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Richard Wiseman's Colour Changing Card Trick

Posted: April 29th, 2007, 10:19 am
by David Britland
I think I can safely say that this is the most unusual colour changing card trick ever :)

Colour Changing Card Trick

Sleight free too!

Re: Richard Wiseman's Colour Changing Card Trick

Posted: April 29th, 2007, 10:39 am
by Guest
Great David!Thank you for sharing!
May I try a shy little divination with you?
You have a packet of mints near you.
Alessandro.

Re: Richard Wiseman's Colour Changing Card Trick

Posted: April 29th, 2007, 10:58 am
by Lisa Cousins
Fantastic! I love how Richard Wiseman draws attention to our human perceptual blind spots in ways that are fun and hilarious. You often find a lurking boogeyman in these type of demonstrations, one that's chanting if you can't trust your own experience, what can you trust? If that boogeyman's in there, I'm not perceiving it.

Re: Richard Wiseman's Colour Changing Card Trick

Posted: April 29th, 2007, 1:49 pm
by Guest
I loved the gorilla, which I assume is an homage to the well-known count-the-basketball-passes video, which is here at the University of Illinois Visual Cognition lab.

Don't forget to read the instructions before clicking on "View the 'basketball' video."


I wonder if David's link works on non-magicians. We're so attuned to tracking the method.

Re: Richard Wiseman's Colour Changing Card Trick

Posted: April 29th, 2007, 5:23 pm
by Brad Henderson
Just tested it with laymen. It does.

Re: Richard Wiseman's Colour Changing Card Trick

Posted: April 29th, 2007, 6:54 pm
by Guest
Fun video demonstration.

more info on this idea here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inattentional_blindness

Can be fun when applied. ;)

Re: Richard Wiseman's Colour Changing Card Trick

Posted: May 6th, 2007, 12:16 pm
by Guest
Yes, one of the most amusing card tricks I've ever seen.

Wiseman is living proof of 'nominative determinism' !

Re: Richard Wiseman's Colour Changing Card Trick

Posted: June 7th, 2007, 9:36 am
by Guest
this is fabulous.

Didnt Richard have a card trick based on a similar idea published in one of the magic magazines a couple of years ago?