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    Holy Smokes. Magic using illusion is one thing, but what the heck is this? If this isn't a video trick, than I don't know what it is. I actually got sick to my stomach in amazement watching this magic trick.

    http://gprime.net/video.php/theglasstrick

    It just gets better and better the longer you watch.

    edit: What like 4 hours and nobody thinks this is really really cool?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Divinus Arma
    Holy Smokes. Magic using illusion is one thing, but what the heck is this? If this isn't a video trick, than I don't know what it is. I actually got sick to my stomach in amazement watching this magic trick.

    http://gprime.net/video.php/theglasstrick

    It just gets better and better the longer you watch.

    edit: What like 4 hours and nobody thinks this is really really cool?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Csar
    meh
    meh?

    MEH?

    MEH?
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    It's probably not glass in that table on the spot that he does his tricks, but some kind of plastic cover.

    Unless it's the poor quality of the video, when he moves his finger over the surface after the first trick (about 2.30 into the video), it bends a bit locally in a way that's impossible for glass. It's possibly an optical illusion, but I doubt it as it seems to be a bending ahead of his finger.
    We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?

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    He gets to the part where he's explaining what's about to happen, and the vidoe stops...
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    Someone pls explain this.
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    meh indeed.

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    the coin through the table wasn't impressive, he probably used his big watch to hide a coin (and he chose carefully among the coins he was given so it would be of the same kind as the hidden one). But the salt through the glass will certainly keep me sleepless for a while... And when he put the coin inside the table at the end. My guess is it's got something to do with the table material, but I still don't understand how he did it. Really cool!
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    Here is another insane glass trick, courtesy of Criss Angel.

    http://www.vsocial.com/video/?d=571
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    I've seen the Japanese guy before in a video on YouTube. He used the shadows cast by his hands to pull a drinking straw out of a paper wrapper.

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    It`s undoubtfully magic.
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    I don't know what the heck he does... But I did notice his left hand just prior to his saltshaker trick. He makes sure it goes all the way from the edge of the glass to the spot on the glass... That must have some importance as most people would just lay their hand directly on the spot.
    And the first time with the coin you can see his fingers moving as if trying to move something up, like a little wave or something. No matter though, it is still impressive.

    How he got the coin to be imbedded in the glass wihout the girl noticing was pretty cool... I don't care if this is just a trick, it is cool, and certainly not fake (well baring video tampering).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kraxis
    How he got the coin to be imbedded in the glass wihout the girl noticing was pretty cool... I don't care if this is just a trick, it is cool, and certainly not fake (well baring video tampering).
    Remind you that she's probably as random as those random persons in the audience, payed by the magician that is. For example wouldn't she feel the coin disappear?

    It's still very impressive though.
    We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?

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    Incredible yet credible.

    Wow.
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