Illusioneering
By Queen Mary, University of London
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Description
Contained within these videos are all manner of magical miscellanea for your delectation and performance. Each of the magical effects presented here is easy to do at home or in the classroom and will astound your audience. To assist on your path to magical mastery our voluminous videos will help you discover the magic and the secret science behind. Hidden in each of our effects lurks fascinating science and engineering. Our magical marvels are powered by concealed chemistry, paradox producing physics, baffling biology, mysterious mathematics and enchanting engineering. Secret science and engineering has been behind every single magical and conjuring effect throughout history, and now is your opportunity to discover it to help you amaze and amuse, entertain and educate. Matt Parker from Queen Mary, University of London presents this series of videos. Full details, including lesson plans for teachers, are available at www.illusioneering.org. The project was developed by the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London (www.qmul.ac.uk) with funding from the UK National HEStem programme (www.hestem.ac.uk) with support from cs4fn (http://www.cs4fn.org/magic/) and games developer, space explorer and magician Richard Garriott.
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
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| 1 | VideoCutting in Half | A volunteer tries to put a piece of paper in half, only to discover that it's joined itself back into one piece! | 8/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 2 | VideoPepper's Beverage - The Ghost Drink | An object - for example a bottle of pop or a human head - is placed in a box. Amazingly, it becomes transparent or sometimes even vanishes. | 8/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 3 | VideoRichard Garriott on Science and Magic | Space tourist and video games guru Richard Garriott demonstrates the ferrofluid bowl he keeps at home, which turns an innocuous black liquid into a spiky mass. | 8/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 4 | VideoScientist or Magician? | What links Magic and Science? This video provides a taster of the different Illusioneering tricks in the series and Prof. Peter McOwan explains how Magic has always been entwined with Science and Technology | 8/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 5 | VideoThe Baffling Knot Trick | A volunteer has two ropes tied around them. When the ropes are pulled tight they cut right through the volunteer, who then walks away unharmed! | 8/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 6 | VideoThe Changing Beverage | A bottle containing a green liquid becomes different beverages as it poured from one container to another. | 8/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Complete Illusioneering Magic Book | Clever conjuring using secret science and engineering | 8/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 8 | VideoThe Disappearing Coin Trick | You place a coin on the table right in front of your friends. Then, while they continue to stare right at it, the coin disappears from sight! | 8/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 9 | VideoThe Instant Freezing Water Trick | You take a container of water and touch the surface of it. Just by the power of your touch, the water freezes solid! | 8/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 10 | VideoThe Levitating Wheel Trick | You hold a large bike wheel up from both ends of its axle. Then you let go of one end and the wheel continues to be suspended in mid-air even though nothing is holding it up. | 8/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 11 | VideoThe Smoking Flask Trick | A flask of solution changes colour while producing copious quantities of fog. | 8/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 12 | VideoThe Trailer | What links Magic with Science? This cinematic introduction to the Scientific world of Magic explores the fundamental interweaving of the two disciplines | 8/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 13 | VideoThe Transitioning Beaker Trick | A glass container filled with clear, colourless liquid is briefly covered and suddenly it has been swapped for a flask full of opaque dark-blue liquid! It can then be changed back without anyone noticing the swap. | 8/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 14 | VideoThe Vanishing Bowl of Water Trick | A bowl full of water you are carrying vanishes in mid air. | 8/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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