Jonathon Bryce
@hatandhare · 2:09
How did he do it? Your chance to ask an Award Winning Magician and World Record Holding Escape Artist how it’s done.
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And it's not like mirrors are necessarily going to work very well in a situation like that. I don't know. Like I said, this might move too far into territory that you want to avoid. But if not, I'm curious
Zach Hillard
@Chief2 · 1:23
I know a lot of these stunt artists and all that do encounter lots of injuries doing their stunts, but also I'm curious. I've always seen those people do, like, the underwater tricks where they take a tank of water and they lock themselves in and they put handcuffs on and all this stuff and they have all these keys. Is there a trick to doing that? Or do you just have to hold your breath and get lucky?
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:42
Not a car, necessarily, but, like, I don't know, a bird or, like, a rabbit or whatever. Have you ever disappeared it? And then where did it go? And did you have to navigate that in front of a crowd?
Jonathon Bryce
@hatandhare · 4:55
Large scale illusions such as the vanishing whippet, which was done by Harry Keller in the early 19 hundreds when he was doing vaudeville shows, is it a car? No, it's not. These large objects, especially on stage, may look like what the magician is saying it is. But is it, in the strictest sense, a car? No, it is not. So that becomes much easier to move silently behind the scenes. And whatnot can it be done with? Mirrors? Yeah
Jonathon Bryce
@hatandhare · 4:53
But I don't know a single person that does underwater escapes that doesn't have an out. And there's always a way to get oxygen into your lungs if you need to get oxygen into your lungs. The idea is, this is entertainment. You can't spend your paycheck if you're dead. And so we want to spend our paycheck because escape and magic tricks aren't cheap. I've got a room full of them
Jonathon Bryce
@hatandhare · 4:58
Deborah, great follow up to the large scale illusions and mirror work. Yes. In some cases, mirrors do play a part in large scale illusions. Is it something that is commonly used? No. Is there some cool effects that you can do with a mirror? Absolutely. One of my most favorite effects ever large scale illusions is called the Blue Room. And it's a vignette
But I'm rewatching a television show called Perception and it was a drama where the neuroscientist talks about the different things and the way the brain operates and so on. And one of the episodes I saw recently was how I can't remember what it's called, but you might be having a conversation with somebody and they're asking for directions and somebody walks between you and you swap the person out
Jonathon Bryce
@hatandhare · 4:47
That's another form of magic or another field of magic or another discipline that I think all magicians should study is human psychology, because it's very easy to fool someone when you start understanding how the human brain works. And when you understand how the human brain works, you find yourself fooling people all the time, unintentional, which is very cool. So, yeah, we could talk about this on and on and on. So thanks for your subsequent reply. I hope you enjoyed it
I did. I did so much. I'm just thinking of the audacity. Can you imagine, like, trying to pull off something like that? And whether you're you're wondering whether you could pull it off for an entire audience. I mean, of course, if the story is true, but anyway, thank you. Thank you. Thank you
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:15
Okay. Now I think about where's Julie as, like, a meme. That is an amazing story. It's so fun to hear your stories and learn from you. You're so generous and magical fun intended. Thank you so, so much
Jonathon Bryce
@hatandhare · 2:16
And then that's a viable solution in my mind, run and hide. I've done it a few times, so, yeah, thanks. And I'll have to maybe do another series on on when magic goes wrong, because that actually might be a really good series. When magic goes wrong thanks for your response. We'll talk soon. Bye
Zach Hillard
@Chief2 · 3:00
But in a magic movie, I forget the title of it. I could look it up, but you probably know what I'm talking about. You've probably seen every magic movie there is. In a magic movie, they do this trick where they take two birds and they're going to make it disappear. So they take one bird, they show it to the audience and then poof, whatever it is, and there's another bird, it's gone
Jonathon Bryce
@hatandhare · 4:43
That is 100% fiction. No magician anywhere in any historical context actually killed their animals for the trick because there is a so much cleaner way of hiding an animal. I mean, killing an animal is messy, so to do that would be messy. It often involves a lot of sound as well because the animal doesn't want to die, so it's going to scream or chirp or make a lot of noise as it's being killed. So, no, that is 100% Hollywood