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Either way its a nice simple vid for promotion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw3bxLDM ... e=youtu.be" target="_blank

Nicely done.

I don't like these sort of things at all. My brain just doesn't wonder how he did it because its just too impossible if that makes sense. I like to be able to think, if only for a second that it could be real

Reminds me of the way Obie-Wan disappeared in the first Star Wars.

I think it's brilliant. What an amazing advertisement for him as a magician...it appeals to his core audience.

I just can't wait for the second trailer where Dynamo suddenly appears naked in the center of London.

Jean Eugene Roberts wrote:I just can't wait for the second trailer where Dynamo suddenly appears naked in the center of London.

Each to their own I suppose.

That shocked the living daylights out of me! (in a good way) Promotional videos don't get much more effective than that.

its possible to do that on camera, in one shot, no cuts.
it would therefore be a trick for the camera, but not a camera trick.

clue.. we know that there is a glass surface.

Yes, I did wonder about the glass... It's still going to keep me thinking for quite a while though. Even knowing that it is a 'trick for the camera', I'm nevertheless struggling to work it out. But then, I suppose this represents why I do magic - that wonder and confusion that I'm enjoying now is the exact feeling that I try to give my audiences, and is something you don't often get when you know all the usual tricks.

The way his clothes fall scream CGI to me. Of course he's going to say its not a camera trick, wouldn't be a magician otherwise would he?

Grimshaw wrote:The way his clothes fall scream CGI to me. Of course he's going to say its not a camera trick, wouldn't be a magician otherwise would he?

... agreed

Les Chapeaux Blancs did a cool stage version of that vanish on 'The Magicians'.

A modern version of the 'Mascot Moth' perhaps

Since it involves a sheet of glass, a touch of 'Pepper' perhaps?