Derren Brown levitates a spider

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Postby magicdiscoman » Feb 6th, '11, 16:43



me thinks the old magicians addage aplies here.
"when your given a gift, milk it for all its worth". :lol:

that and its clearly a mechanical spider made in tiwan, iv'e seen them on tomorows world, there used to clean out neuclear reactors and stuff. :wink:

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Postby Tomo » Feb 6th, '11, 16:48

Erwin wrote:A combination of arachnid NLP and suggestion.

I must spend too much time on Facebook. I just tried to click "Like"!

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Postby spooneythegoon » Feb 6th, '11, 20:44

Don't spiders make their own IT? :wink:

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Postby jim ferguson » Feb 6th, '11, 21:58

spooneythegoon wrote:Don't spiders make their own IT? :wink:
    Of course, where do you think Yigal Mesika gets his :)


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Postby kolm » Feb 6th, '11, 23:13

spooneythegoon wrote:Don't spiders make their own IT? :wink:

Now that's just a silly idea

My guess is he used magnets. He put a magnet into the spider, magnet palmed in his hand...

Either that or hypnotism

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Postby SamGurney » Feb 7th, '11, 02:35

Embaressingly, I actually thought he was using invisble string for half the thing... then I realised...

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Postby bmat » Feb 10th, '11, 21:07

Incredible! Did you see the way the spider made him move his hands around. True magic.

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