This is a short compilation video of video artist Zach King’s clever perspective based editing tricks, usually grabbing something huge in the background only for it to appear small in Zach’s hands. That’s fun. Or, who knows, maybe he’s a legit wizard. I’m joking, I’m pretty sure I know all
This is a video of a bubble artist (it has to be a real thing) blowing a smoke-filled bubble, then bouncing it on a tennis racquet with a bubble for strings, before encasing it inside that bubble, removing it like separating the yolk from an egg white, and poking a
This is a short video from the Flamingo Casino in Las Vegas of a bartender making a cocktail shaker levitate while he pours tequila. How does he do it? Magic. Or maybe a magnet attached to the stainless steel shaker with a length of fishing line connecting it to the
Because whose dream of their special day doesn’t involve appearing at their wedding reception in a frustrating slow glass elevator through the floor, this is a video of a freshly married couple doing just that. I like how they open the banquet hall’s doors like they’re actually going to come
This is a video of engineer and Youtuber The Q building and demonstrating a sitting on air illusion, which involves constructing a leg brace that can double as a chair after being slid into a hidden bracket on the floor. Even knowing how it’s done it’s a cool illusion to
Because magic is all around us, you just have to know where to look (PROTIP: look behind doors marked ‘FOR WITCHES AND WIZARDS ONLY’), this is a video of The Action Lab’s James Orgill demonstrating two chemical reaction tricks: one which creates very realistic looking fake blood, and another that
This is a photo of Twitter user @aleashuhh’s cat performing a fairly convincing version of the detachable thumb trick — except with an entire leg — thanks to a tucked paw and the fortuitous position of a dog bone. In @aleashuhh’s own words: “Nearly had a heart attack.” Obviously, I
This is a video of Youtuber The Q building a chair based on tensegrity (aka floating structural compression, links to Wikipedia) that’s large and strong enough to support the weight of a relatively lightweight adult human and a Coca-Cola can. Now I read the Wikipedia article I linked to above