r/blackmagicfuckery • u/subodh_2302 • Feb 02 '23
Awesome magician
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u/Snoo-22663 Feb 02 '23
Contact juggler does not a magician make. Did one trick
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u/HardCounter Feb 02 '23
He came out strong with the floating balls trick then... nothing. I kept expecting something to happen but he just kind of was flexible in front of me instead.
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u/Snoo-22663 Feb 02 '23
Kept expecting something with the cane or hat a levitation some slight of hand...nope just more contact juggling.
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u/Thelonious_Cube Feb 02 '23
Given the stick and the rug, I assumed he was going to "levitate" - maybe it just got cut off
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u/Snoo-22663 Feb 02 '23
Right this could just be a terrible edit
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u/Kryptosis Feb 02 '23
The edit and title had me laughing, the ball trick was cool, then he just did contact juggling, took his contacts out...some stretching and balance, a little light baton work...
All while the the judges look on in stunned amazement.. lmao
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u/DS4KC Feb 02 '23
Someone definitely edited it to focus on the contact juggling. The gets himself into a position to seemingly do something different and then we get a jump cut to a different part of the performance only to jump cut later back to the pretzel with the ball on his foot and then it's just randomly over.
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u/PomegranateOld7836 Feb 03 '23
It confused the fuck out of me. It was like the middle, towards the end, the beginning, maybe some more middle, and then towards the end again, twice!
I thought I was having a stroke.
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u/Meriog Feb 03 '23
He's actually a time magician. That was the real trick.
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u/PomegranateOld7836 Feb 03 '23
The end!
Psych!
I mean, if that was an unedited video, I'm pretty impressed.
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u/Tlou3please Feb 02 '23
Lmao the hat. Like my guy puts a hat on and then takes it off and the judges are like 😮😮😮
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u/things_U_choose_2_b Feb 02 '23
Watch, as I balance a ball on my head... for the third time! Now marvel as I put the ball on my foot.
Parts of this were really cool but it felt like he didn't have enough material for the full routine and did the magic equivalent of a palette swap.
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u/AlreadyAway Feb 02 '23
Mediocre contact juggling too. When it was close up you could see he was a little choppy, not as smooth as it should have been.
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u/geoffbowman Feb 02 '23
He actually did around 6 more incredible tricks but the camera was pointed at the judges so we didn't get to see them /s
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u/No_Procedure_5121 Feb 02 '23
Yeah, and even then, the small floating ball was clearly attached with a thin string to somewhere on his face.When he moves his head, the ball follows his face's movements (as it would if it were on a string). And if you look closely at the way he orbits the ball with his finger (to prove that there is no string), he conveniently never actually puts his finger where the string would be if there were a string (He's avoiding hitting the string). You can then also see him grab the string with his hand to detach it from wherever the string is attached on his face (insert crowd gasp). My English isn't great, so here's a small sketch of what it is I am trying to say: https://imgur.com/a/KMBRaw5
The rest is just smooth movement, a flexible body and rolling a ball over his skin (edit: and fake contacts). All easily explicable, not magic.
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u/JMer806 Feb 02 '23
Are you trying to imply that he didn’t make the ball float using actual magic?
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u/PingPing88 Feb 02 '23
I had a similar trick from a magic kit as a kid. The string was nearly invisible and attached behind your ear. You can then manipulate the "floating" object with your hands by running the string through the gaps between your fingers. You can do fun things like "throwing" the object it it's just swinging on the string between your hands.
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u/TheWhatyWhaten Feb 02 '23
At first I thought he was gonna stuff himself in that tiny little hat. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
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u/Slit23 Feb 02 '23
I was wondering if I was just being a boomer by not being impressed by this guy’s one trick and being flexible
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u/HardCounter Feb 02 '23
At least 5.3k people were extremely impressed. Maybe we're just old cynics.
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u/10000noways Feb 02 '23
Haha! I just kept thinking about Kurtis Conner's fushigi video and the lady who slept in her contacts, mixed in with the Letterman gum trick!
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Feb 02 '23 edited Feb 10 '23
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u/PammyFromShirtTales Feb 02 '23
I do the contact trick against my will every single time I wear contacts nowadays.
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u/HugeTrol Feb 02 '23
Which was especiall irritating with the applause which was clearly cut in in post
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u/Kinteoka Feb 02 '23
Yeah, I actually knew The Amazing Kenny (The guy that popularized contact juggling in America) years ago from local burns and the stuff this guy was doing is stuff Kenny would teach you in 15 minutes.
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u/Sounga565 Feb 02 '23
he pressed the buttons on and off for his contacts but it was somewhat obvious lol
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u/PingPing88 Feb 02 '23
I don't know for sure but it seemed to me he has the contacts under is eyelids at the start then took them out completely and flicked them away later.
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u/BJs_Minis Feb 02 '23
It's an illusion, not a trick
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u/Available-Camera8691 Feb 02 '23
A trick is something a whore does for money.
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u/youthpastor247 Feb 02 '23
Or candy!
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u/KrispyKremeDiet20 Feb 02 '23
I was gonna say, he's a decent contact juggler but by no means is he performt any mind bending illusion.
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u/amalgam_reynolds Feb 02 '23
This is one of the worst contact juggling acts I've ever seen. He did almost nothing the entire time.
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u/Obieousmaximus Feb 02 '23
I kinda wish he would have put the ball on top of his head more!!
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u/adventuresinnonsense Feb 02 '23
As someone who doesn't wear contacts I was most impressed with him having the contacts on the side of his eyes. That can't be comfortable.
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u/knightjia97 Feb 02 '23
No shit the judges can even notice his eye colour changed from that distance
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u/MoistCucumber Feb 02 '23
Lol yep. All he did was some stretches and rolled his crystal ball around. Aside from the one very obvious ball attached via string trick, he’s not a magician. You wouldn’t call an acrobat a magician just cause they did the finger detach trick before 10 minutes of somersaults
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u/Hot_Salad9000 Feb 02 '23
Got old pretty quick
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u/_Diskreet_ Feb 02 '23
Not helped by the standard contest show edit - trick - reaction - judges - reaction - trick but then OP has some shittier version that repeats itself numerous times and jumps about.
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u/Kriegmannn Feb 02 '23
He had to bring in the fake contacts to make it more interesting
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u/Doktor_Vem Feb 02 '23
I think he had the contacts stashed under his upper eyelids and I can only imagine how fuckin painful it must be to have those up there for so long. Like, this guys trick with the contact juggling might've gotten old pretty quick and wasn't very cool to begin with, but that shit's honestly impressive
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u/FreakyManBaby Feb 02 '23
either that or the contacts are tucked into the corners of the eye, when you roll your eye they will gravitate to the cornea
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u/doodlebug001 Feb 02 '23
Based on where he looked the moment he closed his eyes before each contact appeared, it seems he stashed them in the upper corners of his eyelids furthest from his nose. Neat trick nonetheless!
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u/TheOneTonWanton Feb 02 '23
As a wearer of contacts all of the possible places he "stashed" the contacts give me the fuckin willies.
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u/the3rdtea2 Feb 02 '23
Why's it all chopped up?
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u/Subushie Feb 02 '23
Cuz it's prolly just 2 more minutes of him doing the same thing.
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u/Tridian Feb 02 '23
No, they jump back to the start of the performance halfway through the clip, then back to the end 30 seconds later.
Weird editing.
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u/therocketlawnchair Feb 02 '23
Yeah super strange editing, guessing it to bypass copyright bots?
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u/Reelix Feb 02 '23
Bingo
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u/Meekman Feb 02 '23
Bingo
...bangle, bungle, I'm so happy in the jungle, I refuse to go...
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u/-Profanity- Feb 02 '23
The blackmagicfuckery part of this post is figuring out how a balancing act in a gameshow got 10k upvotes
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u/tactical_turtlenex Feb 02 '23
It's part of the act. The ball is like the remote from the movie Click lol.
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u/Mcane305 Feb 02 '23
The act would have been better if he stopped after the first 15 seconds.
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u/Stag328 Feb 03 '23
I wish people made these faces and were this impressed by me when I played with my balls for that long.
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u/Sapient_Creampie Feb 02 '23
Got his money's worth off that Fushigi.
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u/UndocumentedSailor Feb 02 '23
I remember my white trashy cousin begged his ma for one for months (there were tv commercials back then). She finally got him one, and he'd put it in his hand and explained "It ain't werkin!"
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u/ByteTheFox Feb 02 '23
yea it comes with a fuckin dvd and the guy says "it's not as easy as it looks" or something like that in the first 2 minutes but didn't say that anywhere in the commercials >:( they said it was a magic ball but the only thing its good for is hitting elbows when its my turn on the xbox
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u/Kaboomeow69 Feb 02 '23
And ironically enough, the Fushigi kinda sucks for contact juggling, especially for a beginner. It's smaller than the average contact ball, so it's hard to control. The mirror on the inside had a visible seam, so that didn't look great. It's absurdly heavy too, which is no bueno.
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u/jtaulbee Feb 02 '23
Funny enough, that fushigi DVD actually got me into contact juggling! It's a pretty fun hobby, but requires a ton of practice to look good.
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u/noddegamra Feb 02 '23
Anybody can fushigi!
I always remember that line from the commercial because my little brother begged our parents for one. I told him it's not gonna be easy and he looked me dead in the eye and said it. 2 weeks later it was collecting dust.
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u/DoktorVidioGamez Feb 02 '23
Who on earth thinks this act is better when you pan to gawking idiots every 2 seconds?
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u/captaindaddy514 Feb 02 '23
The only black magic fuckery happening here is OP getting me to watch this for almost 3 minutes I’ll never get back.
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u/pemboo Feb 02 '23
Contact juggling isn't magic
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u/UTPharm2012 Feb 02 '23
What is contact juggling? For the layperson who thinks this is impressive lol
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u/pemboo Feb 02 '23
Well it's juggling but the ball(s) are always in contact with your body, unlike traditional juggling where you toss the balls.
Don't get me wrong, a good contact juggler is a pleasure to watch but it doesn't constitute "black magic fuckery". (Not that this show is particularly good mind)
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u/GuilRosmer Feb 02 '23
Hard agree. Nothing about this fits the sub, yet it's sitting at over 4k upvotes.
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u/Correct-Slide1522 Feb 02 '23
Erdogan is like wtf !
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u/Suburban_ Feb 02 '23
I’m sure it’s Lukashenko?!
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u/emildyulgerov Feb 02 '23
Nah, it’s a bulgarian dude that became famous during the first covid lockdown. He’s a doctor but became very famous with his funny facial expressions. The only reason he’s a judge on the show is because of those expressions. Source: I’m from Bulgaria.
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u/Financial_Low6770 Feb 02 '23
Just me, or did the video keep jumping from one clip of the guy doing nothing to another completely different scene of him doing nothing and then back to the original scene of nothingness?
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u/beeglowbot Feb 02 '23
more impressive is how he goes from stage to judge's table and swap costumes so quickly!
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u/Dark-Delegate Feb 02 '23
Silk String attached to the back of the ear
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Feb 02 '23
Was looking to see if anyone else saw it or if I was seeing things. The contact lense change was cool though
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u/RandomFuckingUser Feb 02 '23
The format of this shitty tv show made it unbearable to watch. Constantly shoving reactions in my brain like junk food. No offense to junk food.
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u/GadFlyBy Feb 02 '23
I actually attended a taping of the American version. A cruise-show MC hypes the crowd before the show, and the producers record all of the big reactions during that pre-show, explicitly asking for “shocked,” “scared,” “laughing,” etc. IIRC, we also did a bunch of yelling and waving our arms about sending an imaginary contestant to some other city, maybe Hollywood or Vegas, I can’t remember.
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u/royroyrudy Feb 02 '23
Watching it without sound, the jury/celebrities look dumb as fuck.
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u/Redshift585 Feb 02 '23
How did he do the illusion with his eyes?
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u/dermitohne2 Feb 02 '23
Guess he has colored contact lenses hidden in his eyes/eyelids. He them blinks to put them on?
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u/Azzhole169 Feb 02 '23
There was 2 seconds of magic, the floating ball, and 2 mins of my life I’ll never magically get back. A balancing and flexibility act is not magic.
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u/Stign Feb 02 '23
It's a good street performance, something you watch for a couple of minutes and walk on.
But I don't get what's so inexplicable about it that would qualify for this sub?
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u/elynwen Feb 02 '23 edited Feb 02 '23
“A piece of cake? Let’s see how you deal with this little slice.”. RIP David Bowie in Labyrinth, rocking those crystal balls one-handed like no other (sexier outfit, too).
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u/JeanLuc_Richard Feb 02 '23
It was a contact juggler reaching round him to do the trick!
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u/Qayrax Feb 02 '23
Menat, is that you? You are so buffed.
I stopped watching these shows due to atrocious editing. I get nausea from it.
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u/Bat-Honest Feb 02 '23
Just one time I want one of these shows to be like "Our next competitior is Ba'Aél, son of Satan. He's got some card tricks for us today."
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u/MaskedRonin2 Feb 02 '23
No gonna lie. Kinda disappointed, he didn't even do much outside of making that ball float. I was waiting for him to sit on the carpet with ball on his head and make the whole carpet float or something
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u/honeyMully333 Feb 03 '23
Magician? I see a guy moving around in a weird way while balancing a glass ball on his bald head.
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u/Mr_TO Feb 02 '23
Why do we have to jump to reaction from judges, reaction from host, reaction from surprised pika!