Can you figure out how this is done before the secret is revealed? There's no threads, magnets, blowing or electronics involved. Please don't leave any clues in the comments and share it with your friends - they won't be able to figure it out either. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ55Uv8ECHg
The Best Magic Trick In The World
- Joe Pecore
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Wow. I was just re-reading my Vernon Touch book and Vernon describe this exact effect. He said Welsh Miller would do this with a card climbing up the wall at Max Holdens shop and nobody could ever figure it out. (Genii, March 1970)
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There is a similar effect in David Hoy's book.
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Be on the lookout for PETA to object to this. :o
Reminds me of an old friend of mine who wanted to superglue a fishing line to a fly to use as a leash. (Hmmm, IT & bugs, what are the possibilities?)
JMD
Reminds me of an old friend of mine who wanted to superglue a fishing line to a fly to use as a leash. (Hmmm, IT & bugs, what are the possibilities?)
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Is this the trick with a postage stamp you lick then put on the wall?
Mundus vult decipi -per Caleb Carr's story Killing Time
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That is terrific! Packs small, plays big.
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I don't think you should lick the gaff in this trick.
"Don't lick the gaff" is probably good advice in general.
"Don't lick the gaff" is probably good advice in general.
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It's an improved version of an very old trick in which a ball moves itself on a table. I don't remember if it's Decremps or Pinetti who described it in 1785.
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Pete McCabe wrote:"Don't lick the gaff" is probably good advice in general.
Ursula Martinez would grimace and disagree.
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The reason this came about was that I saw a really lazy fly on the floor at the supermarket. I went to step on him but he didn't even fly away... just continued wandering. So I dropped a price tag on him and he just walked around and it moved.
I whipped out the iPhone and the rest was "magic"! ;)
I whipped out the iPhone and the rest was "magic"! ;)
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Dunninger described a version of this method in 1936 in his book "How to Make a Ghost Walk" (see page 34-36).
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Version in Greater Magic also with reference to Archie.