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As someone who performs magic I have worked alot recently with invisible thread. It is attached to his ear which is why when using his hands he makes a few grabs for it, could be deliberate as a clever misdirection. When he does the no hand stuff you can see he moves his head in the direction the mug rolls, as I said the thread is anchored to his ear. I could recreate this effect live with a few mins practice.
Underrated comment right here. There was always body movement and I was wondering how he did the no-hands part but ended up tilting his head with his eyes closed. I had thought thread, but that part threw me off. Your comment put it back on track.
Yup!!! I think he also may have put the thread between index and thumb and with that have push the handle downwards a few time! It is kinda of telling when he misses the spot!!!
I used to use a similar trick in grade school with a paper cup. I learned to gently blow on the cup in such a way that it would move slowly across a table without anyone seeing that I actually was blowing it. I'm out of practice now, but when I was a kid, I could actually turn the cup somewhat and make it go towards different people at the lunch table in school. A lot of fun then, though obvious once anyone in the group figured it out.
Actual Stage Magic is usually confusing to the public as a result of the combination of effects that are either so obvious that people look past them while looking for something clever, or by something that is so complex that no one believes the magician either would or even could go to such lengths to make such a small effect happen. This is, as you point out, the prior...
That reminds me of the trick James Randy debunked where James Hydrick could supposedly move telephone book pages with his mind. James Randy put a bunch of Styrofoam around the book and unsurprisingly Hydrick could not move the pages anymore.
Video cuts aside, he also never flipped the cup the other direction than the way it was leaning to already. Also, it's pretty convenient that everything he moves can roll around. I want to see him try a block
You want a total mindfreak, just imagine when this DOESN'T happen! Had an (unknown at the time) hemorrhage in my spinal column years ago. The pain was so bad I had my wife take me to the emergency room. Thought I was maybe passing a huge kidney stone or something, and so did the ER folks. They kept dumping more pain meds in me, but it wasn't helping. After a couple hours, I went to hug my knees (as I had been doing whenever the pain got really bad), and only 1 leg came up! The other one just stayed flat on the table! At the time, I was so drugged up on pain meds I just remember looking at the leg and thinking "huh? That's a bit odd!". Anyways, within half an hour or so I was completely paralyzed from the waste down. Luckily, the hospital responded quickly, got me in the MRI machine, and had a spinal surgeon cutting me open before the sun rose the next day. Glad to say I made a complete recovery, although I did have to go thru a couple months of therapy to learn to walk, etc., again. Sorry for the long story! It's just your comment made me think of how weird it was when your muscles DON'T respond to your brain! ;)
Amazing how he always moves the cups in the direction the handle is leaning over. If he had telekentic power he'd move it _against_ the pull of gravity to prove his skill.
@@TearTheRoof0ff yeah that might have well been dead centre on top, I wanna see him do it to the right in one take after he did it to the left too, like he did with the styrene cup.
If his mind is what is making it move then why does he even need the hand motions? He should be able.to simply set it down, sit back and move it in and direction. Of course it's all done from drama and effect.
the one time looks like the handle is leaning right and he pulls it back to the left. I think it was the second time on the teacup. I'm guessing, since the sound has been removed, that he's using air to move it.
As a magician, “Invisible Thread” was one of the methods I immediately assumed he was employing. “Invisible Thread” is extremely thin, yet strong, nylon thread that magicians use to move and levitate items. It’s very difficult to see, (particularly against a dark/black background…oh, say like a black t-shirt). He could have the thread anchored in a few places that would facilitate what we are seeing with minimal movement on his part. And SciManDan has a good point about the cuts in the video. He could be setting it up to move due to how the cups are set/balanced; and/or he could also require the cuts to setup the thread. He’s also counting on the viewers making an assumption that he’s alone. We don’t see off camera on either side of the table. We don’t see under the table. We don’t hear anything, as the sounds that would’ve been audible during his “experiments” has been removed and all we hear is his narration. This is a magic trick. It’s not even clever. Easily reproduced, and even more convincingly done with just a simple order from a magic shop by someone who knows what to purchase.
@@johnfitzgerald8879 No. It’s different. It’s virtually spider web thin and made from a different type of nylon than fishing line. It also behaves completely differently.
It'd be more impressive if he used string, then he could have the handle facing straight up, not to one the side so gravity does all the work once he kicks the table. Wouldn't need the jump cuts with string.
The table has a bit of cushioning where he places the teacup. You can see the rim of the cup sink into it a bit but there is no cushioning under the rocks that are already on the table. This makes it easier to balance the cup at an angle and turn over slowly using invisible thread.
To me the tea cup and coffee mug parts seem to have two tables with a gap between them, the one in the front placed a bit higher so that the fabric pattern and the from behind lighting hide the gap. The bottom part of the cup rims being hidden already sort of gives it away, and the shadows of his fingers at e.g. 9:20 even more so. No such gap visible with the initial foam cup sequence though, so there it might indeed have been simple electrostatics.
Been there done that with slight vibration of table with knee to get it to tip over. Using static electricity to elevate a (styrofoam) object is a fun magic trick at a child’s birthday party.
@@nomenclature9373 Spot on dude, just kick the table. A lot of these tricks really are dead simple, people overthink it. eg James Hydrick who could move pencils or flip book pages with his mind just simply blew on them. Done the pencil tricks lots of times.
One idea could be bumping the table from below to make the already instable cup roll over completely. Then you could heighten the front of the cloth with cardboard underneath, the dent can be hidden by the lighting, and then in the area of the cup you have another cardboard strip, thinnner, with a cutout where the cup sinks in, and when you pull the cardboard under the cloth sideways it is nudged a litte on one side and loses support on the other - roll. We do not see the underside or the ends of the table, so we have no idea what is going on. It could be even simpler - someone on the side is blowing the cup over with a nozzled fan. (there is no sound)
I have my doubts with people wearing baseball caps indoors, and it is over when they have them on backwards - especially when they are as old as this guy. See DITRH or the guy that was crushed by FTFE yesterday.
SciManDan I have done the cup trick myself several different ways. There is two main methods. Method-1: using strings, or a stick off camera to move the cup. Method-2: Using air currents to move the cup, air currents can't be seen on camera. Yes, SciManDan other methods is used as well. Illusionist magic tricks teaches how these things is done. I don't understand how people can be duped by majic tricks that can be taught to children.
The second tea cup fall and the first two coffee cup falls you can literally see him brush against the cups with his thumb just before they move. There is also something weird about the table, like there is some thin layer of padding under the table cloth. Look at the bottom of the tea and coffee cups. They are slightly sunk down into the table making them look flat on the bottom. This would definitely help with balancing of the cup a little longer so the weight of the handle didn’t make it immediately roll over. And on the first tea cup fall he is very obviously pushing his hand down and dragging it along the table as he goes away from the cup. My guess there is that he is doing this to slightly pull on the table cloth and give the cup a nudge in that direction so it rolls.
Thanks Dan. What I find amazing is the fact that there are some people being taken in by these magic tricks. Also, with the first 'demonstration', he could simply have something creating air movement off camera. We never see the edge of the table. I suspect a friend is simply blowing the cup. Simples!
I agree, you can even see the background cloth move in the wind. A good one at about 9:11. You will notice that he overdubs his videos so you don't hear the noise of the blowing (or fans)
Yeah, airflow was my first thought as well. Could be as simple as an open window. When something is so finely balanced it tips very easily. Could also be a slight vibration, tapping the table leg with a foot. I'm sure there are plenty of other reasonable explanations.
LMAO, I used to pretend I could use the force by standing up a piece of folded paper in a certain way then thrusting my hand toward it without touching it. When I first did this as a kid, I didn't realize it was the air I was moving, so I felt pretty awesome. It was still fun to do even realizing it was just the air. Or static.
Spot on Dan. He can also be manipulating the air around the objects by breathing or his hand gestures, not to mention the table cloth and the table. Those three things alone will always topple a precariously balanced cup, i'm surprised he's having such a hard time with it.
Just watching this guy, you can see he is a practiced performer. Why would you need to move your hands like that if this power is coming from your mind? This is a magic act. Nothing more. Love that you mention Randi. These folks will never prove their "power" under real lab conditions because they can't.
Cuts with the coffee mug were pretty obvious when he adjusted the mug with the handle moved more to the side. Tablecloth probably provides sufficient friction to set up the cups off-balance so they don’t immediately roll. His little nudges with his thumb on the bottom of the mug were noticeable, too. I can’t get near styrofoam without it trying to stick to me, same thing with plastic film packaging, when I remove it from an item I bought. It drives me crazy the way it sticks to me. I must have an electric personality.
I was looking for this exact comment as this is what I suspected too! It's a lot simpler than a lot of the suggestions here and when you look for the thumb nudge it happens every time
You actually don't need to see him diddle around setting up the cup every time. You can actually see him gently nudge the handle a few times with his thumb as he passes his hands around it on some of the "tips," I'm guessing when the cup was just a hair's breadth to close to center balance. He actually does a magician's misdirection with a flash flick of the cup at 9:32 when he taps it to roll camera left while his hand moves camera right.
I think he used a combo of techniques. The little tap is likely, but also I think he leaned a little on the tablecloth at times to drag it small amounts to the side. And of course the cuts that Dan mentioned to let gravity pull the heavier side down. By using multiple techniques, he can wait for someone to spot a technique in one clip, and say that he couldn't be faking it that way because he unambiguously wasn't using the same technique in another clip.
@@OriginalPiMan Very nice point. I'd noticed the thumb tap and wondered at the rest, but I figured there had to be some kind of pulling with a line or similar. Makes sense to mix it up like that. The idea that someone in this age would still be trying that Victorian seance crap and expecting people to lap it up amazes me. But now as much as then, there are people eager to believe.
@@OriginalPiMan Yes, I wasn't sure the other methods he used, for instance, when his hands are farther away, so I would also be of the opinion he has multiple "techniques" to flip the cup. That was the only one I was able to visually see repeated in several (though not all) clips.
This is absolutely an invisible thread trick. If you watch his hands in the first part, you can see him fishing to find the string with his movements so he can pull on it. That’s why it takes him multiple “gestures” to get it to move. His pinky in particular - you can see how he stretches it out, rigid, to try and make sure it catches and holds the thread as he moves his hand.
The teacup could easily be done with a gimmick called "loops" that are small, nearly invisible elastic loops. He could potentially have the loop between his forefinger and thumb and be gently passing over the handle until it is finally pulled, as the loops are not very strong due to their being so thin.
I think I more believe Dan's opinion. If it were actually pulling on the objects he could have also really sold it with the cup swinging the other way then swinging it back to show some "force". He wouldn't need to reset it with each showcase otherwise. I think he honestly believes he's doing telekinesis due to personal bias. His bias has prevented him from noticing the external factors that you should, factor out. I mean if we were serious about proving telekinesis we'd put a marked object of any kind in a small vacuum chamber. This takes away electrostatic charge nearly entirely and the wind from moving your hands is also factored out. The only factor left then would be them shaking the chamber as shaking any part of your body will shake the floor beneath you. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
@@Skylancer727 "I think he honestly believes he's doing telekinesis due to personal bias". No, that's very unlikely due to the first demonstration with the cup. I highly doubt that static electricity is involved here. More likely someone is blowing from outside the view since the movement is quite large and sudden. It also makes no sense that if he has "trouble" to get the first cup moving, the tea cup or mug would be way heavier and requires several times the force
If I had to guess based on how his hands moved for the tea cup and the coffee mug it has to be a thin string. His hands seem to be moving in a specific path to catch the string and the cups seem to jolt lightly when he does catch it. Especially when lightly catching it the friction force on the string creates a very inconsistent catch on the string making it look like its difficult to move. The cuts are probably to adjust the connection spot, like to his ear or the other side of the table.
If /I/ were to try to make this video (as it's presented), the first thing thing i would look to use would be magnets. The surface if the "table" is covered with fabric that clearly has some kind if padding in or under it, obscuring the tabletop. We can't even know if there's actually a table under there. It could easily be two folding-tables at each side with cardboard or thick paper hung like a bridge between them, in which case his magic rocks would be good anchors for his false table. A magnetic bar, ball-bearings, or other such metal objects (in a pair, or either side of the center where he stages the cups) could be hiding under the "tablecloth." He could have magnet of some kind strapped to his thighs, coinciding with the magnetic metal on either side of the cups. When he moves his legs the magnets interact with the metal through the thin, false tabletop and -- wah-lah! Telekinesis. Also note that the sound is 100% voiceover, and the audio from the actual video recording is completely gone. This would aid in both video cuts as well as and friction noise from the magnets scratching around under the cloth. That or I would look to use some kind of "invisible" thread (i could think of a handful of ways to employ it here).
I'd have been more impressed if he'd pulled the cup handle against the direction of gravity, but guess what, it's not real. By the way, when my son was at junior school they had to invent a superhero, and his was 'Telekinesis Man!', not sure how he even knew what telekinesis was at that age, but brought back some nice memories.
If he can do it live on a zoom-call, I'd be fairly impressed, because I think he may have an accomplice off-screen with a compressed-air-tank and a little blow-nozzle. He may be using more than one trick, not necessarily air-based, like very fine threads as mentioned elsewhere. You can do some cool "levitation" tricks with compressed-air, but you have to cut the sound from the video, or it's very obvious what you're doing. Toroid-projectors (smoke-ring-guns, without the smoke) are also handy for illusions, but they also make a sound, so you need to do the "music+voiceover" thing like he's doing. Of course, the entire viewed-scene could also be on a "set" built on a tilt-table, including the camera, background, and actor. That requires good support and muscle-control on his part, and a hat to hide his hair if it's long and could move, etc. I'd get him do to it with a hanging pendulum, live, to rule that out. As Dan indicates, if you can do as many "cuts" as you like, many tricks are possible.
Magician's thread is super cheap, and using a shitty camera, or rubbing a small bit of vaseline to wash out some detail make setting this up child's play.
Look up Loops the magic trick. I can buy the material in a roll. I used it to make cards float, cups and pens move, etc. I could do it real time in front of people and they couldn't see it, much less on camera.
Camera, lighting and stage are mounted on a seesaw type contraption. The seesaw is tilted slight to roll the cups but everything appears vertical due to camera and lighting moving at the same tilt. The tea cup and mug have to have the handle vertical because the stage can't be tilted far enough to over come the weight of the handle if was placed at its lowest point. The actor also seems to brace himself with his other arm during the tilting motion to prevent movement in himself.
If he could have the handle roll to the farther direction it would be more convincing, or even start with the handle touching the table and roll it to the other side. But he does what gravity make happen and clams it as super natural powers, still a great laugh to start the day. Thanks Dan, you always find the most priceless crap.
Even if telekinesis was real, thats gotta be one of the most unremarbale superpowers ever. Being able to move stuff barely beyond their center of balance to make it fall over with your hands millimetres away, something even a slight gust of air could achieve? It's like being able to grow your fingernails twice as fast as other humans. Maybe he just needs more crystals to increase his power level.
As all of us who went to Hogwarts know, when you magically move objects with your brain, you don’t wave your hands around (creating suspicious air currents). He gets a Grade F from Professor Flitwick.
With these sorts of things it's always multiple methods. he could be using static electricity to roll the cup, he could also just be blowing on it considering he takes a while to get it the first try, only after changing the position of his mouth. And then he stays still for the rest of the section. For the teacup, he could be doing the balancing trick you suggested, he could also be using a bit of nylon string tied to the handle which he literally pulls with his pulling motion. Then tdrags the thread across the table in the next shot, blundering and hitting it the string tensioned on a crystal too quickly in the next. And finally topping it off by spending a long time blowing one over very overtly in the next. Same trick with the mug. Although some of the tricks looks to tilt more towards the balancing act. As always, best to use Occam's Razor with this. Either he did one of those tricks, or some other trick we can't think of right now. Or he has a magical power yet undiscovered by Science or Investigators. Only way for him to prove he's using psychic powers is to do the test in a controlled environment with our equipment. James Randi style.
It is a foam tabletop with the cup pressed down into it. As the foam gradually rises back up it either allows the heavy cup to roll with gravity on the handle or with a slope pressed down over an area rolls the Styrofoam cup. No need for wires or slopey tables. Simples...
@@michaelyiannett4515 that’s just camera angle and we don’t know the true balance point of the cup. Or how it’s sitting on the surface. He purposefully commented on the table cover, which makes me think it’s extremely important to the illusion.
This is in fact one of the tricks used to deceive the military testers of the 'Men Who Stare At Goats' Fame. Very easy trick, an amature can do it fairly well. Place a piece of cut off straw in your mouth. Blow through the straw and use it to direct a stream of air. You can use the Bernoulli Effect to create a Vacuum across your hand or simply use air pressure by blowing off your hand or the convenient rock. Looks cool but check his gums at beginning and mouth throughout.
@@michaelyiannett4515 Only just and I suspect that given the padding on the table that it's probably placed at a point where it's still not placed past the balance point. I.E. the cup it's on a slight slope in the padding at that spot making the contact between the cup and the padding the other side of the handle.
I'm glad I didn't go to bed! Although, I think I'd like to sav ScimanDan's sarcasm and science to savor with my coffee in the Seattle morning. I appreciate you, Dan, and your frontline battle against ignorance & misinformation!
@@purefoldnz3070in dans defence. he didn't know. meny creators big small and medium. Why he hasn't taken accountability and publicly post a video explaining what happend to at least protect any more fans and alert any of his community that may have invested in this gag gift as it turns out! Dan I like your channel and you but even I'm here like why you doing us wrong Dan 30 second clip. please be aware I recently showed an ad on this channel established. I must ask all of my communication to not use there products and attempt to get a refund. The company misrepresented it's self to me and a lot of other creators. I am and will try to improve how I do due diligence (or check a company) Like dude you didn't even check company house or nothing? There where in Hong Kong the plots lead to a protected forest
@@tommyjay7287 Yes exactly! Other youtubers were offered a lot of cash to do this promo but turned it down after doing their due diligence. His radio silence speaks volumes.
I noticed two things: (1) The cups always roll in the direction of the handle. (2) The tabletop is not a hard surface, it looks more like a soft vinyl sheet with slight padding underneath. Note both cups where they meet the surface, there's a spot where the surface covering is blocking the lowest spot on the cup rim. I was also looking for any shift in the table with respect to the background art, wasn't able to see anything obvious.
So the "table" doesn't seem to move but if you watch the cloth under the cup as it rolls away. It looks like it is being lifted up slightly forcing the cup to roll down and away. My guess his feet are manipulating a very small area under the cup to push the cup.
My first thought was his thumb always passes directly behind the cup handle, perhaps brushing it just enough to let the weight of the handle roll the cup over from the carefully balanced state. What would be more impressive is to put the cup under a glass dome.
I think that the cushion of the "table" also plays a large role. There is enough "give" in the surface, that almost imperceptible pressure from above (thumb that hides behind the mug) or below (leg?) would cause the roll of the mugs. The handle MUST be on the correct side, or the amount of pressure applied would be visually obvious.
That's when they come up with excuses like "the energies aren't right," or "I'm not in the right mind-set," usually blaming the people setting up the experiment. These things never stand up to any sort of scrutiny.
If this guy manage to roll the tea cup ear over to one side to another in one cut with out touching it I'm going to be convinced that he got something to teach. Just rolling a cup ear downhill within the margin of balance seems like a good party trick if you can balance it correct without too much of an effort Infront of an audience
As I once made a video- since taken down and done as a joke- doing this exact trick, I might suggest that rather than static electricity there's somebody off to the side blowing. We used a camera cleaning blower- a little rubber thing that pumps a small amount of air. Though there are other methods of doing this too. The tea cup could be moved with a larger blower, or a thread, either pulled through a tiny hole from underneath or off to the side. But I suspect the balancing trick Dan mentioned is correct. To be honest, these are all old tricks that have several methodologies and have been done by illusionists for centuries. I don't know why he doesn't just do it as mildly entertaining tricks instead of this psychic codswallop; he'd probably get more views.
Go to a magic shop and ask for invisible thread. It is why the first pass at least 2 fingers go around (not over) the handle. Also explains why he had problems when the handle was low, and the head bob with the "no hands" demo. This is why the huge crystals (to anchor thread), the cuts (to run thread through handle), and why he switch his pull on the teacup. Make a pass to hook thread with fingers, and slowly draw slack till it rolls. When it slipped the one time on the teacup he pinched with his fingers as a reflex. Couple of ways it could have been on the styrofoam cup, too. Static was actually a problem, and that last big lurch was the thread sliding down and off the bottom of the cup
It's called "Metastability". You can potentially balance a sharpened pencil on it's point and that would be very fragile. Whilst balancing a triangle on the flat base is easy and very stable. When you have a period of metastability it can collapse at any time. I want to see him place the mug with the handle to the right and move the mug so the handle is to the left.
I tried telekinesis, I would go home every day and concentrate on the rug in my living room trying to move it. I did that for weeks. The rug never moved. My house is gone, but the rug is still there.
Useful when the objects are extremely lightweight, so they can be moved with static or nasal breathing. (The tea cup took "heavy empathy", mostly from his lungs...) And the coffe mug, he's basically touching it, isn't he?
You know it is interesting how he moves the tea cup not only on the side with the handle sticking out, affecting its center of gravity, but also while dragging his fingers along the soft, cushion surface, possibly bending part of the soft surface creating a slope for the cup to roll down. The only exception being around 6:33 but his thumb is out and behind the cup so possibly bumping it slightly to push it? As well as SciManDans theory of balancing it until juuust before it falls down then waving your hands around waiting.
Thank you so much for this clip, all the others and for having the continuous power keeping this channel up. Superb work on preserving reality! In this case I also believe he’s just waiting for gravity to kick in. A bolder move would be if he mounted the camera directly to the table and very slightly turned the whole set including himself and the background cloth. Just giving him a tip here. This way the effect would be far more convincing than this underwhelming stop trick sham.
Actively and selectively controlling static charge in your fingertips with nothing but your mind? Incredible. Pushing a styrofoam cup by wiggling your fingers and warping static fields, incredibly boring.
As someone that has actually studied various types of magic, I can say this isn't as telekinetic as the guy thinks it is. SciManDan, you're correct on the static thing. As for the glassware, the secret is in the handle positions and the cuts. If he wants to really prove it, then there's only a few things he has to do. 1. Get a cup with no handle that isn't styrofoam, prefered to keep glass, and have a uniform shape. 2. Remove the table cloth, it'll just make the handleless cup harder to move. It applies a lot of unneeded friction to the cup. 3. Give a higher view, this is mainly to show you aren't touching the cup with your other hand or via other divices. These last 2 are mainly a me thing; glass table, and a pulled back view. The glass table is to show nothing is hitting the table underneath to mess with the cup. The pulled back view is just to show nothing is messing with the edges/legs of the table. If you really want to get picky, then nothing must get within a set distance of the cup, in the video the shadows made me think some touching was going on with the glass cups. Also use the audio in the video instead of doing a voice over later, anything can happen when it's muted. *note - A magician can still make the cup move in front of a large crowd following these guidelines. This is just as decent of a way to prevent false claims.
A few things come to mind. Some under the cloth slight pressure to make the cups roll. Tilting the table is an option but I don't see any evidence of that. My best guess is he uses foot pedals to activate directed "air guns". He's wearing tight clothing, short sleeves and a hat. And there are heavy stones on the table cloth. This ensures that there is no visible movement. However, at times, you can see the cloth behind him move ever so little just when the cup starts to roll (the moment the most air pressure is needed). Depending on the side, the angle and width of the "air guns" (he probably put some sort of snoot on it), the amount of air needed and his body blocking the airflow, you can see it affecting the cloth behind him. The most obvious is with the heaviest object of course, the last cup. And then the most obvious is when the cup rolls to the right, check the cloth on the right hand side move just at that time. Challenge to him: do a wide angle shot, with only a small piece of cloth on the table (not covering the entire table, just enough to accommodate the cup). Show us off the sides and underneath the table. If it's telekinesis, none of that should prevent you from rolling the cup.
The way he looks at the camera after his amazing telekinesis (lol) is how a dog looks at you after it’s delivered a particularly large and impressive 💩
If you notice, it looks like the very bottom edge where the cup meets the table is obscured by a small lip. It seems like the tablecloth is placed over some very thin object, or possibly just folded in such a way to create an edge. My guess is effectively what you said, that he's balancing it in such a way that it will eventually fall, but also that he's pressing it against this lip to give it just enough friction to hold it in place for a few seconds. Could possibly even trigger the fall then by barely and imperceptibly tugging on the cloth with his other hand
He always puts the teacup with the handle facing down, I reckon he balances it and then all it takes is a small nudge (a breath, a tap on the table, a nudge from behind with his other hand) to make it unstable, gravity takes over and the cup falls over onto the side with the handle as always.
He also vibrates his hands which screws with the room's airflow and shaking your arm also shakes what you're resting on. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. It's the all popular hold a note then shake your fist in the air, you won't be able to hold that note its nearly impossible and you do shake your chair or the floor while doing it.
After I inherited this magnetic thumb ring from my late grandmother, who was a psychic medium, I found out that I, as well, was able to telekinetically move many metallic objects. It's probably because we're blood related and share a soul link.
It'd be nice to adress in video the thing with Established TItles Dan! Trust is easy to lose in cases like this! Aside from that, I think people who believe people who claim stuff like that are kind of silly :'D
@@DarkReturns1 established titles is actually a scam, there have been multiple videos exposing them, so I was wondering if Dan would address this because he’s been sponsored by them a lot
It’s not static. As someone below said, it is an invisible string like fishing line. Notice how when he “successfully” moves it with his hand, his hand touches the table and pulls the line connected to the cup. The two rocks on each side of the table are used as anchors connecting the line to the cup in the tea and coffee mug shots. And when he doesn’t use his hands it is connected to his ear which is why he has to move backward and pull it.
To me with the cup and mug it seemed like he was getting the rolling started by brushing his hand or elbow on the tablecloth. Once he's balanced it precariously between takes all it needs is the slightest nudge to make it unstable. Not once did I see him roll it in the opposite direction from which the handle was pointing.
He could have a fan off screen and turn it on and off with his foot. Yes the cup is as you said. I would like to see him try that will a high ball glass or uniform glass.
"I think telekinetic energy comes out in a pulse..." - I always thought it came out in a sort of cylindrical shape, rounded at one end, and pointy at the other.
Put the beverage container in a really stable position and then try moving it by your thoughts, or just try moving a flat highlighter across a table without any other influence than your own thoughts - No hand waving, no table manipulation in any way, no air, fluids, strings, lubricants, heat, electricity, magnetism or whatsoever and you'll have no results.
I think you're correct with the balancing of the cups, but I'd say there is an extra element to this illusion, I would put money on him raising 1 side of the table slightly (our right as we look at it) making the move more likely, because when he tried with a flat table the cup balances too well, not falling either way. This also gives the advantage of being able to balance the cup with the handle at the 2 o'clock position, so it appears to the viewers it is sitting stable in that position and not being fully upright so he can claim to be holding it there with the power of his mind. He has the camera on the table so perspective makes it look level but you can see a slight disparity in the position of the background against his body position.
Look at the table, the Styrofoam cup sits on the 'table' as you would expect a cup to sit however when the China cup came out it appears to create a dip in the 'table' it also does not maintain an even surface throughout the clips almost like there's no real solid table underneath that green stuff.
In the last shot of the tea cup, he was clearly subtly inhaling deeply and exhaling towards the handle so that the light breeze triggers the reaction. Notice how he had the handle in an downward starting position.
It's interesting that there's a ledge along the front which is cleverly camouflaged to be hard to see. This means one huge possibility: That is NOT a soft, cushy surface you see. Since it's likely a smooth surface under a thin fabric, this could be done with almost anything from a flat magnet being scooted along under the material, to magnetic paint on or in the cups (except the obvious static electricity one with the Styrofoam), to a thick, heavy string under the material pulled by someone else out of shot, to a small plastic pillow under that material thar slowly leaks out its air, to several others I can think of which I don't want to take time, energy, or room to list here.
I do believe you are correct with the coffee mug however with the tea cup I think it doesn't weigh enough to fall over by itself on that surface and I do believe he is pulling or pressing down on whatever that mat is on the different teacup attempts to stop and start it falling you can see his hand that isn't being twirled around in some of the shots and it gets really strained for some reason then when it's about to fall it relaxes. which that is also why I think those rocks are there not for scenery but to help hold the mat in place in other areas so the stretch goes right into the cup.
Someone, please explain to that guy "no one" is watching his video to learn "how to do it". That is painful to watch and he doesn't even understand what telekinesis is.
I have to go with gravity for the latter cups. He never starts with the handle against the table, ergo it's just off balance enough to tip towards the side the handle is leaning.
Could also have low powered fans on both sides triggered by pedals or someone else, for the polstyrene cup. For the teacup & mug, could easily have stuck on a washer or two on to the base in the cut scenes, and used a spring mounted, foot operated, magnet under the table (or on the thin plywood sheet over two tables so it is easier for the magnet). There seems to be many many ways these tricks could be done. But lab conditions. Nope.
I'm always amazed at how some people can move such large objects with so few brain cells.
LoL, best comment!!
And if they can "do" this with so few brain cells, just imagine what they can "do" with all their brain cells
Ah, yes….it comes down to density 😆
And yet, in 2022, it takes fewer brain cells to be a politician in America than almost anything! You don't even have to be able to form a sentence. Here is the candidate that is going to a runoff election with a sitting senator. He may very well win.
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Because he is a teacup Jedi
As someone who performs magic I have worked alot recently with invisible thread. It is attached to his ear which is why when using his hands he makes a few grabs for it, could be deliberate as a clever misdirection. When he does the no hand stuff you can see he moves his head in the direction the mug rolls, as I said the thread is anchored to his ear. I could recreate this effect live with a few mins practice.
Underrated comment right here. There was always body movement and I was wondering how he did the no-hands part but ended up tilting his head with his eyes closed. I had thought thread, but that part threw me off. Your comment put it back on track.
This is what I was thinking. As soon as he moved his hands around the cup the way he did it looked to me like he's placing the string in position.
At first, I thought it was just the old breath trick, until I saw the porcelain cup. Given Dan's comments, I might still have been correct.
The string was my first assumption once he jumped up to the ceramics.
Yup!!! I think he also may have put the thread between index and thumb and with that have push the handle downwards a few time! It is kinda of telling when he misses the spot!!!
He moves his hands more to use telekinesis than I do to pick things up with my hands.
A guy with advanced Parkinson's would the HOUDINI of TELEKINESIS!!!!!!!!!!
Ha ha ha 👍
I used to use a similar trick in grade school with a paper cup. I learned to gently blow on the cup in such a way that it would move slowly across a table without anyone seeing that I actually was blowing it. I'm out of practice now, but when I was a kid, I could actually turn the cup somewhat and make it go towards different people at the lunch table in school. A lot of fun then, though obvious once anyone in the group figured it out.
That is what I was watching for with this guy.
@@joyfulzero853 You saw those cuts... that was when the stuff you were looking for happened.
Actual Stage Magic is usually confusing to the public as a result of the combination of effects that are either so obvious that people look past them while looking for something clever, or by something that is so complex that no one believes the magician either would or even could go to such lengths to make such a small effect happen.
This is, as you point out, the prior...
That reminds me of the trick James Randy debunked where James Hydrick could supposedly move telephone book pages with his mind. James Randy put a bunch of Styrofoam around the book and unsurprisingly Hydrick could not move the pages anymore.
@@Razgar_Voxel this was the first thing that I thought of
Video cuts aside, he also never flipped the cup the other direction than the way it was leaning to already.
Also, it's pretty convenient that everything he moves can roll around. I want to see him try a block
I always liked how The Amazing Randy put it. To paraphrase: "If he's moving it with his mind, he's doing it the hard way."
Wow - something I totally agree with that came out of Randi lol
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Randall James Zwinge. May he rest in power.
I always move objects with my mind. I think something has to move. Then, my brain sends a message to my muscles and the thing moves! Incredible!
same here , i think of things to do and people start moving away from me .
this is "psychokinesis" where the means that the mind uses to manipulate the object is irrelevant :)
all humans are believed to be psychokinetic
You want a total mindfreak, just imagine when this DOESN'T happen! Had an (unknown at the time) hemorrhage in my spinal column years ago. The pain was so bad I had my wife take me to the emergency room. Thought I was maybe passing a huge kidney stone or something, and so did the ER folks. They kept dumping more pain meds in me, but it wasn't helping. After a couple hours, I went to hug my knees (as I had been doing whenever the pain got really bad), and only 1 leg came up! The other one just stayed flat on the table! At the time, I was so drugged up on pain meds I just remember looking at the leg and thinking "huh? That's a bit odd!".
Anyways, within half an hour or so I was completely paralyzed from the waste down. Luckily, the hospital responded quickly, got me in the MRI machine, and had a spinal surgeon cutting me open before the sun rose the next day. Glad to say I made a complete recovery, although I did have to go thru a couple months of therapy to learn to walk, etc., again.
Sorry for the long story! It's just your comment made me think of how weird it was when your muscles DON'T respond to your brain! ;)
I just used my mind to force a bowel movement.🤣
Amazing how he always moves the cups in the direction the handle is leaning over. If he had telekentic power he'd move it _against_ the pull of gravity to prove his skill.
@@ronhoek69 Meh, that's borderline. How about rolling it back over in the reverse direction after it's fallen all the way?
@@TearTheRoof0ff yeah that might have well been dead centre on top,
I wanna see him do it to the right in one take after he did it to the left too, like he did with the styrene cup.
Gravity sucks!
If his mind is what is making it move then why does he even need the hand motions? He should be able.to simply set it down, sit back and move it in and direction. Of course it's all done from drama and effect.
the one time looks like the handle is leaning right and he pulls it back to the left. I think it was the second time on the teacup. I'm guessing, since the sound has been removed, that he's using air to move it.
I can lift a rock with my mind. Of course, my mind told my hand to lift it, but let me assure you, my mind was doing most of the work!
4:34 “I don’t think you can say that there’s one way to do telekinesis…”
Correct! There is not one single way to do telekinesis!
He clearly has heavy empathy with a teacup, since the are on the same level intellectually. Thanks Dan and keep up the good work.
Don't be insulting to the tea cups.
lower*
As a magician, “Invisible Thread” was one of the methods I immediately assumed he was employing. “Invisible Thread” is extremely thin, yet strong, nylon thread that magicians use to move and levitate items. It’s very difficult to see, (particularly against a dark/black background…oh, say like a black t-shirt). He could have the thread anchored in a few places that would facilitate what we are seeing with minimal movement on his part.
And SciManDan has a good point about the cuts in the video. He could be setting it up to move due to how the cups are set/balanced; and/or he could also require the cuts to setup the thread.
He’s also counting on the viewers making an assumption that he’s alone. We don’t see off camera on either side of the table. We don’t see under the table. We don’t hear anything, as the sounds that would’ve been audible during his “experiments” has been removed and all we hear is his narration.
This is a magic trick. It’s not even clever. Easily reproduced, and even more convincingly done with just a simple order from a magic shop by someone who knows what to purchase.
Like fishing line?
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No. It’s different. It’s virtually spider web thin and made from a different type of nylon than fishing line. It also behaves completely differently.
@@bendyparanormal Fishing line does come in carbon filament and in sizes down to .002 in or 0.06mm. Human hair is 0.016 to 0.05mm.
Unfortunately the spectators never get to see the most challenging trick with invisible thread: tying a knot into that stuff.
It'd be more impressive if he used string, then he could have the handle facing straight up, not to one the side so gravity does all the work once he kicks the table. Wouldn't need the jump cuts with string.
The table has a bit of cushioning where he places the teacup. You can see the rim of the cup sink into it a bit but there is no cushioning under the rocks that are already on the table. This makes it easier to balance the cup at an angle and turn over slowly using invisible thread.
To me the tea cup and coffee mug parts seem to have two tables with a gap between them, the one in the front placed a bit higher so that the fabric pattern and the from behind lighting hide the gap. The bottom part of the cup rims being hidden already sort of gives it away, and the shadows of his fingers at e.g. 9:20 even more so.
No such gap visible with the initial foam cup sequence though, so there it might indeed have been simple electrostatics.
Been there done that with slight vibration of table with knee to get it to tip over. Using static electricity to elevate a (styrofoam) object is a fun magic trick at a child’s birthday party.
@@nomenclature9373 Spot on dude, just kick the table. A lot of these tricks really are dead simple, people overthink it. eg James Hydrick who could move pencils or flip book pages with his mind just simply blew on them. Done the pencil tricks lots of times.
One idea could be bumping the table from below to make the already instable cup roll over completely.
Then you could heighten the front of the cloth with cardboard underneath, the dent can be hidden by the lighting, and then in the area of the cup you have another cardboard strip, thinnner, with a cutout where the cup sinks in, and when you pull the cardboard under the cloth sideways it is nudged a litte on one side and loses support on the other - roll.
We do not see the underside or the ends of the table, so we have no idea what is going on. It could be even simpler - someone on the side is blowing the cup over with a nozzled fan.
(there is no sound)
I have my doubts with people wearing baseball caps indoors, and it is over when they have them on backwards - especially when they are as old as this guy.
See DITRH or the guy that was crushed by FTFE yesterday.
@@feedingravens I'm guessing Nike would like him to stop wearing that hat.
SciManDan I have done the cup trick myself several different ways. There is two main methods. Method-1: using strings, or a stick off camera to move the cup. Method-2: Using air currents to move the cup, air currents can't be seen on camera. Yes, SciManDan other methods is used as well. Illusionist magic tricks teaches how these things is done. I don't understand how people can be duped by majic tricks that can be taught to children.
The second tea cup fall and the first two coffee cup falls you can literally see him brush against the cups with his thumb just before they move. There is also something weird about the table, like there is some thin layer of padding under the table cloth. Look at the bottom of the tea and coffee cups. They are slightly sunk down into the table making them look flat on the bottom. This would definitely help with balancing of the cup a little longer so the weight of the handle didn’t make it immediately roll over. And on the first tea cup fall he is very obviously pushing his hand down and dragging it along the table as he goes away from the cup. My guess there is that he is doing this to slightly pull on the table cloth and give the cup a nudge in that direction so it rolls.
Thank you I thought I only saw him do that
It’s crazy how easily you can spot that stuff but people still believe it
I saw him move all three with his mind. His mind told his arms and hands to do it, and they did it! Amazing!
Ideo motor resopnse, By jove i think you've got it.
Spoiler alert: No.
Dang it! I was so excited to see if this man could move a cup with his mind.
best spoiler ever lol
Psh spoilsport. I actually thought he might actually be able to move a cup with his mind 🙄🙄
Wait, what?
How dare you?
Thanks Dan. What I find amazing is the fact that there are some people being taken in by these magic tricks. Also, with the first 'demonstration', he could simply have something creating air movement off camera. We never see the edge of the table. I suspect a friend is simply blowing the cup. Simples!
I agree, you can even see the background cloth move in the wind. A good one at about 9:11. You will notice that he overdubs his videos so you don't hear the noise of the blowing (or fans)
Heavy empathy!
Towards a tea cup!
Lulz
@@zerobeat2020 Good catch!
Yeah, airflow was my first thought as well. Could be as simple as an open window. When something is so finely balanced it tips very easily. Could also be a slight vibration, tapping the table leg with a foot. I'm sure there are plenty of other reasonable explanations.
Air movement is clearly in play.
LMAO, I used to pretend I could use the force by standing up a piece of folded paper in a certain way then thrusting my hand toward it without touching it.
When I first did this as a kid, I didn't realize it was the air I was moving, so I felt pretty awesome. It was still fun to do even realizing it was just the air. Or static.
I'm gonna use this on my lil brother sometime haha
@@TriflingToad have fun :D
Spot on Dan. He can also be manipulating the air around the objects by breathing or his hand gestures, not to mention the table cloth and the table. Those three things alone will always topple a precariously balanced cup, i'm surprised he's having such a hard time with it.
Just watching this guy, you can see he is a practiced performer. Why would you need to move your hands like that if this power is coming from your mind? This is a magic act. Nothing more. Love that you mention Randi. These folks will never prove their "power" under real lab conditions because they can't.
They think Star Wars where the Jedi or Vader direct the force with the hand.
Cuts with the coffee mug were pretty obvious when he adjusted the mug with the handle moved more to the side. Tablecloth probably provides sufficient friction to set up the cups off-balance so they don’t immediately roll. His little nudges with his thumb on the bottom of the mug were noticeable, too.
I can’t get near styrofoam without it trying to stick to me, same thing with plastic film packaging, when I remove it from an item I bought. It drives me crazy the way it sticks to me. I must have an electric personality.
You should start your own RUclips channel!
ITS YOUR ENERGY ! praise jesus
I was looking for this exact comment as this is what I suspected too! It's a lot simpler than a lot of the suggestions here and when you look for the thumb nudge it happens every time
It's also pretty obvious he touches the cofee mug before it rolls.
LOL you can literaly see how the thumb pushes the cups handle
You actually don't need to see him diddle around setting up the cup every time. You can actually see him gently nudge the handle a few times with his thumb as he passes his hands around it on some of the "tips," I'm guessing when the cup was just a hair's breadth to close to center balance. He actually does a magician's misdirection with a flash flick of the cup at 9:32 when he taps it to roll camera left while his hand moves camera right.
I think he used a combo of techniques. The little tap is likely, but also I think he leaned a little on the tablecloth at times to drag it small amounts to the side. And of course the cuts that Dan mentioned to let gravity pull the heavier side down.
By using multiple techniques, he can wait for someone to spot a technique in one clip, and say that he couldn't be faking it that way because he unambiguously wasn't using the same technique in another clip.
@@OriginalPiMan Very nice point. I'd noticed the thumb tap and wondered at the rest, but I figured there had to be some kind of pulling with a line or similar. Makes sense to mix it up like that. The idea that someone in this age would still be trying that Victorian seance crap and expecting people to lap it up amazes me. But now as much as then, there are people eager to believe.
@@OriginalPiMan Yes, I wasn't sure the other methods he used, for instance, when his hands are farther away, so I would also be of the opinion he has multiple "techniques" to flip the cup. That was the only one I was able to visually see repeated in several (though not all) clips.
Well spotted!
Also the cushioned table is very suspicious.
This is absolutely an invisible thread trick. If you watch his hands in the first part, you can see him fishing to find the string with his movements so he can pull on it. That’s why it takes him multiple “gestures” to get it to move. His pinky in particular - you can see how he stretches it out, rigid, to try and make sure it catches and holds the thread as he moves his hand.
People are crazy... One little correction: Randi Prize (or formally, "One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge") is no longer active (since 2015).
Wow he made a carefully balanced cup roll! Amazing! I'm convinced.
hahaha yup! so amazing!
The teacup could easily be done with a gimmick called "loops" that are small, nearly invisible elastic loops. He could potentially have the loop between his forefinger and thumb and be gently passing over the handle until it is finally pulled, as the loops are not very strong due to their being so thin.
I think I more believe Dan's opinion. If it were actually pulling on the objects he could have also really sold it with the cup swinging the other way then swinging it back to show some "force". He wouldn't need to reset it with each showcase otherwise.
I think he honestly believes he's doing telekinesis due to personal bias. His bias has prevented him from noticing the external factors that you should, factor out. I mean if we were serious about proving telekinesis we'd put a marked object of any kind in a small vacuum chamber. This takes away electrostatic charge nearly entirely and the wind from moving your hands is also factored out. The only factor left then would be them shaking the chamber as shaking any part of your body will shake the floor beneath you. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
@@Skylancer727 "I think he honestly believes he's doing telekinesis due to personal bias". No, that's very unlikely due to the first demonstration with the cup. I highly doubt that static electricity is involved here. More likely someone is blowing from outside the view since the movement is quite large and sudden.
It also makes no sense that if he has "trouble" to get the first cup moving, the tea cup or mug would be way heavier and requires several times the force
@@Skylancer727 I believe you are thinking of sounds waves as electromagnetic waves are unaffected by a vacuum.
Clever camera positioning, light grazing with his fingers and caregul balance. Why even use hand for telekinesis - it is a mind power, allegedly.
@@ivanpetrov5255 You can see his thumb lightly touch as the teacup rolls to our right on the last attempt.
Honestly, it’s be pretty hilarious if he was telekinetic, but only with styrofoam cups.
Lol. foamikensis
And only from a distance of 5-10mm.
Like on misfits where that guys superpower was he could control cheese
@@tryingmybest9819 dairy*
Or the guy in _Mystery Men_ who had the power of invisibility as long as no one looked at him.
If I had to guess based on how his hands moved for the tea cup and the coffee mug it has to be a thin string. His hands seem to be moving in a specific path to catch the string and the cups seem to jolt lightly when he does catch it. Especially when lightly catching it the friction force on the string creates a very inconsistent catch on the string making it look like its difficult to move. The cuts are probably to adjust the connection spot, like to his ear or the other side of the table.
If /I/ were to try to make this video (as it's presented), the first thing thing i would look to use would be magnets.
The surface if the "table" is covered with fabric that clearly has some kind if padding in or under it, obscuring the tabletop. We can't even know if there's actually a table under there. It could easily be two folding-tables at each side with cardboard or thick paper hung like a bridge between them, in which case his magic rocks would be good anchors for his false table. A magnetic bar, ball-bearings, or other such metal objects (in a pair, or either side of the center where he stages the cups) could be hiding under the "tablecloth." He could have magnet of some kind strapped to his thighs, coinciding with the magnetic metal on either side of the cups. When he moves his legs the magnets interact with the metal through the thin, false tabletop and -- wah-lah! Telekinesis.
Also note that the sound is 100% voiceover, and the audio from the actual video recording is completely gone. This would aid in both video cuts as well as and friction noise from the magnets scratching around under the cloth.
That or I would look to use some kind of "invisible" thread (i could think of a handful of ways to employ it here).
I'm a little disappointed that he didn't try to make the two stones on the table collide.
I'd have been more impressed if he'd pulled the cup handle against the direction of gravity, but guess what, it's not real. By the way, when my son was at junior school they had to invent a superhero, and his was 'Telekinesis Man!', not sure how he even knew what telekinesis was at that age, but brought back some nice memories.
If he can do it live on a zoom-call, I'd be fairly impressed, because I think he may have an accomplice off-screen with a compressed-air-tank and a little blow-nozzle. He may be using more than one trick, not necessarily air-based, like very fine threads as mentioned elsewhere. You can do some cool "levitation" tricks with compressed-air, but you have to cut the sound from the video, or it's very obvious what you're doing. Toroid-projectors (smoke-ring-guns, without the smoke) are also handy for illusions, but they also make a sound, so you need to do the "music+voiceover" thing like he's doing. Of course, the entire viewed-scene could also be on a "set" built on a tilt-table, including the camera, background, and actor. That requires good support and muscle-control on his part, and a hat to hide his hair if it's long and could move, etc. I'd get him do to it with a hanging pendulum, live, to rule that out. As Dan indicates, if you can do as many "cuts" as you like, many tricks are possible.
Magician's thread is super cheap, and using a shitty camera, or rubbing a small bit of vaseline to wash out some detail make setting this up child's play.
@@pyrrhomania Indeed, and seeing it on live video, or even in-person would certainly help expose whatever techniques he was using.
I just wrote up the same "tilt stage" idea before I read your comment, sleat! haha
Look up Loops the magic trick. I can buy the material in a roll. I used it to make cards float, cups and pens move, etc. I could do it real time in front of people and they couldn't see it, much less on camera.
Camera, lighting and stage are mounted on a seesaw type contraption. The seesaw is tilted slight to roll the cups but everything appears vertical due to camera and lighting moving at the same tilt. The tea cup and mug have to have the handle vertical because the stage can't be tilted far enough to over come the weight of the handle if was placed at its lowest point. The actor also seems to brace himself with his other arm during the tilting motion to prevent movement in himself.
If he could have the handle roll to the farther direction it would be more convincing, or even start with the handle touching the table and roll it to the other side. But he does what gravity make happen and clams it as super natural powers, still a great laugh to start the day. Thanks Dan, you always find the most priceless crap.
Even if telekinesis was real, thats gotta be one of the most unremarbale superpowers ever. Being able to move stuff barely beyond their center of balance to make it fall over with your hands millimetres away, something even a slight gust of air could achieve? It's like being able to grow your fingernails twice as fast as other humans.
Maybe he just needs more crystals to increase his power level.
As all of us who went to Hogwarts know, when you magically move objects with your brain, you don’t wave your hands around (creating suspicious air currents). He gets a Grade F from Professor Flitwick.
Grade D, you mean.
I would create the suspicious airflow with two fans and a couple of footswitches.
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I was there in the 70s, when were you there?
@@abelis644 Late 80s. I upset Nearly Headless Nick when I told him I thought Slimer from Ghostbusters was the better ghost.
With these sorts of things it's always multiple methods.
he could be using static electricity to roll the cup, he could also just be blowing on it considering he takes a while to get it the first try, only after changing the position of his mouth. And then he stays still for the rest of the section.
For the teacup, he could be doing the balancing trick you suggested, he could also be using a bit of nylon string tied to the handle which he literally pulls with his pulling motion. Then tdrags the thread across the table in the next shot, blundering and hitting it the string tensioned on a crystal too quickly in the next. And finally topping it off by spending a long time blowing one over very overtly in the next.
Same trick with the mug. Although some of the tricks looks to tilt more towards the balancing act.
As always, best to use Occam's Razor with this. Either he did one of those tricks, or some other trick we can't think of right now. Or he has a magical power yet undiscovered by Science or Investigators.
Only way for him to prove he's using psychic powers is to do the test in a controlled environment with our equipment. James Randi style.
It is a foam tabletop with the cup pressed down into it. As the foam gradually rises back up it either allows the heavy cup to roll with gravity on the handle or with a slope pressed down over an area rolls the Styrofoam cup. No need for wires or slopey tables. Simples...
I also notice that he never "pulls" the cup handle over the center point of the cup, but only in the direction favored by being off balance.
All he needs to do is impart a slight vibration to the table and handle falls over. Been there done that.
Actually he does at the 6:19 mark but yeah its still bs
@@michaelyiannett4515 that’s just camera angle and we don’t know the true balance point of the cup. Or how it’s sitting on the surface. He purposefully commented on the table cover, which makes me think it’s extremely important to the illusion.
This is in fact one of the tricks used to deceive the military testers of the 'Men Who Stare At Goats' Fame.
Very easy trick, an amature can do it fairly well. Place a piece of cut off straw in your mouth. Blow through the
straw and use it to direct a stream of air. You can use the Bernoulli Effect to create a Vacuum across your hand or
simply use air pressure by blowing off your hand or the convenient rock. Looks cool but check his gums at beginning and mouth throughout.
@@michaelyiannett4515 Only just and I suspect that given the padding on the table that it's probably placed at a point where it's still not placed past the balance point. I.E. the cup it's on a slight slope in the padding at that spot making the contact between the cup and the padding the other side of the handle.
I'm glad I didn't go to bed! Although, I think I'd like to sav ScimanDan's sarcasm and science to savor with my coffee in the Seattle morning.
I appreciate you, Dan, and your frontline battle against ignorance & misinformation!
yeah meanwhile Dan used Established Titles as a sponsor which is a well known scam.
@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 yeah but he also deleted my comment about them being fake so I unsubscribed
@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 its a real bad look for him. Damn, I really used to respect Dan.
@@purefoldnz3070in dans defence. he didn't know. meny creators big small and medium. Why he hasn't taken accountability and publicly post a video explaining what happend to at least protect any more fans and alert any of his community that may have invested in this gag gift as it turns out!
Dan I like your channel and you but even I'm here like why you doing us wrong Dan
30 second clip.
please be aware I recently showed an ad on this channel established. I must ask all of my communication to not use there products and attempt to get a refund. The company misrepresented it's self to me and a lot of other creators. I am and will try to improve how I do due diligence (or check a company)
Like dude you didn't even check company house or nothing? There where in Hong Kong the plots lead to a protected forest
@@tommyjay7287 Yes exactly! Other youtubers were offered a lot of cash to do this promo but turned it down after doing their due diligence. His radio silence speaks volumes.
The look on his face as he focuses his telekinetic energy is priceless.
The cup has a handle and it always FALLS to the side with the handle... shocker.
Try rolling the cup the opposite way the handle is already leaning. Spot on Dan!
I noticed two things:
(1) The cups always roll in the direction of the handle.
(2) The tabletop is not a hard surface, it looks more like a soft vinyl sheet with slight padding underneath. Note both cups where they meet the surface, there's a spot where the surface covering is blocking the lowest spot on the cup rim.
I was also looking for any shift in the table with respect to the background art, wasn't able to see anything obvious.
So the "table" doesn't seem to move but if you watch the cloth under the cup as it rolls away. It looks like it is being lifted up slightly forcing the cup to roll down and away.
My guess his feet are manipulating a very small area under the cup to push the cup.
My first thought was his thumb always passes directly behind the cup handle, perhaps brushing it just enough to let the weight of the handle roll the cup over from the carefully balanced state.
What would be more impressive is to put the cup under a glass dome.
Watch the bottom portions of his hands. They slightly brush and pull the tablecloth in the direction of the roll.
I think that the cushion of the "table" also plays a large role. There is enough "give" in the surface, that almost imperceptible pressure from above (thumb that hides behind the mug) or below (leg?) would cause the roll of the mugs. The handle MUST be on the correct side, or the amount of pressure applied would be visually obvious.
When he has the teacup his hands and wrists are on the table edge. It would only need a very small amount of pressure to unbalance the teacup.
Would be interesting to see if he could move it so the handle goes from resting on the table, then right round to the other side.
That's when they come up with excuses like "the energies aren't right," or "I'm not in the right mind-set," usually blaming the people setting up the experiment. These things never stand up to any sort of scrutiny.
If this guy manage to roll the tea cup ear over to one side to another in one cut with out touching it I'm going to be convinced that he got something to teach. Just rolling a cup ear downhill within the margin of balance seems like a good party trick if you can balance it correct without too much of an effort Infront of an audience
The fact he puts the cups handle up so the center of mass makes it roll is all I needed.
He's using the friction that the pile of the carpet provides, along with the balance and weight of the handle.
And shaking his hand while his other arm is still on the table. Even if he doesn't feel it he's still shaking the table.
As I once made a video- since taken down and done as a joke- doing this exact trick, I might suggest that rather than static electricity there's somebody off to the side blowing. We used a camera cleaning blower- a little rubber thing that pumps a small amount of air. Though there are other methods of doing this too. The tea cup could be moved with a larger blower, or a thread, either pulled through a tiny hole from underneath or off to the side. But I suspect the balancing trick Dan mentioned is correct. To be honest, these are all old tricks that have several methodologies and have been done by illusionists for centuries. I don't know why he doesn't just do it as mildly entertaining tricks instead of this psychic codswallop; he'd probably get more views.
The fact that all the sound has been replaced suggests that there's a noise he is attempting to hide. Blower noise perhaps.
He not looking for views but for marks, er mean paying consumers.
Go to a magic shop and ask for invisible thread. It is why the first pass at least 2 fingers go around (not over) the handle. Also explains why he had problems when the handle was low, and the head bob with the "no hands" demo. This is why the huge crystals (to anchor thread), the cuts (to run thread through handle), and why he switch his pull on the teacup. Make a pass to hook thread with fingers, and slowly draw slack till it rolls. When it slipped the one time on the teacup he pinched with his fingers as a reflex.
Couple of ways it could have been on the styrofoam cup, too. Static was actually a problem, and that last big lurch was the thread sliding down and off the bottom of the cup
It's called "Metastability". You can potentially balance a sharpened pencil on it's point and that would be very fragile. Whilst balancing a triangle on the flat base is easy and very stable. When you have a period of metastability it can collapse at any time.
I want to see him place the mug with the handle to the right and move the mug so the handle is to the left.
I tried telekinesis, I would go home every day and concentrate on the rug in my living room trying to move it. I did that for weeks. The rug never moved. My house is gone, but the rug is still there.
Useful when the objects are extremely lightweight, so they can be moved with static or nasal breathing. (The tea cup took "heavy empathy", mostly from his lungs...) And the coffe mug, he's basically touching it, isn't he?
You know it is interesting how he moves the tea cup not only on the side with the handle sticking out, affecting its center of gravity, but also while dragging his fingers along the soft, cushion surface, possibly bending part of the soft surface creating a slope for the cup to roll down. The only exception being around 6:33 but his thumb is out and behind the cup so possibly bumping it slightly to push it? As well as SciManDans theory of balancing it until juuust before it falls down then waving your hands around waiting.
He’s talking over the original audio so you can’t hear his cousin in the background with the hairdryer
Thank you so much for this clip, all the others and for having the continuous power keeping this channel up. Superb work on preserving reality!
In this case I also believe he’s just waiting for gravity to kick in. A bolder move would be if he mounted the camera directly to the table and very slightly turned the whole set including himself and the background cloth. Just giving him a tip here. This way the effect would be far more convincing than this underwhelming stop trick sham.
To be fair, if he could demonstrate conscious control over his skin's static charge... that'd be interesting.
True, but i think he's just dragging his feet over a carpet below the table to "charge" up.
You mean rub your socks across the floor? I know right?
He's Electric Man!
Actively and selectively controlling static charge in your fingertips with nothing but your mind? Incredible.
Pushing a styrofoam cup by wiggling your fingers and warping static fields, incredibly boring.
If he does that bare feet on a grounded metal plate, and the cup is also on a grounded surface I'd be truly impressed.
I also wanna see him move the cups to the opposite side where the handle is pointing at
As someone that has actually studied various types of magic, I can say this isn't as telekinetic as the guy thinks it is. SciManDan, you're correct on the static thing. As for the glassware, the secret is in the handle positions and the cuts. If he wants to really prove it, then there's only a few things he has to do.
1. Get a cup with no handle that isn't styrofoam, prefered to keep glass, and have a uniform shape.
2. Remove the table cloth, it'll just make the handleless cup harder to move. It applies a lot of unneeded friction to the cup.
3. Give a higher view, this is mainly to show you aren't touching the cup with your other hand or via other divices.
These last 2 are mainly a me thing; glass table, and a pulled back view. The glass table is to show nothing is hitting the table underneath to mess with the cup. The pulled back view is just to show nothing is messing with the edges/legs of the table.
If you really want to get picky, then nothing must get within a set distance of the cup, in the video the shadows made me think some touching was going on with the glass cups. Also use the audio in the video instead of doing a voice over later, anything can happen when it's muted.
*note - A magician can still make the cup move in front of a large crowd following these guidelines. This is just as decent of a way to prevent false claims.
A few things come to mind. Some under the cloth slight pressure to make the cups roll. Tilting the table is an option but I don't see any evidence of that. My best guess is he uses foot pedals to activate directed "air guns". He's wearing tight clothing, short sleeves and a hat. And there are heavy stones on the table cloth. This ensures that there is no visible movement. However, at times, you can see the cloth behind him move ever so little just when the cup starts to roll (the moment the most air pressure is needed). Depending on the side, the angle and width of the "air guns" (he probably put some sort of snoot on it), the amount of air needed and his body blocking the airflow, you can see it affecting the cloth behind him. The most obvious is with the heaviest object of course, the last cup. And then the most obvious is when the cup rolls to the right, check the cloth on the right hand side move just at that time.
Challenge to him: do a wide angle shot, with only a small piece of cloth on the table (not covering the entire table, just enough to accommodate the cup). Show us off the sides and underneath the table. If it's telekinesis, none of that should prevent you from rolling the cup.
I can't wait to see if this man can move a cup with his mind
The way he looks at the camera after his amazing telekinesis (lol) is how a dog looks at you after it’s delivered a particularly large and impressive 💩
Do you think he also scratches at the ground with his feet to toss dirt over his “accomplishment”? 😄
@@mjjoe76 Ha ha! Definitely.
@@mjjoe76 Dogs don't do this to cover it up. They want to mark the surroundings with their scentglants under their feet.
I think he's using foot pressure to slightly unbalance the whole table,but your right Dan the table cloth is essential to this trick 👍
I'm so happy you gave The Amazing Randi a shout-out. He will be forever missed, but I hope his legacy lives on forever.
If you notice, it looks like the very bottom edge where the cup meets the table is obscured by a small lip. It seems like the tablecloth is placed over some very thin object, or possibly just folded in such a way to create an edge. My guess is effectively what you said, that he's balancing it in such a way that it will eventually fall, but also that he's pressing it against this lip to give it just enough friction to hold it in place for a few seconds. Could possibly even trigger the fall then by barely and imperceptibly tugging on the cloth with his other hand
He always puts the teacup with the handle facing down, I reckon he balances it and then all it takes is a small nudge (a breath, a tap on the table, a nudge from behind with his other hand) to make it unstable, gravity takes over and the cup falls over onto the side with the handle as always.
He nudges the handle with his thumb multiple times. It is ridiculously unsubtle too
He also vibrates his hands which screws with the room's airflow and shaking your arm also shakes what you're resting on. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. It's the all popular hold a note then shake your fist in the air, you won't be able to hold that note its nearly impossible and you do shake your chair or the floor while doing it.
Ah yes, the telekinetic energy of gravity
After I inherited this magnetic thumb ring from my late grandmother, who was a psychic medium, I found out that I, as well, was able to telekinetically move many metallic objects. It's probably because we're blood related and share a soul link.
It's the COVID vaccine that made you magnetic.
If u look at the coffee mug bit, it looks like he used his thumb to bush against the mug...
Scammers has always been around
It'd be nice to adress in video the thing with Established TItles Dan!
Trust is easy to lose in cases like this!
Aside from that, I think people who believe people who claim stuff like that are kind of silly :'D
This video was made before all that happened.
Will there be a response to the situation though?
@@42617a what happened?
@@DarkReturns1 established titles is actually a scam, there have been multiple videos exposing them, so I was wondering if Dan would address this because he’s been sponsored by them a lot
@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 they did seem legit, tons of RUclipsrs fell for it, it’s not like he’s the only one
I want to see him start with the handle already on the table and roll it back up. That would make it more believable.
He could do that by running this same video backward.
It’s not static. As someone below said, it is an invisible string like fishing line. Notice how when he “successfully” moves it with his hand, his hand touches the table and pulls the line connected to the cup. The two rocks on each side of the table are used as anchors connecting the line to the cup in the tea and coffee mug shots. And when he doesn’t use his hands it is connected to his ear which is why he has to move backward and pull it.
I bet Casey’s is really happy to be apart of this. They should use this video for marketing
Before the internet we never knew the extent of human stupidity, though Einstein had warned us that it was infinite!
To me with the cup and mug it seemed like he was getting the rolling started by brushing his hand or elbow on the tablecloth. Once he's balanced it precariously between takes all it needs is the slightest nudge to make it unstable. Not once did I see him roll it in the opposite direction from which the handle was pointing.
4:07 Dan, how did you not do finger quotes around the word "great"? Lmao
He could have a fan off screen and turn it on and off with his foot. Yes the cup is as you said. I would like to see him try that will a high ball glass or uniform glass.
You can automatically deduct 30-40 IQ points from middle-aged men who wear their ball cap backwards.
"I think telekinetic energy comes out in a pulse..." - I always thought it came out in a sort of cylindrical shape, rounded at one end, and pointy at the other.
Put the beverage container in a really stable position and then try moving it by your thoughts, or just try moving a flat highlighter across a table without any other influence than your own thoughts - No hand waving, no table manipulation in any way, no air, fluids, strings, lubricants, heat, electricity, magnetism or whatsoever and you'll have no results.
Now moving those crystals would be good, rather than tipping a finely balanced mug. Oh dear.....
He’s absolutely nudging the coffee mug with his thumb. Lol
With the tea cup, I saw a fishing line and also he touched the back with his thumb.
Not static electricity. An accomplice (or two) is gently blowing across the table from out of view of the camera.
I think you're correct with the balancing of the cups, but I'd say there is an extra element to this illusion, I would put money on him raising 1 side of the table slightly (our right as we look at it) making the move more likely, because when he tried with a flat table the cup balances too well, not falling either way. This also gives the advantage of being able to balance the cup with the handle at the 2 o'clock position, so it appears to the viewers it is sitting stable in that position and not being fully upright so he can claim to be holding it there with the power of his mind.
He has the camera on the table so perspective makes it look level but you can see a slight disparity in the position of the background against his body position.
When you asked how he moved the teacup and the coffee mug, I really wanted to channel Desertphile.
Look at the table, the Styrofoam cup sits on the 'table' as you would expect a cup to sit however when the China cup came out it appears to create a dip in the 'table' it also does not maintain an even surface throughout the clips almost like there's no real solid table underneath that green stuff.
In the last shot of the tea cup, he was clearly subtly inhaling deeply and exhaling towards the handle so that the light breeze triggers the reaction. Notice how he had the handle in an downward starting position.
What really helps is the fact that he's using a padded table, easy support for the mugs, I bet it wouldn't work as well on a wooden/glass table.
It's interesting that there's a ledge along the front which is cleverly camouflaged to be hard to see. This means one huge possibility:
That is NOT a soft, cushy surface you see. Since it's likely a smooth surface under a thin fabric, this could be done with almost anything from a flat magnet being scooted along under the material, to magnetic paint on or in the cups (except the obvious static electricity one with the Styrofoam), to a thick, heavy string under the material pulled by someone else out of shot, to a small plastic pillow under that material thar slowly leaks out its air, to several others I can think of which I don't want to take time, energy, or room to list here.
Teleboy could get a gig narrating or radio. He does have a good voice. Very comforting.
I do believe you are correct with the coffee mug however with the tea cup I think it doesn't weigh enough to fall over by itself on that surface and I do believe he is pulling or pressing down on whatever that mat is on the different teacup attempts to stop and start it falling you can see his hand that isn't being twirled around in some of the shots and it gets really strained for some reason then when it's about to fall it relaxes. which that is also why I think those rocks are there not for scenery but to help hold the mat in place in other areas so the stretch goes right into the cup.
Ahh, this brings me back to when I thought I had psychic powers... when I was 12 and recently completed playing Earthbound.
Someone, please explain to that guy "no one" is watching his video to learn "how to do it". That is painful to watch and he doesn't even understand what telekinesis is.
I have to go with gravity for the latter cups. He never starts with the handle against the table, ergo it's just off balance enough to tip towards the side the handle is leaning.
Could also have low powered fans on both sides triggered by pedals or someone else, for the polstyrene cup.
For the teacup & mug, could easily have stuck on a washer or two on to the base in the cut scenes, and used a spring mounted, foot operated, magnet under the table (or on the thin plywood sheet over two tables so it is easier for the magnet).
There seems to be many many ways these tricks could be done.
But lab conditions. Nope.