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Remember when Card thru Glass was first shown, it was a miracle. Then every kid and his kid brother worked out a method, and posted it on YouTube. They ranged in quality from awful to d**n awful!

Well, I still like to browse magic on YouTube, and I came across this demonstration (on MetaCafe) by a young Japanese Street magician that is miraculous, entertaining and a credit to his skill and creativity.

Firstly, he takes the card thru glass trick, and changes it to a hamburger thru glass, then he....well, the video explains it far better than I can. The few words in it are in Japanese, but are not essential to your understanding of what's happening.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/934510/ja ... ger_magic/

That'll be Cyril Takayama. Those burgers are making me hungry.

This is why no exposure will ever end the magic trade. You can use a methods everyone knows about but present it in such a way that will leave most laymen stumped.

Oh i remember this video. it's great, brilliant presentation.

I must admit that was much better than my pathetic card thru window

I seem to recall that his salt shaker through table effect was also suitably impressive (assuming there was no camera trickery editing shenanigans going on, of course).

Replicant wrote:I seem to recall that his salt shaker through table effect was also suitably impressive (assuming there was no camera trickery editing shenanigans going on, of course).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRGvIAdDZrA

I love this trick ! Is it actually possible without editing/camera works etc. ?

And the moving pips is one of my favs too :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sozUJUcer1s