Things are not as they appear | Vitaly Beckman | TEDxVancouver

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences.
Vitaly is a world-class illusionist, known for his original illusions such as erasing faces from driver's licenses or causing a paintbrush to paint on it's own.
Vitaly invites TEDxVancouver Host Riaz Meghji to participate in a picture perfect trick that leaves the audience and host baffled.

[@unAbated.]

At 2:34 you can see another photo which was skipped in the act hmmm.

[@jackarmstrong8790]

Vitaly, I watched you at your show, and was amazed when you teleported the queen across the room!

[@BenGurskyMusic]

he's deff talented fr fr

[@jamesbevan9939]

So how is he causing the bus to move? I noticed him sliding his thumb along the cover slip, but I don't know of any touch-sensitive imagery technology.

[@alexandranorris8376]

How?!

[@robrazzano9168]

The first time he fans out the cards, I see two 10s of clubs. One of them is after the 2 of spades and one of them is after the 3 of spades. The Jack of diamonds is nowhere to be seen. When the selection is made and he holds the cards up, the 10 of clubs is somehow after the Jack of diamonds. The 2 of spades and 3 of spades are nowhere to be seen. He somehow forced the 10 of clubs using sleight of hand.

[@Hativa500]

Шоу выглядит лучше чем "виа миа" с престарелой теткой :-) ты реально крут! Я горжусь тем, что мы друзья!

[@fire_fist_reccahanabishi1547]

Congrats Vitaly for fooling Penn and teller :)

[@BenGurskyMusic]

fr fr that was dope

[@Hativa500]

Чувак! Ты крут!!!

[@sovideo_]

3:58 Watch that frame by frame and see how he removes the covering bus in a flash. Previously the traffic noise covered the printing of the card layout.

[@SgtJoeSmith]

card is forced. he uses different card each time too. picture has bus cut out on top of photo that he slides into a slit on the right. when he puts hand over top of back of bus at your mark he yanks rest the bus cut out revealing the back of bus in photo. he then removes photo.

[@jmeszaros]

Love this trick. Took me a couple viewings to figure it out. Absolutely lovely!

[@leisuretime9177]

Canadian Atheist yes? Explain it then

[@alexandranorris8376]

How?

[@sauce0609]

i know right, I actually figured it out the first time I watched it :D

[@Matman651]

Sauce0 explain it then?

[@jayjay5729]

You're a liar. If you figured it out you would explain how it's done.

[@MichaelDeeringMHC]

Card force.

[@rixyl7475]

It's not a card force, thats what really bothers me. Ive watched quite a bit of his videos and in every single one of them he puts his hand in his pocket as they're saying a word or phrase and he always repeats it. Just watch some of his other stuff and its strange because its not a card force or at least very unlikely. He also does stuff with random photos and celebrities and erasing people off their own Drivers Licenses.

[@herrderzeit]

Watch the episode feature him in Penn & Teller's Fool Us when they are discussing the trick afterwards.

[@xrizbira]

Rixyl it's a forced, you can clearly see how he look at the cards back you can see he stop when the 10 shows up. P&T can only guess once saying forced will be so obvious

[@danielepizzuele7083]

I think he performed the trick in two different ways for each show. Here is a single force (delivering the last card of the deck), at P&T he has an assistant loading the right photo chosen among 3 or 4 chance corresponding to the 3 or 4 cards he wants Alyson to chose among.

[@alastermyst]

Rixyl. It is definitely a card force. At 1:06 you can see that the 2 of spades and the 4 of hearts are beside the 10 of clubs. Then at 1:14 when the card is chosen you can see that a jack of diamonds is beside the 10 of clubs instead of the 2 of spades. I'm not a magician but that type of thing is what I understand a force to be. In other words when the card was chosen he slipped the card he wanted into its place.