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When magic goes horribly wrong

Postby Anjorno » Sep 18th, '16, 21:41



Next Sunday
10pm
Channel 5

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Re: When magic goes horribly wrong

Postby Mandrake » Sep 18th, '16, 23:48

Almost three hours - hope it's not too gory!

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Re: When magic goes horribly wrong

Postby lotusteve » Sep 22nd, '16, 13:27

thanks for the heads up..

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Re: When magic goes horribly wrong

Postby kevmundo » Sep 22nd, '16, 19:53

Warning warning WARNING. Do not watch if of nervous disposition etc........

I perform the classic spiked routine all the time. This Polish mentalist makes some rudimentary errors which should prove a salutary reminder for us all. Practice. Practice. Practice.

I'm assuming this vid will be in there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB5TXL_fZj8

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Re: When magic goes horribly wrong

Postby Mandrake » Sep 22nd, '16, 22:04

It has been said that the human gene pool needs chlorinating from time to time and I guess magic is no exception. Google the Darwin Awards :wink:.

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Re: When magic goes horribly wrong

Postby mr invisible » Sep 24th, '16, 11:18

Yeah, see they are showing the legendary spike through hand horror..(smash and stab). I have this prop myself. But rarely using now.. :twisted:

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Re: When magic goes horribly wrong

Postby Mandrake » Sep 24th, '16, 11:45

I noticed the TV promo wording was 'starts on Sunday' which suggests there's more to come.

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Re: When magic goes horribly wrong

Postby mr invisible » Sep 24th, '16, 12:14

Mandrake wrote:I noticed the TV promo wording was 'starts on Sunday' which suggests there's more to come.
Crikey ! Is there that many mistakes/ gone wrong in this business ? Of course there is.. Seen a few myself on audition nights at the club. :lol:

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Re: When magic goes horribly wrong

Postby kevmundo » Sep 25th, '16, 22:24

Mandrake wrote:It has been said that the human gene pool needs chlorinating from time to time and I guess magic is no exception. Google the Darwin Awards :wink:.


Seriously though, if you're going to perform this sort of routine your margin for error needs to less than zero. I have a DVD on the spiked routine and even I can see the markings on a camera that's fifteen feet away from the action. It slides by a lay person but you can't perform this unless you're 100% confident where the spike is at any given moment. Personally, I prefer the RISK staple gun roulette routine simply because I know that if something goes wrong, it'll be my face taking the staple and not someone who can sue me!!

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Re: When magic goes horribly wrong

Postby Mandrake » Sep 26th, '16, 11:38

If you missed it (or failed to set the VCR/Skybox correctly!!) its on again this Friday at 10.00 and 11pm. No indications of a further programme - so far.

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Re: When magic goes horribly wrong

Postby Mandrake » Sep 26th, '16, 15:17

Well, I've just watched this programme, some of it through squinty eyes trying to block out the gory stuff (Dutch guy genuinely having swords thrust through his body, Smash 'n Stab things going badly wrong!!), and it was well worth watching.

OK, there were commercial breaks seemingly every 5 minutes or so and the true length of the programme was nearer to 2 hours but there are a lot of valuable lessons to be learned. Mostly I thought the stunts which went wrong were mainly due to lack of rehearsal, research and thinking. Stuff in the dark or at night should have back up bright lights; fire stunts should have buckets of water, fire extinguishers, fire blankets etc. close at hand. Agreed many of the failed effects shown were from many moons ago when thoughts of Health and Safety were still in infancy and these days we’d automatically make sure safety measures were in place – wouldn’t we?

Anyway, I’m saving this programme to watch a few more times, not that I ever intend to do risky stuff but I do have a nice Smash ‘n Stab routine which I’m planning to do soon so perhaps I’ll just run through it a few more times - just to be on the safe side…. :wink:

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Re: When magic goes horribly wrong

Postby lotusteve » Sep 27th, '16, 08:04

i watched this last night on catchup.. thought it was good...thanks for the heads up..

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