Camera angle mistake reveals Criss Angel's secret! (picture st

[EZRecovery]

Criss Angel attempts to cause a moving object to vanish in front of a real live audience on top of a parking garage in Las Vegas. He speeds along the parking lot in a go-kart towards men with fire extinguishers. They discharge the CO2 creating a cloud of smoke into which Criss vanishes. Pretty impressive, however due to a mistake in a camera angle, and the wonderful technology of cable TV recording devices, slow motion reveals his secret.

First, watch the stunt for yourselves:

http://members.cox.net/thinkcrazy576/Criss%20Angel.htm

/EZ

edit: I must be blind because I do not see the mistake he did according to the article.

Edited June 25, 2007 by creamhackered

[Dane]

Damn, the pictures on the site doesnt load.

[Berserk87]

whos the idiot that hosted from photobucket, cuase now we cant see the images.

[tomwarren Veteran]

http://staff.neowin.net/creamhackered/Ange...iss%20Angel.htm

:)

[ShaneSparky_YYZ]

http://staff.neowin.net/creamhackered/Ange...iss%20Angel.htm

:)

Thank you :) and I can see how that would work, easy trick, nice find

[Raven]

Man, what a lame trick, even without the camera angle goof. That's all it takes to 'impress' people?

That's sad.... He would have to pay me to even be in the audience.

[aubaine]

Interesting application of a 500 year old theatre trick. Line of site tricks were a lot easier when there were no cameras and you knew where the audience would be...

[Hav2enjoyit]

I don't know much about magic, nor TV, but when I first saw the video, without the pics, I knew that was the only logical explanation for the stunt... Too bad!! now I won't sleep tonite!!

[Samboini]

http://staff.neowin.net/creamhackered/Ange...iss%20Angel.htm

:)

Thanks. So simple yet so effective, although i'm sure most people would be able to figure it out sooner or later.

[Twisted Chaz]

wow that is amazing, the dude who wrote that lectured a usabilty module at my unit.

[zeroday]

What a lame stunt :no:

[WooSH]

i saw it without any of the images. my eye caught a shift in the steer and that was the only logical explaniation, however it seemed too obvious...but hey its cris angel!

[RadishTM Veteran]

I clicked the original link before Cream posted it (without the pictures) and it looked like he went to the lower level of the parking without the camera angle.

Radish?

[Pierce28]

I can't believe people still fall for these things. Cool Go-Kart though.

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

also, pause the click with 54 seconds left, and you'll see a guy with a fire extinguisher in a black coat, and blue jeans, beside a trash can, you can really notice the underground parking garage

[webeagle12]

man how lame :pinch:

so much bs this days

[noroom]

Kinda obvious, and I'm sure many will agree with me.

[RaisinCain]

Could've found this over at Digg 19 1/2 hours ago. :no:

[HeartsOfWar]

Come on - everyone knows magic tricks are nothing more than "Illusions", but that doesn't make the magic tricks any less difficult.

Think about the "laying on a bed of nails" trick... nothing to that illusion except having the proper ratio of nails to body weight spaced proportionally to hold the magician. Sure, you can add a more dangerous element to the trick by having an object sit on top of you, but once again that's a simple tweak of the mathematics.

Often times the simplest answer is the right answer... this is the way magic has always been and will stay...