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lol. Well there is no mirror involved.

I put my hands together like that cuz it was the best way I could think of to prove I wasn't holding on to anything.

The type of levitation I do is called the King Rising. It's pretty common actually. It would look better if I had a camera man instead of having to turn the camera on and off myself.

Is there some reason you can't just let the video run longer and then crop out the bit where you're actually activating and deactivating it? And is there some reason you can't get your whole body in the shot? The more you hide, the more it'll look like you're trying to hide the secret to the illusion.

Rone Rivendale wrote:lol. Well there is no mirror involved.

I put my hands together like that cuz it was the best way I could think of to prove I wasn't holding on to anything.

The type of levitation I do is called the King Rising. It's pretty common actually. It would look better if I had a camera man instead of having to turn the camera on and off myself.

OK, if there is not a mirror, there is something weird in the separation from the right and left leg.
On the older version, you can clearly see that the far leg is not bending at the knee as the leg closest to the cam is bending at the knee, so the mirror thing doesn't play. BUT, it's as if the far leg is taking the full pressure of your body AND the inner crease of the far knee is slightly turned towards the camera.
At first I thought the far leg was fake because the shoe seems to be dead on the floor. Then the way the leg closest to the cam kind of bows towards the cam when you turn it on and off means you're putting the full weight on that leg, while your far leg is staying put on the floor, but kind of angling towards the hip to move with the leg closest to the cam.

SO, basically, it looks like you are bow legged, which is why I thought it was a mirror. But now I see that your far leg is turned weird. Like the toes pointed away from the cam, while the leg closest to the cam is just as it looks, pointed straight forward. The far shoe is just sitting on the floor with no foot in it, so it was lifted by the shoe closest to the cam, like the shoe strings are hooked together or something. Because you seemed very careful not to separate your shoes while turning off the cam. Maybe the far shoe is just being pressed between the front shoe and the far leg and kind of lifted. But the far leg is defiantly not pointing in the same direction as the far shoe, that I'm certain of.

TaDa!

Yer a genius, Billy. I looked it up on Wikipedia, too.

SPUD

I told you, I'm a master of illusion.

Generic wrote:Is there some reason you can't just let the video run longer and then crop out the bit where you're actually activating and deactivating it? And is there some reason you can't get your whole body in the shot? The more you hide, the more it'll look like you're trying to hide the secret to the illusion.

I don't have any edited software. And my computer is 8 years old and running win98 so I can't use ALOT of programs in general.

Yeah, there is a major reason I can't show my whole body. My webcam has a really short cord and my tower sits on top of my comupter desk.

Maybe the far shoe is just being pressed between the front shoe and the far leg and kind of lifted.

Billy, you cheated.

So that IS how you lifted the far shoe? HA! The lighting is bad, but you can see it kind of tilt. At first I thought you may have done something like glued a couple Popsicles sticks to the bottom of the two shoes because of how you kept your feet together. But then on the newer vid, I clearly saw them move independently.

Advice:
1. Don't show your first vid, because you can see the far leg turned.
2. Do like Jon said and edit out the part where you turn on and off the cam.
3. When people try to guess, don't tell them what you "didn't" do. It's the things you "didn't" do that makes it a mystery. I would have left it at mirrors if you didn't tell me there were no mirrors. At that point I had no choice but to study it further because I'm a freak like that. Just be vague. IE: Could be mirrors. Yeah, there is a mirror in the room I think, you're not looking at a reflection, etc.
4. If you want to show that it's your real leg in the pants, do a little set up. IE: lift up your pant leg one leg at a time to show they are real. I say one at a time because the more elements you add to your tricks, the more things people need to try to discredit and guess. The key to a good illusion is diversion.
5. Never give up you secret. I wouldn't have known that you pressed it between your front shoe and far leg until you said I cheated. For all I knew, you may have had fishing line hooked to the shoe and pulling the shoe up with your mouth. I did consider that by the way.

This one made me think of Mark for some reason.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVcyNANK5cY

Same dude.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqXi8WmQ_WM&feature=user

Same guy. Great music video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxp3zqIqO68&feature=user

Ha! Canadians...

You guys have ketchup potato chips? wtf!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2spZ-NDfS4&feature=user

i'm afraid some of you might end up like this:
crazy one man band...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2TJmyuG ... re=related

is this Glenn Case ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9yapELt ... re=related

bad ass!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQU13H96 ... re=related

more sad than anything else
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7vVs6s0 ... re=related

I've seen that Jord Peck dude before. He jams.

Not a vid, but this guy is a douche of the third kind.

Wow, that has serial killer written all over it. I hope poor Olga got her number changed.

Billy's Little Trip wrote:Not a vid, but this guy is a douche of the third kind.

"Maybe you haven't called me because you were abused as a child."

Surely this can't be real??

anti-m wrote:

Billy's Little Trip wrote:Not a vid, but this guy is a douche of the third kind.

"Maybe you haven't called me because you were abused as a child."

Surely this can't be real??

He's Canadian.

Jim Carrey - I Am The Walrus

Not sure if there are any Self fans on here, but this guy is a master of multi-tasking:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-CtO712SCVc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFbjtmubBFQ

Tim Storms - Guinness Book Record holder for widest male vocal range and lowest recorded note (8hz - below human hearing). This guy sounds like a bowed bass when he gets low.

Never heard of sELF, but that was pretty goddamn impressive. He could probably break a million points on Rock Band.

He also recorded an entire album using children's toys and instruments and managed to do it while making an album that you wouldn't realize was made using children's toys and instruments.