David Blain question?
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From: AUSTIN BABY
Originally posted by NcTwOfOuRtY
they where paid off or exaggerating i'd say. i know if i didnt know no better and seen some crazy **** lift off the ground 5 inches i'd eaxaggerate when i told the story and be like man this guy got like 10 feet off the groundd!! i know people do that everyone exaggerates about stuff like that but i dont know that was just my reasoning for how it would be possible but you never know but i aint buying it.
they where paid off or exaggerating i'd say. i know if i didnt know no better and seen some crazy **** lift off the ground 5 inches i'd eaxaggerate when i told the story and be like man this guy got like 10 feet off the groundd!! i know people do that everyone exaggerates about stuff like that but i dont know that was just my reasoning for how it would be possible but you never know but i aint buying it.
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From: atlanta ga
im going to break it down for you.
he gathers a little crowd of about 7-10 people. one of the people is his own. he then turns his back to the crowd. he stands with his toes angled and heels together a certain way.
he's also wearing long pants so you can see his calf muscle straining.
so then he stands up on one foot tippy-toed. and the way he angled his feet and placed his heels, it gives the illusion that he just raised himself a couple of inches off the ground.
while doing the illusion, the camera records the reactions of the crowd, but the main focus is his person. the actor is then interviewed by the crew and he says something like "it was really amazing, i dont understand how he can lift himself 2 feet off the ground"
once they have their crowd footage, blain is recorded doing the trick with the help of wires or crane to lift himself a few feet into the air.
all in all when the footage is played to television viewers, what you see is...
blain floating two feet in the air. crowd oohing and aahing. the overly excited pedestrian. blain returning to the ground.
but he shure is one hell of a sleight of hand guy
he gathers a little crowd of about 7-10 people. one of the people is his own. he then turns his back to the crowd. he stands with his toes angled and heels together a certain way.
he's also wearing long pants so you can see his calf muscle straining.
so then he stands up on one foot tippy-toed. and the way he angled his feet and placed his heels, it gives the illusion that he just raised himself a couple of inches off the ground.
while doing the illusion, the camera records the reactions of the crowd, but the main focus is his person. the actor is then interviewed by the crew and he says something like "it was really amazing, i dont understand how he can lift himself 2 feet off the ground"
once they have their crowd footage, blain is recorded doing the trick with the help of wires or crane to lift himself a few feet into the air.
all in all when the footage is played to television viewers, what you see is...
blain floating two feet in the air. crowd oohing and aahing. the overly excited pedestrian. blain returning to the ground.
but he shure is one hell of a sleight of hand guy
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