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"I'd love to know how much of D(a)rren Brown's stuff is faked."

C'moooon, the stuff he was doing last night was ridiculous! Making himself invisible to that bloke, then playing around with chairs and that box in front of him for God's sake - how the f**k!? I know that it's all down to suggestion, but I don't think that all of it is real - like David Bland - I reckon they've only used the few clips out of dozens that actually worked out right. Still very impressive, but questionable.

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> maddmun wrote:
> Well, when he showed the guy the party trcik witht he smarties, no
> big
> deal, but then he drew that building thingy, that waspretty awesome.
>
> Or, he was just looking at the building in the reflection in the
> guy's eyes - hence being up so close to him, and having him trace the
> contours with his eyes. Then, when he finished "Oops ... wrong
> way around." I wonder why.

If you mean upside down (which im not sure about seeing as i didn't watch it) then it won't be to doing it from his eyes, because things look upside down if a surface is concaved... Your eyes are not concaved.

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> maddmun wrote:
> Well, when he showed the guy the party trcik witht he smarties, no
> big
> deal, but then he drew that building thingy, that waspretty awesome.
>
> Or, he was just looking at the building in the reflection in the
> guy's eyes - hence being up so close to him, and having him trace the
> contours with his eyes. Then, when he finished "Oops ... wrong
> way around." I wonder why.

Drawing...from the reflection...in someones eyes...

I doubt even derrens eyesight is as good as that.

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> Or, he was just looking at the building in the reflection in the
> guy's eyes

And he did it all to perfect scale how exactly?

Mr Snuggly wrote:
> It was a blank in the gun (which incidentally probably would have
> killed or seriously injured him at that distance anyway). I think he
> admitted it shortly afterwards.

I read in this interview that he actually thought the bullets where real, but with it being shot (excuse the pun) in another country and the customs and stuff someone switched the real bullets with the blank ones, or something like that.

Still fecking awesome.

maddmun wrote:
> Well, when he showed the guy the party trcik witht he smarties, no big
> deal, but then he drew that building thingy, that waspretty awesome.

Or, he was just looking at the building in the reflection in the guy's eyes - hence being up so close to him, and having him trace the contours with his eyes. Then, when he finished "Oops ... wrong way around." I wonder why.

cookie monster wrote:
> It depends, does he allow it to freewheel until the chamber naturally
> loses momentum?

No.

Well, when he showed the guy the party trcik witht he smarties, no big deal, but then he drew that building thingy, that waspretty awesome.

It was a blank in the gun (which incidentally probably would have killed or seriously injured him at that distance anyway). I think he admitted it shortly afterwards.

It's a simple explanation, but perhaps there's an element of hypnotism involved? Before he made the guy think he was invisible, he looked right into his eyes and spouted some nonsense that could easily put someone suggestable under. Making someone think something like that is easy under hypnotism, surely?

And I don't think he's ever claimed he's got magic powers or anything like that, he's always admitted it's just down to persuasion and different manipulative techniques. He's a clever guy.

It depends, does he allow it to freewheel until the chamber naturally loses momentum?