London"Levitating"magician secret revealed
Sad news, levitation fans: Dynamo, the
magician who caused a stir in London
earlier this week by appearing to levitate
alongside a double-decker bus, was not, in
fact, levitating. It was an illusion.
According to a crowdsourced investigation
conducted on Australia's news.com.au
Facebook page
, Dynamo's "arm" was
actually a steel prosthetic that was
fastened to the bus. A harness lifted
Dynamo into position, the site concluded,
as his hand was tucked inside.
A video of the stunt, which was sponsored
by Pepsi Max, was thoroughly dissected.
"His fingers don't move in the clip and
there are no people around when he
hovers up and down the bus," the
news
site noted . "In fact, at second glance the
arm attached to the bus looks pretty
phony."
Of course, Dynamo's not the first illusionist
to pull off a levitation stunt using a fake
arm.
As news.com.au notes, Johan Lorbeer, a
German street performer, has been
"hanging off walls in all sorts of impossible
locations, including the sides of street
buildings and shop facades since 2002."
An Agence France-Presse photo showing
one of Lorbeer's fake arms was held up as
proof of Dynamo's trickery.
But like most magicians, Dynamo refuses to
reveal how he did it.
You mean Uncle Bob didn't really
pull quarters out of my ears?
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