The Fade-Out Chair by Nendo Plays Tricks on Our Eyes By: Marissa Liu - References: nendo.jp & nook-sucasaClick here for the first 5 of history's greatest magic tricks explained1) Linking Rings, Richard Ross (1983) Kicking us off at number ten, girly-haired Dutch magician Richard Ross wowed audiences in the ‘80s with his take on an ancient Chinese trick: linking rings. In this stunt, a series of apparently solid metal rings appear to ‘melt’ together, forming a chain. The beauty of Ross’ delivery is how he links the rings very slowly, allowing the audience ample time to scrutinise the process, making for a baffling, seemingly supernatural display. As I said, this trick is almost as old as magical performance itself and the basic elements haven’t changed much over the centuries. Essentially, some of the rings (called ‘locking rings’) have breaks that can be popped open by applying pressure – these rings are mixed up by sleight of hand and false counting to make them harder to distinguish from the solid rings.
Beyond that, it’s a simple matter of pulling the linking off with enough skill and flair that the audience doesn’t see the deception; it also helps if you have a bedazzling blonde mane to distract the punters.2) Chop Cup, Paul Daniels (1985) It allegedly took comedy-magician Paul Daniels nearly 300 performances to perfect this spin on another classic trick: the ball in the cup. Yorkshire-born Daniels delighted television audiences with his rapid-fire magical malarkey and ‘Chop Cup’ became his signature trick. Daniels would start by placing a ball on top of a metal cup, which with some swift manipulation would appear to vanish, reappear and teleport to Daniels’ pocket in a manner of seconds. Aye, now, that’s proper right clever that is. How is it done? There are a few different ways of carrying off this trick, but looking at the video above it’s most likely that Daniels utilised multiple balls, with the ‘first’ (i.e. the one that begins on top of the cup) containing a magnet.
This would allow him to make the ball appear to ‘vanish,’ when in fact it was simply stuck to the inside of the cup, ‘re-appearing’ when Daniels’ slammed the cup back on the table. The ball (or balls) in his pocket likely vanished into a sleeve following some deft sleight of hand, while Daniels’ machine-gun gags served to distract the audience from noticing the seams.3) Doves, Lance Burton (1982) Magicians have been using doves in conjuring illusions for centuries, but it’s Lance Burton’s version that makes the list. This magical maestro now has a nightly gig in Las Vegas, where he and his feathered friends continue to wow audiences with this trick. Cutting a suave figure in top hat and tails, Burton has been seen to produce live doves from his sleeves, the tip of his cane and from under his hat… Being an acclaimed Vegas magician, Burton can afford a little technical support to pull this one off. In the video above, the first two doves are produced from the magician’s sleeves, which contain spring-loaders that ‘launch’ the birds into the air.
Birds discharged, the magician discretely discards the launchers, quickly lifting the third dove from inside his suit. He then uses a handful of confetti as misdirection before recovering the bird and stuffing it back into his tailcoat.4) Levitation, David Blaine (1997) Remember the days when David Blaine was a sharp, urbane shot in the arm for the stuffy world of magic? Y’know, before he lost the plot and started hanging out in Perspex boxes suspended over the Thames? In Blaine’s early days he was content to stun passers-by on the streets of Brooklyn with such impossible feats as levitating a couple of inches off the asphalt. That’s street magic, bro. There are many methods for pulling off the levitation stunt, but the one Blaine employs here is named ‘Balducci levitation’ for its inventor, Ed Balducci. The benefit of this method is that it requires no preparation, no equipment and can be conducted anywhere at any time. When performing this trick, the magician stands a short distance away from onlookers and positions himself so that the audience can only see the back on one foot, focusing their attention on the foot closest to them.
Blaine then stands on the front of the part-concealed foot, blocking the audiences’ view with the other. Thus, the audience only actually sees all of one foot and the heel of the other, which both appear to lift, unsupported, off the ground. It’s basically just an elaborate way of standing on tippy-toe. Street magic, bro.5) Straightjacket escapes, Harry Houdini (1891-1926) The master himself. The most famous magician and escapologist in history, Houdini’s unique brand of outlandish theatrics helped shaped modern magic as we know it. All of Houdini’s stunts were works of magical majesty, but he remains best known for his straightjacket escapes. Watch below and be amazed as Houdini wriggles free of a straightjacket while hanging upside down. As well as being a world-famous escape and endurance artist, Houdini was also a vocal critic of charlatanism and fraud, dedicating much of his life to exposing individuals who claimed to possess supernatural abilities. Putting his money where his mouth was, Houdini chose to explain the secrets behind all of his stunts.
Let’s leave it to the man himself to take us through this one: “The first step necessary to free yourself is to place the elbow, which has the continuous hand under the opposite elbow, on some solid foundation and by sheer strength exert sufficient force at this elbow so as to force it gradually up towards the head, and by further persistent straining you can eventually force the head under the lower arm, which results in bringing both of the encased arms in front of the body.
“Once having freed your arms to such an extent as to get them in front of your body, you can now undo the buckles of the straps of the cuffs with your teeth, after which you open the buckles at the back with your hands, which are still encased in the canvas sleeves, and then you remove the straitjacket from your body.” Cheers, Harry – RIP.You can toggle symmetry in the Creator's menu or by hitting S. What if you want to mirror the top and bottom half though? This is where copy & pasting and rotation comes in handy.
First we draw the top part: Now we pick Copy from the menu (or hit C). Then we pick Rotate (or hit R) twice to get this: Now we can move this a bit on the canvas if needed by using Ctrl-Arrow, or on tablets, the menu arrows. Then, we pick Paste (P) and get this result: The general approach of Copying - Moving - Pasting can also be used for many other creations where you want to duplicate things, like for instance the legs of a table. On the desktop, when you place your mouse cursor over an area on the canvas, you can hit Ctrl+Shift+Arrows to expand or shorten the creation from this part onwards. After hitting Ctrl+Shift+Right 3 times There are many different ways to mix colors. Gatherables are a type you can pick in Creator with an open range of uses. Here's Godiva showing you some of the things you can do with them! Here Godiva shows you how to create a mountable that takes one to somewhere else on auto pilot: Here's Godiva showing you how to create a body, and a body motion!
You can trigger any motion by typing its name. For instance, you can type "haha" to trigger a motion named "haha". Wildcards are allowed too, so if you have a special 'raising eyebrow' motion for your body, you can have it be triggered from any question by naming it "*?". Since questions end in the question mark, this motion will triggered whenever you ask something. On top of that, there are some motion names which are automatically triggered by certain actions in the world: Some names giving to your Living type creation have special sounds associated with them. You can also mix and match several into your creature name. For instance, create a Living named "Fred the Monkey", place it, and run past it. Among the supported animal names are cat, kitten, cow, horse, bird, lion, liger, monkey, pony, hen... You can use the type Writable to create shared forums, but you can also keep a board unshared to make it private just for you. sounds you like, pasting category threads with individual song links.
This way you can easily play them back at any time later, but also find songs to play for others during parties and such. The Manyland Time is always shown when you open the bottom left menu. You can see a table converting it to your time above. It equals Universal Time (UT/ UTC) or Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), and is useful to coordinate events in the world across different global time zones. If you want, you can set a phone clock of yours to Universal Time as below to always know Manyland Time! Every writable forum has a connected calendar that organizes events mentioned in thread-starting comments. To have an event be listed in the calendar, use the following format anywhere in your thread-starting comment: For instance, this might be your full comment: Once saved, your event is added to the calendar, which can be accessed by a top right link from the writable's frontpage. At the bottom of the calendar, there's also a way to compare your time.
The table is also shown above. A few things you say in chat, ended with a "!", have special effects: The search box allows different queries like: During creation, you can open the upper left menu and choose "Add Sound", then pick a sound block. Currently, there's a set of ready-made sound blocks you can find shared at the Item Repo board, and you can also find a Holder with mostly all sounds in the second hut at Helptown. Adding sound is available for the following types: (If you want to have sound for a creation someone else made in an area you're preparing, look into Interacting's Someone syntax, and Area-Global Interactings.) Most of the current Sounds are Creative Commons licensed, and you can find more creator info in the block's context menu. and the Creative Commons initiative! When you hit Ctrl+F10, the side panel and other elements will be hidden. This can be useful for taking full-screen screenshots or videos where you don't want the dialogs to appear.
The following words in a Solid's title cause special footstep sounds: metal, grass, snow, sand, wood, energy, mud. For instance, try naming a block "energy bridge", "metal ground", or "muddy puddle". Things you create let people sit if you use one of these words anywhere in your Thing's title: chair, sofa, cushion, bench, stool, couch, seat, bath tub, bathtub, pool, throne, beanbag, sittable. To make something liable, use one of these in the name: To trigger a body motion while creating, on desktop press Ctrl+D and enter the name of the motion associated with your current body (like "waves"). Sometimes when there's special weather or lights in an area but you may not immediately know what the block source for this is, you can make things more visible to find it. Click on create, select Wearable, and hit '...' to open the attributes. Check 'Sees all items', save your creation, and wear it. Now, the following types start to sparkle whereever they are: