Magician Breaks Down How Illusions Work | WIRED

Magician David Kwong breaks down magic into what he calls the "7 Principles of Illusion" and explains what goes into the execution of a magic trick.

David is also the author of the book SPELLBOUND, available here:




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Magician Breaks Down How Illusions Work | WIRED

[epicme]

>buys 52 card decks to fill up on a trick to fool my friend
>trick begin to go well, they look amazed
>I dropped all of the cards,
>they were not impressed

[bohdan_lvov]

I watched this video and now I can't find my wallet. What the hell??

[benjaminchadwick]

Magician: “ a magician never reveals his secrets”
David: *I’m about to end this mans whole career*

[yogeebear]

This whole video is an illusion, this video isn't real, your world isn't real.
We want you back, you are in a coma, please wake up, it has been 84 years. We miss you.

[B-un]

"Pick a card, any card."

"Show me the deck first."

"Hold on, I'll be right back."

And that is how you make this magician disappear.

[chriscraig]

How did I bend the spoon? Well you must first acknowledge that spoons not real

[kittenkiz]

"I don't have time for yur tricks"

"ILLUSIONS dad, yu don't have time for my ILLUSIONS"

[thedizzychicken]

Him:Mind the gap
Me:between the train and the platform

[noUGames]

So I only have to buy 52 decks of cards to have 52 fours to impress my friends

[littlefilipino]

I was wondering why he was so out of focus. Then he pulled the board 😂

[Gregtech]

so that's why he was blurry the whole time

[AadhilRizwan]

My brain is not a liar after it learns.

[starmorpheus]

I prefer, "Pledge, Turn, Prestige" but yea, this is pretty cool too.

[tirzahazura]

3:58
"Misdirection"
Me: KUROKO

[evanhamlet]

2:41 that basically sums up our first world society...

[DanielRieger]

I actually did notice there was something wrong with the board

[IndustryOfMagic]

I'm a magician myself and I have formed my channel back in 2008 to host various magic illusions.
Unfortunatelly my best friend died back then so I only uploaded 1 video and forgot about growing my channel.
I'm happy to see people eager to both learn and pass the knowledge of illusion.

[samkellman]

I don't think having the video blurry the entire time was worth the reveal lol but not bad. Need more guys like this informing the public how trickery works

[SupremeSkeptic]

This is more appropriate content for TED than most, if not all, magicians and mentalists who appear on that show merely performing their magic and illusions without explaining the theories or philosophies behind them.

[Mohannadra]

Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled.