"how is he making it look like there's only one in there" - Really? Get 2 playing cards, put one in front of the other, now you can't see the one that's behind right? Ironic someone making a point that the cups are clear seems to be unaware of the concept of opaqueness :) Given that the balls are squishy you can put one on top of the other and squish it down. He then twists the cup squished down and you see the top ball. Then he lifts the cup, unsquashes the balls and turns it so the 2 balls are side by side and then you see both. It's incredible sleight of hand etc, and as you suggest quite possibly the cups are not "honest" clear cups for some of the illusions. I thought at first one thing about clear cups is - something behind a clear cup might look like it's inside it thus for some of the illusions he wouldn't even have to lift the cup to put a ball inside because it can be behind it. Any occasions where the ball appears to move inside, e.g if he's dragging a cup could be done in 3 ways, You can push the ball with the outside of the cup, you could use part of your hand to move ball and cup, or the rim of the cups could be sticky or like velcro so the ball is attached and moves with the cup - I'm not saying it's one of these, I'm suggesting a combination of all or 2 of them would make it less obvious what he's doing and allow different effects. I note for example several places where he's sliding the cup, the ball supposedly moves with it, but the ball doesn't move to the front edge of the slide as you'd expect if it were really underneath. But I slowed it down and looked again : There's also clearly part of the illusion that relies on the cup not actually being transparent, e.g the very first illusion at ~40 seconds in you can see he puts a ball inside the middle cup but it's not visible until he knocks or twists the cup for the flourish, i.e at 33 seconds his left hand (right from our perspective) has closed 3 fingers, these are holding / hiding a second ball. 35 seconds as he lifts the middle cup as part of removing the ball on top you can see him putting the ball from that right hand underneath. 37 seconds as he pulls his hand away, no ball is visible inside - this tells us that the cups are not fully honest and clear there's some aspect to them that will hide a ball. At 41 seconds he has to move / knock the middle cup to make the ball appear but we've seen (thanks to playback and half speed) when he put the ball inside. As it goes through to 50 second mark you can see various twists of the cups make balls appear and disappear. I think at various points too when he is placing the cup on top he is careful about how the cup goes over the ball, suggesting that he is putting the ball inside whatever structure allows him to twist and hide the ball, or twist and reveal it. In fact I'm pretty sure at 1:13 you can see this structure, albeit the potato quality of the recording and lighting don't make it 100% that's what I'm seeing.
@@chrislikesmagic And maybe I'm wrong. To me it's amazing how these illusions stand up to being watched even when you're aware of most of the tricks employed (for the typical opaque cup version), same with card magic, it's just watching someone incredibly dextrous and skilled performing. But I want to figure out how it worked to satisfy myself that I can figure it out (maybe you can google and trivially find the props or explanation)
@@michael1 also, for all the trickery at the end, just follow his hands, he just keeps getting stuff from under the table .. the glasses are switched across the performance very skillfully for similar glasses with hard cover and he just rotates them so you cant notice they are not the same ones. Now those glasses, I think the trick is when he moves a glass forwards the ball disappear, and when he moves them backwards they appear. Not sure how, but it's like they have some refraction or blurryness that may be part of the effect.
Awesome!!! The best ever cups and balls.
There's definitely nothing else like it out there, hey!
Great clip. Brilliant magician
He has an amazing routine with lasers, too. He’s incredibly innovate!👏🏻
Damn he's good!
This is world class level for sure - nobody has replicated it since
You don’t say a lot. Should react more. Makes a more interesting watch
Thanks for the feedback. Would you like me to talk more during, or when I hit pause on the clips?
"how is he making it look like there's only one in there" - Really? Get 2 playing cards, put one in front of the other, now you can't see the one that's behind right? Ironic someone making a point that the cups are clear seems to be unaware of the concept of opaqueness :) Given that the balls are squishy you can put one on top of the other and squish it down. He then twists the cup squished down and you see the top ball. Then he lifts the cup, unsquashes the balls and turns it so the 2 balls are side by side and then you see both.
It's incredible sleight of hand etc, and as you suggest quite possibly the cups are not "honest" clear cups for some of the illusions. I thought at first one thing about clear cups is - something behind a clear cup might look like it's inside it thus for some of the illusions he wouldn't even have to lift the cup to put a ball inside because it can be behind it. Any occasions where the ball appears to move inside, e.g if he's dragging a cup could be done in 3 ways, You can push the ball with the outside of the cup, you could use part of your hand to move ball and cup, or the rim of the cups could be sticky or like velcro so the ball is attached and moves with the cup - I'm not saying it's one of these, I'm suggesting a combination of all or 2 of them would make it less obvious what he's doing and allow different effects. I note for example several places where he's sliding the cup, the ball supposedly moves with it, but the ball doesn't move to the front edge of the slide as you'd expect if it were really underneath.
But I slowed it down and looked again :
There's also clearly part of the illusion that relies on the cup not actually being transparent, e.g the very first illusion at ~40 seconds in you can see he puts a ball inside the middle cup but it's not visible until he knocks or twists the cup for the flourish, i.e at 33 seconds his left hand (right from our perspective) has closed 3 fingers, these are holding / hiding a second ball. 35 seconds as he lifts the middle cup as part of removing the ball on top you can see him putting the ball from that right hand underneath. 37 seconds as he pulls his hand away, no ball is visible inside - this tells us that the cups are not fully honest and clear there's some aspect to them that will hide a ball. At 41 seconds he has to move / knock the middle cup to make the ball appear but we've seen (thanks to playback and half speed) when he put the ball inside. As it goes through to 50 second mark you can see various twists of the cups make balls appear and disappear.
I think at various points too when he is placing the cup on top he is careful about how the cup goes over the ball, suggesting that he is putting the ball inside whatever structure allows him to twist and hide the ball, or twist and reveal it. In fact I'm pretty sure at 1:13 you can see this structure, albeit the potato quality of the recording and lighting don't make it 100% that's what I'm seeing.
Wow you really dug deep there 👏🏻
@@chrislikesmagic And maybe I'm wrong. To me it's amazing how these illusions stand up to being watched even when you're aware of most of the tricks employed (for the typical opaque cup version), same with card magic, it's just watching someone incredibly dextrous and skilled performing.
But I want to figure out how it worked to satisfy myself that I can figure it out (maybe you can google and trivially find the props or explanation)
@@michael1 also, for all the trickery at the end, just follow his hands, he just keeps getting stuff from under the table .. the glasses are switched across the performance very skillfully for similar glasses with hard cover and he just rotates them so you cant notice they are not the same ones. Now those glasses, I think the trick is when he moves a glass forwards the ball disappear, and when he moves them backwards they appear. Not sure how, but it's like they have some refraction or blurryness that may be part of the effect.