yeah, i still have that strange feeling in my stomache

he is a rubber man. he is ok.
did he really break something or is it "just" a dislocated hip joint? i think you can't really tell... i am glad that we didn't try such things but only used our skateboards to sit on them and roll down mountains.

this must hurt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0BukAy_dko

lol i laughed my ass off when they started to scream xD im pretty sure its fake tho. but funny nonetheless.

It's definitely obviously fake ... because hey where's the blood you'd expect? Still.. it's an AWESOME trick, even if it's done with two midgets or something.

Criss Angel is rather impressive with his shows... walking on water in a swimming pool with everybody close to him able to see all angles and flying in the air on a sunny day (no camera trick or edited movie, probably he hangs on a rope). Definitely one of my favourite illusionists at the moment.

Cheers

it is amazing to see the stuff he pulls off, I just hate how people will comment stuff like :


FAKE!



eck, its like, yeah, we all get it its fake, but come on its the illusion that you have to admire.

"no blood" is no indicator for fake, if its a magic trick than, why should there be blood??

still, its very heavy stuff.. gonna show it to my wife this evening, i guess she'll be shocked

The magic ís in the illusion, but not in what's actually happening... I'm biased perhaps, but I'm pretty sure there's no such thing as real magic. (not that we would notice if we saw it btw. but still)

As for people saying Criss Angel does fake stuff, well yeah people shouldn't say 'ow, but it's fake' all the time perhaps or try to 'solve it'.

I agree, however, there are also people who think that Criss can really fly, walk on water and so on. I also think some people don't quite see how something fake can be impressive, it's just a trick after all. I tend to agree a bit with that too, however even the easier tricks are quite difficult to pull off in front of a crowd or outside.

Personally I don't quite understand how people can think any of this could be real, but probably it's just because you can do some realllllly impressive things by using illusions, suggestion tricks and technology.

I've seen a lot of extremely impressive things already, some of which are really mind blowing. You can find a lot of them on youtube or other video sites. Everything from chopping in someone else's arm with a big blade complete with blood and 'wound'... gets 'healed' again by putting a newspaper on it.
People tend to wonder if the lady that got the blade in her arm was in on it or not. If she was in on it then she's a very good actress... same goes for the girl that gets pulled in half here too, she's very convincing making it heavy indeed!

http://www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk/misc/rosesiggins.html
and for the lower body he used a contortionist but it's really well done and astounding at first. i wonder how they can be hold together that well at the beginning.

of course he often uses people who are in on it and i think some of his tricks are made especially for video and edited (no matter what he claims).

its very good visible where he floats from one building to another. you see some noises around him where the rest of the scene doesnt have that noise