#will tsai

[nomellamesfriki]

Magia de esa que te deja con el culo torcido

[andrerelax]

Satanás é real. Confirmado.

[ahnsael]

No story, even a happy one, is without two sides. For full disclosure, I submit this video from a year and a half ago regarding Will Tsai (the guy I sang the praises of two posts ago).

I don’t know enough about this situation to express an opinion at this time. But I wanted to at least show the other side of the coin, once I realized that there was a two-sided coin to the situation.

[ahnsael]

How did I not see this until now?

When the guy first said he created the trick, and then started to perform it, my first thought was “you didn’t create anything, this trick is generations old.”

Then I saw his twist on it, and it blew my mind.

Still, I’ve seen a slow-motion replay of it, and I think I have it figured out -- but still don’t think I could pull it off myself, even if my theory is correct (I won’t give that theory here -- if you want it, ask me privately -- and if you’ve seen the YouTube video claiming to explain this with rotating rods, I can 100% guarantee you that they are incorrect, even if my own theory isn’t right, simply based on the slow-motion video).

And then, since I was on a magic kick, I watched this video:

This was a much simpler trick to pull off, but...this guy’s stage presence is on another level.

I hope to see much more of both Will Tsai and Kyle Eschen in the future. These guys are the types of people who make magic fun, and not just more copycats doing the same old tricks that have been done for decades (I mean...both of their tricks were TAKES on decades-old tricks, but each brought something special to it that most magicians do not -- Will’s was mind blowing and a completely new method that, to my knowledge, didn’t exist before he performed it [but is likely to literally change the face of magic for many years to come], and Kyle’s was just so full of Kyle that it made it fun even though the trick itself was simple enough that Penn & Teller didn’t even bother to discuss it, but rather praise the performance of it).