11:12 PM   #1
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Color Changing Card Trick

It has over one million views, so I guess some of you may have seen it already. It has not been posted as far as I know:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voAntzB7EwE
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Old 4th July 2007, 11:45 PM   #2
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It has been posted here, but I can't be arsed finding it!

PS. Who was that hirsute chap in the background?
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Old 5th July 2007, 11:02 AM   #3
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Old 5th July 2007, 11:12 AM   #4
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Where's the one with the kids throwing the ball around and you are supposed to count how many times it is passed?
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Old 5th July 2007, 11:56 AM   #5
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Gorilla in the midst.
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Old 5th July 2007, 12:00 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Jeff Corey View Post
Gorilla in the midst.
LOL. That's the one but I didn't want to give it away.

Does anyone have a link?
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Old 6th July 2007, 06:14 PM   #7
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I thought the gorilla was an homage to the famous basketball passing video. Same idea, which is why one of my tags was "inattentional blindness." Here's the Gorilla video as seen on one of those TV "News Magazines."

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1hFg55ec1p0
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Old 7th July 2007, 06:34 AM   #8
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I thought the gorilla was an homage to the famous basketball passing video.
It is.
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Old 7th July 2007, 09:10 AM   #9
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The changes and the gorilla were pretty easy to spot.
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