Brain magic | Keith Barry

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  • Опубликовано: 21 дек 2024

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  • @PavloPravdiukov
    @PavloPravdiukov 8 лет назад +437

    1:00 - cut and hand twist change. watch his elbow - it was on top before the cut
    3:06 - he puts a device underneath the blindfold
    7:19 - he touches her back
    7:46 - his hands are close enough to her, so she can feel a wind. 3-4 moves just to make sure. And when he saw her smiling, he knew for sure.
    10:47 - his leg
    13:57 - chemical reaction? Prince Rupert's drop?
    14:14 - really awesome face reading
    16:00 and after - magnet sensitive sensors inside/under the table?

    • @zaephou2843
      @zaephou2843 8 лет назад +15

      3:06 - www.mallusionist.com/mentalism/drivingblind.shtml

    • @zaephou2843
      @zaephou2843 8 лет назад +5

      it explains the blindfold driving trick

    • @zaephou2843
      @zaephou2843 8 лет назад +23

      7:46: almost invisible thread, look closely at his hand movements and it looks like he is tying something.

    • @ninehills42
      @ninehills42 8 лет назад +2

      The magnet is probably inside his finger. A lot of magicians have it.

    • @DieselHugh
      @DieselHugh 6 лет назад +4

      At the end... He also turned the blindfold back to front. Watch how nervous he is about letting the guy hold the blindfold.
      All these tricks are easy to spot except maybe the face reading part.

  • @elsea8901
    @elsea8901 5 лет назад +1786

    One thing I learned late in life...The best liars never lie...
    They tell the truth in a way that you will interpret it wrongly...the way they want you to.

    • @GnoneckOG
      @GnoneckOG 5 лет назад +7

      Reminds me of the Aes Sedai

    • @Rahul016-d6k
      @Rahul016-d6k 5 лет назад +11

      Like Zakir Naik

    • @CarlezeAdley
      @CarlezeAdley 5 лет назад +30

      Wow this hits me hard Lol. I used to be a pathological liar. It feels like youre directing this to me.

    • @midniteryder1953
      @midniteryder1953 5 лет назад +12

      the democrat party, the 'deep state' republicans and democrats, the 'never trumper kleptocrats of the senate and the House'....they are the best liars of all time.....

    • @shanebond1975
      @shanebond1975 5 лет назад +6

      @@Rahul016-d6k Like western hypocrite propaganda

  • @andrybak
    @andrybak 10 лет назад +198

    So, to collect the tricks:
    1) He moves his left hand under right between 01:00 and 01:03
    2) He touched woman's back at 07:19 with his right hand.
    3) 10:47 He uses his leg to guide the guy.
    4) 13:58 Trick is called "Bologna Bottle", google it.
    5) He touches three out of four cups at 17:04 - 17:12, the one with the spike is heavier, so he knows which not to crush.

    • @UserDude
      @UserDude 10 лет назад +4

      and he made very clear wind on the woman's hand so she will say tickle...
      that was like watching 6 years old happy that he "tricks" you... he is cute, but come on, it cannot be more obvious.

    • @omarhaque9665
      @omarhaque9665 10 лет назад +24

      I don't understand 5) though, he might touch all three but the other guy moves them while he's blindfolded?

    • @psychonautshinobi4049
      @psychonautshinobi4049 10 лет назад

      UserDude he made what? anyways lets be honest these tricks are fairly easy but have you watched xendrius channel on you ttube. If not.. hold your breath little fella bcz magick and the occult does exist and magic has become a cliche so they're joining secret societies and clubs which you and me will never be invited.

    • @BetterIntegra
      @BetterIntegra 10 лет назад

      For 5) i would bet he sanded the bottom of the cup with the spike so he would feel the resistance on the fabric when he slid them around.

    • @psychonautshinobi4049
      @psychonautshinobi4049 10 лет назад +4

      BetterIntegra could the trick be in the blindfold itself which if you wear it one way it enable you to see and the other way round it will not. In fact keith did seem to wear it the other way round from the way he forced it on the face of his assistant..

  • @mihirnabar5738
    @mihirnabar5738 4 года назад +103

    The raising hand magic is simple. If you watch the video again (especially the part when the lady was standing up pointing finger to the guy), you'll notice that the magician gave hints to the guy whenever it was time to raise or put down the hand, by stepping on the foot of the guy. The magician did not necessarily lie to anyone because he did say that "raise hand when you feel certain pressure" (not indicating where the pressure was going to be, here could be a pressure on the foot).
    The breaking bottle magic is also simple. The magician said the bottle was a coke bottle, but it was not. It was a special magic tool which could be purchased in any magic shop. keyword: Bologna bottle.
    The 4-cup magic used similar concept of the raising hand magic. All the audience were fooled but the participant and the magician. The plate with the spike on it was visibly unique (darker color or marks) in small distance so the participant could see it but the audience could not. In the performance, Magician asked the participant to decide which cup to be destroyed. The participant knew which cup has the spike in it by differing the plate visually. He certainly would not want to get injured by the spike.

    • @viralviruz8694
      @viralviruz8694 3 года назад +1

      Nicely explained bud

    • @SimranKaur-bf5nf
      @SimranKaur-bf5nf 3 года назад

      Thanks dude 😃

    • @cranjismcbasketball5366
      @cranjismcbasketball5366 3 года назад +1

      Nah nah...you said that the plate with the spike was visibly unique. How can one rely on the participant's observation so much that he just thrusts his hand onto the plate? Suppose he didn't notice the plate and he said yes to the plate which has a spike and since Keith has a blindfold on, he can't see if the participant has chosen the correct plate or not. Keith thrusts his hand and boom...we got fountains of blood everywhere.

    • @fennelmaloney487
      @fennelmaloney487 3 года назад +2

      @@cranjismcbasketball5366 it’s possible he was an audience plant. Keith asked the first two participants if they’d ever met before but he never asked the last (to my recollection). But since he asked the first two, the audience will give benefit of the doubt

    • @fennelmaloney487
      @fennelmaloney487 3 года назад +2

      @@cranjismcbasketball5366 Just rewatched and it looks like they do know each other. In fact the person who was told to pick an audience member told the participant that “he knew” as he came up on stage. A typical thing to say to someone which wouldn’t arouse suspicion but potentially another hint that the participant is in on the trick.

  • @FaklaniAdib
    @FaklaniAdib 8 лет назад +5894

    10:43 Look at his left leg.

  • @merveilmeok2416
    @merveilmeok2416 8 лет назад +185

    Good magic tricks but could be better....I apologize in advance if some of the comments have already mentioned my remarks.1. Trick 1: Obvious trick: The magician quickly touches the female subject at 7:20 in the back with his right hand. The touching was accentuated with a full body movement (audible) of the magician towards her, to make sure she doesn't miss it.2. Trick 2: I am NOT sure how it was done. If I had slow motion capability, I'd focus on the magician's fingers to see if they touch the female subject's arm when the fingers go from below her arm to the upper position. 3. Trick 3: I am sure of it...watch: At 10:48, 11:05, and 11:15, look at the magician's left leg touching the male subject when he wants the subject to move his hand. Simple.Note that the male helper was recruited to help. Notice how he was picked out QUICKLY (before someone else stands up and volunteers to ruin the trick). The magician took his tome to pick the female helper because it didn't matter. Now the incident with the phone ringing was staged and was supposed to signal that the helper didn't know he was even going to be in an act, suggesting he was a random guy, which is why his phone not shut down. This poses two problems:a.) No one else's phone rang during the presentation. Why? It was a Ted Talk presentation being taped so everyone was TOLD to shut their phones off.c.) Even if you assume that the phone ringing were a REAL incident, someone (either the presenter or another person in charge) would have reminded the audience to make sure their phones were off. Didn't happen. Someone in the room placed that call.b. The second problem was this: why did the phone only ring ONCE? Because it was not a real phone call, it was a misdirection.

    • @gocanadago1000
      @gocanadago1000 8 лет назад +5

      Why did it matter if the guy wasn't random? The trick could've been done with a random person

    • @cypriancyganek6830
      @cypriancyganek6830 8 лет назад +12

      trick number two he has a tiny transaprent wire attached to his hands, look how he prepares the hands to get the wire between them and then how he holds the hands open towards each other to have it in tension. so he just slighlty passes the wire on her skin, then releases the tension and hides the left hand to not show it to the guy.

    • @radseven89
      @radseven89 8 лет назад +3

      Ya seem pretty smart for someone that doesn't know youtube has slow motion settings.

    • @radseven89
      @radseven89 8 лет назад

      Merveil Meok I try my best.

    • @ioannaelia7548
      @ioannaelia7548 8 лет назад +1

      great explanation but just one thing: saying that something is staged is not smart in a trick. It wasn't staged and there is an actual explanation on it. Think of it a bit more ;)

  • @MrMoodyKSA
    @MrMoodyKSA 8 лет назад +349

    10:36 look at Keith's left leg as it press on that guy feet "only when you feel the pressure," he said.
    he did not specify what kind of pressure because the audiance thought it was from his hand. but the pressure that he ment was from him using his feet

  • @rex3837
    @rex3837 5 лет назад +373

    He used a piece of hard aluminium oxide ceramic that is found on spark plugs to break the bottle the ceramic on spark plugs even a small piece slightly thrown at glass will shatter the glass

    • @shteam7294
      @shteam7294 5 лет назад +7

      how did he figure out the name ?

    • @Princedemars
      @Princedemars 5 лет назад +6

      @@shteam7294 Target Preparation, that's very common with charlatans. and Mind readers. etc.

    • @ryanyoung3895
      @ryanyoung3895 5 лет назад +42

      The girl was in on the act.
      So was the guy. Watch 10:43 and watch his left leg when the "pressure is released" he lifts his foot off the other guys foot so he knows when to put his hand up

    • @fatherra2534
      @fatherra2534 5 лет назад +10

      @@ryanyoung3895 yes lol i think the whole purpose of this is called art of illusion, obviously even if you can't spot the tricks theres a logical and natural explanation to whatever "phenomenon" occurs.

    • @youtubebenutzer1184
      @youtubebenutzer1184 5 лет назад +1

      He did Not necacarily needed to, just use a coin and try it by yourself, But shake it harder and longer

  • @ixamraxi
    @ixamraxi 9 лет назад +410

    Being a TED talk, I would have assumed at the end he would have reinforced the point that all of the tricks and not magic or voodoo or psychokenises, in that our brains have been decieved. He said it in an offhand way at the beginning, but then spent the entire rest of the talk appealing to supernatural as he performed. That made it seem a bit open ended or contradictory. Would have been better if he actually revealed a tiny bit of the methodology at the end, not necessarilly to give the trick away, but to explain *how* our minds are being decieved. There are plenty of videos on youtube showing how to perform some of these tricks, so its not like he would have been ruining the trick for anyone who honestly wanted to find out how its done, but being a TED talk... I just expected less of a show, and more of, well... a talk.

    • @runswithscissors1570
      @runswithscissors1570 9 лет назад +9

      Yea but that audience looks different than a normal one. This doesn't even look like a Ted Talk.

    • @jwkill21
      @jwkill21 9 лет назад +20

      Amra yeah, I'm trying to figure out how this is a TED talk.. wildly underwhelmed.

    • @groznyentertainment
      @groznyentertainment 9 лет назад +12

      +Amra I'm disappointed too ,, I thought there will be some science or psychology lesson in the end.

    • @PonzuAnzhu
      @PonzuAnzhu 9 лет назад +2

      +Amra Sadly he can't reveal his tricks though or he will blow other magician's cover. Theres alot of people who do the same tricks, just watch AGT

    • @joshjerphil
      @joshjerphil 9 лет назад +2

      +AznNinja89 Glad to see somebody realized this. It's actually more than that, though. Magicians take on a certain "code", as magicians, to keep the way it works secret. Any magician that breaches that code by sharing trade secrets with the public would be quickly shutout from the magician community.

  • @Fwench
    @Fwench 10 лет назад +171

    i found his trick ... when he sits at the table and tells the lady to point at the guys forehead look at his left leg...he tips the guy off( he lifts his foot up or down ) so he knows when to move his hand ('-_-)

    • @SnipperPain
      @SnipperPain 9 лет назад +1

      mangafreak2001 those are some keen eyes you got there xD

    • @Fwench
      @Fwench 9 лет назад +1

      thx

    • @m.fikrialhafidh5178
      @m.fikrialhafidh5178 3 года назад

      because that was the "pressure" he meant to the guy

  • @michaelpatrick
    @michaelpatrick 9 лет назад +1800

    I cant believe nobody else noticed or commented on the fact that the volunteer male on stage was wearing a suit with socks and sandals.

    • @juanbacilioalvarado4797
      @juanbacilioalvarado4797 9 лет назад +8

      +Patrick O'Reilly oh , I was wondering about that !!

    • @cybertree
      @cybertree 9 лет назад +8

      +Patrick O'Reilly Ugh I know, I don't know much about fashion, but that'd definitely a misdemeanor.

    • @jedkleppen
      @jedkleppen 9 лет назад +18

      +Patrick O'Reilly Watch his leg nearest to the "random" male "participant" when the woman moves her arm up and down.

    • @OldHickory7
      @OldHickory7 9 лет назад +9

      he's basically a stoner daylabor plant. along with the sandals, I bet he showed up to the event with a only a t-shirt and maybe even shorts or something. so the magician would have had to hastily find or borrow a sportcoat and some pants or just anything that could make it look even remotely plausible he would ever pick that dude.

    • @dawgyv72
      @dawgyv72 9 лет назад +1

      +Patrick O'Reilly That's not a suit.

  • @mayoman5446
    @mayoman5446 5 лет назад +67

    1:00 he froze the screen so we couldn’t point out that he just moved his arms around

  • @ryanc0llins
    @ryanc0llins 10 лет назад +64

    At 7:20 you can see his right arm stroke up her back. The hand part is a camera trick as well, he's gently brushing past her arm but the way she describes it is vague because she can't actually see whats happening only feel it. He even leads her to the answer he wants by asking "was it a tickling sensation". The other guy is his accomplice. The next part about the pressure is done conveniently at a table to hide the signal he gives him to move his arm up or down, he nudges him in the leg with his foot. At 10:50 you can actually see his leg move. 14:11 it's obviously something to do with the bottle or shard of glass, not sure what but clearly it isn't energy created by though.
    17:45 he signals using his hands which cups are which and where to move them.
    MAGIC.

    • @BarryWraps
      @BarryWraps 10 лет назад +3

      at 14:00 watch closely at the top of the bottle mate, there must have been a chemical, and the piece of "glass" isnt glass at all, it must be some kind of reactant of the chemical at the bottom of the glass

    • @TheBigShotJonesy
      @TheBigShotJonesy 10 лет назад +6

      Damn Jesus, I was just going to mention how he gently kicks his leg under that table with the enormous table cloth. Haha lame magician.

    • @olivercasey3530
      @olivercasey3530 10 лет назад +4

      14:00 was a bologna bottle it is made when a bottle is heated then the inside is quickly cooled while the outside is slowly cooled this causes stress on the inside of the bottle while the outside is strong because of the stress on the inside of the bottle.

    • @gonssavm4048
      @gonssavm4048 10 лет назад +1

      i dont get the last one, could you explain it better?

    • @don_juant
      @don_juant 10 лет назад

      Jorge Daniel No. That's pretty much about as simple of an explanation as it gets.

  • @TheSkyHazCloudz
    @TheSkyHazCloudz 8 лет назад +1799

    I was kind of hoping that he'd actually explain how this all works. That kind of thing is sort of the point of TED Talks.

    • @iamcamella
      @iamcamella 8 лет назад +102

      TheSkyHazCloudz 11:02 just look at his left leg. :v

    • @derxer614
      @derxer614 8 лет назад +8

      TheSkyHazCloudz The principal is not that hard. It's just all about directing attention away from the moments where he uses his tricks to make it work (like lifting the leg for pressure)

    • @TheSkyHazCloudz
      @TheSkyHazCloudz 8 лет назад +122

      Guys, I'm not dumb. I am capable of recognizing how he does most of the tricks. That being said, this is a TED Talk, not a Las Vegas show. It's a reasonable expectation to have.

    • @davidvelez6306
      @davidvelez6306 8 лет назад +8

      Camila Riascos okay I'm disappointed... I thought this was real

    • @noobmasteryoyo5136
      @noobmasteryoyo5136 7 лет назад +12

      TheSkyHazCloudz I wouldn't say most people could figure out the tricks without the comment section, and the main principle of magic is not to explain the tricks. The TED talk is meant to show how people are misdirected in magic shows imo

  • @ldanley72
    @ldanley72 9 лет назад +892

    He"s a really bad magician. @7:18 He touched her back, He made the mate look at her eyes. @8:17 you can see the object he touch her with. @11:15 he used his left leg to signal the guy to drop his hand. The coke bottle trick was nothing but science. It's called Bologna Bottle. Before he got on stage he heated the bottle and rapidly cooled the internal part of the bottle. He could have used the bottle to nail a nail through a board, but the piece of glass, when shaken within the bottle created a very small scratch which was enough for the bottle's mass to become unstable and blast a part.

    • @search4goosebumps297
      @search4goosebumps297 9 лет назад +25

      I don't see the device but I see the leg part.

    • @tomatoaim1
      @tomatoaim1 9 лет назад +61

      +Len Danley You have great observations skills!

    • @Xynic48
      @Xynic48 9 лет назад +34

      Keith Barry not only especializes in deception but also in hypnotism. So I think in the "lifting the arm" trick what he did first is to put the guy in a state of hypnosis (he said he didnt but he definitely did) so after the trick when he "released" the guy from hypnosis, he made the guy forget that the pressure was on his foot so if anybody ask he wouldnt know. I just also just want to make clear that Hypnosis is not magic, its science. It works by putting someone in a trance (kinda half-asleep) by a combination of verbal and physical methods. Hypnosis is even being used by doctors to treat depression.

    • @BeyondSideshow
      @BeyondSideshow 9 лет назад +37

      +Len Danley I don't think the fact that we can figure out what he did on video -and that you took the time to explain these techniques - makes him "bad" at anything. This show was established by Barry himself as a demonstration on misdirection - he more or less urged the viewers to pay attention to where he is leading said attention. And then demonstrated, very well in my opinion, how it isn't that easy. (Also - the camera angle betrays the leg movement, it wouldn't be visible from the audience.)

    • @JasonSGcn
      @JasonSGcn 9 лет назад +2

      I saw it ! All about tricks

  • @ffuukkyootoobffuukkyootoob1411
    @ffuukkyootoobffuukkyootoob1411 5 лет назад +1211

    I'm with everyone else. As a show, this is very entertaining. As a TED,. it's disappointing. As a TED, I would have expected him to help people understand how the tricks work, so that when charlatans and quacks do it, they will see through the misdirection.

    • @roulpops2699
      @roulpops2699 5 лет назад +74

      Im' 100% with you, i expected a little explaining, not just another "magician" trick...This isn't worthy of a TED talk...
      Shoutout to the comment saying to watch his left leg at 10:43 btw

    • @shafiqrashid2010
      @shafiqrashid2010 5 лет назад +1

      Oh my god im the same!!!

    • @lokendraannamunthodo7857
      @lokendraannamunthodo7857 5 лет назад +3

      I guess you are not 📵 from this world. Don't you know the 🙊 saying "Magicians never tell".

    • @WILLYLYNCH.
      @WILLYLYNCH. 5 лет назад +18

      @@lokendraannamunthodo7857 then go on a magic show. Pretty lame and not the right guest for a Ted talk. People are trying to learn and understand, not just be entertained.

    • @josepablobermudez6283
      @josepablobermudez6283 5 лет назад +4

      If he tells everyone how the tricks work he loses his job

  • @Hackybaby
    @Hackybaby 9 лет назад +4512

    but why didnt he explain the principles of his magic to us?
    THIS IS NOT A TED TALK just a magic trick show.

    • @RobinLabadie
      @RobinLabadie 9 лет назад +19

      +Hackybaby Same question

    • @ricardofranco7419
      @ricardofranco7419 9 лет назад +75

      +Hackybaby So I think the point wasn't to say how he did it but rather to state that magic is simply misdirection. He mentions how he tries to divert your attention to something else while he performs the magic. At least that's what I got out of it.

    • @elzaterken259
      @elzaterken259 9 лет назад +51

      +Hackybaby Pay attention to his hand at 0:57 it lagged, then at 1:11 he changed his hand's shape. Try to copy his hand shape, then you will see.

    • @BatsOneURL
      @BatsOneURL 9 лет назад +14

      +Elzat Erken Yeah the giveaway of the hand direction is the change in is his LEFT elbow. When he first asks them to cross hands, his elbow is pointing outwards but when the camera comes back after panning on Audience, his left elbow is pointing inwards ;) So when the camera panned out to the crowd crossing their hands, he must have rotated his arm. So basically it would have been extremely obvious if the camera was still on him so they edited crowd in to stop it being seen.

    • @chadntm8189
      @chadntm8189 9 лет назад +98

      +Hackybaby the principle of magic is deception... you are believing it only because he told you " he doesn't know them " when in fact he does know them if you go to 10:47 pay attention to keith's left leg...you will notice a muscle contraction..that's how he is able to let the guy know when to move his hand

  • @HVYMETL
    @HVYMETL 10 лет назад +86

    Keith is so good at deception. Very cool to watch. At 11:05 you can see his leg rise, releasing the pressure on the guys foot. The guy has never been told that the audience is watching the woman's hand, He thinks he's supposed to be reacting to pressure on the foot.

    • @lc2c177
      @lc2c177 Год назад +2

      But is the guy hypnotised or playing along? Is this form of instant hypnosis possible?

    • @arnavkumar6277
      @arnavkumar6277 Год назад +3

      but he mentioned that it's on the wave of the hand, then guy would've blown the whistle, no?

  • @PrenticeNeto
    @PrenticeNeto 10 лет назад +282

    TED Talks are for people who want to learn things. Magicians who don't tell how their tricks work don't teach anything. TED Talk is no place for magicians like that.

    • @loganroberts6600
      @loganroberts6600 10 лет назад +9

      It's welcome to all

    • @Anonymous18531
      @Anonymous18531 10 лет назад +40

      TED: Technology, Entertainment, Design
      Note what the 'E' stands for.

    • @Thelegoterrapin
      @Thelegoterrapin 10 лет назад +23

      Yeah, I agree. I have a feeling this would have been a FANTASTIC TED talk if he explained how he managed to misdirect our attention, as well as the second sight trick. Unfortunately that wasn't the case and I got a magic show instead. David Blaine's talk is how a magician should present at TED.

    • @nhall022
      @nhall022 10 лет назад

      Thelegoterrapin David Blain's talk was not about a magic trick.

    • @anthony452
      @anthony452 10 лет назад +1

      considering the shit TED has censored; this is almost a slap in the face.

  • @pageturner72
    @pageturner72 5 лет назад +103

    Everyone's saying that he shouldn't be so popular because his magic is fake, but the whole point of the talk is that he's deceiving our minds.. and he's darn good at it

    • @Supreme_Lobster
      @Supreme_Lobster 2 года назад +4

      Nobody's saying that tho

    • @notfake2041
      @notfake2041 Год назад

      @@Supreme_Lobster oh... You checked him out 4 months ago... Cool

    • @jakedanielsen4512
      @jakedanielsen4512 Год назад

      ​@@Supreme_Lobster Yeah, that's never been an argument against any kind of magic trick

    • @steveblack720
      @steveblack720 Год назад +1

      how did he deceive our minds? With a lag on the camera so nobody can see what happened? With faked video that is cut in so many places? With actors on stage? Really deceiving. He deceived you if you believed it

  • @cryptoyaqui6812
    @cryptoyaqui6812 8 лет назад +18

    Amazing how they still do the bottle trick. This is a specially made bottle where the surface tension is greater inside than outside. My chemistry teacher in High School showed us this.

  • @SlippinJimmy4Life
    @SlippinJimmy4Life 7 лет назад +551

    It seems like a real TED talk at first... but that's only an illusion!

  • @sally9504
    @sally9504 8 лет назад +343

    Haha i like how they put "How to spot a Liar" as the next video...

  • @arnavkumar6277
    @arnavkumar6277 Год назад +9

    The showmanship he has shown is just brilliant! This was worth watching at least
    once!

  • @2320RG
    @2320RG 9 лет назад +92

    He says only when u feel the pressure, he didn't say where the pressure was going to be, we assume he's talking about the mans hand, but the man with his eyes closed feels the pressure on his foot, the deception is with the audience. The man with his eyes closed feels the pressure on his foot, and he's instructed to move his hand when he feels that pressure, we are being deceived into thinking that the pressure is magically being felt without being touched

    • @philipgritman6836
      @philipgritman6836 9 лет назад

      Thats stupid

    • @Bbfishman
      @Bbfishman 9 лет назад +4

      Philip Gritman it sure is stupid but thats whats happening. that may not be the real reason for what went on, but thats what happened. Watch his leg when they give the camera angle with the woman standing, and the two men sitting at the table. The 'magician' raises and lowers his leg when the woman begins to raise and lower her hand...which in turn tells the man with his eyes closed, when to raise and lower his hand. So he is the middle man, relaying the information between them, by lifting and lowering his leg and pretending that they have some sort of mental "connection" because he has the one man "hypnotized"....its all bullshit. Anybody who believes in "magic" is uneducated or hoping for something to be real just so they can feel a certain sense of happiness that anything is possible.....there is ALWAYS a rational explanation for every single thing that happens in this world. Sure there are rare instances where events work out in a way that is statistically rare and therefore we try to label it as a 'miracle' or something along those lines, but thats simply an event that is bound to happen at some point, given enough repetition. Take the lottery for example, extremely low odds of ever winning, but somebody has to win, so those things people try to explain as "miracles" in everyday life are simply those statistical anomalies. That and magic are two very different things and im not trying to compare magic to the lottery. The second part of my rant comparing the two, was simply to explain the nature of rare/random events that occur in everyday life not being 'magic' but simply statistics.

    • @2320RG
      @2320RG 9 лет назад

      U guys miss the mark

    • @philipgritman6836
      @philipgritman6836 9 лет назад

      Oh boy.....settle down brainiod

    • @jameskopacz
      @jameskopacz 9 лет назад +7

      Ryan Gonda Philip Gritman
      You can see him doing it with his left leg at 10:45

  • @Diedrich92
    @Diedrich92 9 лет назад +122

    1:00 i like how the video freezes like when he does the move so i cant see it.

    • @anishgokhale5389
      @anishgokhale5389 6 лет назад +4

      Thats there on purpose put by TED so that people on youtube who have the power to replay again and again cant figure it out. But of course we can.

    • @DomJLva
      @DomJLva 6 лет назад +7

      Divad Mlap you don't really need 1:00 I think we all clearly know how he did it

    • @kubatvalorant5776
      @kubatvalorant5776 6 лет назад

      Divad Mlap he releases his hands and changes them why doesnt anyone realise that

    • @katomane6116
      @katomane6116 6 лет назад +1

      Gamen Met Turk lmao .. because we’re not there in person .. when he changed his arm it’s off camera . Brain magic is simply thinking which many have a hard time doing .

    • @stefanvandijk7114
      @stefanvandijk7114 6 лет назад

      @@DomJLva Thats what I thought. Just enough room in your sleeve and turn your left hand the other way around.

  • @reigjinali681
    @reigjinali681 9 лет назад +502

    Look from 10:57 to 11:5 leg moving signal under the table :D

    • @shishirpoudel8418
      @shishirpoudel8418 9 лет назад

      i noticed every thing when i watched it next time

    • @Chan-bu4xz
      @Chan-bu4xz 9 лет назад +14

      +Rei Gjinali Its ironic how he displays characteristics of lying mentioned in another TED video "How to Spot a Liar."

    • @jumanaat
      @jumanaat 9 лет назад

      +Rei Gjinali loooool

    • @reigjinali681
      @reigjinali681 8 лет назад

      *****​
      Its your opinion i give it my...
      Cheers

    • @BumAngel2001
      @BumAngel2001 8 лет назад +3

      +Ad Vitam Aeternam why is a respectfully looking woman a bimbo?

  • @SplittingProductions
    @SplittingProductions 5 лет назад +22

    One of my favorite TED talks is "The Art of Misdirection from Apollo Robbins" because that's a talk where he shows off his skills and it's great to watch, but he actually made you think and he showed you what he was doing. This guy was fun to watch, but I didn't learn anything or question myself to anything. Kinda bummed about that.

  • @JonathanAlmeida
    @JonathanAlmeida 9 лет назад +46

    If everyone in the comments section can only see this video as a bunch of magic tricks, then you haven't yet realized the point he was trying to make: "training your minds in the art of deception". He gets your attention to follow where he looks and what he points at, but not the actions he performs when he's not looking at it. This is everything that he explains in-between the video as well around 5:45.
    > "TED Talks are for people who want to learn things."
    Yes, and today I learned how people focus their attention when told what to do.

    • @danielocean8730
      @danielocean8730 9 лет назад +7

      ^this guy actually gets it. Thank goodness!!!

    • @SavateyHeang
      @SavateyHeang 9 лет назад

      Those comments started to depress me until yours came along. Thank you.

  • @3vimages471
    @3vimages471 5 лет назад +918

    I was very impressed …. until I read the comments section.

    • @TheAdult100
      @TheAdult100 5 лет назад +9

      same here...pfft

    • @redsavitra
      @redsavitra 5 лет назад

      So do i... Haha

    • @whatwhat4226
      @whatwhat4226 5 лет назад

      😂🤣😂

    • @ShadhaOmer
      @ShadhaOmer 5 лет назад +3

      Totally. I should stop reading comments before watching the video.

    • @gopalrandheer7781
      @gopalrandheer7781 5 лет назад +1

      Wow that's true. He is giving hint by his leg

  • @orionstar6747
    @orionstar6747 5 лет назад +273

    At 1:00 he says to a member of the audience: "yours are the other way round, so swap it around", so that he can change his position of his hand, camera turns away to the audience.....

  • @jayashreemahanta6208
    @jayashreemahanta6208 4 года назад +115

    7:18 look at his left hand while he took his hand to her back for tapping in her back

    • @priyanksisodia5889
      @priyanksisodia5889 4 года назад

      Yeahhh

    • @saluto1397
      @saluto1397 4 года назад

      He also touched her wrist..

    • @jonnyrocket3659
      @jonnyrocket3659 4 года назад +6

      he tapped her on the back with his right hand... he must have tapped her twice very quickly

    • @weedybongzalez8333
      @weedybongzalez8333 4 года назад +1

      He literally tells her what she gotta say...what the fuq...
      Like.. U feeled this and that and this and that there
      Right?
      Fuqin faker
      He never lets Others Talk actually...
      Even if He asks for Response,He immediantly Talks for Thema,or what He thinks they have to say
      this how U Know He s more of an Thief Then an magician and wants to Control and use U Like a puppet

  • @solo1y
    @solo1y 8 лет назад +732

    The first thing he does is a very well-understood and a very old magic trick called "Hidden Touch". It's one of the easiest tricks to do. Any RUclips commenter can do it with about five minutes training. It uses what's called "dual reality" i.e. what the audience thinks is happening is slightly different to what the people involved in the trick think is happening.
    This should not be on TED. It's not teaching anyone anything. It tells us nothing about how the human brain works. All it does is showcase Keith Barry as a magician. Which is fine, but we have magic shows for that.

    • @solo1y
      @solo1y 8 лет назад +4

      When you touch them, it's about two minutes before everyone else thinks you've touched them. It's called "dual reality".

    • @rnqtn
      @rnqtn 8 лет назад +2

      Barry Purcell, oh cool trying to correct a video that was in 2008...

    • @solo1y
      @solo1y 8 лет назад +5

      I don't understand what you're trying to say.

    • @gresham4898
      @gresham4898 8 лет назад +17

      You can see his leg move up and down on the mans foot 11:00
      ish

    • @shuhaibthawoos1569
      @shuhaibthawoos1569 8 лет назад +5

      What you said summarised the idea in my head.the thing about dual reality.
      when you stated that this should not be on TED because it doesn't teach anyone anything. I believe you did teach me something. knowledge isn't spoon fed all the time but we would love it to be.

  • @qhsperson
    @qhsperson 9 лет назад +123

    Re the car illusion--ask yourself, why a mask AND a hood? Surely either would be sufficient, so why both? Because when he puts the hood on, we can't see that he's pulled the mask down onto his cheeks or shoved it up onto his forehead, and he can see through the hood. That's why he keeps telling the girl to watch the road, focus on the road--if she gets a good look at his face, she'll realize she can see through the hood and therefore, so can he.
    The hood is there to block our vision, not his.

    • @tumold
      @tumold 9 лет назад +11

      Hmm that sounds like an interesting proposition that I COULD believe if only the girl later pulls off the hood showing that the mask is still in place at 4:38. I'm not convinced you're on the right track.

    • @qhsperson
      @qhsperson 9 лет назад +2

      tumold It is edited video.

    • @pmarceau
      @pmarceau 9 лет назад

      What i find good about that, Is It is so simple I overlooked it. :)
      I usually expect these people to be more tricky.
      See comment above.
      But TV magic we must always remember, they control what we see.
      That is why Penn and Teller are my favorite... Magic/Illusion performers.
      They reveal their own tricks, then come up with new tricks.

    • @TheNewsDepot
      @TheNewsDepot 9 лет назад +2

      qhsperson It's actually much simpler than that. He drove that course likely dozens if not hundreds of times until he could do it blindfolded.

    • @qhsperson
      @qhsperson 9 лет назад +11

      Chad C. It's actually funny that you think that's a simpler answer.

  • @chiragpatidar5937
    @chiragpatidar5937 5 лет назад +273

    Look at his left leg at 11:05....and everything will be clear how he was doing that.

    • @lsagar
      @lsagar 5 лет назад +18

      took a while but i saw it. He was lifting his leg to indicate that she was raising her hand

    • @uibrahi0
      @uibrahi0 5 лет назад +7

      Good catch!!

    • @0xeb-
      @0xeb- 5 лет назад +1

      Good work.

    • @jackryan2988
      @jackryan2988 5 лет назад +2

      you nailed it

    • @janehonda4073
      @janehonda4073 5 лет назад +4

      I would say at 11:04

  • @fakecheese9444
    @fakecheese9444 5 лет назад +12

    Trick with cups: the way he wore the blindfold he could see under the fold what was happening on the table. The spiked piece is a bit heavier than the other three and has different balance. We did the trick as kids.

  • @Yash-ix1ln
    @Yash-ix1ln 5 лет назад +201

    Damn people in comment section are more brilliant than him

  • @DDD-vz6mr
    @DDD-vz6mr 8 лет назад +29

    11:00, he signals the guy with his feet. other times he doesnt shake his leg but upward he shakes it and downward he shakes the leg (signal)

    • @danielsolomon3794
      @danielsolomon3794 6 лет назад

      Actually its not a signal. There is no pre show work. Watch the video again and think about the mans perspective. He wasn't told it was a pressure on his hand. Thats why he wasn't supposed to undestand the trick. Nothing was weird or cool for him.

    • @zeboy1959
      @zeboy1959 6 лет назад

      @@danielsolomon3794 Yh at 9:25-10:07 he's setting up what means up and what means down, I don't think he was his team mate

  • @Piotrmiko
    @Piotrmiko 8 лет назад +168

    The tricks are pretty impressive, still, I feel it was kind of a waste of time. Please do enlighten me if I'm just missing the point, but TED's profile is "Ideas worth sharing", and I see no ideas shared here, don't really feel like I learned anything.

  • @gregurbanek186
    @gregurbanek186 5 лет назад +2

    He starts using misdirection right of the bat by repeating "slight of hand". The focus is now off of his legs. Excellent mind control. Thank you.

  • @vijayperiasamy1044
    @vijayperiasamy1044 5 лет назад +14

    Car trick: The eye mask he uses has a loop that goes under his nose (3:11). He pulls it down from his eye in the guise of adjusting the sack mask (3:19). He can see through the thin sack mask.

    • @divinelove_786
      @divinelove_786 5 лет назад

      No, at 4:40 when she pulls off face mask, his blindfolds are still in position. If he'd altered it then they would have misplaced.
      There has to be some other explanation for this trick.

    • @rahulchandran4219
      @rahulchandran4219 5 лет назад +2

      @@divinelove_786
      That black shade is a video display like VR. The camera capture the roads.

    • @vijayperiasamy1044
      @vijayperiasamy1044 5 лет назад

      @@divinelove_786 My guess is he holds the loop between teeth. Maybe the whole mask does not move away from his eyes, but small slot (for the eyes) are created by pulling the loop. He may just have to release the loop to close it back after stopping car. The loop seems to have no other purpose than facilitating the trick.

    • @claytonbing16
      @claytonbing16 4 года назад

      @@rahulchandran4219 Exactly this:
      The driving trick is just a heads up display on the first mask he puts on. Look at 3:05 how stiff it is. And again at 4:40. Plus all the cameras on board. He specifically says 'I couldn't see through the blindfold, and the car was not gimmicked in any way". This still meets both those definitions.

  • @jasonubalde
    @jasonubalde 8 лет назад +150

    why the does the video cuts when he first obviously change the position of his hand.. to not reveal the "secret" trick? or is my computer broken?

    • @Aiden652
      @Aiden652 8 лет назад +7

      +JaeJames It cuts. I noticed as well.

    • @stelley08
      @stelley08 8 лет назад +15

      yeah, he unlocks the original grip to "point to a member in the audience" then when he goes to turn his left hand back to the grip, he faces his palm to the roof and keeps going in an anti clockwise direction (from his POV) then relocks his grip

    • @Radonatos
      @Radonatos 8 лет назад +5

      Absolutely - it's not a "mind trick", it's video editing - and at that point I realised that this video apparently has nothing to offer.
      Unlike that guy suggested with the gesture, I only could give the the video one thumb down, although it deserves two.

    • @stephaniejane6168
      @stephaniejane6168 8 лет назад +1

      +Radonatos no stelly08 is right

    • @HaHa-uq1nd
      @HaHa-uq1nd 8 лет назад

      It's deception

  • @mightyhero
    @mightyhero 11 лет назад +23

    Breaking a coke bottle is a well known magic trick. Once you scar the inside of the bottle with a piece of glass (or sharp metal, etc.), then the glass breaks easily.

    • @mightyhero
      @mightyhero 11 лет назад +33

      The magic trick is known as the "Bologna Bottle."
      A Bologna bottle, or "Bologna phial", is a glass bottle which has great external strength, often used in physics demonstrations and magic tricks. The exterior is generally strong enough that one could pound a nail into a block of wood using the bottle as a hammer, however even a small scratch on the interior would cause it to crumble.
      It is created by heating a glass bottle then slowly cooling the outside whilst rapidly cooling the inside. This causes the external strength and internal stress such that even a scratch on the inside is sufficient to shatter the bottle.

  • @psychicsnail658
    @psychicsnail658 5 лет назад +22

    This isn't a collaboration its simply the power of suggestion.

  • @Aman1984
    @Aman1984 10 лет назад +125

    11:04 look how his left foot moves to guide the guy.
    "magician" like him you can hire them for a kids party for 10 bucks/hour

    • @roopmateebachan6597
      @roopmateebachan6597 10 лет назад +1

      Leroy

    • @jpcancela
      @jpcancela 9 лет назад

      So are those people part of the act? Because some people woundl't stand for faking for this guy....

    • @caweren222
      @caweren222 9 лет назад +3

      jpcancela Normally when a magician asks people "we've never met before, right?" they most likely have. Most of the shows i've seen, if the random guy/girl genuinely are random, they won't ask them. Becuase, the audience already know they're picked at random.
      When they ask then if they've met before, they try to make the illusion that they really are random, stronger.

    • @Aman1984
      @Aman1984 9 лет назад

      no, but at least try something more impressive and not that obvious

    • @folkarad
      @folkarad 9 лет назад +2

      they dont have to know each other, i think he just moves the leg so he lifts the tapestry on the table, so the other guy really feels a "pressure decreasing", its just subtle and not in the hand, but the leg.

  • @Xandrapeach
    @Xandrapeach 9 лет назад +114

    "Is there any way to see through the blindfold?"
    "Ye-... Um.. Yes".
    "Okay so you CAN'T see through the blindfold, am I correct?"
    "No, you can see through"
    "Okay so you CANT see through it. Good."

    • @MariusIhlar
      @MariusIhlar 9 лет назад +5

      Haha, true. Then he looks completely confused.

    • @blessedspear2642
      @blessedspear2642 9 лет назад +3

      You got it wrong-.- that's not what he said

    • @Nerosii
      @Nerosii 9 лет назад +11

      blessedspear
      I watched it again.. the guy in the chair clearly says he cannot see through it.. it's the guy performing the trick that says you can..

    • @EpicBunty
      @EpicBunty 9 лет назад +1

      +Alexandre McGregor that volunteer was such a confused idiot. Purposely trying to throw him off.

    • @ShinyVeggie
      @ShinyVeggie 9 лет назад +12

      "Put this on?"
      "No, just if there is any way to see through it"
      "Mhmm"
      "No?"
      "No I CAN'T see through it"
      "You CAN'T see through it, excellent!"
      Learn to listen, mate ;)

  • @rogerstone9173
    @rogerstone9173 5 лет назад +9

    Keith Barry was the chief magic and mentalism consultant for Now You See Me 2.

  • @andy4dude
    @andy4dude 5 лет назад +6

    So many comments about how it was done. People first appreciate the guy's effort, his performance. Don't immediately start applying ur logic & reasoning. Appreciate magic first, life is magical but by applying all sorts of silly logic & reasoning we kill the fun of life. Be it brain magic, illusion whatever. It was perfectly presented & was thoroughly entertaining!

    • @Santiino
      @Santiino 4 года назад +1

      On a ted talk it should be more explaining than entertainment
      The comment section is definitely ted like how it should be

  • @venomrush_
    @venomrush_ 10 лет назад +57

    Watch his left leg at 11:03. When she lifts her arm his leg does something under the table to alert the guy to lifts his arm.

    • @thepedrorriva
      @thepedrorriva 10 лет назад

      And he does it again when its time to put the arm back down.... That's not even magic, that's stupid. What an idiot.

    • @nolyspe
      @nolyspe 10 лет назад +4

      *****
      In the case of the coke bottle I think the shard of glass was a Prince Rupert's drop

    • @venomrush_
      @venomrush_ 10 лет назад

      I think that might be the case.

    • @FavJam
      @FavJam 10 лет назад

      you figured it out ... good job man.

    • @InkawgNeetoh
      @InkawgNeetoh 10 лет назад +1

      Oh, oh!! "When you want the pressure released". Maybe he had his foot on top of the other guy's foot, putting more or less "pressure" on it by lifting or settling his foot.

  • @NoFontNL
    @NoFontNL 3 года назад +8

    He said he had the car not gimmicked and he could not see through the blindfold. Both are true, but the blindfold itself was gimmicked so that he could take it off when the 'bag' was put on which was also gimmicked. You can actually see through the bag if you pull the bag in a certain way. The girl couldn't see anything when she had them on because she didn't know how the gimmick worked

  • @mitvishwakarma
    @mitvishwakarma 5 лет назад +145

    7:44 look he wringles his fingers to get a thread through which he scratches her hand 🤭🤭

    • @ElectronicSkateboard
      @ElectronicSkateboard 5 лет назад +9

      Good catch, probably kevlex, invisible thread used for object levitations.

    • @sayedmuhammadidrees1453
      @sayedmuhammadidrees1453 5 лет назад +3

      Gotcha

    • @umer2023
      @umer2023 4 года назад +2

      You nailed it man!

    • @alexwest5106
      @alexwest5106 4 года назад +1

      Looks like he actually did touch her, with his sleeve. Hardly visible because his hand had a bigger distance

  • @halendavis6120
    @halendavis6120 5 лет назад +9

    At 10:28 the guy with his eyes closed should have stood up or asked if he was talking to him because if his eyes were closed he wouldn't have known that he was pointing at the girl and asking her to stand up so I think they had this rehearsed

    • @zokm8165
      @zokm8165 4 года назад

      The guy was hypnotized, and the magician had his foot on top of the guys foot.

  • @anjalidavid1924
    @anjalidavid1924 6 лет назад +18

    This was really good.
    He was confident, entertaining and precise at what he did!
    Loved the show from start to end!

  • @MizzMizz2241
    @MizzMizz2241 9 лет назад +12

    lol i love how the camera glitches at 1:02 so he can switch his hand around

    • @Ungtartog
      @Ungtartog 9 лет назад

      +mike mahon Yup... I figured out what he did and have repeated the trick several times. No one has caught it on the first attempt so far. The majority of the instructions are just given to keep your attention on your own hands so he can switch his without you noticing. The give away is the position of his shoulders... when his hands first cross his shoulders are pretty level, then the camera cuts away as he unclasps his hands. When we see the shot again, one of his shoulders is much lower then the other due to the fact that he reversed the rotation of his wrists when he rejoined his hands. Happy tricking! Just remember to instruct your victims to pay close attention to the position of *their* thumbs when you change the position of your hands.

  • @zacharoninoodle
    @zacharoninoodle 8 лет назад +107

    I don't like that he openly lied. If he had explained it after it had happened, this TED talk would be a lot more beneficial for people.

    • @92Pyromaniac
      @92Pyromaniac 8 лет назад

      When did he lie?

    • @mauroangst
      @mauroangst 8 лет назад +8

      Look at 11:00, he is moving his leg to tell the guy when to move his hand. The "brain magician" is lying to all of us with a lot of distraction. He should tell everyone the secret, or talk about distractions and how they work, not talk about brain control while he is doing dumb movements with his leg

    • @coldravioli7839
      @coldravioli7839 8 лет назад +1

      If he explained how it all worked, then it wouldn't be nearly as impressive. No one cares about. To quote The Prestige, "The trick impresses no one. The trick youuse it for is everything."

    • @MrMetan812
      @MrMetan812 8 лет назад +4

      i'm a russiam magician and this is ordinary trick with invisible loop (sold im magic shop), special cups, legs movements, management of your attention and etc. TED is no good channel, i understood this many times. Sorry for my english ;-)

    • @Riseky
      @Riseky 7 лет назад +3

      +Nacho Minirazor +Mauro angst He didn't lied. He explained that most illusions and tricks are done through deception. This is one comment explaining it
      "The first thing he does is a very well-understood and a very old magic trick called "Hidden Touch". It's one of the easiest tricks to do. Any RUclips commenter can do it with about five minutes training. It uses what's called "dual reality" i.e. what the audience thinks is happening is slightly different to what the people involved in the trick think is happening."
      So basically the pressure was probably his foot over the one on that guy, but since he had eyes closed he could'n understand the trick from the audience point of view. From his perspective there was no magic, no illusion. He was just lifting and lowering his hand basing on Keith foot pressure.
      It's a very clever trick if we couldn't see his leg, because there was no "cheating" in that sense, he didn't knew the volunteer.
      But yes, I agrere that TED is an educative event not a "let-me-show-you-my-tricks" event, so he should at least explaing those tricks

  • @OrkristLoL
    @OrkristLoL 3 года назад +11

    7:17 is some top tier asmr for a moment

  • @KingofSenf
    @KingofSenf 10 лет назад +74

    11:00 watch Keith's leg!!!

    • @dahrrg
      @dahrrg 10 лет назад +5

      U got it, thanks

    • @phamtienhung7114
      @phamtienhung7114 10 лет назад +1

      yes. you're right. But why did they do ? What would they get from that ???????

    • @druprice243
      @druprice243 10 лет назад +1

      Phạm Tiến Hùng if he raises his leg then they raised their hand, same with lowering it.

    • @Soniquexonly
      @Soniquexonly 10 лет назад +2

      I watched the same thing ! He presses and releases the pressure of hist FOOT on the "random" man. That's why the table is covered fully to the floor. Sorry for my mistakes in english. This are just tricks nothing more.

    • @AnthonyTangNZ
      @AnthonyTangNZ 10 лет назад +6

      Well the guy's says, you'll find a certain type of pressure. Only when you feel that pressure release, lift your hand up.
      We look at his hand doing magiciany stuff to avoid looking at his foot. So to us, it's magic. TO the guy at the table, he's just feeling pressure on his foot or something lol.

  • @samuelbrown5068
    @samuelbrown5068 8 лет назад +43

    As many people have also pointed out, the male volunteer was obviously a plant, and here's one other thing that proves it. Notice how, after the phone goes off, he has the male an female volunteers switch places. That's because the female had moved to the wrong position for the trick, he needed the male, who was in on it and could see what was happening, to be the one with his eye's open. Also note how during the touching trick he planted the word "tickling" in her mind, even though he probably was using wind to blow on her. The audience is obviously going to think the trick worked, so there's a disconnect between what she meant and what the audience thinks she meant when she said "tickling".

    • @LucasRodmo
      @LucasRodmo 8 лет назад

      Actually is simpler, he touches her in the "magnetic thing" part, very quickly, but if you watch it again you will get it.

    • @-theory-hd7348
      @-theory-hd7348 8 лет назад +1

      Samuel Brown my thoughts were that he had a piece of small wire ob his fingers and was tickling her arm hairs. but both of us could be right

    • @stantin17
      @stantin17 8 лет назад +3

      No need for a plant... You can see that the "pressure" he was applying was to the male's leg, not his arm.

    • @TheBloodsuger150
      @TheBloodsuger150 8 лет назад +1

      Stantinn yes but if he wasn't a plant he wouldn't think it was to the arm

    • @stantin17
      @stantin17 8 лет назад +5

      That's the magic of the illusion. The subject feels it on his leg, and the audience sees it on his hand. The audience doesn't know what the subject feels, and the subject doesn't know what the audience sees. Still no need for a plant, because the subject doesn't know that the audience thinks that the magician is touching his arm...

  • @StevenChisham
    @StevenChisham 5 лет назад +16

    for that first trick, thank the camera man for cutting away at the most critical point in which he switches hand positions.

  • @flak6487
    @flak6487 4 года назад +3

    that bottle trick was just simple chemistry, and the seeing out each others eyes was the magician remembering the route

  • @TheRedParallel
    @TheRedParallel 11 лет назад +6

    At 11:02, watch his left leg. It kicks out a bit every time she moves up and down, he's signalling to the guy when to raise his arm

  • @societyofsin
    @societyofsin 9 лет назад +32

    The only amazing thing is that anyone trusts some guy that they have never met before.

    • @globe255
      @globe255 9 лет назад +3

      Namely and it is exactly because of that, that people are so easy to manipulate.
      BRAINWASHING = hypnosis (manipulation of the conscious and unconscious mind) + repetition/intimidation ↔ exposé of vulnerability + repetition/intimidation ↔ “caring”+ repetition/intimidation ↔ MANIPULATION.

    • @niveshproag8660
      @niveshproag8660 9 лет назад

      In front of an audience you are.

    • @denbecr49
      @denbecr49 6 лет назад

      An extreme. famous example is the Milgram experiment. Google it.

  • @MisterF_1984
    @MisterF_1984 10 лет назад +42

    this isn't a ted talk, this is a fairly ordinary stage show.

    • @SuperNumber420
      @SuperNumber420 10 лет назад +49

      Well the E in TED does stand for entertainment.

  • @ashishash5784
    @ashishash5784 5 лет назад +41

    Just observe the magician move his left leg at 11:05 and hence signalling other person....its clear that the 2 people from the audience were in this play

    • @shanu-9985
      @shanu-9985 5 лет назад +3

      Well you guys might be thinking that its a cheap little trick, but actually its really smart..... When this act started he mentioned to be aware of a 'certain pressure' which is the pressure of foot that is being applied on the man's foot. To us the perspective of the pressure was some 'magical hand gestures' but to the man....it was the foot.

  • @JakeBroe
    @JakeBroe 5 лет назад +4

    I did the arm cross trick at a lecture on a class of teachers and it was hilarious. They fell for it!

  • @EddieLeal
    @EddieLeal 10 лет назад +25

    If you look closely at the hosts upper left leg at 11:05, you can see it rise and lower as he is giving the commands to the lady. He is using his left leg/foot to communicate to the guy when to raise and lower his arm. Oh well. Such is the world of "magic"

  • @gustavlp
    @gustavlp 11 лет назад +25

    He most likely touched the guy's foot behind the table when he started to "realease the pressure", and since he didn't randomely select those two audience members (for instance by throwing out a ball over his shoulder) they were definitely in on it. There's nothing in illusionary arts that prohibit you from lying.. ^^

    • @raketnight
      @raketnight 11 лет назад +21

      he is stepping on him when he says apply pressure and lifts when there is no pressure. you can clearly see his thai move around 10:30 ish.

    • @franyersegui4159
      @franyersegui4159 10 лет назад +1

      but this wasnt noted the first time which is the magic of magic

  • @vijayperiasamy1044
    @vijayperiasamy1044 5 лет назад +7

    Hand touching trick: Has transparent rubber band on his hand which he uses to touch lady's hand (pulls the band on both hands at 7:44)

  • @LoneGunner-c4p
    @LoneGunner-c4p 5 лет назад +8

    11:15 the trick is explained. Look at his left leg. It goes down as soon as her hand goes down signaling the man to lower his hand. 👍

  • @OrionoftheStar
    @OrionoftheStar 8 лет назад +13

    How'd he do the last one? Did he feel for the extra weight of the metal spike?

    • @blinkdawg1559
      @blinkdawg1559 8 лет назад +4

      No way, he felt it from above, and the guy mixed them up. Didn't pick it up so I don't see how he could feel the weight.

    • @radio-friendlyunitshifter4670
      @radio-friendlyunitshifter4670 8 лет назад +7

      at 16:21 he makes a face as if he saw something unusual, like how the guy stacked the cups. This is a dead giveaway that there was a tricked mirror in his jacket that he must have positioned in order to know where the spike was. Simple misdirection trick that is used fairly often

    • @frenchphilosopher302
      @frenchphilosopher302 8 лет назад +1

      he touches each piece of wood when mixing them up

    • @JugPuskaric
      @JugPuskaric 6 лет назад

      There are 2 Options i know: 1 is the Wood with the Spike is a litle bigger/smaller than the others, 2 is a hair/line clued on the edge of the wood with the spike. He knows what to look for and he touch the cups for so long he needs to find out which one is the right. Imagine the 3 cups without hair and the one with it from above: OQOO

    • @d3g3n3r4t3
      @d3g3n3r4t3 5 лет назад

      @@JugPuskaric imo the nail actually slightly pokes the cup, so the guy actually is in on the trick, its more for the audience, or maybe not

  • @dizont
    @dizont 10 лет назад +51

    i was hoping to see some real brain magic, but it was just simple tricks :/ and tricks with "random" people participating are so unreliable :/ i had a friend "magician" and i was always the "random" guy at his shows

  • @zoki.to974
    @zoki.to974 5 лет назад +1

    touching the hand part: 7:43 he takes end of the "string" from one hand to other and on 7:52 he release from right hand 7:58 he drops it on the floor.

  • @haileyeats2586
    @haileyeats2586 8 лет назад +98

    After reading all the comments. I realized how stupid I was when I gave a thumbsup to this video and think it was all real.

    • @Kaelefoda
      @Kaelefoda 8 лет назад +11

      You are stupid to think it was real all along, everyone knows its fake to some degree, but dont know how, that's why the vídeo is titled that way.

    • @tokyorain3984
      @tokyorain3984 8 лет назад +11

      why does he not deserve a thumbs up? hes good

    • @Kaelefoda
      @Kaelefoda 8 лет назад

      Sumerian Kryptex true

    • @arandombard1197
      @arandombard1197 8 лет назад +2

      That's how these tricks work. They claim the magic is being done through the power of mentalism, subliminal messaging and neuro-linguistic programming. These things don't really exist (at least not to that extent) and the magicians are always just using the most simple tricks imaginable which are disguised as mentalism. It makes the trick appear greater than it is and the audience doesn't really question it because a plausible explanation has already been given by the magician.

    • @holyflanders924
      @holyflanders924 7 лет назад +2

      Because this a TED talk, TED talks are known for explaining things to the audience, and instead of saying its "Voodoo magic" or "Brain magic" is simply bs, he was good, but I just dont like the idea in general.

  • @dragoninspiredqueen1809
    @dragoninspiredqueen1809 5 лет назад +28

    17:21 Keith: Is there any way to see through it?
    The man *saying 'No' while closed his eyes*

    • @HyperLuminal
      @HyperLuminal 4 года назад +3

      Did you notice he also puts the blindfold on backwards compared to how he had the man look through it?

  • @syedzaidi1463
    @syedzaidi1463 5 лет назад +36

    He: Driving blindfolded
    She: Gosh, I can't drive like this even with my eyes out

  • @kashmirabhingare6427
    @kashmirabhingare6427 4 года назад +2

    At 13:00 the piece of glass that he gave her is a Prince Rupert's drops it is a piece of glass which has a bulb like structure with a tail the bulb structure is very very strong but if the tail is brown then the entire piece breaks. So when the lady shaked the bottle the tail broke and thus the bottle too broke bcz of explosion

  • @tejasnakhate
    @tejasnakhate 6 лет назад +6

    The video has a glitch at 1:01
    At this point he turns his left hand 180 degrees to make that first trick work.

  • @D4RKBRU73
    @D4RKBRU73 5 лет назад +20

    To all the people screaming their pubertal, uneducated rages here, saying Keith Barry doesn't belong on TED:
    *TED* is an abbreviation for " Technology Entertainment & Design "
    Keith Barry was entertaining us, therefore he was absolutely within the guidelines. And nowhere in the title did it say *talk*.
    So please go and throw your tantrums elsewhere kids !

    • @patricioansaldi8021
      @patricioansaldi8021 5 лет назад

      yeah but how many other ted talks are pure entertainment?

    • @patricioansaldi8021
      @patricioansaldi8021 5 лет назад

      @silverfoxeater you can go anywhere for a magic show, people go to ted to learn something. Unless it was explicit in the event schedule, I would have been disappointed if I went to that "talk".

    • @Jejeco
      @Jejeco 5 лет назад

      I agree. No one is allowed to criticize anything if they didn't like the content. I agree 100% with you. Let us not express our dismay and frustration towards content creators in hopes to improve the quality of the show. You are absolutely right. I also think that acronyms and abbreviations are much more important than a tangible "common sense" of what is expected of a show. Thank you so much for your insightful comment. I hope they show us a toy story movie next "Technology Entertainment and Design" show. Or maybe just a picture of a building. Thanks again.

  • @Stuit3rb4l
    @Stuit3rb4l 5 лет назад +8

    7:19 didnt he just touch her on the back first, then seconds later make it look like he's touching his back first and ask what she feels, but she felt the touch at 7:19?

  • @manbearpiglett-4110
    @manbearpiglett-4110 5 лет назад

    Not going to call him a scumbag, but he's doing a great, simply excellent job of entertaining people, earning his money, and sending people home confused and amazed. How wonderful.

  • @gardfiel4643
    @gardfiel4643 8 лет назад +58

    He switched his hands over when he told an imaginary person to put their thumbs the other way round

    • @kynigosthewolf4573
      @kynigosthewolf4573 8 лет назад +13

      Yeah but that shouldn't matter. He told the audience to follow his
      Motions exactly. That would include him correcting the guy and then swapping his hands

    • @FuzyGreenLights
      @FuzyGreenLights 8 лет назад

      Yung Pik p

    • @jasonorieley3162
      @jasonorieley3162 8 лет назад

      You sure buddy? Lag, huh. What about the people who were watching this live from the audience. Did they experience this intentional lag?

  • @Agonzo94
    @Agonzo94 11 лет назад +13

    the "pressure" was his foot stepping on his signaling him

  • @lupaka
    @lupaka 3 года назад +14

    That car was the first “Tesla” u can’t fool me

  • @deerazor8280
    @deerazor8280 5 лет назад

    THREE TWO ONE AND YOUR OUT... I want you all to tell everybody else in the whole universe how amazing the show was and how amazed you were to see the amazing MAGIC..... THREE TWO ONE AND YOUR BACK

  • @JANEEDISTURBED
    @JANEEDISTURBED 5 лет назад +4

    There's a lot of suggestive signals within this man's presentation. Reverse psychology as well.
    However, the glass bottle part, ABSOLUTELY TRUE. It's happened to me. Not exactly in this way, but with glass melting and glass busting without me touching it.

  • @biggSHNDO
    @biggSHNDO 5 лет назад +7

    legend says-and the legend's right-that i still have blue balls waiting for him to explain why this phenomenon is what it is

  • @simondr70
    @simondr70 5 лет назад +47

    6:35 dude in black suite with white Birkenstock sandals

    • @jamescrow4915
      @jamescrow4915 5 лет назад

      And socks

    • @emmanuelmbao686
      @emmanuelmbao686 5 лет назад

      kkkkkkkki

    • @Sushobhit333
      @Sushobhit333 5 лет назад +3

      so that he can feel the pressure on his foot, which a man with shoes wouldn't have been able to.

  • @abhilashtp6917
    @abhilashtp6917 5 лет назад +1

    That hand thing, he and the audience were parallel till the mid way but when he released the hold just to switch the twist of the left arm the other way as if he was guiding the audience saying things like fingers, thumbs blah blah to make audience busy with the positioning . After saying that you can see his left elbow knocked against his body(switch) which was outwards initially.
    Watch it carefully at 1:00 he unholded and look at this elbow which is outward and at 1:04 you can simply see the difference.
    Just think in reverse what he showed the so called mind blowing twist at the end.

  • @hughmungus4118
    @hughmungus4118 9 лет назад +32

    the 2,392 dislikes are from Mike

  • @skyfelon
    @skyfelon 4 года назад +19

    14:00 its just a Physics

  • @atilababa5272
    @atilababa5272 5 лет назад +116

    When she raises her finger the guy is moving his leg to signalize to the "volunteer" he should raise his hand

    • @maunnepal7116
      @maunnepal7116 5 лет назад +9

      well !!! I was just trying to comment that.....

    • @aussiehillbilly
      @aussiehillbilly 5 лет назад +4

      He actually told him to put his hand all the way down under his breath

    • @axisvictory
      @axisvictory 5 лет назад +1

      I saw the same was about to comment and tag it lol 11:01

    • @TonecrafteLuthiery
      @TonecrafteLuthiery 5 лет назад +2

      That trick is way easier than that. Like easy to the point where the fact that he had you looking for fakery is kind of funny. Think about it. The woman giving commands is allowed to see the man receiving them, but he can't see her. They're both in a stressful environment on a stage they don't want to be on for fear of ruining the show. The person giving commands will always be inclined to move first because she knows that in order for the trick to work, she has to. The person receiving commands will always be included to take a longer pause because they're obviously the one reacting. As long as their movements are relatively close together this trick performs itself with no trickery required. And since most people don't go on stage intending to ruin a show for a couple thousand people, the odds of someone actively trying to thwart the trick is pretty slim.
      He told you he was going to deceive you. That he would manipulate your attention so that you would be looking for deception in the wrong places. He didn't just say that for fun. He said it to direct your attention to deception where, in the case of that trick, none was required.

    • @shrub9677
      @shrub9677 5 лет назад +2

      it was a volunteer, when he stepped on his foot that's what the guy with his eye closed thought the pressure was, but the people who could see assumed that it was pressure on his hand because he made a point of focusing on the guys hand and drawing attention to it

  • @dazuk1969
    @dazuk1969 5 лет назад +1

    Anybody that is moaning that this is not a Ted talk should watch the first few minutes again...he may not have a whiteboard and sharpy ...but he explains very well what he is doing, and how he is doing it...you just have to listen.....peace.

  • @paekrayok2073
    @paekrayok2073 5 лет назад +28

    Easy trick at 7:17. He touches her back while checking her eyes closed. I reveal it because TED cut the video to help this "magician"!

    • @waynebow-gu7wr
      @waynebow-gu7wr 5 лет назад

      And his sleeve tickles the top of her arm

    • @RJ47_AeroMechEngg
      @RJ47_AeroMechEngg 5 лет назад +1

      bro what about sleeve tickles the top of her arm

    • @waynebow-gu7wr
      @waynebow-gu7wr 5 лет назад

      @@RJ47_AeroMechEngg Thats what she felt when he looked like he was waving his hands around her arm without touching it. Just like at the start when he put his whole body in front of her.... and touched her back with his right hand.

  • @hfyaer
    @hfyaer 8 лет назад +13

    11:03 and 11:15 he moves his left leg. The coca bottle trick is because it's a special piece of glass.

  • @kcincoffey
    @kcincoffey 8 лет назад +8

    for the coke bottle all i can think of is some kind of chemical reaction between that shard which im guessing is not glass and the bottom of the coke bottle must be coated with something to make a reaction when that shard is rubbed against it

    • @Adam-rb7pm
      @Adam-rb7pm 8 лет назад

      It's not a chemical reaction, thats what happens when you drop something sharp in a Coke bottle Its a physical reaction

    • @92Pyromaniac
      @92Pyromaniac 8 лет назад +3

      I wrote a better explanation in a different comment, but I think it's caused by the way stresses in the glass are built into the bottle so that it can withstand huge impacts externally but shatters easily from internal impacts. Similar to how a Prince Rupert's Drop works.

    • @JogSolidaries
      @JogSolidaries 8 лет назад

      It could be. It's possible to break a beer bottle easily shaking a 1 cent. euro coin inside. I think that has to be with frequency vibrations, like breaking a glass just singing.

    • @awesomeayush111
      @awesomeayush111 8 лет назад +2

      Mark Houdini resonance. The frequency of the bottle and the shard of glass match when he shakes them leading to superimposed waves. It's similar to how a marching band on a bridge can break it despite it being able to hold tons of weight of passing cars

    • @Robozquid
      @Robozquid 7 лет назад +1

      You can see some sort of gas coming out of the top of the bottle at 14:04 and so on. It's definitely some type of chemical reaction

  • @kj-nm4in
    @kj-nm4in 5 лет назад +38

    7:43 he uses an invisible string and you can see it because of the way his fingers move

    • @mhkuntug
      @mhkuntug 5 лет назад +2

      So that's why he wanted her to curl her clothes. Nice one.

    • @abhishekgohil595
      @abhishekgohil595 5 лет назад +1

      Smart

    • @numankaraaslan
      @numankaraaslan 4 года назад

      07:57 he gets rid of it from his left hand :)

  • @Ryoka1
    @Ryoka1 7 лет назад +6

    7:41
    the tickling sensation on the left arm is nothing but a strand of hair or something just as fine.
    you see keith pulling the loop out of his finger.

  • @gameprankster3035
    @gameprankster3035 5 лет назад +14

    They cut the video because people watching it will notice the trick, because we are not doing it so we will not be manipulated on his trick.

  • @トマトトマト-w8e
    @トマトトマト-w8e 5 лет назад +6

    最後に笑うのは私だって言ったでしょう?がめっちゃ好きwwww

  • @forheavenssakeidonthavewif2657
    @forheavenssakeidonthavewif2657 5 лет назад +1

    From some point 12:20 >ff, he keeps swinging the Coke bottle from hand to hand. It looks like he's swapping the hard bottle for the breakable one in his left sleeve and hand, then dropping the hard bottle into his left pocket as he searches for the shard. The shard adds nothing to the trick other than to give those who are watching his left hand a reason for the fidgeting. A very slick cupping manoeuvre. Any thoughts?

    • @arefeshghi
      @arefeshghi 5 лет назад

      No, check for Bologna bottle on RUclips.