The Carbonaro Effect

[caryc]

Do any of you really believe that magician really does all that stuff? I mean without any special camera manipulation. Some of the stuff he does is right in front of you and looks impossible to do. So, do any of you really believe he does all that stuff as it really appears? Or is it all set up for TV with the so called victims in on it?

 

[BDM1]

Some of the stuff looks plausible, but i have seen a lot that simply could not happen without the "victims" co-operation beforehand. So much so that i stopped watching it several months ago. Slight-of-hand is one thing, undoing the laws of physics is something else entirely. It is, as so many "reality shows are, simply television.

 

[caryc]

Some of the stuff looks plausible, but i have seen a lot that simply could not happen without the "victims" co-operation beforehand. So much so that i stopped watching it several months ago. Slight-of-hand is one thing, undoing the laws of physics is something else entirely. It is, as so many "reality shows are, simply television.

Kind of what I think. There's got to be some start and stop camera work going on there. It's also kind of strange that he can keep on coming up with so many amazing feats like that.

 

[mohavesam]

Really? I thought the purpose of Magicians was to entertain using deliberate means of illusion and diversion. Ha something changed?

 

[cas6969]

I have no knowledge of the item in question. But I do recall an interview with Penn Gillette (of Penn and Teller) a few years ago about something they'd done for an upcoming show (which has probably aired years ago now). They went to people on the street and asked them to act surprised and amazed on camera, like they'd just seen some wonderful magic trick, even though they'd in fact seen nothing. Something like 80%-90% were willing to pretend/lie, I guess for the chance to be on Tv.

 

[caryc]

Really? I thought the purpose of Magicians was to entertain
using deliberate means of illusion and diversion. Ha something changed?

Of course, but that is when he's there is front of you doing his illusion in person. It's his job to fool you into believing what he wants you to believe.

This doesn't pertain to a recorded TV program where there is no slight of hand. They are able to just start and stop the camera whenever they want to make you think you saw something that didn't really happen.

Kind of like the things you see in movies that don't really happen.

The real mystery is how they do it in person right before your eyes. Doing it on TV doesn't really fit into that concept.

 

[CoyoteHunter_]

I've seen the show and enjoy the looks on the people's faces. I think it's a funny show. Do I think it's all real and that none of it is staged? No. But it's fun for TV. I watch it once in a while when there is nothing else on TV. I won't hang my hat on that show but will watch it for a few minutes while flipping through all the other TV channels. Sometimes there is nothing better on TV to watch but not very often. I've seen it enough now that I'm getting tired of it.

 

[VonFatman]

the free wine in the potato chip bag is a classic!

bob

 

[Conservative]

Never heard of it.

What channel/channels?

Thanks

P.S. I think so-called magic is slick, but there's no supernatural aspect to it.

It pure entertainment. However, if it takes a 'lot' of set up, it bores me quickly...and I go elsewhere, get er done, or buh-bye....

 

[Fox Mike]

The everlasting juicer is great.

 

[Skoopski]

Never heard of it.

What channel/channels?

It's on TruTV

 

[Don Lovel]

I sat front row for Penn & Teller at The Rio in Vegas. I learned a bunch and also they are good enough to pull off amazing illusions right in front of you close up. Teller is incredible at slight of hand stuff, very smooth, very cool. Penn Jillette is a showman P.T Barnham would be proud of He is really good at card tricks, he is a damn good upright bass player as we found out as part of our VIP package that night. Stong supporters of the constitution, they are into the science of the physics & ballistics and demonstrated by firing squib loads through a piece of glass out of .357 mags at each other on stage

 

[caryc]

I sat front row for Penn & Teller at The Rio in Vegas. I learned a bunch and also they are good enough to pull off amazing illusions right in front of you close up. Teller is incredible at slight of hand stuff, very smooth, very cool. Penn Jillette is a showman P.T Barnham would be proud of He is really good at card tricks, he is a damn good upright bass player as we found out as part of our VIP package that night. Stong supporters of the constitution, they are into the science of the physics & ballistics and demonstrated by firing squib loads through a piece of glass out of .357 mags at each other on stage

Never seen them in person but I do like them. But I can never remember, which one is the little one?

 

[Colonel Daddy]

My nephew-in-law puts it this way; there is no such thing as 'magic', it's all an illusion. Yep, he is an illusionist! He's fooled me a few times! :mrgreen:

 

[Taterman]

I like the stories Carbonaro tells the victims as he's doing the trick. Some of the BS he comes up with is hilarious.

 

[caryc]

My nephew-in-law puts it this way; there is no such thing as 'magic', it's all an illusion. Yep, he is an illusionist! He's fooled me a few times! :mrgreen:

Or to put it another way...slight of hand. Getting you to watch one hand while he does something with the other hand.