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Saturday
Mar062010

About the Card Trick for Katie video

There have been some questions in the comments section of the YouTube page for the video about how it was done.  If you haven't seen the video, here it is again (it's only 40 seconds long).

 

Justin Robert Young and I made this video while we were waiting for our flight at Logan International airport.  I saw on Twitter that Katie Kenner was at World Magic Seminar in Las Vegas giving out decks to anyone who showed her a card trick (Chris and Katie Kenner are among my favorite people in the world.  They get first-class seating in my space ark).  I don't really like winning free stuff.  I just like winning.  Since I was thousands of miles away I decided to do a card trick on my iPhone and send it to Katie in the hopes that I could win a free deck that I actually don't need.

I thought about something that would be fun and quick.  Partially inspired by Marco Tempest and by the kind of camera stunts I used to pull back in high school with a camcorder I schemed up a teleportation effect.

In most of my stage shows I do some kind of teleportation illusion.  I've even used to do it every night in a small night club in Japan under the most difficult conditions.  In there I'd sometimes appear in the middle of an audience sitting on the floor.  

I explained everything to Justin and we shot it in the first take (not counting a partial take where I said "Magic Live" instead of "World Magic Seminar" and stopped recording).  No editing of any kind.  No reshoots, what you see is exactly how it happened.  From conception to upload, the whole event took less than five minutes.